Physicists
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Below is a list of famous physicists. Many of these from the 20th and 21st centuries are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.

A

• Ernst Karl Abbe — Germany (1840–1905)
• Derek Abbott — Australia (1960- )
• Marek Artur Abramowicz - Poland (1945- )
• Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov — Soviet Union/Russia (1928- )
• Robert Adler — USA (1913-2007)
• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov — Russia (1930- )
• Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén — Sweden (1908–1995)
• 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)
• Herbert L. Anderson – USA (1914–1988)
• André-Marie Ampère — France (1775–1836)
• Anders Jonas Ångström — Sweden (1814–1874)
• Hans Henrik Andersen — Denmark (1937- )
• Carl David Anderson — USA (1905-1991)
• Philip Warren Anderson — USA (1923– )
• Edward Victor Appleton — UK (1892-1965)
• 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

• Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran — India (1938- )
• Johann Jakob Balmer — Switzerland (1825–1898)
• John Bardeen — USA (1908–1991)
• Charles Glover Barkla — UK (1877-1944)
• 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)
• Johannes Georg Bednorz — Germany (1950- )
• 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)
• Gerd Binnig — Germany (1947- )
• 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- )
• David Bohm — USA (1917-1992)
• Aage Niels Bohr — Denmark (1922– )
• Nikolay Bogolyubov — Soviet Union/Russia (1909–1992)
• Niels Bohr — Denmark (1885–1962)
• Ludwig Boltzmann — Austria (1844–1906)
• Eugene T. Booth – USA (1912–2004)
• Max Born — Germany, UK (1882–1970)
• 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)
• William Lawrence Bragg — Australia (1890-1971)
• 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)
• 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)

C

• Nicolás Cabrera — Spain (1913–1989)
• Fritjof Capra — Austria, USA (1939– )
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot — France (1796–1832)
• Hendrik Casimir — Netherlands (1909-2000)
• Henry Cavendish — UK (1731–1810)
• James Chadwick — UK (1891-1974)
• Owen Chamberlain — USA (1920–2006)
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar — India, USA (1910–1995)
• Georges Charpak — France (1924- )
• 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)
• John Cockcroft — UK (1897-1967)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji — France (1933- )
• Arthur Compton — USA (1892-1962)
• Edward Condon — USA (1902-1974)
• Leon Cooper — USA (1930- )
• Allan McLeod Cormack — South Africa, USA (1924-1998)
• Eric Allin Cornell — USA (1961- )
• 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- )
• Sir William Crookes
• Marie Curie — Poland, France (1867–1934)
• Pierre Curie — France (1859–1906)

D

• 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)
• James Dewar — UK (1842–1923)
• Robbert Dijkgraaf — Netherlands (1960- )
• Savas Dimopoulos - USA
• 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)
• Freeman Dyson — UK, USA (1923– )

E

• 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)
• Arpad Elo — Hungary (1903-1992)
• 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)
• Paul Peter Ewald — Germany, USA (1888-1985)
• James Alfred Ewing — UK (1855–1935)
• Franz S. Exner — Austria (1849-1926)

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–)
• Enrico Fermi — Italy (1901–1954)
• Albert Fert — France (1938- )
• Herman Feshbach — USA (1917-2000)
• Richard Feynman — USA (1918–1988)
• Wolfgang Finkelnburg — Germany (1905-1967)
• David Finkelstein — USA (1929- )
• Johannes Fischer — Germany (1987- )
• 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)
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France (1788–1827)
• 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)
• 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- )
• 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- )
• 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- )
• Karl Glitscher — Germany (1886-1945)
• Marvin Leonard Goldberger — USA (1922–)
• 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- )
• 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– )
• 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)
• 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)
• Russell Alan Hulse — USA (1950- )
• Friedrich Hund — Germany (1896-1997)
• Andrew D. Huxley — U.K. (1966- )
• Christiaan Huygens — Netherlands (1629–1695)

