The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Venezuela
This page contains a list of the greatest Venezuelan Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 1 of which were born in Venezuela. This makes Venezuela the birth place of the 52nd most number of Physicists behind Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazil.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Venezuelan Physicists of all time. This list of famous Venezuelan Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Humberto Fernández-Morán (1924 - 1999)
With an HPI of 46.74, Humberto Fernández-Morán is the most famous Venezuelan Physicist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Humberto Fernández-Morán Villalobos (18 February 1924 – 17 March 1999) was a Venezuelan research scientist born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, known for inventing the diamond knife or scalpel, significantly advancing the development of electromagnetic lenses for electron microscopy based on superconducting technology, and many other scientific contributions.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Venezuelan physicists born between 1924 and 1924. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Venezuelan physicists include Humberto Fernández-Morán.
