Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements.
A
edit- Aryabhatta – India (476–550 CE)
- Jules Aarons – United States (1921–2016)
- Ernst Karl Abbe – Germany (1840–1905)
- Derek Abbott – Australia (born 1960)
- Hasan Abdullayev – Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Soviet Union, Azerbaijan (1918–1993)
- Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov – Soviet Union, Russia (1928–2017) Nobel laureate
- Robert Adler – United States (1913–2007)
- Stephen L. Adler – United States (born 1939)
- Franz Aepinus – Rostock (1724–1802)
- Mina Aganagic – Albania, United States
- David Z Albert – United States (born 1954)
- Felicie Albert – France, United States
- Miguel Alcubierre – Mexico (born 1964)
- Zhores Ivanovich Alferov – Russia (1930–2019) Nobel laureate
- Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén – Sweden (1908–1995) Nobel laureate
- Alhazen – Basra, Iraq (965–1040)
- Artem Alikhanian – Armenia (1908–1978)
- Abram Alikhanov – Russia (1904–1970)
- John E. Allen – United Kingdom (born 1928)
- William Allis – United States (1901–1999)
- Samuel King Allison – United States (1900–1965)
- Yakov Lvovich Alpert – Russia, United States (1911–2010)
- Ralph Asher Alpher – United States (1921–2007)
- Semen Altshuler – Vitebsk (1911–1983)
- Luis Walter Alvarez – United States (1911–1988) Nobel laureate
- Viktor Ambartsumian – Soviet Union, Armenia (1908–1996)
- André-Marie Ampère – France (1775–1836)
- Anja Cetti Andersen – Denmark (born 1965)
- Hans Henrik Andersen – Denmark (1937–2012)
- Philip Warren Anderson – United States (1923–2020) Nobel laureate
- Carl David Anderson – United States (1905–1991) Nobel laureate
- Herbert L. Anderson – United States (1914–1988)
- Elephter Andronikashvili – Georgia (1910–1989)
- Anders Jonas Ångström – Sweden (1814–1874)
- Alexander Animalu, Nigeria (born 1938)
- Edward Victor Appleton – United Kingdom (1892–1965) Nobel laureate
- François Arago – France (1786–1853)
- Archimedes – Syracuse, Greece (ca. 287–212 BC)
- Manfred von Ardenne – Germany (1907–1997)
- Aristarchus of Samos – Samos, Greece (310–ca. 230 BC)
- Aristotle – Athens, Greece (384–322 BC)
- Nima Arkani-Hamed – United States (born 1972)
- Lev Artsimovich – Moscow (1909–1973)
- Aryabhata – Pataliputra, India (476–550)
- Neil Ashby – United States (born 1934)
- Maha Ashour-Abdalla – Egypt, United States (1943–2016)
- Gurgen Askaryan – Soviet Union (1928–1997)
- Alain Aspect – France (born 1947)
- Marcel Audiffren – France
- Avicenna – Persia (980–1037)
- Amedeo Avogadro – Italy (1776–1856)
- David Awschalom – United States (born 1956)
- APJ Abdul Kalam – India
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- Abu sahl Al-Quhi – İran (born 940)
- Xiaoyi Bao – Canada
- Mani Lal Bhaumik – United States (born 1931)
- Tom Baehr-Jones – United States (born 1980)
- Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge – U.K. (1925–2003)
- Cornelis Bakker – Netherlands (1904–1960)
- Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran – India (born 1938)
- V Balakrishnan – India (born 1943)
- Milla Baldo-Ceolin – Italy (1924–2011)
