Nothing is as sexy as a Physics Professor writing equations on a chalk board. Here are 20 iconic photographs of theoretical physicists in front of their chalk boards. A Thread 👇

1) Seldon Glashow Sheldon Glashow received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 along with Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg for their complementary efforts in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains the unity of electromagnetism and the weak force.

2) Paul Dirac One of the pioneers of modern quantum theory and 1933 Nobel Prize Winner (with Erwin Schrödinger), Paul Dirac is considered to be one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century. His equation predicted the existence of dark matter.

4) Murray Gell-Mann Gell-Mann (1929 - 2019), one of the founding fathers of elementary particle physics, won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for this contributions to the development of the theory of quarks.

5) John Bardeen He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for conventional superconductivity.

6) John Bell John Bell investigated quantum theory in the greatest depth and established what the theory can tell us about the fundamental nature of the physical world.

7) Lisa Randall Prof. Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University. Her research connects theoretical insights to puzzles in our current understanding of the properties and interactions of matter.

8) Kip Thorne 2017 Nobel laureate Kip Thorne is a theoretical physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. He was the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the CalTech until 2009.

9) Albert Einstein Cited as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century, A. Einstein (1879 - 1955) developed the theories of general and special relativity, and the photoelectric phenomena (that won him the 1921 Nobel Prize).

10) John Wheeler Wheeler worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission. He is best known for coining the terms "black hole", "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit", and for hypothesizing the "one-electron universe".

11) Niels Bohr One of the pioneers of modern Quantum theory and the atomic structure, Niels Bohr won the 1922 Nobel prize in physics .Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of scientific research.

12) Werner Heisenberg Heisenberg is best known for his uncertainty principle and theory of quantum mechanics, which he published at the age of twenty-three in 1925. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932 for his subsequent research and application of this principle.

13) Abdus Salam Abdus Salam was the first Pakistani and the first from an Islamic country to receive a Nobel Prize in science and the second from an Islamic country to receive any Nobel Prize.

14) Wolfgang Pauli Wolfgang Pauli, theoretical physicist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery in 1925 of the "Pauli exclusion principle", which states that in an atom no two electrons can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously.

15) Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking was a scientist known for his work with black holes and relativity, and the author of popular science books like 'A Brief History of Time.'

16) Erwin Schrödinger Erwin Schrödinger, theoretical physicist who contributed to the wave theory of matter and to other fundamentals of quantum mechanics. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics with British physicist P.A.M. Dirac.

17) Steven Weinberg Steven Weinberg (1933 - 2021) played a significant role in formulating and establishing theoretical physics’ two standard models - the standard model of fundamental interactions and the standard model of cosmology.

18) Peter Higgs Physicist who gave his name to the Higgs boson particle. Peter Higgs is a Nobel Prize-winning particle physicist who has made invaluable contributions to our understanding of the Universe on the smallest scales.

19) C.V. Raman He was the first Asian to receive a Nobel prize in science, following the discovery of a light scattering effect called "Rama effect" that has since become a key characterization tool in materials science.

20) J. Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for leading the Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapon during World War II.

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