The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Tunisia
This page contains a list of the greatest Tunisian Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 1 of which were born in Tunisia. This makes Tunisia the birth place of the 44th most number of Physicists behind Luxembourg, and Serbia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tunisian Physicists of all time. This list of famous Tunisian Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Pierre Agostini (b. 1941)
With an HPI of 68.79, Pierre Agostini is the most famous Tunisian Physicist. His biography has been translated into 44 different languages on wikipedia.
Pierre Agostini (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ aɡɔstini]; born 23 July 1941) is a French experimental physicist and Emeritus professor at the Ohio State University in the United States, known for his pioneering work in strong-field laser physics and attosecond science. He is especially known for the observation of above-threshold ionization and the invention of the reconstruction of attosecond beating by interference of two-photon transitions (RABBITT) technique for characterization of attosecond light pulses. He was jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Tunisian physicists born between 1941 and 1941. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Tunisian physicists include Pierre Agostini. As of April 2024, 1 new Tunisian physicists have been added to Pantheon including Pierre Agostini.
