Stephen Hawking: leading physicist, expert on black holes and discoverer of Hawking radiation who helped develop the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for the universe.
Christopher Isham: physicist who focuses on conceptual problems in quantum gravity.
Ted Jacobson: physicist who helped develop loop quantum gravity.
Michio Kaku: physicist one of the foremost leading String theorist and also known for the Popular Science.
Renate Loll: physicist who worked on loop quantum gravity and more recently helped develop the causal dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity.
Luboš Motl: physicist who worked on string theory.