The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Mexico
This page contains a list of the greatest Mexican Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 2 of which were born in Mexico. This makes Mexico the birth place of the 38th most number of Physicists behind Iraq, and Indonesia.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mexican Physicists of all time. This list of famous Mexican Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jacob Bekenstein (1947 - 2015)
With an HPI of 55.31, Jacob Bekenstein is the most famous Mexican Physicist. His biography has been translated into 34 different languages on wikipedia.
Jacob David Bekenstein (Hebrew: יעקב בקנשטיין; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born American-Israeli theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.
2. Miguel Alcubierre (b. 1964)
With an HPI of 44.64, Miguel Alcubierre is the 2nd most famous Mexican Physicist. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.
Miguel Alcubierre Moya (born March 28, 1964) is a Mexican theoretical physicist. Alcubierre is known for the proposed Alcubierre drive, a speculative warp drive by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel.
3. Carlos Frenk (b. 1951)
With an HPI of 40.22, Carlos Frenk is the 3rd most famous Mexican Physicist. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Carlos Silvestre Frenk (born 27 October 1951) is a Mexican-British cosmologist. Frenk graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of Cambridge and spent his early research career in the United States, before settling permanently in the United Kingdom. He joined the Durham University Department of Physics in 1986 and since 2001 has served as the Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University. Frenk is particularly notable for his work around galaxy formation, including his use of complex computer simulations to test theories on the origins and evolution of the universe, thus helping to resolve disputes among theoretical models. Among the most prolific and frequently cited authors in astronomy and space science, Frenk has written more than 500 scientific articles; he is a co-author on 5 of the 100 most cited papers ever published within his field. As a pioneer in computational astrophysics, Frenk, alongside Marc Davis, George Efstathiou, and Simon White, published a series of influential papers that established the validity of the cold dark matter hypothesis through computer modelling. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004, Frenk has received numerous awards and is regularly tipped as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Physics.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Mexican physicists born between 1947 and 1964. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Mexican physicists include Miguel Alcubierre, and Carlos Frenk. The most famous deceased Mexican physicists include Jacob Bekenstein. As of April 2024, 1 new Mexican physicists have been added to Pantheon including Carlos Frenk.
