Re: A scientist name that starts with the letter 'Z' and has to do with energy

Thank you for your question.

I do not have an idea what you understand under energy, as there are many 
different forms of energy in very different magnitude and use. The energy of 
a chemical reaction, of a nuclear ractor, of a schocolade bar, of the impact 
of a bullet .... 

But there are (of course) important and well known and even more less well 
known scientist around whole names start with "z" or "y".

Here is a selection and for each of them you will find lot of infromation in 
lexica as well as on the internet. Just serach for their names.

PHYSICS 

ZEEMAN PIETER (1865-1943)
Dutch physicist who observed that an intense magnetic field would split 
single spectral lines into three components, an observation known as the 
Zeeman effect.  Zeeman shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in physics with his 
teacher Lorentz for his discovery.

ZERNIKE FRITS (FREDERIK) 
1953 Nobel Laureate in Physics for his demonstration of the phase contrast 
method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope. 

YUKAWA HIDEKI 
1949 Nobel Laureate in Physics for his prediction of the existence of mesons 
on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces. 

YANG CHEN NING
1957 Nobel Laureate in Physics 
for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has 
led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles. 

ZEISS CARL (1816-1888)
German optician who built precision optics for improved microscopes by 1880.

ZELDOVICH IAKOV BORISOVICH (1914-1987) 
Russian physicist who has done important work on shock waves,  cosmology,  
and general relativity

ZENO OF ELEA (ca. 490-ca. 425 BC
Greek philosopher who was the chief of the Eleatic school of philosophy. To 
demonstrate that the senses could not be trusted, he constructed four 
paradoxes, including the Achilles and tortoise problem. 

ZWORKIN VLADIMIR KOSMA (1889-982)
Russian-American physicist and inventor who, in 1928, patented the idea of 
using magnetic fields  to guide cathode rays  in order to produce images on 
a fluorescent screen. This mechanism is the basis for all conventional 
television sets and computer monitors. As a result of his work, Zworykin can 
be considered the father of television. As a "side product" he also 
constructed the first electron microscope.



CHEMISTRY

ZSIGMOND RICHARD ADOLF 
1925 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for his demonstration of the heterogenous 
nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since 
become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry. 

KARL ZIEGLER 
1963 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 
for their discoveries in the field of the chemistry and technology of high 
polymers. 

AHMED ZEWAIL (1925-)
1999 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 
for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using 
femtosecond spectroscopy. 


MATHEMATICS

ZEILBERGER DORON (1950-)

ZERMELO ERNST (1871-1956)

ZUSE KONRAD (1910-1995)
German inventor of pre-war electromechanical binary computer designated Z1 
which was destroyed without trace by wartime bombing; developed two more 
machines before the end of the war but was unable to convince the Nazi 
government to support his work; fled with the remains of Z3 to Zurich where 
he developed the Z4 which was successfully used at ETH. Developer of a basic 
programming system known as "Plankalkül" with which he designed a chess 
playing program.


ASTRONOMY

ZWICKY FRITZ (1898-1974)
Swiss-American astronomer who was professor of astronomy at Caltech. He 
studied extragalactic supernovae  and the distribution galaxies in Coma 
Berenices (Preston 1987, p. 113). He was the first consider gravitational 
lensing by extragalactic objects 

MEDICINE

YALOW ROSALYN (1921-)
American biophysicist who worked out the technique of radioimmunoassay, 
which can locate trace quantities of antibodies and biologically active 
substances in the body radioactively labeled isotopes. For this work, she 
shared the 1977 Nobel Prize for medicine. 

I hope you will have fun to find out a little bit more about these men and 
women.

Jurgen Ziesmann