PHYSICISTS from Romania

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Romanian Physicists of all time. This list of famous Romanian Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Valentin Ceaușescu (1948 - )

With an HPI of 58.97, Valentin Ceaușescu is the most famous Romanian Physicist.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Valentin Ceaușescu (born 17 February 1948) is a Romanian physicist. He is the eldest and only surviving child of former communist President Nicolae Ceaușescu and Elena Ceaușescu.

2. Stefan Hell (1962 - )

With an HPI of 52.19, Stefan Hell is the 2nd most famous Romanian Physicist.  His biography has been translated into 54 different languages.

Stefan Walter Hell (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈhɛl] : born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, both of which are in Germany. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy", together with Eric Betzig and William Moerner.

3. Mario Livio (1945 - )

With an HPI of 47.13, Mario Livio is the 3rd most famous Romanian Physicist.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Mario Livio (born June 19, 1945) is an astrophysicist and an author of works that popularize science and mathematics. For 24 years (1991–2015) he was an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope. He has published more than 400 scientific articles on topics including cosmology, supernova explosions, black holes, extrasolar planets, and the emergence of life in the universe.[1] His book on the irrational number phi, The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (2002), won the Peano Prize and the International Pythagoras Prize for popular books on mathematics.