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Focuses on the career of Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in the U.S., who died on November 28, 1954. Reason for his emigration to the U.S.; Information on his first major theoretical paper after the war; Contributions to physics.

Pays tribute to physicist Victor Weisskopf, who died on April 21, 2002. Personal background; Postdoctoral career; Contributions to physics and quantum mechanics; Concern for humanity.

Pays tribute to David Norman Schramm, former faculty member at the University of Chicago, who died on December 19, 1997. Background information on Schramm; Career information on Schramm; Circumstances surrounding Schramm's death.

Pays tribute to author Peter Gabriel Bergmann, who introduced general relativity into modern physics through his book 'Introduction to the Theory of Relativity,' who died on October 19, 2002. Brief biography of Bergmann; Overview of his book; Influence on the field of physics.

Pays tribute to John Wyrill Christian, a professor at the department of materials at the Oxford University in England, who died on February 27, 2001. Educational background; Contributions of Christian on research about the deformation of metals and alloys; Books and scientific papers written by Christian.

Pays tribute to Fredrik Zachariasen, an internationally known theoretical physicist who died on December 9, 1999 in Pasadena, California. Cause of death; Educational background; Career highlights.

Pays tribute to Robert Green Sachs, a distinguished theoretical physicist and outstanding scientific administrator, who died in Chicago, Illinois on April 14, 1999. Cause of his death; Personal background; Career after graduation; His book written in 1987.

Announces the death of Vladimir Naumovich Gribov, a leading theorist in particle physics. Brief biography of Gribov; Relationship with Lev Landau and Isaak Pomeranchuk; His characteristics.

Profiles Robert Henry Dicke, who was an Emeritus Albert Einstein Professor of Science at Princeton University, who died on March 4 of 1997 after a bout with Parkinson's disease. His first paper in astronomy; His contributions to the MIT Radiation Laboratory Series of books; Information about his other works.

Pays tribute to Jens Lindhard, a professor of physics at Aarhus University in Denmark, who died on October 15, 1997. Background information on the life of Lindhard.

Pays tribute to Mary Clare Milward O'Brien, a former expert in physics. Career history of O'Brien; Educational background of O'Brien.

Pays tribute to several physicists. Burton David Fried; Walter Ernest Bron; Kenneth Melvin Evenson; David Abraham Katcher.

Pays tribute to several physicists. Norman Austern who died on May 15, 2000; Simon Larach who died on January 20, 2000; Nimai Chad Mukhopadhyay who died on May 15, 2000; Karl Strauch who died on January 3, 2000.

Announces that Joseph John Loferski, noted for his pioneering work on the development of modern solar cells, died of cancer on January 20, 1997. Degrees earned by Loferski; Early works of Loferski; Positions held at Brown University; Topics covered by Loperski's papers.

Pays tribute to physicist Douglas Robert Ogston Morrison, who died on February 25, 2001. Educational and professional background; Contributions to particle physics; Scientific papers published.

Presents an obituary for professor Leslie Lawrance Foldy who died on January 18, 2001.

Pays tribute to astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, who died on August 20, 2001. Contributions of Hoyle in astrophysics; Educational background; Information on some of the books written by Hoyle.

Pays tribute to Louis Michel, a French physicist, who died of an embolism on December 30, 1999 in Bures, France. His career background; Awards he received; His contributions to physics.

Pays tribute to Edwin Thompson Jaynes, innovator in fundamental aspects of theoretical physics, who died on April 30, 1998 in St. Louis, Missouri. Educational background; Achievements; Survirors.

Pays tribute to James Lighthill, a boyhood contemporary of Freeman Dyson at Winchester College. Cause of his death; Personal background; Education; Several disciplines that he launched; Career highlights; Scientific achievements.

Pays tribute to Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir, a scientist and leader of industrial research, who died on May 4, 2000 in Heeze, Netherlands, after a brief illness. Background of Casimir; His contributions to physics and mathematics; Achievements.

Profiles Albert Louis Latter, one of the most influential scientists within the United States defense establishment who died on June 8, 1997. Educational background of Latter; Year when he was named head of the physics department at RandCorp in Santa Monica, California; Issues tackled by Latter on his papers; Latter's professional career.

Provides information about Yuli Borisovich Khariton, scientific director of the nuclear weapons center and a patriarch of Russian nuclear physicists, who died on December 19, 1996. How he started his career in Physics; Khariton's first important scientific paper; Involvement to Soviet atomic project including the Arzamas-16.

