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 Ampčre ? France (1775?1836)
• Anders Jonas Ĺngström ? 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)
• David Carroll - USA (1963-)
• 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)

• 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 Kur?uno?lu ? 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)
• Peter Mansfield ? UK (1933? )
• 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 Musschenbroek ? Netherlands (1692-1762)

N

• Yoichiro Nambu ? Japan, USA (1921- )
• Jayant Narlikar ? India (1938 - )
• Seth Neddermeyer - USA (1907 - 1988)
• Louis Eugčne 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 Řrsted ? 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. Segrč ? 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)
• Jo?ef 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)
• Kan-Chang Wang ? China (1907?1998)
• 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 ? Italy (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

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