- Johann Jakob Balmer – Switzerland (1825–1898)
- Tom Banks – United States (born 1949)
- Riccardo Barbieri – Italy (born 1944)
- Marcia Barbosa – Brazil (born 1960)
- John Bardeen – United States (1908–1991) double Nobel laureate
- William A. Bardeen – United States (born 1941)
- Ronald Hugh Barker – Ireland (1915–2015)
- Charles Glover Barkla – U.K. (1877–1944) Nobel laureate
- Amanda Barnard – Australia (born 1971)
- Boyd Bartlett – United States (1897–1965)
- Asım Orhan Barut – Malatya, Turkey (1926–1994)
- Heinz Barwich – Germany (1911–1966)
- Nikolay Basov – Russia (1922–2001) Nobel laureate
- Laura Maria Caterina Bassi – Italy (1711–1778)
- Zoltán Lajos Bay – Hungary (1900–1992)
- Karl Bechert – Germany (1901–1981)
- Henri Becquerel – France (1852–1908) Nobel laureate
- Johannes Georg Bednorz – Germany (born 1950) Nobel laureate
- Isaac Beeckman – Netherlands (1588–1637)
- Alexander Graham Bell – Scotland, Canada, U.S.A. (1847–1922)
- John Stewart Bell – U.K. (1928–1990)
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Northern Ireland, U.K. (born 1943)
- Carl M. Bender – United States (born 1943)
- Abraham Bennet – England (1749–1799)
- Daniel Bernoulli – Switzerland (1700–1782)
- Hans Bethe – Germany, United States (1906–2005) Nobel laureate
- Homi J. Bhabha – India (1909–1966)
- Lars Bildsten – United States (1964)
- James Binney – England (born 1950)
- Gerd Binnig – Germany (born 1947) Nobel laureate
- Jean-Baptiste Biot – France (1774–1862)
- Raymond T. Birge – United States (1887–1980)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī – Persia (973–1048)
- Vilhelm Bjerknes – Norway (1862–1951)
- James Bjorken – United States (born 1934)
- Patrick Blackett – U.K. (1897–1974) Nobel laureate
- Felix Bloch – Switzerland (1905–1983) Nobel laureate
- Nicolaas Bloembergen – Netherlands, United States (1920–2017) Nobel laureate
- Walter Boas – Germany, Australia (1904–1982)
- Céline Bœhm – France (born 1974)
- Nikolay Bogolyubov – Soviet Union, Russia (1909–1992)
- David Bohm – United States (1917–1992)
- Aage Bohr – Denmark (1922–2009) Nobel laureate
- Niels Bohr – Denmark (1885–1962) Nobel laureate
- Martin Bojowald – Germany (born 1973)
- Ludwig Boltzmann – Austria (1844–1906)
- Eugene T. Booth – United States (1912–2004)
- Max Born – Germany, U.K. (1882–1970) Nobel laureate
- Rudjer Josip Boscovich – Croatia (1711–1787)
- Jagadish Chandra Bose – India (1858–1937)
- Margrete Heiberg Bose – Denmark (1866–1952)
- Satyendra Nath Bose – India (1894–1974)
- Johannes Bosscha – Netherlands (1831–1911)
- Walther Bothe – Germany (1891–1957) Nobel laureate
- Edward Bouchet – United States (1852–1918)
- Mustapha Ishak Boushaki – Algeria (1967–)
- Mark Bowick – United States (born 1957)
- Robert Boyle – Ireland, England (1627–1691)
- Willard S. Boyle – Canada, United States (1924–2011) Nobel laureate
- William Henry Bragg – U.K. (1862–1942) Nobel laureate
- William Lawrence Bragg – U.K., Australia (1890–1971) Nobel laureate
- Tycho Brahe – Denmark (1546–1601)
- Howard Brandt – United States (1939–2014)
- Walter Houser Brattain – United States (1902–1987) Nobel laureate
