List of 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.

Contents:	Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

• Ernst Karl Abbe — Germany (1840–1905)
• Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov — Russia (1928- )
• 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)
• Luis Walter Alvarez — USA (1911–1988)
• André-Marie Ampère — France (1775–1836)
• Anders Jonas Ångström — Sweden (1814–1874)
• 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)
• Aristarchus of Samos — Samos (310 – ca. 230 BC)
• Aristotle — Athens, Greece (384–322 BC)
• Nima Arkani-Hamed - USA (1972- )

[edit] B

• Johann Jakob Balmer — Switzerland (1825–1898)
• John Bardeen — USA (1908–1991)
• Charles Glover Barkla — UK (1877-1944)
• Laura Maria Caterina Bassi — Italy (1711-1778)
• Nikolay Basov — Russia (1922-2001)
• Zoltán Lajos Bay — Hungary (1900–1992)
• Karl Bechert — Germany (1901-1981)
• John Stewart Bell — UK (1928–1990)
• Henri Becquerel — France (1852–1908)
• Johannes Georg Bednorz — Germany (1950- )
• Carl M. Bender - USA
• Daniel Bernoulli — Switzerland (1700–1782)
• Hans Bethe — Germany, USA (1906–2005)
• Gerd Binnig — Germany (1947- )
• Jean-Baptiste Biot — France (1774–1862)
• Raymond T. Birge — USA (1887–1980)
• Vilhelm Bjerknes — Norway (1862–1951)
• Patrick Blackett — UK (1897-1947)
• Felix Bloch — Switzerland (1905–1983)
• Nicolaas Bloembergen — Netherlands (1920- )
• David Bohm — USA (1917-1992)
• Niels Bohr — Denmark (1885–1962)
• Aage Niels Bohr — Denmark (1922– )
• Ludwig Boltzmann — Austria (1844–1906)
• Max Born — Germany, UK (1882–1970)
• Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik (1711–1787)
• Satyendra Nath Bose — India (1894–1974)
• 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)
• Bertram Brockhouse — Canada (1918-2003)
• Louis-Victor de Broglie — France (1892–1987)
• Thomas Townsend Brown — USA (1905–1985)
• Hermann Brück — Germany (1905-2000)

[edit] C

• Nicolás Cabrera — Spain (1913–1989)
• Fritjof Capra — Austria, USA (1939– )
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot — France (1796–1832)
• Henry Cavendish — UK (1731–1810)
• James Chadwick — UK (1891-1974)
• Owen Chamberlain — USA (1920– )
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar — India, USA (1910–1995)
• Georges Charpak — France (1924- )
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904–1990)
• Ernst Chladni — Germany (1756–1827)
• Steven Chu — USA (1948– )
• Giovanni Ciccotti — Italy (1943– )
• Rudolf Clausius — Germany (1822–1888)
• John Cockcroft — UK (1879-1967)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji — France (1933- )
• Arthur Compton — USA (1892-1962)
• Edward Condon - USA (1902-1974)
• Leon Cooper — USA (1930- )
• Eric Allin Cornell — USA (1961- )
• Marie Alfred Cornu — France (1841–1902)
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — France (1736–1806)
• James Cronin — USA (1931- )
• Marie Curie — Poland, France (1867–1934)
• Pierre Curie — France (1859–1906)

[edit] D

• Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France (1717–1783)
• Gustaf Dalén — Sweden (1869-1937)
• 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)
• Hans Georg Dehmelt — Germany, USA (1922- )
• Democritus — Abdera (circa 460–360 BC)
• James Dewar — UK (1842–1923)
• Savas Dimopoulos - USA
• Paul Dirac — UK (1902–1984)
• Revaz Dogonadze — Former Soviet Union, Georgia (1931–1985)
• Christian Doppler — Austria (1803–1853)
• Friedrich Ernst Dorn - Germany (1848-1916)
• Paul Drude - Germany (1863-1906)
• Freeman Dyson — UK, USA (1923– )

[edit] E

• William Eccles — UK (1875–1966)
• Carl Eckart — USA (1902-1973)
• Paul Ehrenfest — Austria-Hungary, Netherlands (1880–1933)
• Felix Ehrenhaft — Austria-Hungary, USA (1879–1952)
• Albert Einstein — Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA (1879–1955)
• 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)

