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*[[Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot]] — France (1796–1832) |
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Revision as of 19:16, 19 February 2010
Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements.
A
- Avicenna -- Persian (980-1037)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī -- Persian (973-1048)
- Ernst Karl Abbe — Germany (1840–1905)
- Miguel Alcubierre - Mexico (1964- )
- Derek Abbott — Australia (1960- )
- Marek Artur Abramowicz - Poland (1945- )
- Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov — Soviet Union/Russia (1928- )
- Robert Adler — USA (1913-2007)
- Stephen L. Adler — USA (1939-)
- Ronald Ernest Aitchison — Australia (1921- )
- Zhores Ivanovich Alferov — Russia (1930- )
- Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén — Sweden (1908–1995) Nobel laureate
- Jim Al-Khalili — UK (1962- )
- William Allis — USA (1901-1999)
- Samuel King Allison — USA (1900-1965)
- P.M. van Alphen — Netherlands (1906-1967)
- Ralph Asher Alpher — USA (1921–2007)
- Luis Walter Alvarez — USA (1911–1988) Nobel laureate
- Richard Louis Amoroso - USA (1946- )
- André-Marie Ampère — France (1775–1836)
- Herbert L. Anderson — USA (1914–1988)
- Anders Jonas Ångström — Sweden (1814–1874)
- Hans Henrik Andersen — Denmark (1937- )
- Carl David Anderson — USA (1905-1991) Nobel laureate
- Philip Warren Anderson — USA (1923– ) Nobel laureate
- Thomas Appelquist — USA
- Edward Victor Appleton — UK (1892-1965) Nobel laureate
- François Jean Dominique Arago - France (1786-1853)
- Archimedes — Syracuse (ca. 287–212 BC)
- Manfred von Ardenne — Germany (1907-1997)
- Aristarchus of Samos — Samos (310 – ca. 230 BC)
- Aristotle — Athens, Greece (384–322 BC)
- Nima Arkani-Hamed — USA (1972- )
- Amedeo Avogadro — Italy (1776-1856)
B
- Alexander Graham Bell — UK (1847-1922)
- Tom Baehr-Jones — USA (1980- )
- Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran — India (1938- )
- Johann Jakob Balmer — Switzerland (1825–1898)
- John Bardeen — USA (1908–1991) double Nobel laureate
- William A. Bardeen — USA (1941– )
- Charles Glover Barkla — UK (1877-1944) Nobel laureate
- Boyd Bartlett — USA (1897- )
- Heinz Barwich — Germany (1911-1966)
- Laura Maria Caterina Bassi — Italy (1711-1778)
- Nikolay Basov — Russia (1922-2001)
- Zoltán Lajos Bay — Hungary (1900–1992)
- Karl Bechert — Germany (1901-1981)
- Karl Becker — Germany (1887-1955)
- Henri Becquerel — France (1852–1908) Nobel laureate
- Johannes Georg Bednorz — Germany (1950- ) Nobel laureate
- Isaac Beeckman — Netherlands (1588-1637)
- John Stewart Bell — UK (1928–1990)
- Carl M. Bender — USA
- Abraham Bennet — England(1749-1799)
- Daniel Bernoulli — Switzerland (1700–1782)
- Hans Bethe — Germany, USA (1906–2005)
- Homi J. Bhabha — India (1909–1966)
- Ikaros Bigi — Germany, USA
- Gerd Binnig — Germany (1947- ) Nobel laureate
- Jean-Baptiste Biot — France (1774–1862)
- Raymond T. Birge — USA (1887–1980)
- Vilhelm Bjerknes — Norway (1862–1951)
- James Bjorken — USA (1934– )
- Patrick Blackett — UK (1897–1947)
- Felix Bloch — Switzerland (1905–1983)
- Nicolaas Bloembergen — Netherlands, USA (1920- )
- Nikolay Bogolyubov — Soviet Union/Russia (1909–1992)
- David Bohm — USA (1917-1992)
- Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962) Nobel laureate
- Aage Bohr — Denmark (1922– ) Nobel laureate
- Ludwig Boltzmann — Austria (1844–1906)
- Eugene T. Booth – USA (1912–2004)
- Max Born — Germany, UK (1882–1970) Nobel laureate
- Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik (1711–1787)
- Jagadish Chandra Bose — India (1858-1937)
- Satyendra Nath Bose — India (1894–1974)
- Johannes Bosscha — Netherlands (1831-1911)
- Walther Bothe — Germany (1891-1957)
- Robert Boyle — Ireland, England (1627–1691)
- William Henry Bragg — UK (1862-1942) Nobel laureate
- William Lawrence Bragg — Australia (1890-1971) Nobel laureate
- Walter Houser Brattain — USA (1902-1987)
- Karl Ferdinand Braun — Germany (1850-1918)
- David Brewster — UK (1781–1868)
- Percy Williams Bridgman — USA (1882-1961)
- Léon Nicolas Brillouin — France (1889-1969)
- Marcel Brillouin — France (1854—1948)
- Bertram Brockhouse — Canada (1918-2003)
- Stanley Brodsky — USA
- Louis-Victor de Broglie — France (1892–1987)
- Thomas Townsend Brown — USA (1905–1985)
