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Jeremy Hutson is a chemical and molecular physicist best known for his pioneering work on intramolecular forces, particularly using the spectroscopy of Van der Waals complexes.
Oliver Penrose’s work focused on the mathematical basis of statistical mechanics. Oliver has worked on many problems in statistical physics. A notable early success was his estimate (with Lars Onsager) of the proportion of condensate in liquid
Throughout his scientific career, Giacinto Scoles has been at the forefront of the inventions and applications of microscopic quantitative methods in the studies of the properties of matter. Giacinto constructed beam scattering machines and
Carlo Rubbia is a particle physicist whose work led to the discovery of W and Z bosons, the elementary particles that mediate the weak interaction inside atomic nuclei. Carlos shared the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work and asteroid 8398