Category: Physicist

Aurel Stodola

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About Aurel Stodola

Engineer, physicist, and inventor who did extensive work in technical thermodynamics. He was a Corresponding member of French Academy of Sciences and he received the James Watt International Medal in 1941.

Early life

He taught mechanical engineering at the Swiss Polytechnical Institute.

Trivia

He founded the Laboratory for Energy Conversion in 1892.

Family of Aurel Stodola

He was born in Liptószentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Close associates of Aurel Stodola

He and Richard Feynman were both accomplished physicists.

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Stephen Hawking

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About Stephen Hawking

Legendary physicist who became renowned for creating a cosmology that relied on the unification of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. His 1988 book A Brief History of Time stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.

Early life

He was the coxswain for the rowing team at Oxford before suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 

Trivia

He had ALS, also know as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and was almost entirely paralyzed, and communicated through a speech generating device.

Family of Stephen Hawking

He married Jane Hawking in 1965, and after their divorce in 1991, married Elaine Mason in 1995. He had three children with Jane named Robert, Lucy, and Timothy. He had two younger sisters named Philippa and Mary and an adopted brother named Edward. 

Close associates of Stephen Hawking

He was a respected lifetime associate of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences similarly to that of Max Planck.

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William Unruh

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About William Unruh

Physicist who gave rise to the hypothetical Unruh effect in 1976, which states that a quantum vacuum is dependent on the state of the observer in space-time. He also worked as a professor at the University of British Columbia.

Early life

He attended Princeton University and the University of Manitoba.

Trivia

His work has involved fields such as Theoretical Physics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics.

Family of William Unruh

He was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada.

Close associates of William Unruh

Like Albert Einstein, he has contributed to our understanding of black holes, gravity, and quantum fields.

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