- Ernst Brüche — Germany (1900-1985)
- Hermann Brück — Germany (1905-2000)
- Johannes Martinus Burgers — Netherlands (1895-1981)
- W.G. Burgers — Netherlands
- Friedrich Burmeister — Germany (1890-1969)
- Christophorus Buys Ballot — Netherlands (1817-1890)
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- Nicola Cabibbo — Italy (1935– )
- Nicolás Cabrera — Spain (1913–1989)
- Curtis Callan — (1942– )
- Fritjof Capra — Austria, USA (1939– )
- Marcela Carena — Argentina (1962– )
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot — France (1796–1832)
- David Carroll — USA (1963–)
- Brandon Carter — Australia (1942– )
- Hendrik Casimir — Netherlands (1909-2000)
- Henry Cavendish — UK (1731–1810)
- Alejandro Corichi — Mexico (1967– )
- James Chadwick — UK (1891–1974)
- Owen Chamberlain — USA (1920–2006)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar — India, USA (1910–1995) Nobel laureate
- Georges Charpak — France (1924– ) Nobel laureate
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904–1990)
- Geoffrey Chew — USA (1924– )
- Ernst Chladni — Germany (1756–1827)
- Steven Chu — USA (1948– )
- Giovanni Ciccotti — Italy (1943– )
- Benoît Clapeyron — France (1799–1864)
- Rudolf Clausius — Germany (1822–1888)
- Jacob Clay — Netherlands (1882–1955)
- Gerald B. Cleaver — USA
- John Cockcroft — UK (1897–1967)
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji — France (1933– )
- John C. Collins — USA
- Arthur Compton — USA (1892–1962)
- Karl Compton — USA (1887–1954)
- Edward Condon — USA (1902–1974)
- Leon Cooper — USA (1930– ) Nobel laureate
- Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis — France (1792–1843)
- Allan McLeod Cormack — South Africa, USA (1924–1998)
- Eric Allin Cornell — USA (1961- ) Nobel laureate
- Marie Alfred Cornu — France (1841–1902)
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — France (1736–1806)
- Ernest Courant — USA (1920– )
- Brian Cox — UK (1968– )
- James Cronin — USA (1931– ) Nobel laureate
- Sir William Crookes — UK (1832–1919)
- Marie Curie — Poland, France (1867–1934) Nobel laureate
- Pierre Curie — France (1859–1906) Nobel laureate
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- Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France (1717–1783)
- Gustaf Dalén — Sweden (1869–1937)
- Richard Dalitz — UK, USA (1925–2006)
- John Dalton — UK (1766–1844)
- Charles Galton Darwin — UK (1887–1962)
- Paul Davies — Australia (1946– )
- Raymond Davis Jr. — USA (1914–2006)
- Clinton Davisson — USA (1881–1958)
- Peter Debije — Netherlands (1884–1966)
- Hans Georg Dehmelt — Germany, USA (1922– )
- Max Delbrück — Germany, USA (1906–1981)
- Democritus — Abdera (circa 460–360 BC)
- David M. Dennison — USA (1900–1976)
- David Deutsch — Israel, UK (1953– )
- James Dewar — UK (1842–1923)
- Robbert Dijkgraaf — Netherlands (1960– )
- Savas Dimopoulos — USA (1952– )
- Paul Dirac — UK (1902–1984)
- Revaz Dogonadze — Soviet Union, Georgia (1931–1985)
- Christian Doppler — Austria (1803–1853)
- Henk Dorgelo — Netherlands (1894–1961)
- Robert Döpel — Germany (1895–1982)
- Friedrich Ernst Dorn — Germany (1848–1916)
- Michael R. Douglas — USA (1961– )
- Sidney Drell — USA (1926– )
- Paul Drude — Germany (1863–1906)
- F. J. Duarte — USA
- Pierre Louis Dulong — France (1785–1838)
- Samuel T. Durrance — USA (1943– )
- Freeman Dyson — UK, USA (1923– ) Wolf laureate
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- Joseph H. Eberly — USA (1935-)
- William Eccles — UK (1875–1966)
- Carl Eckart — USA (1902-1973)
- Sir Arthur Eddington — UK (1882–1944)
- Paul Ehrenfest — Austria-Hungary, Netherlands (1880–1933)
- Felix Ehrenhaft — Austria-Hungary, USA (1879–1952)
- Manfred Eigen — Germany (1927- )
- Albert Einstein — Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA (1879–1955) Nobel laureate
- Terence James Elkins — Australia, USA (1936- )
- John Ellis — UK (1946– )
- R. Keith Ellis — UK, USA (1949– )
- Arpad Elo — Hungary (1903-1992)
- David Enskog — Sweden (1884–1947)
- Loránd Eötvös — Austria-Hungary (1848–1919)
- Leo Esaki — Japan (1925- )
- Ernest Esclangon — France (1876–1954)
- Louis Essen — UK (1908–1997)
- Leonhard Euler — Switzerland (1707–1783)
- Denis Evans — Australia (1951– )
- Paul Peter Ewald — Germany, USA (1888-1985)
- James Alfred Ewing — UK (1855–1935)
- Franz S. Exner — Austria (1849-1926)