[edit] F

• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — (1686–1736)
• Michael Faraday — UK (1791–1867)
• Eugene Feenberg — USA (1906-1977)
• Enrico Fermi — Italy (1901–1954)
• Herman Feshbach — USA (1917-2000)
• Richard Feynman — USA (1918–1988)
• David Finkelstein — USA (1929- )
• 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)
• James David Forbes — UK (1809–1868)
• Léon Foucault — France (1819–1868)
• Joseph Fourier — France (1768–1830)
• William Alfred Fowler — USA (1911-1995)
• James Franck — Germany, USA (1882-1964)
• Ilya Frank — Russia (1908-1990)
• Benjamin Franklin — USA (1706–1790)
• Joseph von Fraunhofer — Germany (1787–1826)
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France (1788–1827)
• 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-)

[edit] G

• Dennis Gabor — Hungary (1900—1979)
• Galileo Galilei — Italy (1564—1642)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany (1777–1855)
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — France (1778–1850)
• Murray Gell-Mann — USA (1929– )
• Howard Georgi - USA (1947- )
• Walter Gerlach - Germany (1889-1979)
• Josiah Willard Gibbs — USA (1839–1903)
• William Gilbert — England (1544–1603)
• Leo Graetz - Germany (1856-1941)
• Brian Greene — USA (1963— )
• John Gribbin — UK (1946 — )
• David Gross — USA (1941— )
• Feza Gürsey — Turkey (1921–1992)
• Martin Gutzwiller — Switzerland (1925– )

[edit] H

• Rudolf Haag — Germany (1922– )
• Edwin Hall — USA (1855–1938)
• William Rowan Hamilton — Ireland (1805–1865)
• Peter Andreas Hansen — Denmark (1795–1874)
• W.W. Hansen — USA (1909–1949)
• Douglas Hartree — UK (1897–1958)
• Stephen Hawking — UK (1942– )
• Oliver Heaviside — UK (1850–1925)
• Werner Karl Heisenberg — Germany (1901–1976)
• Walter Heitler — Germany/Ireland (1904-1981)
• Hermann von Helmholtz — Germany (1821–1894)
• Joseph Henry — USA (1797–1878)
• John Herapath — UK (1790–1868)
• Carl Hermann — Germany (1898–1961)
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz — Germany (1857–1894)
• Peter Higgs — UK (1929-)
• George William Hill — USA (1838–1914)
• Gustave-Adolphe Hirn — France (1815-1890)
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — England (1910-1994)
• Helmut Hönl — Germany (1903-1981)
• Gerardus 't Hooft — The Netherlands (1946– )
• Robert Hooke — England (1635–1703)
• William V. Houston — USA (1900-1968)
• Fritz Houtermans — Netherlands/Germany/Austria (1903-1996)
• John H. Hubbell — USA (born 1925)
• Friedrich Hund — Germany (1896-1997)
• Christiaan Huygens — The Netherlands (1629–1695)

[edit] I

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

[edit] J

• Ali Javan — Iran (1928– )
• Edwin Jaynes — USA (1922–1998)
• Irene Joliot-Curie - France (1897-1956)
• Pascual Jordan - Germany (1902-1980)
• Brian David Josephson — UK (1940– )
• James Prescott Joule — UK (1818–1889)

[edit] K

• Michio Kaku — USA (1947- )
• William R. Kanne — USA
• Pyotr Kapitza — UK, Soviet Union (1894-1984)
• Alfred Kastler — France (1902-1984)
• Heinrich Kayser — German (1853-1940)
• Edwin C. Kemble — USA (1889-1984)
• Johannes Kepler — Germany (1571–1630)
• John Kerr — UK (1824–1907)
• Julii Khariton — Soviet Union (1904-1996)
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff — Germany (1824–1887)
• Arthur Korn - Germany (1870-1945)
• Matthew Koss - USA (1961 - )
• Walther Kossel — Germany (1888-1956)
• Hendrick Kramers - The Netherlands (1894-1952)
• Lawrence Krauss - USA (1954- )
• August Krönig — Germany (1822–1879)
• Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov — Soviet Union (1903–1960)
• Behram Kurşunoğlu — Turkey (1922-2003)