Pays tribute to Verner Schomaker, a figure in molecular science, who died on March 30, 1997. How Schomaker became famous.

Profiles physicist Edward Mills Purcell who died of respiratory failure in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 7, 1997. His family and educational background; His work that made him earned the Nobel Prize; His contribution to physics.

Pays tribute to Sam Bard Treiman, physics professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, who died on November 30, 1999. Cause of death; Educational and career background; Contributions to the development of particle physics.

Pays tribute to Michael Danos, an influential theorist who worked at the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology, who died on August 30, 1999 in Washington, District of Columbia. Cause of death; Educational background; Career highlights.

Profiles Siegfried A. Wouthuysen, a physicist who found a representation of the Schrodinger dispersion amplitude, who died on July 9, 1997 in Amsterdam. His key contribution to Werner Heisenberg's S-matrix theory; Educational background and his plight during the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands; His employment background in his return to Europe; His involvement with the Pugwash Committee; Idea of a spinor spacetime lattice proposed by Wouthuysen in his last paper.

Pays tribute to physicist and science fiction author Robert Lull Forward who died on September 21, 2002. Academic background; Contributions to the field of physics; Awards and achievements.

Pays tribute to physicist Andr é Blanc-Lapierre of Châtenay-Malabry, France, who died on December 14, 2001. Education and career; Contributions to physics research and education; Characteristics of Blanc-Lapierre.

Pays tribute to Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. Contribution of Fermi to physics; National recognition received by Fermi; Fermi's style of doing physics.

Pays tribute to William Wilson Mullins, a physicist and materials scientist who died on April 22, 2001 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Cause of death; His educational and career background; Awards and achievements received.

Pays tribute to Nathan Isgur, a theoretical physicist who died on July 24, 2001 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Cause of death; Educational and career background.

Presents an obituary for physicist William Edward Caswell who died on September 11, 2001.

Pays tribute to Joseph Weber, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of Maryland, who died on September 30, 2000 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Educational background; Contributions to the development of gravitational wave astronomy; Career highlights.

Pays tribute to George Wilse Robinson, Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and Joint Professor of Physics at Texas Tech University, who died from a stroke on September 7, 2000 in Lubbock, Texas, at the age of 76. Contributions to the study of physical chemistry; Educational background; Professional background.

Pays tribute to physicist David George Crighton who died of cancer in Cambridge, England on April 12, 2000. Background of Crighton; Specific problems that have formed the context of Crighton; Professional background of Crighton.

Pays tribute to Peter Alden Franken, a pioneer in the field of nonlinear optics, who died of liver failure on March 11, 1999 at his home in Tucson, Arizona. Background of Franken; His contributions to nonlinear optics; Achievements.

Pays tribute to Alexey Andreevich Anselm, a Russian physicist who died on August 23, 1998 in Boston, Massachusetts. Cause of his death; Brief life story; Career highlights; Family background of Anselm.

Pays tribute to Ernst Ising, an emeritus professor of physics at Bradley University who died in May 1998. Personal background; Education; Career highlights.

Presents an obituary of Ralph Kronig, who died on November 16, 1995 in Zurich.

Reports the death of Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas. Details of `Thomas factor' and Thomas-Fermi model; Thomas' life at Merchant Taylors School, Cambridge University, Ohio University; Background with Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, Columbia University, North Carolina State University.

Presents an obituary for Josif Samuilovich Shklovsky, a scientist who died on March 3, 1985 in Moscow, Russia.

Presents an obituary for James Homer Crawford Jr., professor in physics and astronomy department who died on October 20, 1984 in North Carolina.

Presents an obituary for mathematician Mark Kac who died on October 25, 1984 in Los Angeles, California.

Pays tribute to the death of physicist Shlomo Alexander on August 6, 1997. Background information on the physicist; Contribution to physics studies; Achievements and positions held.

Pays tribute to Kenneth Nyitray Trueblood, a crystallographer and chemists, who died on May 7, 1998. Background information on the work of Trueblood.

Profiles Joaquin M. Luttinger, a physicist who died at the age of 73. Cause of his death; How he started as a physicist; His educational background; His achievements and contributions in the field of physics.

Profiles Friedrich Hund, oldest survivor of the original quantum physicists, who died on March 31, 1997 in Germany. Personal background; Educational and career background; Accomplishments.

Profiles J. Carson Mark, leader of the theoretical division at Los Alamos National Laboratory for more than 25 years after World War II who died on March 2, 1997. His personal background; Educational and career background; Accomplishments.