- Thomas Edison — US (1847-1931)
F
- Ludvig Faddeev — Russia (1934– )
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — (1686–1736)
- Kazimierz Fajans — Poland, USA (1887-1975)
- Michael Faraday — UK (1791–1867)
- Eugene Feenberg — USA (1906–1977)
- Mitchell Feigenbaum — USA (1944– )
- Gerald Feinberg — USA (1933–1992)
- Enrico Fermi — Italy (1901–1954)
- Albert Fert — France (1938– )
- Herman Feshbach — USA (1917–2000)
- Richard Feynman — USA (1918–1988) Nobel laureate
- Wolfgang Finkelnburg — Germany (1905–1967)
- David Finkelstein — USA (1929– )
- Johannes Fischer — Germany (1887– )
- Val Logsdon Fitch — USA (1923– )
- George Francis FitzGerald — Ireland (1851–1901)
- Hippolyte Fizeau — France (1819–1896)
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898–1974)
- Adriaan Fokker — Netherlands (1887–1972)
- James David Forbes — UK (1809–1868)
- Léon Foucault — France (1819–1868)
- Joseph Fourier — France (1768–1830)
- Ralph H. Fowler — UK (1889–1944)
- William Alfred Fowler — USA (1911–1995)
- James Franck — Germany, USA (1882–1964)
- Ilya Frank — Soviet Union (1908–1990)
- Benjamin Franklin — USA (1706–1790)
- Rosalind Franklin — UK (1920–1958)
- Walter Franz — Germany (1911–1992)
- Joseph von Fraunhofer — Germany (1787–1826)
- Steven Frautschi — USA (1933– )
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France (1788–1827)
- Peter Freund — USA (1936– )
- Alexander Friedman — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1888–1925)
- Daniel Friedan — USA
- B. Roy Frieden — USA (1936– )
- Jerome Isaac Friedman — USA (1930– )
- Otto Frisch — Austria, UK (1904–1979)
- Erwin Fues — Germany (1893–1970)
- Harald Fuchs — Germany (1951– )
G
- Dennis Gabor — Hungary (1900-1979)
- Mary K. Gaillard — France, USA (1939– )
- Galileo Galilei — Italy (1564-1642)
- Luigi Galvani — Italy (1737–1798)
- George Gamow — Russia, USA (1904-1968)
- Sylvester James Gates — USA (1950- )
- Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany (1777-1855)
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — France (1778-1850)
- Murray Gell-Mann — USA (1929- ) Nobel laureate
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes — France (1932-2007)
- Howard Georgi — USA (1947- )
- Walter Gerlach — Germany (1889-1979)
- Christian Gerthsen — Denmark, Germany (1894-1956)
- Riccardo Giacconi — Italy, USA (1931- )
- Ivar Giaever — Norway, USA (1929- )
- Gary Gibbons — UK (1946- )
- Josiah Willard Gibbs — USA (1839-1903)
- William Gilbert — England (1544-1603)
- Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg — Soviet Union/Russia (1916- )
- Donald Arthur Glaser — USA (1926- )
- Sheldon Lee Glashow — USA (1932- )
- G. N. Glasoe – USA (1902– )
- Roy Jay Glauber — USA (1925- )
- James Glimm — USA (1934– )
- Karl Glitscher — Germany (1886-1945)
- Peter Goddard — UK (1945-)
- Marvin Leonard Goldberger — USA (1922– )
- Maurice Goldhaber - Austria, USA (1911- )
- Jeffrey Goldstone — UK, USA (1933- )
- Lev Gor'kov — USA (1929- )
- Samuel Goudsmit — Netherlands, USA (1902-1978)
- Leo Graetz — Germany (1856-1941)
- Willem 's Gravesande — Netherlands (1688-1742)
- Brian Greene — USA (1963- )
- John Gribbin — UK (1946- )
- Vladimir Gribov — Russia (1930–1997)
- David Gross — USA (1941- )
- Frederick Grover — USA (1876-1973)
- Peter Grünberg — Germany (1939- )
- Charles Édouard Guillaume — Switzerland (1861-1931)
- Feza Gürsey — Turkey (1921-1992)
- Alan Guth - USA (1947- )
- Martin Gutzwiller — Switzerland (1925- )
H
- Rudolf Haag — Germany (1922– )
- Wander Johannes de Haas — Netherlands (1878-1960)
- Otto Hahn — Germany (1879-1968)
- Edwin Hall — USA (1855–1938)
- John Lewis Hall — USA (1934- )
- Viktor Hambardzumyan — Armenia, Russia (1908-1996)
- William Rowan Hamilton — Ireland (1805–1865)
- Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch — Germany (1941- )
- Peter Andreas Hansen — Denmark (1795–1874)
- W.W. Hansen — USA (1909–1949)
- Paul Harteck — Germany (1902-1985)
- Douglas Hartree — UK (1897–1958)
- Friedrich Hasenöhrl — Austria,Hungary (1874-1915)
- Stephen Hawking — UK (1942– ) Wolf laureate
- Ibn al-Haytham — Iraq (965-1039)
- Oliver Heaviside — UK (1850–1925)
- Werner Karl Heisenberg — Germany (1901–1976)
- Walter Heitler — Germany/Ireland (1904-1981)
- Hermann von Helmholtz — Germany (1821–1894)
- Charles H. Henry — USA (1937- )
- Joseph Henry — USA (1797–1878)
- John Herapath — UK (1790–1868)
- Carl Hermann — Germany (1898–1961)
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz — Germany (1857–1894)
- Karl Herzfeld — Austria, USA (1892-1978)
- Victor Francis Hess — Austria, USA (1883–1964)
- Mahmoud Hessaby — Iran (1903-1992)
- Antony Hewish — UK (1924- )
- Peter Higgs — UK (1929- )
- George William Hill — USA (1838–1914)
- Gustave-Adolphe Hirn — France (1815-1890)
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — England (1910-1994)
- Robert Hofstadter — USA (1915-1990)
- Gilles Holst — Netherlands (1886-1968)
- Helmut Hönl — Germany (1903-1981)
- Gerardus 't Hooft — Netherlands (1946– )
- Robert Hooke — England (1635–1703)
- John Hopkinson — U.K. (1849-1898)
- Johann Baptiste Horvath — Slovakia (1732-1799)
- William V. Houston — USA (1900-1968)
- Charlotte (nee Riefenstahl) Houtermans — Germany (1899 - )
- Fritz Houtermans — Netherlands, Germany, Austria (1903-1996)
- Sir Fred Hoyle — UK (1915–2001)
- John H. Hubbell — USA (1925-2007)
- Edwin Powell Hubble - USA (1889-1953)
- Russell Alan Hulse — USA (1950- ) Nobel laureate
- Friedrich Hund — Germany (1896-1997)
- Andrew D. Huxley — U.K. (1966– )
- Christiaan Huygens — Netherlands (1629–1695)
I
- John Iliopoulos — Greece (1940– )
- Nathan Isgur — USA, Canada (1947–2001)
- Ernst Ising - Germany (1900-1998)
- Werner Israel — Canada (1931– )
J
- Roman Jackiw — Poland, USA (1939-)
- Andreas Jaszlinszky — Hungary (1715-1783)
- Ali Javan — Iran (1928– )
- Edwin Jaynes — USA (1922–1998)
- Sir James Jeans — UK (1877–1946)
- Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen — Germany (1907-1973)
- Irene Joliot-Curie — France (1897-1956)
- Pascual Jordan — Germany (1902-1980)
- Brian David Josephson — UK (1940– )
- James Prescott Joule — UK (1818–1889)
- Adolfas Jucys — Lithuania (1904–1974)
K
- Michio Kaku — USA (1947- )
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — Netherlands (1853-1926)
- Theodor Kaluza — Germany (1885-1954)
- William R. Kanne — USA
- Pyotr Kapitza — UK, Soviet Union (1894-1984)
- Theodore von Kármán — Hungary, USA (1881-1963)
- Alfred Kastler — France (1902-1984)
- Predhiman K. Kaw - India (1948- )
- Heinrich Kayser — Germany (1853-1940)
- Willem Hendrik Keesom — Netherlands (1876-1956)
- Edwin C. Kemble — USA (1889-1984)
- Henry Way Kendall — USA (1926-1999)
- Johannes Kepler — Germany (1571–1630)
- John Kerr — UK (1824–1907)
- Wolfgang Ketterle — Germany (1957- )
- Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov — Soviet Union (1919- )
- Abdul Qadeer Khan — Pakistan (1936- )
- Julii Khariton — Soviet Union (1904-1996)
- Erhard Kietz - Germany and USA (1909-1982)
- Jack St. Clair Kilby — USA (1923-2005)
- Toichiro Kinoshita — Japan, USA
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff — Germany (1824–1887)
- Jacob Kistemaker — Netherlands (1917- )
- Bruce G. Klappauf — USA (1961- )
- Oskar Klein — Sweden (1894-1977)
- Hagen Kleinert — Germany (1941- )
- Klaus von Klitzing — Germany (1943- )
- Jens Martin Knudsen — Denmark (1930–2005)
- Martin Knudsen — Denmark (1871-1949)
- Makoto Kobayashi — Japan (1944– )
- Arthur Korn — Germany (1870-1945)
- Masatoshi Koshiba — Japan (1926- )
- Matthew Koss — USA (1961- )
- Walther Kossel — Germany (1888-1956)
- Gabriel Kotliar — USA (1950- )
- Lew Kowarski — France (1907-1979)
- Hendrik Kramers — Netherlands (1894-1952)
- Adolf Kratzer — Germany (1893- )
- Lawrence Krauss — USA (1954- )
- Herbert Kroemer — Germany (1928– )
- August Krönig — Germany (1822–1879)
- Ralph Kronig Germany, USA (1904–1995)
- Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov — Soviet Union (1917–1947)
- Ryogo Kubo — Japan (1920–1995)
- Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov — Soviet Union (1903–1960)
- Behram Kurşunoğlu — Turkey (1922-2003)
- Polykarp Kusch Germany (1911-1993)
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- James W. LaBelle - USA
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736–1813)
- Willis Lamb - USA (1913-)
- Lev Davidovich Landau — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1908–1968)
- Rolf Landauer — USA (1927-1999)
- Kenneth Lane — USA
- Paul Langevin — France (1872-1946)
- Irving Langmuir — USA (1881-1957)
- Max von Laue — Germany (1879–1960)
- Robert Betts Laughlin — USA (1950– )