[edit] L

• Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736–1813)
• Lev Davidovich Landau — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1908–1968)
• Kenneth Lane — USA
• Irving Langmuir — USA (1851–1957)
• Max von Laue — Germany (1879–1960)
• Ernest Lawrence — USA (1901–1958)
• Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev — Imperial Russia (1866–1912)
• Georges-Louis Le Sage — Switzerland (1724–1803)
• Tsung-Dao Lee — China, USA (1926– )
• Benjamin Lee — Korea, USA (1935-1977)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany (1646–1716)
• Robert B. Leighton — USA (1919-1997)
• Philipp Lenard — Hungary, Germany (1862-1947)
• John Leslie — UK (1766–1832)
• Walter Lewin — Netherlands, USA
• Robert von Lieben Austria-Hungary — (1878-1913)
• David Lindley — USA (1956– )
• Karl L. Littrow — Austria (1811–1877)
• Maurice Loewy — Austria/France (1833–1907)
• Robert K. Logan — USA (1939– )
• Alfred Loomis — USA (1887–1975)
• Hendrik Lorentz — Netherlands (1853–1928)
• Johann Loschmidt — Germany (1821–1895)
• Archibald Low — Britain (1888–1956)
• Lucretius — Rome (98?–55 BC)
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia (1857–1918)

[edit] M

• Ernst Mach — Austria-Hungary (1838–1916)
• Theodore Maiman — USA (1927– )
• 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)
• Harrie Massey - Australia (1908-1983)
• James Clerk Maxwell — UK (1831–1879)
• Maria Goeppert Mayer - Germany, USA (1906-1972)
• Ronald E. McNair — USA (1950–1986)
• Macedonio Melloni — Italy (1798–1854)
• Lise Meitner - Austria (1878-1968)
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall — USA (1841–1924)
• Albert Abraham Michelson — USA (1852–1931)
• Robert Andrews Millikan — USA (1868–1953)
• John J. Montgomery - USA (1858-1911)
• Jagadeesh Moodera — India, USA (1950— )
• Henry Moseley — UK (1887–1915)
• Nevill Mott - UK (1905-1996)
• Amédée Mouchez — Spain, France (1821–1892)
• José Enrique Moyal — Palestine, France, UK, USA, Australia (1910-1998)
• Richard A. Muller — USA (1944– )

[edit] N

• Yoichiro Nambu - Japan, USA (1921- )
• Jayant Narlikar - India (1938 - )
• 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)

[edit] 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)
• Egon Orowan — Austria-Hungary/ USA (1901–1989)
• Yuri Orlov — Soviet Union, USA (1924– )
• Hans Christian Ørsted — Denmark (1777–1851)

[edit] P

• Blaise Pascal — France (1623–1662)
• Jogesh Pati - USA (1937- )
• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli — Austria-Hungary (1900–1958)
• Rudolf Peierls — Germany/UK (1907-1995)
• G. B. Pegram — USA (1876–1958)
• Max Planck — Germany (1858–1947)
• Roger Penrose — UK (1931– )
• Saul Perlmutter — USA (1959- )
• Bernhard Philberth — Germany (1927– )
• Joseph Plateau — Belgium (1801–1883)
• John Polkinghorne — UK (1930– )
• Henri Poincaré — France (1854–1912)
• Heraclides Ponticus — Greece (387–312 BC)
• John Henry Poynting — UK (1852–1914)
• Aleksandr Prokhorov — Soviet/Russian (1916-2002)
• William Prout — UK (1785–1850)
• Ivan Pulyuy — Ukraine (1845-1918)
• Michael Pupin — Austria-Hungary/USA (1858-1935)

[edit] Q

• Helen Quinn - USA (1943- )