- Karl Ferdinand Braun – Germany (1850–1918) Nobel laureate
- David Brewster – U.K. (1781–1868)
- Percy Williams Bridgman – United States (1882–1961) Nobel laureate
- Léon Nicolas Brillouin – France (1889–1969)
- Marcel Brillouin – France (1854–1948)
- Bertram Brockhouse – Canada (1918–2003) Nobel laureate
- Louis-Victor de Broglie – France (1892–1987) Nobel laureate
- William Fuller Brown, Jr. – United States (1904–1983)
- Ernst Brüche – Germany (1900–1985)
- Hermann Brück – Germany (1905–2000)
- Ari Brynjolfsson – Iceland (1927–2013)
- Hans Buchdahl – Germany, Australia (1918–2010)
- Gersh Budker – Soviet Union (1918–1977)
- Silke Bühler-Paschen – Austria (born 1967)
- Johannes Martinus Burgers – Netherlands (1895–1981)
- Friedrich Burmeister – Germany (1890–1969)
- Bimla Buti – India (born 1933)
- Christophorus Buys Ballot – Netherlands (1817–1890)
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edit- Nicola Cabibbo – Italy (1935–2010)
- Nicolás Cabrera – Spain (1913–1989)
- Orion Ciftja – United States
- Curtis Callan – United States (born 1942)
- Annie Jump Cannon – United States (1863–1941)
- Fritjof Capra – Austria, United States (born 1939)
- Marcela Carena – Argentina (born 1962)
- Ricardo Carezani – Argentina, United States (1921–2016)
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot – France (1796–1832)
- David Carroll – United States (born 1963)
- Brandon Carter – Australia (born 1942)
- Hendrik Casimir – Netherlands (1909–2000)
- Henry Cavendish – U.K. (1731–1810)
- James Chadwick – U.K. (1891–1974) Nobel laureate
- Owen Chamberlain – United States (1920–2006) Nobel laureate
- Moses H. W. Chan – Hong Kong (born 1946)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – India, United States (1910–1995) Nobel laureate
- Tsao Chang - Chinese (born 1942)
- Georges Charpak – France (1924–2010) Nobel laureate
- Émilie du Châtelet – France (1706–1749)
- Swapan Chattopadhyay – India (born 1951)
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904–1990) Nobel laureate
- Maxim Chernodub – Russia, France (born 1973)
- Geoffrey Chew – United States (1924–2019)
- Boris Chirikov – Soviet Union, Russia (1928–2008)
- Juansher Chkareuli – Georgia (born 1940)
- Ernst Chladni – Germany (1756–1827)
- Nicholas Christofilos – Greece (1916–1972)
- Steven Chu – United States (born 1948) Nobel laureate
- Giovanni Ciccotti – Italy (born 1943)
- Benoît Clapeyron – France (1799–1864)
- George W. Clark – United States
- John Clauser – United States (born 1942) Nobel laureate
- Rudolf Clausius – Germany (1822–1888)
- Richard Clegg – U.K.
- Gari Clifford – British-American physicist, biomedical engineer, academic, researcher
- John Cockcroft – U.K. (1897–1967) Nobel laureate
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji – France (born 1933) Nobel laureate
- Arthur Compton – United States (1892–1962) Nobel laureate
- Karl Compton – United States (1887–1954)
- Edward Condon – United States (1902–1974)
- Leon Cooper – United States (born 1930) Nobel laureate
- Alejandro Corichi – Mexico (born 1967)
- Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis – France (1792–1843)
- Allan McLeod Cormack – South Africa, United States (1924–1998)
- Eric Allin Cornell – United States (born 1961) Nobel laureate
- Marie Alfred Cornu – France (1841–1902)
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb – France (1736–1806)
- Ernest Courant – United States (1920–2020)
- Brian Cox – U.K. (born 1968)
- Charles Critchfield – United States (1910–1994)
- James Cronin – United States (1931–2016) Nobel laureate
- Sir William Crookes – U.K. (1832–1919)
- Paul Crowell – United States
- Marie Curie – Poland, France (1867–1934) twice Nobel laureate
- Pierre Curie – France (1859–1906) Nobel laureate
- Predrag Cvitanović – Croatia (born 1946)
D
edit- Jean le Rond d'Alembert – France (1717–1783)
- Gustaf Dalén – Sweden (1869–1937) Nobel laureate
- Jean Dalibard – France (born 1958)
- Richard Dalitz – U.K., United States (1925–2006)
- John Dalton – U.K. (1766–1844)
- Sanja Damjanović – Montenegro (born 1972)
- Ranjan Roy Daniel – India (1923–2005)
- Charles Galton Darwin – U.K. (1887–1962)
- Ashok Das – India, United States (born 1953)
- James C. Davenport – United States (born 1938)
- Paul Davies – Australia (born 1946)
- Raymond Davis, Jr. – United States (1914–2006) Nobel laureate
- Clinton Davisson – United States (1881–1958) Nobel laureate
- Peter Debije – Netherlands (1884–1966)
- Hans Georg Dehmelt – Germany, United States (1922–2017) Nobel laureate
- Max Delbrück – Germany, United States (1906–1981)
- Democritus – Abdera (ca. 460–360 BC)
- David M. Dennison – United States (1900–1976)
- Beryl May Dent – U.K. (1900–1977)
- David Deutsch – Israel, U.K. (born 1953)
- René Descartes – France (1596–1650)
- James Dewar – U.K. (1842–1923)
- Scott Diddams – United States
- Ulrike Diebold – Austria (born 1961)
- Robbert Dijkgraaf – Netherlands (born 1960)
- Viktor Dilman – Russia (born 1926)
- Savas Dimopoulos – United States (born 1952)
- Paul Dirac – Switzerland, U.K. (1902–1984) Nobel laureate
- Revaz Dogonadze – Soviet Union, Georgia (1931–1985)
- Louise Dolan – United States (born 1950)
- Amos Dolbear – United States (1837–1910)
- Robert Döpel – Germany (1895–1982)
- Christian Doppler – Austria (1803–1853)
- Henk Dorgelo – Netherlands (1894–1961)
- Friedrich Ernst Dorn – Germany (1848–1916)
- Michael R. Douglas – United States (born 1961)
- Jonathan Dowling – United States (1955–2020)
- Claudia Draxl – Germany (born 1959)
- Sidney Drell – United States (1926–2016)
- Mildred Dresselhaus – United States (1930–2017)
- Paul Drude – Germany (1863–1906)
- F. J. Duarte – United States (born 1954)
- Émilie du Châtelet – France (1706–1749)
- Pierre Louis Dulong – France (1785–1838)
- Janette Dunlop – Scotland (1891–1971)
- Samuel T. Durrance – United States (born 1943)
- Freeman Dyson – U.K., United States (1923–2020) Wolf laureate
- Arthur Jeffrey Dempster – Canada (1886–1950)
E
edit- Joseph H. Eberly – United States (born 1935)
- William Eccles – U.K. (1875–1966)
- Carl Eckart – United States (1902–1973)
- Arthur Stanley Eddington – U.K. (1882–1944)
- Thomas Edison – U.S. Invented the lightbulb.