- Ernest Lawrence — USA (1901–1958)
- Bob Lazar - USA (1959- )
- Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev — Imperial Russia (1866–1912)
- Leon Max Lederman — USA (1922– )
- Benjamin Lee — Korea, USA (1935-1977)
- David Lee — USA (1931- )
- Tsung-Dao Lee — China, USA (1926– )
- Anthony James Leggett — UK, USA (1938– )
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany (1646–1716)
- Robert B. Leighton — USA (1919-1997)
- Georges Lemaître — Belgium (1894–1966)
- Philipp Lenard — Hungary, Germany (1862-1947)
- John Lennard-Jones — UK (1894–1954)
- John Leslie — UK (1766–1832)
- Walter Lewin — Netherlands, USA
- Martin Lewis Perl — USA (1927- )
- Robert von Lieben — Austria-Hungary (1878-1913)
- Alfred-Marie Liénard — France (1869-1958)
- Evgeny Lifshitz — Soviet Union (1915-1985)
- David Lindley — USA (1956– )
- Gabriel Jonas Lippmann — France, Luxemburg (1845–1921)
- Karl L. Littrow — Austria (1811–1877)
- Oliver Lodge — UK (1851-1940)
- Maurice Loewy — Austria/France (1833–1907)
- Robert K. Logan — USA (1939– )
- Alfred Lee Loomis — USA (1887–1975)
- Hendrik Lorentz — Netherlands (1853–1928)
- Johann Loschmidt — Germany (1821–1895)
- Archibald Low — UK (1888–1956)
- Per-Olov Löwdin — Sweden (1916–2000)
- Lucretius — Rome (98?–55 BC)
- Joseph Lykken — USA (1957– )
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia (1857–1918)
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- Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry — Netherlands (1904–1993)
- Ernst Mach — Austria-Hungary (1838–1916)
- Luciano Maiani — Italy, San Marino (1941– )
- Theodore Maiman — USA (1927–2007)
- Ettore Majorana — Italy (1906-1938 presumed dead)
- Richard Makinson — Australia (1913-1979)
- Juan Martín Maldacena — Argentina (1968– )
- Etienne-Louis Malus — France (1775–1812)
- Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1879–1944)
- Peter Mansfield — UK (1933– )
- Carlo Marangoni — Italy (1840–1925)
- William J. Marciano — USA
- Guglielmo Marconi — Italy (1874–1937)
- Henry Margenau — Germany, USA (1901–1977)
- William Markowitz — USA (1907–1998)
- Robert Marshak — USA (1916–1992)
- Walter Marshall — UK (1932–1996)
- Toshihide Maskawa — Japan (1940– )
- Harrie Massey — Australia (1908-1983)
- John Cromwell Mather — USA (1946– )
- James Clerk Maxwell — UK (1831–1879)
- Brian May — UK (1947– )
- Maria Goeppert Mayer — Germany, USA (1906-1972)
- Ronald E. McNair — USA (1950–1986)
- Simon van der Meer — Netherlands (1925- )
- Fulvio Melia — USA (1956- )
- Macedonio Melloni — Italy (1798–1854)
- Lise Meitner — Austria (1878-1968)
- Thomas Corwin Mendenhall — USA (1841–1924)
- M. G. K. Menon — India (1928– )
- David Merritt — USA
- Albert Abraham Michelson — USA (1852–1931)
- Stanislav Mikheyev — Russia
- Robert Andrews Millikan — USA (1868–1953)
- Arthur Milne — UK (1896-1950)
- Shiraz Minwalla — India
- John J. Montgomery — USA (1858-1911)
- Jagadeesh Moodera — India, USA (1950– )
- Rudolf Mössbauer — Germany (1929– )
- Henry Moseley — UK (1887–1915)
- Nevill Mott — UK (1905–1996)
- Ben Roy Mottelson — Denmark, USA (1926- )
- Amédée Mouchez — Spain, France (1821–1892)
- Ali Moustafa — Egypt (1898 –1950)
- José Enrique Moyal — Palestine, France, UK, USA, Australia (1910-1998)
- Mozi — China (ca. 450 BC)
- Karl Alexander Müller — Switzerland (1927– )
- Alfred Mueller — USA
- Richard A. Muller — USA (1944– )
- Robert S. Mulliken — USA (1896–1986)
- Pieter van Musschenbroek — Netherlands (1692-1762)
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- Yoichiro Nambu — Japan, USA (1921– )
- Jayant Narlikar — India (1938– )
- Seth Neddermeyer — USA (1907–1988)
- Louis Néel — France (1904–2000)
- Yuval Ne'eman — Israel (1925-2006)
- Ann Nelson — USA (1958– )
- John von Neumann — Austria-Hungary, USA (1903–1957)
- Simon Newcomb — USA (1835–1909)
- Sir Isaac Newton — England (1642–1727)
- Holger Bech Nielsen — Denmark (1941– )
- Leopoldo Nobili — Italy (1784–1835)
- Emmy Noether — Germany (1882–1935)
- Lothar Nordheim — Germany (1899–1985)
- Gunnar Nordström — Finland (1881–1923)
- Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg — Germany (1787–1862)
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- Georg Ohm — Germany (1789–1854)
- Susumu Okubo — Japan, USA
- David Olive — UK (1937– )
- Gerard K. O'Neill — USA (1927–1992)
