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Twentieth Century Scientific Developments

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Dan Garisto
Spectrum Research (United States)
2
Marc Howard Rich
Richland College
3
Söenke Kunkel
Unknown
4
Elisabeth Sweetman
Unknown
5
Vijaysree Venkatraman
Institute for Clinical and Economic Review
6
Johnny Miri
St. John's College of Nursing
7
Elizabeth Gibney
Unknown
8
Manfred Popp
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
9
Adrian Cho
Unknown
10
Gerardo Ienna
Sapienza University of Rome

Rising Stars Papers

1
Superconductivity scandal: the inside story of deception in a rising star’s physics lab
Nature|2024
18 cit.
2
Google uncovers how quantum computers can beat today’s best supercomputers
Nature|2024
6 cit.
3
Exclusive: official investigation reveals how superconductivity physicist faked blockbuster results
Nature|2024
5 cit.
4
Superconductivity paper spurs dispute as field reels from earlier scandal
Nature|2024
4 cit.
5
‘The standard model is not dead’: ultra-precise particle measurement thrills physicists
Nature|2024
3 cit.
6
Superconductivity researcher who committed misconduct exits university
Nature|2024
2 cit.
7
Quantum Milestones, 1964: John Stewart Bell Quietly Rings in New Era of Quantum Theory
Physics|2025
1 cit.
8
Scienziati e guerra fredda. Tra collaborazione e diritti umani, by Elisabetta Bini and Elisabetta Vezzosi, eds.
Nuncius|2024
0 cit.
9
Judge dismisses superconductivity physicist’s lawsuit against university
Nature|2024
0 cit.
10
<i>Isis</i>’s Contributors and Intellectual Contexts, 1953–2023
Isis|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Gabriel Galvez-Behar
Université de Lille
2
S. M. Amadae
University of California, Berkeley
3
Scott Gabriel Knowles
Drexel University
4
Giulia Rispoli
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
5
Samuel A. Robinson
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
6
Setsuko Thurlow
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
7
Astrid T. Jensen
Aarhus University
8
Daphne Stewart
University of Southern California
9
Waqar Zaidi
Lahore University of Management Sciences
10
Jovan Kurbalija
University of Leicester

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The globalization of science diplomacy in the early 1970s: a historical exploration
Science and Public Policy|2023
18 cit.
2
Red Queen and Red King Effects in cultural agent-based modeling: Hawk Dove Binary and Systemic Discrimination
Journal of Mathematical Sociology|2022
8 cit.
3
Death, Life, and Longing in the Pandemicene
HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology|2022
5 cit.
4
COVID Mask Wearing: Identity and Materiality
East Asian Science Technology and Society An International Journal|2022
4 cit.
5
HER2-Low and HER2-Ultralow Metastatic Breast Cancer and Trastuzumab Deruxtecan: Common Clinical Questions and Answers
Cancers|2025
4 cit.
6
Aerial Social Spaces and State Power
Public Culture|2023
2 cit.
7
Science Education in an Age of Unnatural Disasters: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Science & Education|2025
2 cit.
8
The Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France by Karena Kalmbach
Technology and Culture|2022
1 cit.
9
BRCA germline mutations in multiethnic gynecologic patients: A 10-year retrospective analysis from a single cancer institute
PLoS ONE|2023
1 cit.
10
La era de la política exterior digital: Enfoques integrales para digitalización
Política Internacional|2023
1 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
John Wheeler
University of Liverpool
2
Gavin Wright
Stanford Health Care
3
John Lewis Gaddis
The University of Texas at Austin
4
Nadia Robotti
Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi
5
Lewis Pyenson
Western Michigan University
6
Matthew S. Turner
University of Warwick
7
Lev Vaidman
Tel Aviv University
8
R. C. Vaughan
Pennsylvania State University
9
Pierre Desrochers
University of Toronto
10
Michael Eckert
Deutsches Museum

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
<i>The Fractal Geometry of Nature</i>
American Journal of Physics|1983
21.9k cit.
2
An evolutionary theory of economic change
Technology in Society|1982
3.2k cit.
3
Stability of a Schwarzschild Singularity
Physical Review|1957
2.7k cit.
4
How the result of a measurement of a component of the spin of a spin-<i>1/2</i>particle can turn out to be 100
Physical Review Letters|1988
2.6k cit.
5
Nuclear Constitution and the Interpretation of Fission Phenomena
Physical Review|1953
2.2k cit.
6
The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission
Physical Review|1939
2k cit.
7
Interaction with the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiation
Reviews of Modern Physics|1945
1.3k cit.
8
Classical physics as geometry
Annals of Physics|1957
1.2k cit.
9
Properties of a quantum system during the time interval between two measurements
Physical Review A|1990
1.1k cit.
10
Classical Electrodynamics in Terms of Direct Interparticle Action
Reviews of Modern Physics|1949
985 cit.

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