- Paul Ehrenfest – Austria-Hungary, Netherlands (1880–1933)
- Felix Ehrenhaft – Austria-Hungary, United States (1879–1952)
- Manfred Eigen – Germany (1927–2019)
- Albert Einstein – Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United States (1879–1955) Nobel laureate
- Laura Eisenstein – (1942–1985) professor of physics at University of Illinois
- Terence James Elkins – Australia, United States (born 1936)
- John Ellis – U.K. (born 1946)
- Paul John Ellis – U.K., United States (1941–2005)
- Richard Keith Ellis – U.K., United States (born 1949)
- Arpad Elo – Hungary (1903–1992)
- François Englert – Belgium (born 1932) Nobel laureate
- David Enskog – Sweden (1884–1947)
- Loránd Eötvös – Austria-Hungary (1848–1919)
- Frederick J. Ernst – United States (born 1933)
- Leo Esaki – Japan (born 1925) Nobel laureate
- Ernest Esclangon – France (1876–1954)
- Louis Essen – U.K. (1908–1997)
- Leonhard Euler – Switzerland (1707–1783)
- Denis Evans – Australia (born 1951)
- Paul Peter Ewald – Germany, United States (1888–1985)
- James Alfred Ewing – U.K. (1855–1935)
- Franz S. Exner – Austria (1849–1926)
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edit- Ludvig Faddeev – Russia (1934–2017)
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit – Prussia (1686–1736)
- Kazimierz Fajans – Poland, United States (1887–1975)
- James E. Faller – United States
- Michael Faraday – U.K. (1791–1867)
- Eugene Feenberg – United States (1906–1977)
- Mitchell Feigenbaum – United States (1944–2019)
- Gerald Feinberg – United States (1933–1992)
- Enrico Fermi – Italy (1901–1954) Nobel laureate
- Albert Fert – France (born 1938) Nobel laureate
- Herman Feshbach – United States (1917–2000)
- Richard Feynman – United States (1918–1988) Nobel laureate
- Wolfgang Finkelnburg – Germany (1905–1967)
- David Finkelstein – United States (1929–2016)
- Johannes Fischer – Germany (born 1887)
- Willy Fischler – Belgium (born 1949)
- Val Logsdon Fitch – United States (1923–2015) Nobel laureate
- George Francis FitzGerald – Ireland (1851–1901)
- Hippolyte Fizeau – France (1819–1896)
- Georgy Flyorov – Rostov-on-Don (1913–1990)
- Vladimir Fock – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898–1974)
- Adriaan Fokker – Netherlands (1887–1972)
- Arthur Foley – America (1867–1945)
- James David Forbes – U.K. (1809–1868)
- Jeff Forshaw – U.K. (born 1968)
- Léon Foucault – France (1819–1868)
- Joseph Fourier – France (1768–1830)
- Ralph H. Fowler – U.K. (1889–1944)
- William Alfred Fowler – United States (1911–1995) Nobel laureate
- James Franck – Germany, United States (1882–1964) Nobel laureate
- Ilya Frank – Soviet Union (1908–1990) Nobel laureate
- Benjamin Franklin – British America, United States (1706–1790)
- Rosalind Franklin – U.K. (1920–1958)
- Walter Franz – Germany (1911–1992)
- Joseph von Fraunhofer – Germany (1787–1826)
- Steven Frautschi – United States (born 1933)
- Joan Maie Freeman – Australia (1918–1998)
- Phyllis S. Freier – United States (1921–1992))
- Yakov Frenkel – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1894–1952)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel – France (1788–1827)
- Peter Freund – United States (1936–2018)
- Daniel Friedan – United States (born 1948)
- B. Roy Frieden – United States (born 1936)
- Alexander Friedman – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1888–1925)
- Jerome Isaac Friedman – United States (born 1930) Nobel laureate
- Otto Frisch – Austria, U.K. (1904–1979)
- Erwin Fues – Germany (1893–1970)
- Harald Fuchs – Germany (born 1951)
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- Dennis Gabor – Hungary (1900–1979) Nobel laureate
- Mary K. Gaillard – France, United States (born 1939)
- Galileo Galilei – Italy (1564–1642)
- Luigi Galvani – Italy (1737–1798)
- George Gamow – Russia, United States (1904–1968)
- Sylvester James Gates – United States (born 1950)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss – Germany (1777–1855)
- Pamela L. Gay – United States (born 1973)
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac – France (1778–1850)
- Hans Geiger – Germany (1882–1945)
- Andre Geim – Russian/British (born 1958) Nobel laureate
- Murray Gell-Mann – United States (1929–2019) Nobel laureate
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes – France (1932–2007) Nobel laureate
- Howard Georgi – United States (born 1947)
- Walter Gerlach – Germany (1889–1979)
- Christian Gerthsen – Denmark, Germany (1894–1956)
- Ezra Getzler – Australia (born 1962)
- Andrea M. Ghez – United States (born 1955) Nobel laureate
- Riccardo Giacconi – Italy, United States (1931–2018) Nobel laureate
- Ivar Giaever – Norway, United States (born 1929) Nobel laureate
- Josiah Willard Gibbs – United States (1839–1903)
- Valerie Gibson – U.K. (born 19??)
- William Gilbert – England (1544–1603)
- Piara Singh Gill – India (1911–2002)
- Naomi Ginsberg – United States (born 1979)
- Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg – Soviet Union, Russia (1916–2009) Nobel laureate
- Marvin D. Girardeau – United States (1930–2015)
- Marissa Giustina – United States (born 19??)
- Donald Arthur Glaser – United States (1926–2013) Nobel laureate
- Sheldon Glashow – United States (born 1932) Nobel laureate
- G. N. Glasoe – United States (1902–1987)
- Roy Jay Glauber – United States (1925–2018) Nobel laureate
- James Glimm – United States (born 1934)
- Karl Glitscher – Germany (1886–1945)
- Peter Goddard – U.K. (born 1945)
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer – Germany, United States (1906–1972) Nobel laureate
- Gerald Goertzel – United States (1920–2002)
- Marvin Leonard Goldberger – United States (1922–2014)
- Maurice Goldhaber – Austria, United States (1911–2011)
- Jeffrey Goldstone – U.K., United States (born 1933)
- Sixto González – Puerto Rico, United States (born 1965)
- Ravi Gomatam – India (born 1950)
- Lev Gor'kov – United States (1929–2016)
- Samuel Goudsmit – Netherlands, United States (1902–1978)
- Leo Graetz – Germany (1856–1941)
- Willem 's Gravesande – Netherlands (1688–1742)
- Michael Green (physicist) – Britain (born 1946)
- Daniel Greenberger – United States (born 1932)
- Brian Greene – United States (born 1963)
- John Gribbin – U.K. (born 1946)
- Vladimir Gribov – Russia (1930–1997)
- David J. Griffiths – United States (born 1942)
- David Gross – United States (born 1941) Nobel laureate
- Frederick Grover – United States (1876–1973)
- Peter Grünberg – Germany (1939–2018) Nobel laureate
- Charles Édouard Guillaume – Switzerland (1861–1931) Nobel laureate
- Ayyub Guliyev – Azerbaijan (born 1954)
- Feza Gürsey – Turkey (1921–1992)
- Alan Guth – United States (born 1947)
- Martin Gutzwiller – Switzerland (1925–2014)
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edit- Rudolf Haag – Germany (1922–2016)
- Wander Johannes de Haas – Netherlands (1878–1960)
- Alain Haché – Canada (born 1970)
- Carl Richard Hagen – United States (born 1937)
- Otto Hahn – Germany (1879–1968)
- Edwin Hall – United States (1855–1938)
- John Lewis Hall – United States (born 1934) Nobel laureate
- Alexander Hamilton – U.K., Australia (born 1967)
- William Rowan Hamilton – Ireland (1805–1865)
- Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch – Germany (born 1941) Nobel laureate
- Peter Andreas Hansen – Denmark (1795–1874)
- W.W. Hansen – United States (1909–1949)
- Serge Haroche – France (born 1944) Nobel laureate
- Paul Harteck – Germany (1902–1985)
- John G. Hartnett – Australia (born 1952)
- Douglas Hartree – U.K. (1897–1958)
- Friedrich Hasenöhrl – Austria, Hungary (1874–1915)
- Lene Vestergaard Hau – Vejle, Denmark (born 1959)
- Stephen Hawking – U.K. (1942–2018) Wolf laureate
- Ibn al-Haytham – Iraq (965–1039)
- Evans Hayward – United States (1922–2020)
- Oliver Heaviside – U.K. (1850–1925)
- Werner Heisenberg – Germany (1901–1976) Nobel laureate
- Walter Heitler – Germany, Ireland (1904–1981)
- Hermann von Helmholtz – Germany (1821–1894)
- Charles H. Henry – United States (1937–2016)
- Joseph Henry – United States (1797–1878)
- John Herapath – U.K. (1790–1868)