- Lars Onsager — Norway (1903–1976)
- Robert Oppenheimer — USA (1904–1967)
- Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh — Ireland (1933–2000)
- Nicole Oresme — France (1325–1382)
- Leonard Salomon Ornstein — Netherlands (1880–1941)
- Egon Orowan — Austria-Hungary, USA (1901–1989)
- Yuri Orlov — Soviet Union, USA (1924– )
- Douglas Dean Osheroff — USA (1945– )
- Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky — Russia (1801–1862)
- Hans Christian Ørsted — Denmark (1777–1851)
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- Thanu Padmanabhan — India (1957- )
- Abraham Pais — Netherlands, USA (1918-2000)
- Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky — Germany/USA (1919- )
- Blaise Pascal — France (1623–1662)
- John Pasta — USA (1918-1984)
- Jogesh Pati — USA (1937- )
- Wolfgang Paul — Germany (1913–1993)
- Wolfgang Ernst Pauli — Austria-Hungary (1900–1958)
- G. B. Pegram — USA (1876–1958)
- Rudolf Peierls — Germany/UK (1907-1995)
- Jean Peltier — France (1785–1845)
- Roger Penrose — UK (1931– ) Wolf laureate
- Arno Allan Penzias — USA (1933– )
- Saul Perlmutter — USA (1959- )
- Jean Baptiste Perrin — France (1870-1942)
- Bernhard Philberth — Germany (1927– )
- William Daniel Phillips — USA (1948– )
- Algis Petras Piskarskas — Lithuania (1942– )
- Max Planck — Germany (1858–1947)
- Joseph Plateau — Belgium (1801–1883)
- Milton S. Plesset — USA (1908–1991)
- Ward Plummer - USA (1940-)
- Henri Poincaré — France (1854–1912)
- Eric Poisson — Canada ( – )
- Balthasar van der Pol — Netherlands (1889-1959)
- Joseph Polchinski — UK (1954–)
- Hugh David Politzer — USA (1949– )
- John Polkinghorne — UK (1930– )
- Alexander M. Polyakov - Russia-USA (1945-)
- Heraclides Ponticus — Greece (387–312 BC)
- Heinz Pose — Germany (1905-1975)
- Cecil Frank Powell — UK (1903–1969)
- John Henry Poynting — UK (1852–1914)
- Juras Požela — Lithuania (1925– )
- Ludwig Prandtl — Germany (1875-1953)
- Ilya Prigogine — Belgium (1917-2003)
- Aleksandr Prokhorov — Soviet/Russian (1916-2002)
- William Prout — UK (1785–1850)
- Luigi Puccianti — Italy (1875–1952)
- Ivan Pulyuy — Ukraine (1845-1918)
- Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin — Serbia/USA (1858-1935)
- Edward Mills Purcell — USA (1912-1997)
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- Helen Quinn — USA (1943- )
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- Isidor Isaac Rabi — Austria, USA (1898-1988)
- Mario Rabinowitz - USA (1936-)
- Mark G. Raizen -New York City USA (1955-)
- James Rainwater-USA (1917-1986)
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — India (1888–1970)
- Edward Ramberg — USA (1907-1995)
- Carl Ramsauer — Germany (1879-1955)
- Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. — USA (1915- )
- Lisa Randall — USA (1962– )
- Lord Rayleigh — UK (1842–1919)
- René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur — France (1683–1757)
- Sidney Redner — Canada, USA (1951- )
- Martin John Rees — UK (1942- )
- Hubert Reeves — Canada (1932– )
- Tullio Regge — Italy (1931–)
- Frederick Reines — USA (1918–1998)
- Louis Rendu — France (1789–1859)
- Osborne Reynolds — UK (1842–1912)
- Owen Willans Richardson — UK (1879-1959)
- Robert Coleman Richardson — USA (1937- )
- Burton Richter — USA (1931- )
- Charlotte Riefenstahl — Germany (1899- )
- Nikolaus Riehl — Germany (1901-1990)
- Karl-Heinrich Riewe — Germany
- Walter Ritz — Switzerland (1878-1909)
- Étienne-Gaspard Robert — Belgium (1763-1837)
- Heinrich Rohrer — Switzerland (1933- )
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen — Germany (1845–1923)
- Clemens C. J. Roothaan — Netherlands (1918–)
- Marshall Rosenbluth — USA (1927–2003)
- Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby — Sweden, USA (1898–1957)
- Joseph Rotblat — Poland, UK (1908-2005)
- Carlo Rubbia — Italy (1934– )
- Serge Rudaz — Canada, USA (1954– )
- David Ruelle — Belgium, France (1935– )
- Ernst August Friedrich Ruska — Germany (1906–1988)
- Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand, UK (1871–1937)
- Janne Rydberg — Sweden (1854–1919)
- Martin Ryle — UK (1918–1984)
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- Mendel Sachs — USA (1927- )
- Georges-Louis le Sage — Switzerland (1724–1803)
- Georges Sagnac — France (1869-1926)
- Megh Nad Saha — Bengali India (1893-1956)