[edit] R

• I. I. Rabi — Austria, USA (1898-1988)
• Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — India (1888–1970)
• Edward Ramberg — USA (1907-1995)
• Carl Ramsauer — Germany (1879-1955)
• Lisa Randall — USA (1962– )
• Lord Rayleigh — UK (1842–1919)
• Sidney Redner — Canada, USA (1951– )
• Hubert Reeves — Canada (1932– )
• Louis Rendu — France (1789–1859)
• Osborne Reynolds — UK (1842–1912)
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen — Germany (1845–1923)
• Marshall Rosenbluth — USA (1927–2003)
• Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby — Sweden, USA (1898–1957)
• Carlo Rubbia — Italy (1934– )
• Serge Rudaz — Canada, USA (1954– )
• David Ruelle — Belgium, France (1935– )
• Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand, UK (1871–1937)
• Janne Rydberg — Sweden (1854–1919)

[edit] S

• Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — Soviet Union (1929–1989)
• Oscar Sala — Brazil (1922– )
• Abdus Salam — Pakistan-UK (1926–1996)
• Jack Sarfatti — USA (1939– )
• Isidor Sauers — Austria (1948- )
• Felix Savart — France (1791–1841)
• Otto Scherzer — Germany (1909-1982)
• Erwin Schrödinger — Austria-Hungary (1887–1961)
• Julian Schwinger - USA (1918-1994)
• Emilio G. Segrè — USA/Italy (1905–1989)
• Robert Serber - USA (1909-1997)
• Ludwik Silberstein - Poland-Germany-Italy-USA-Canada (1872-1948)
• John C. Slater - USA (1900-1976)
• Louis Slotin - USA (1910-1946)
• George Smoot - USA (1945 - )
• Willebrord Snell — Netherlands (1580–1626)
• Arnold Sommerfeld - Germany (1868-1951)
• Johannes Stark - Germany (1874-1957)
• Jožef Stefan — Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835–1893)
• Karl August von Steinheil — Germany (1801–1870)
• George Gabriel Stokes — UK (1819–1903)
• Oleg Sushkov — Australia-Russia (~1950- )
• Joseph Wilson Swan — UK (1828–1914)
• Leó Szilárd — Austria-Hungary, USA (1898–1964)
• Shen Kuo — China （1031 - 1095)

[edit] T

• Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm — Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895–1971)
• Max Tegmark — Sweden, USA (1967– )
• Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary/USA (1908–2003)
• Nikola Tesla — Serbia(nation)/Croatia(home country)/USA (1856–1943)
• Joseph John Thomson — UK (1856–1940)
• William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) — UK (1824–1907)
• Kip Stephen Thorne — USA (1940– )
• Evangelista Torricelli — Italy (1608–1647)
• Bruno Touschek — Italy (1921-1978)
• Charles Townes — USA (1915– )
• Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763–1822)
• Sam Treiman — USA (1926- )
• Thanu Padmanabhan - India (1957- )

[edit] V

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands (1837–1923)
• Sergei Vavilov — Soviet Union (1891–1951)
• Gabriele Veneziano — Italy (1942- )
• Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746–1822)
• Émile Verdet — France (1824-1866)
• Woldemar Voigt - Germany (1850-1919)
• Alessandro Volta — Italy (1745–1827)

[edit] W

• Ludwig Waldmann — Germany (1913-1980)
• Ernest Walton — Republic of Ireland (1903 - 1995)
• Gleb Wataghin — Ukraine/Italy/Brazil (1896–1986)
• John James Waterston — UK (1811–1883)
• James Watt — UK (1736–1819)
• Denis Weaire — Republic of Ireland (194?- )
• Wilhelm Weber — Germany (1804–1891)
• Steven Weinberg — USA (1933– )
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, USA (1908–2002)
• 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)
• Wilhelm Wien - Germany (1864-1928)
• Arthur Wightman — USA (1922– )
• Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary/USA (1902–1993)
• Frank Wilczek — USA (1951– )
• Robert R. Wilson — USA (1914–2000)
• Mark B. Wise – Canada/USA (1953– )
• Edward Witten — USA (1951– )
• Emil Wolf -Czechoslovakia, USA (1922- )
• Lincoln Wolfenstein — USA (1923-)
• Robert W. Wood — USA (1868–1955)

[edit] Y

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

[edit] See also

• List of theoretical physicists
• Genealogy of theoretical physicists
• List of plasma physicists
• List of mathematicians
• List of women scientists

[edit] 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