physicist

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Jeremy Hansen is a former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and physicist who joined the Canadian Space Agency in 2009.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

In 1931, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein was spending his first winter at Caltech, and he wrote to a friend, “Here in Pasadena, it is like Paradise. Always sunshine and clear air …”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

He has five close childhood friends he affectionately calls knuckleheads, although a couple are doctors and one is an atomic physicist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Previous banknotes have pictured other national figures including novelist Charles Dickens, physicist and chemist Michael Faraday, composer Edward Elgar, nurse Florence Nightingale and architect Christopher Wren.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

These particles were named quarks by the Caltech physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who won the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his work on them.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking