The Most Famous
PHYSICISTS from Mexico
This page contains a list of the greatest Mexican Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 3 of which were born in Mexico. This makes Mexico the birth place of the 34th most number of Physicists behind Spain, and Iran.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Mexican Physicists of all time. This list of famous Mexican Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Jacob Bekenstein (1947 - 2015)
With an HPI of 63.19, Jacob Bekenstein is the most famous Mexican Physicist. His biography has been translated into 34 different languages on wikipedia.
Jacob David Bekenstein (Hebrew: יעקב דוד בקנשטיין; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born American-Israeli theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.
2. Miguel Alcubierre (b. 1964)
With an HPI of 52.41, Miguel Alcubierre is the 2nd most famous Mexican Physicist. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.
Miguel Alcubierre Moya (born March 28, 1964) is a Mexican theoretical physicist. Alcubierre is known for the proposed Alcubierre drive, a speculative warp drive by which a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel.
3. Carlos Frenk (b. 1951)
With an HPI of 45.81, Carlos Frenk is the 3rd most famous Mexican Physicist. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Carlos Silvestre Frenk (born 27 October 1951) is a Mexican-British cosmologist. He has been Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University since 2001 and was director of the university’s Institute for Computational Cosmology from 2001 to 2020. Frenk is known for his work on galaxy formation, dark matter, and cosmological simulations.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Mexican physicists born between 1947 and 1964. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Mexican physicists include Miguel Alcubierre, and Carlos Frenk. The most famous deceased Mexican physicists include Jacob Bekenstein.
