
Richard E. Taylor
1929 - 2018
Richard E. Taylor is most famous for his work in the field of nuclear physics. He is credited with the discovery of the particle known as the tau lepton in 1976.
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This page contains a list of the greatest Canadians Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 863 Physicists, 10 of which were born in Canada. This makes Canada the birth place of the 16th most number of Physicists behind Ukraine and Hungary.
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Canadian Physicists of all time. This list of famous Canadian Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Canadian Physicists.

1929 - 2018
Richard E. Taylor is most famous for his work in the field of nuclear physics. He is credited with the discovery of the particle known as the tau lepton in 1976.

1918 - 2003
Bertram Brockhouse is most famous for his work in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993 for his work with electron spin resonance.

1924 - 2011
Willard Boyle was most famous for his work with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain in the invention of the transistor.

b. 1935
Jim Peebles is most famous for creating the Peebles Corporation.

1910 - 1946
Canadian physicist and chemist

b. 1959
Canadian physicist, engineer, and Nobel laureate

1886 - 1950
Canadian-American physicist (1886–1950)

1876 - 1933
Canadian nuclear physicist

b. 1943
Canadian physicist

1927 - 2012
Canadian medical physicist, curler and politician (1927–2012)
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