Andrew Whitaker
Andrew Whitaker was awarded a BA in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford in 1967 and a PhD in the theory of nuclear magnetic resonance from the University of Nottingham in 1971. He lectured and conducted research at the University of Ulster until 1988, and subsequently at Queen's University Belfast, where he was appointed Professor in 1999. Much of his work over the last thirty years has focused on the fundamental aspects of quantum theory, particularly the quantum Zeno effect and aspects of Bell's Theorem. He also has an interest in the history of science and has co-edited volumes on Kelvin, Maxwell, and the physicists of Ireland.
John Stewart Bell
John Bell made contributions to many areas of physics, including accelerators, quantum field theory, and the physics of elementary particles, but his most important work was the so-called Bell's inequality, which reopened the study of the fundamental nature of quantum theory and made important conceptual advances. There have been many applications, both theoretical and practical.