- Gilles Saint-Hilaire — Canada (1948– )
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — Soviet Union (1929–1989)
- Oscar Sala — Brazil (1922– )
- Abdus Salam — Pakistan, UK (1926–1996)
- Edwin Ernest Salpeter — Austria, Australia, USA (1924– )
- Anthony Ichiro Sanda — Japan, USA (1944– )
- Vikram Sarabhai — India (1919-1971)
- Jack Sarfatti — USA (1939– )
- Isidor Sauers — Austria (1948- )
- Felix Savart — France (1791–1841)
- Martin Schadt — Switzerland (1938- )
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow — USA (1921-1999)
- Craige Schensted — USA
- Joël Scherk — USA (1946-1979)
- Otto Scherzer — Germany (1909-1982)
- Walter H. Schottky — Germany (1886-1976)
- Kees A. Schouhamer Immink — Netherlands (1946- )
- John Robert Schrieffer — USA (1931- )
- Erwin Schrödinger — Austria-Hungary (1887–1961)
- Melvin Schwartz — USA (1932-2006)
- John Henry Schwarz — USA (1941–)
- Karl Schwarzschild — Germany (1876–1916)
- Julian Schwinger — USA (1918-1994)
- Dennis William Sciama — UK (1926-1999)
- Thomas Johann Seebeck — Estonia (1770–1831)
- Emilio G. Segrè — USA/Italy (1905–1989)
- Nathan Seiberg — USA (1956– )
- Frederick Seitz — USA (1911- )
- Nikolay Semyonov — Russia (1896-1986)
- Ashoke Sen — India (1956- )
- Robert Serber — USA (1909-1997)
- Roman U. Sexl — Austria (1939-1986)
- Mikhail Shifman — Russia, USA (1949–
- Dmitry Shirkov — Russia (1928– )
- William Bradford Shockley — USA (1910-1989)
- Lev Shubnikov — Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine (1901-1937)
- Clifford Shull — USA (1915-2001)
- Manne Siegbahn — Sweden (1886-1978)
- Kai Siegbahn — Sweden (1918-2007)
- Ludwik Silberstein — Poland, Germany, Italy, USA, Canada (1872-1948)
- Alberto Sirlin — Argentina, USA
- Willem de Sitter — Netherlands (1872-1934)
- Francis G. Slack — USA (1897–1985)
- John C. Slater — USA (1900-1976)
- Louis Slotin — USA (1910-1946)
- Alexei Smirnov — Russia, Italy (1951– )
- Lee Smolin — USA (1955- )
- Marian Smoluchowski — Poland (1872-1917)
- George Smoot — USA (1945- )
- Willebrord Snel van Royen (Snellius) — Netherlands (1580–1626)
- Arsenij Sokolov — Russia (1910-1986)
- Arnold Sommerfeld — Germany (1868-1951)
- Davison E. Soper — USA
- Rafael Sorkin - USA (1945- )
- Maria Spiropulu - West Macedonia, Greece (1970- )
- Johannes Stark — Germany (1874-1957)
- Max Steenbeck — (1901-1981)
- Jožef Stefan — Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835–1893)
- Jack Steinberger — Germany, USA (1921- )
- Karl August von Steinheil — Germany (1801–1870)
- George Sterman — USA
- Otto Stern — Germany (1888–1969)
- Simon Stevin — Belgium, Netherlands (1548–1620)
- George Gabriel Stokes — Ireland / UK (1819–1903)
- Aleksandr Stoletov — Russia (1839-1896)
- Horst Ludwig Störmer — Germany (1949– )
- Andrew Strominger — USA (1955– )
- Ernst Stueckelberg — Switzerland (1905–1984)
- George Sudarshan — India, USA (1931– )
- Oleg Sushkov — Australia-Russia (1950- )
- Leonard Susskind — USA (1940- )
- Joseph Wilson Swan — UK (1828–1914)
- Jean Henri van Swinden — Netherlands (1746-1823)
- Bertha Swirles — UK (1903–1999)
- Leó Szilárd — Austria-Hungary, USA (1898–1964)
- Shen Kuo — China (1031 - 1095)
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- Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1895–1971)
- Abraham Haskel Taub — USA (1911–1999)
- Geoffrey Ingram Taylor — UK (1886–1975)
- Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. — USA (1941– )
- Richard Edward Taylor — USA (1929– )
- Max Tegmark — Sweden, USA (1967– )
- Valentine Telegdi - Hungary, USA (1922-2006) Wolf laureate
- Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary, USA (1908–2003)
- Igor Ternov — Russia (1921-1996)
- Nikola Tesla — Serbia, USA (1856–1943)
- George Paget Thomson — UK (1892–1975)
- J. J. Thomson — UK (1856–1940)
- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) — UK (1824–1907)
- Charles Thorn — USA
- Kip Stephen Thorne — USA (1940– )
- Peter Adolf Thiessen — Germany (1899–1990)
- Samuel Chao Chung Ting — USA (1936– )
- Frank J. Tipler — USA (1947– )
- Ernest William Titterton — UK/Australia (1916–1990)
- Samuel Tolansky — UK (1907–1973)
- Sin-Itiro Tomonaga — Japan (1906–1979)
- Evangelista Torricelli — Italy (1608–1647)
- Bruno Touschek — Italy (1921–1978)
- Charles Townes — USA (1915– ) Nobel laureate
- John Townsend — UK (1868–1957)
- Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763–1822)
- Sam Treiman — USA (1925–1999)
- Paolo Tripodi — Italy (1963– )
- Daniel Chee Tsui — China, USA (1939– )
- John J. Turin — USA (1913–1973)
- Sergei Tyablikov — Russia (1921-1968)
- John Tyndall — UK (1820–1893)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson — USA (1958– )
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- George Eugene Uhlenbeck — Netherlands, USA (1900-1988)
- Stanislaw Ulam — Poland (1909-1984)
- Nikolay Umov — Russia (1846-1915)
- Juris Upatnieks — Latvia, USA (1936- )
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- Arkady Vainshtein — Russia, USA
- Léon Van Hove — Belgium (1924–1990)
- Sergei Vavilov — Soviet Union (1891–1951)
- Evgeny Velikhov — Russia (1935–)
- Martinus J. G. Veltman — Netherlands, USA (1931- )
- Gabriele Veneziano — Italy (1942- )
- Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746–1822)
- Émile Verdet — France (1824-1866)
- Jean-Pierre Vigier France (1920-2004)
- Jenny Darja Vinko — Slovenija (1963- )
- Anatoly Vlasov — Russia (1908–1975)
- John Hasbrouck van Vleck — USA (1899–1980)
- Woldemar Voigt — Germany (1850-1919)
- Burchard de Volder — Netherlands (1643-1709)
- Max Volmer — Germany (1885-1965)
- Mikhail Voloshin — Russia, USA
- Alessandro Volta — Italy (1745–1827)
- Wernher Von Braun - Germany (1912-1977)
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- Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands (1837–1923)
- Ludwig Waldmann — Germany (1913–1980)
- Ernest Walton — Ireland (1903–1995)
- Kan-Chang Wang — China (1907–1998)
- Aaldert Wapstra — Netherlands (1923–2006)
- John Clive Ward — England/Australia (1924-2000)
- Gleb Wataghin — Ukraine/Italy/Brazil (1896–1986)
- John James Waterston — UK (1811–1883)
- James Watt — UK (1736–1819)
- Denis Weaire — Ireland (194?- )
- Colin Webb — UK (1937- )
- Wilhelm Weber — Germany (1804–1891)
- Alvin Weinberg — USA (1915-2006)
- Steven Weinberg — USA (1933– )
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, USA (1908–2002)
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker — Germany (1912-2007)
- Heinrich Welker — Germany (1912-1981)
- Peter Westervelt — USA (1919-)
- Gregor Wentzel — Germany (1898-1978)
- John Archibald Wheeler — USA (1911-2008)
- Gian-Carlo Wick — Italy (1909-1992)
- Emil Wiechert — Prussia (1861-1928)
- Carl Wieman — USA (1951- )
- Wilhelm Wien — Germany (1864-1928)
- Arthur Wightman — USA (1922– )
- Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary, USA (1902–1993)
- Frank Wilczek — USA (1951– )
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson — UK (1869–1959)
- Kenneth Geddes Wilson — USA (1936– )
- Robert R. Wilson — USA (1914–2000)
- Karl Wirtz — Germany (1910-1994)
- Robert Woodrow Wilson — USA (1936– )
- Mark B. Wise — Canada, USA (1953– )
- Edward Witten — USA (1951– )
- Emil Wolf — Czechoslovakia, USA (1922– )
- Fred Alan Wolf — USA (1934– )
- Lincoln Wolfenstein — USA (1923– )
- Stephen Wolfram — UK (1959– )
- Robert W. Wood — USA (1868–1955)
- Chien-Shiung Wu — USA (1912-1997)
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- Basilis C. Xanthopoulos — Greece (1951–1990)
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- Rosalyn Yalow — USA (1921- )
- Chen Ning Yang — China (1922– )
- Thomas Young — UK (1773–1829)
- Francisco Jose Yndurain — Spain (1940–2008)
- Hideki Yukawa — Japan (1907–1981)
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- Jan Zaanen — Netherlands (1957- )
- Valentin Zakharov — Russia, Germany
- Anthony Zee — USA
- Pieter Zeeman — Netherlands (1865-1943)
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich — Russia (1914-1987)
- John Zeleny — USA (1872-1951)
- Frits Zernike — Netherlands (1888-1960)
- Antonino Zichichi — Italy (1929- )
- Karl Zimmer — Germany (1911-1988)
- Dmitry Zubarev — Russia (1917-1992)
- Barton Zwiebach — USA (1954- )
See also
- List of theoretical physicists
- Genealogy of theoretical physicists
- Physics in medieval Islam
- List of plasma physicists
- List of mathematicians
- List of women scientists
External links
- Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th century American) are collected in the Emilio Segre Visual Archives
- 20th century women in physics in the Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics archive