The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Algeria
This page contains a list of the greatest Algerian Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 717 Physicists, 1 of which were born in Algeria. This makes Algeria the birth place of the 42nd most number of Physicists behind Latvia and Luxembourg.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Algerian Physicists of all time. This list of famous Algerian Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1933 - )
With an HPI of 62.58, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is the most famous Algerian Physicist. His biography has been translated into 62 different languages on wikipedia.
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (French pronunciation: [klod kɔɛn tanudʒi]; born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms. Currently he is still an active researcher, working at the École normale supérieure (Paris).
Pantheon has 1 people classified as physicists born between 1933 and 1933. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living physicists include Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.
