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A physicist researching quantum optics and the foundations of quantum mechanics.[ref]
Professional profile of Alain Aspect (academie-sciences.fr). Biographie, first two paragraphs.
Portrait of Alain Aspect
. École polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay; Adem, existing portrait crop. CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Portrait of Dirk Bouwmeester in 2014
. Image from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, via Wikimedia Commons; the linked file page provides photographer credits and usage information. Source.A physicist researching quantum optics and quantum information science.[ref]
Professional profile of Dirk Bouwmeester (universiteitleiden.nl). Opening paragraph; Academic staff.
A physicist who holds an experimental quantum-physics chair at LMU Munich.[ref]
Professional profile of Harald Weinfurter (lmu.de). Final biographical paragraph explicitly names experimental quantum physics chair.
Portrait of Harald Weinfurter
. External portrait hosted by LMU Munich, Experimental Quantum Physics. Source.A physicist researching quantum optics and quantum foundations.[ref]
Professional profile of Anton Zeilinger (oeaw.ac.at). Forschungsbereiche.
Portrait of Anton Zeilinger
. CEU / Daniel Vegel; George Yul, existing portrait crop. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist researching superconducting devices and quantum computers based on Josephson junctions.[ref]
John Martinis by University of California, Santa Barbara. Distinguished Professor; research paragraph on superconducting devices and Josephson-junction quantum bits
Portrait of John M. Martinis
. David Orban, Flickr photograph, 13 February 2007; existing Commons crop. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic., via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist who led crystallographic research and developed ruby fluorescence pressure measurements.[ref]
Responding to National Needs: The National Bureau of Standards Becomes the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1969–1993 by J. F. Schooley. p.289, portrait caption: solid state physicist; NBS Crystallography Section
A physicist who studied ruby fluorescence for high-pressure measurements.[ref]
High Pressure X-Ray Crystallography With the Diamond Cell at NIST⁄NBS by Gasper J. Piermarini. §4: BYU guest scientist and ruby-fluorescence research; §4.2: spectrometer development
A physicist who investigated spectroscopy and ruby fluorescence under pressure.[ref]
High Pressure X-Ray Crystallography With the Diamond Cell at NIST⁄NBS by Gasper J. Piermarini. §4: Forman’s spectroscopy laboratory and ruby-fluorescence investigations
A physicist researching quantum theory and the Aharonov-Bohm effect.[ref]
Dr. Yakir Aharonov. Biography: professor of theoretical physics; Institute for Quantum Studies directorship
Portrait of Yakir Aharonov
. Kobi Kalmanovitz (קובי קלמנוביץ), as credited in the Hebrew File record; EMET Prize website. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported., via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist who developed electron holography and investigated the Aharonov-Bohm effect.[ref]
Benjamin Franklin Medal Awarded to Akira Tonomura, Senior Chief Research Scientist at Hitachi, Ltd.. Opening paragraph: Senior Chief Research Scientist; development of holography electron microscopy
Portrait of Akira Tonomura
. OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology), 11 May 2009; existing Commons crop by Materialscientist. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist who developed matrix mechanics and held a professorship in theoretical physics at Hamburg.[ref]
Jordan, Pascual (1902–1980). Bezug zu Hamburg: theoretical physics professor; Lebenslauf: full name and 1902–1980 dates
Portrait of Pascual Jordan
. Unknown photographer; Mondadori Publishers. Public domain (anonymous historical photograph, as declared on Commons). Source and usage information on the linked Wikimedia file page. Source.A physicist whose appointments took him from Zürich in 1868 through Würzburg and Strasbourg to the Berlin chair of experimental physics in 1888.[ref]
August Kundt by Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Kurzbiographie: physics professorships and life dates
Portrait of August Kundt
. Source. A physicist appointed to the Paris Observatory in 1855 who developed telescopes.[ref]
Léon Foucault à l’Observatoire by Observatoire de Paris. Léon Foucault à l’Observatoire, p. 2: appointed physicist in 1855; telescope development
Portrait of Léon Foucault
. Muzelle - E. Pérot, as credited on Commons; portrait reproduced in Recueil des travaux scientifiques de Léon Foucault, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1878; Gallica digital reproduction. Commons claims public domain in the country of origin and jurisdictions with life-plus-70 terms or shorter. Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist who researched magnetism and became a professor at Leiden in 1924.[ref]
Wander Johannes de Haas, 1878–1960 by H. B. G. Casimir. Career paragraphs: PTR research staff 1913–1915; Delft, Groningen and Leiden professorships
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Portrait of Wander Johannes de Haas
. Unknown photographer; Huygens Laboratorium, Universiteit Leiden; reproduced in Dirk van Delft, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes: Een biografie (2005), p. 529. Public domain (author life plus 70 years; published before 1931). Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist appointed professor at Uppsala in 1858, whose research included spectroscopy.[ref]
Anders Ångström by Uppsala University. Anders Ångström: optical spectroscopy research and appointment as professor of physics in 1858
Portrait of Anders Jonas Ångström
. Hulda Schenson; Vetenskapsakademiens porträttsamling. Public domain (PD-Art / Public Domain Mark 1.0, as stated on Commons). Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist.[ref]
Mathilde Hugbart. CV, physics education and employment; Publications explicitly says names Hugbart or Fouché
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