I

• Nathan Isgur — USA, Canada (1947-2001)

J

• Ali Javan — Iran (1928– )
• Edwin Jaynes — USA (1922–1998)
• 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)

K

• Michio Kaku — USA (1947- )
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — Netherlands (1853-1926)
• William R. Kanne — USA
• Pyotr Kapitza — UK, Soviet Union (1894-1984)
• Theodore von Kármán — Hungary, USA (1881-1963)
• Alfred Kastler — France (1902-1984)
• 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- )
• Abdul Qadeer Khan — Pakistan (1936- )
• Julii Khariton — Soviet Union (1904-1996)
• Jack St. Clair Kilby — USA (1923-2005)
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff — Germany (1824–1887)
• Jacob Kistemaker — Netherlands (1917- )
• Bruce G. Klappauf — USA (1961- )
• Hagen Kleinert — Germany (1941- )
• Klaus von Klitzing — Germany (1943- )
• Jens Martin Knudsen — Denmark (1930–2005)
• Martin Knudsen — Denmark (1871-1949)
• 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)
• Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov — Soviet Union (1917–1947)
• Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov — Soviet Union (1903–1960)
• Behram Kurşunoğlu — Turkey (1922-2003)
• Polykarp Kusch Germany (1911-1993)

L

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia (1857–1918)

M

• Mozi — China (Around 450BC)
• Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry — Netherlands (1904–1993)
• Ernst Mach — Austria-Hungary (1838–1916)
• Theodore Maiman — USA (1927–2007)
• Ettore Majorana — Italy (1906-1938 presumed dead)
• Juan Martín Maldacena — Argentina (1968– )
• Etienne-Louis Malus — France (1775–1812)
• Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1879–1944)
• Guglielmo Marconi — Italy (1874–1937)
• Henry Margenau — Germany, USA (1901–1977)
• William Markowitz — USA (1907–1998)
• Robert Marshak — USA (1916–1992)
• 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)
• Albert Abraham Michelson — USA (1852–1931)
• Stanislav Mikheyev — Russia
• Robert Andrews Millikan — USA (1868–1953)
• Arthur Milne — UK (1896-1950)
• 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)
• José Enrique Moyal — Palestine, France, UK, USA, Australia (1910-1998)
• Karl Alexander Müller — Switzerland (1927– )
• Richard A. Muller — USA (1944– )
• Robert S. Mulliken — USA (1896–1986)
• Pieter van Musschenbroeck — Netherlands (1692-1762)

N

• Yoichiro Nambu — Japan, USA (1921- )
• Jayant Narlikar — India (1938 - )
• Seth Neddermeyer - USA (1907 - 1988)
• Louis Eugène Félix 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)
• Leopoldo Nobili — Italy (1784–1835)
• Emmy Noether — Germany (1882-1935)
• Lothar Nordheim — Germany (1899-1985)
• Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg — Germany (1787 - 1862)

O

• Georg Ohm — Germany (1789–1854)
• 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)

P

• Thanu Padmanabhan — India (1957- )
• Abraham Pais — Netherlands, USA (1918-2000)
• Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky — Germany/USA (1919- )
• Blaise Pascal — France (1623–1662)
• 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– )
• Arno Allan Penzias — USA (1933– )
• Saul Perlmutter — USA (1959- )
• Jean Baptiste Perrin — France (1870-1942)
• Bernhard Philberth — Germany (1927– )
• William Daniel Phillips — USA (1948– )
• Max Planck — Germany (1858–1947)
• Joseph Plateau — Belgium (1801–1883)
• Ward Plummer - USA (1940-)
• Henri Poincaré — France (1854–1912)
• 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)
• 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)

Q

• Helen Quinn — USA (1943- )

R

• Isidor Isaac Rabi — Austria, USA (1898-1988)
• 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)

S

• 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)
• 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)
• 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–)
• Julian Schwinger — USA (1918-1994)
• Dennis William Sciama — UK (1926-1999)
• Thomas Johann Seebeck — Estonia (1770–1831)
• Emilio G. Segrè — USA/Italy (1905–1989)
• Frederick Seitz — USA (1911- )
• Nikolay Semyonov — Russia (1896-1986)
• Robert Serber — USA (1909-1997)
• Roman U. Sexl — Austria (1939-1986)
• 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)
• 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
• Marian Smoluchowski — Poland (1872-1917)
• George Smoot — USA (1945- )
• Willebrord Snel van Royen (Snellius) — Netherlands (1580–1626)
• Arnold Sommerfeld — Germany (1868-1951)
• 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)
• Otto Stern — Germany (1888–1969)
• Simon Stevin — Belgium, Netherlands (1548–1620)
• George Gabriel Stokes — Ireland / UK (1819–1903)
• Horst Ludwig Störmer — Germany (1949– )
• Ernst Stueckelberg — Switzerland (1905–1984)
• George Sudarshan — India, USA (1931– )
• Oleg Sushkov — Australia-Russia (1950- )
• 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)

T

• Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1895–1971)
• Geoffrey Ingram Taylor — UK (1886–1975)
• Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. — USA (1941– )
• Richard Edward Taylor — USA (1929– )
• Max Tegmark — Sweden, USA (1967– )
• Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary, USA (1908–2003)
• Nikola Tesla — Serbia/Croatia, USA (1856–1943)
• George Paget Thomson — UK (1892–1975)
• J. J. Thomson — UK (1856–1940)
• William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) — UK (1824–1907)
• 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– )
• John Townsend — UK (1868-1957)
• Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763–1822)
• Sam Treiman — USA (1926- )
• Paolo Tripodi — Italy(1963- )
• Daniel Chee Tsui — China, USA (1939- )
• John J. Turin — USA (1913-1973)
• John Tyndall — UK (1820-1893)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson — USA (1958- )

U

• George Eugene Uhlenbeck — Netherlands, USA (1900-1988)
• Stanislaw Ulam - Poland (1909-1984)
• Juris Upatnieks - Latvia, USA (1936- )

V

• Léon Van Hove — Belgium (1924–1990)
• Sergei Vavilov — Soviet Union (1891–1951)
• Martinus J. G. Veltman — Netherlands, USA (1931- )
• Gabriele Veneziano — Italy (1942- )
• Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746–1822)
• Émile Verdet — France (1824-1866)
• Jenny Darja Vinko — Slovenija (1963- )
• John Hasbrouck van Vleck — USA (1899–1980)
• Woldemar Voigt — Germany (1850-1919)
• Burchard de Volder — Netherlands (1643-1709)
• Max Volmer — Germany (1885-1965)
• Alessandro Volta — Italy (1745–1827)

W

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands (1837–1923)
• Ludwig Waldmann — Germany (1913-1980)
• Ernest Walton — Ireland (1903 - 1995)
• Aaldert Wapstra — Netherlands (1923-2006)
• Gleb Wataghin — Ukraine/Italy/Brazil (1896–1986)
• John James Waterston — UK (1811–1883)
• James Watt — UK (1736–1819)
• Denis Weaire — Ireland (194?- )
• 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-)
• 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– )
• Lincoln Wolfenstein — USA (1923– )
• Stephen Wolfram — UK (1959– )
• Robert W. Wood — USA (1868–1955)
• Chien-Shiung Wu — USA (1912-1997)

X

• Basilis C. Xanthopoulos — Greece (1951–1990)

Y

• Rosalyn Yalow — USA (1921- )
• Chen Ning Yang — China (1922– )
• Thomas Young — UK (1773–1829)
• Hideki Yukawa — Japan (1907–1981)

Z

• Jan Zaanen — Netherlands (1957- )
• 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 — Itali (1929- )
• Karl Zimmer — Germany (1911-1988)
• Barton Zwiebach — USA (1954- )

See also

• List of theoretical physicists
• Genealogy of theoretical physicists
• 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