- Carl Hermann – Germany (1898–1961)
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz – Germany (1887–1975) Nobel laureate
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz – Germany (1857–1894)
- Karl Herzfeld – Austria, United States (1892–1978)
- Victor Francis Hess – Austria, United States (1883–1964) Nobel laureate
- Mahmoud Hessaby – Iran (1903–1992)
- Antony Hewish – U.K. (1924–2021) Nobel laureate
- Paul G. Hewitt – United States (born 1931)
- Peter Higgs – U.K. (1929–2024) Nobel laureate
- George William Hill – United States (1838–1914)
- Gustave-Adolphe Hirn – France (1815–1890)
- Carol Hirschmugl – United States, professor of physics, laboratory director
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin – England (1910–1994)
- Robert Hofstadter – United States (1915–1990) Nobel laureate
- Helmut Hönl – Germany (1903–1981)
- Pervez Hoodbhoy – Pakistan (born 1950)
- Gerardus 't Hooft – Netherlands (born 1946) Nobel laureate
- Robert Hooke – England (1635–1703)
- John Hopkinson – United Kingdom (1849–1898)
- Johann Baptiste Horvath – Slovakia (1732–1799)
- William V. Houston – United States (1900–1968)
- Charlotte (née Riefenstahl) Houtermans – Germany (1899–1993)
- Fritz Houtermans – Netherlands, Germany, Austria (1903–1966)
- Archibald Howie – U.K. (born 1934)
- Fred Hoyle – U.K. (1915–2001)
- Veronika Hubeny – United States
- John Hubbard – U.K. (1931–1980)
- John H. Hubbell – United States (1925–2007)
- Edwin Powell Hubble – United States (1889–1953)
- Russell Alan Hulse – United States (born 1950) Nobel laureate
- Friedrich Hund – Germany (1896–1997)
- Tahir Hussain – Pakistan (1923–2010)
- Andrew D. Huxley – U.K. (born 1966)
- Christiaan Huygens – Netherlands (1629–1695)
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edit- Arthur Iberall – United States (1918–2002)
- Sumio Iijima – Japan (born 1939)
- John Iliopoulos – Greece (born 1940)
- Ataç İmamoğlu – Turkey, United States (born 1962)
- Elmer Imes – United States (1883–1941)
- Abram Ioffe – Russia (1880–1960)
- Nathan Isgur – United States, Canada (1947–2001)
- Ernst Ising – Germany (1900–1998)
- Jamal Nazrul Islam – Bangladesh (1939–2013)
- Werner Israel – Canada (born 1931)
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edit- Roman Jackiw – Poland, United States (1939–2023)
- Shirley Ann Jackson – United States (born 1946)
- Boris Jacobi – Germany, Russia (1801–1874)
- Gregory Jaczko – United States (born 1970)
- Chennupati Jagadish – India, Australia (born 1957)
- Jainendra Jain – India (born 1960)
- Ratko Janev – North Macedonia (1939–2019)
- Andreas Jaszlinszky – Hungary (1715–1783)
- Ali Javan – Iran (1928–2016)
- Edwin Jaynes – United States (1922–1998)
- Antal István Jákli – Hungary (born 1958)
- Sir James Jeans – U.K. (1877–1946)
- Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen – Germany (1907–1973) Nobel laureate
- Deborah S. Jin – United States (born 1968)
- Anthony M. Johnson – United States (born 1954)
- Irène Joliot-Curie – France (1897–1956)
- Lorella Jones – United States (1943–1995)
- Pascual Jordan – Germany (1902–1980)
- Vania Jordanova – United States, physicist, space weather and geomagnetic storms[1]
- Brian David Josephson – U.K. (born 1940) Nobel laureate
- James Prescott Joule – U.K. (1818–1889)
- Adolfas Jucys – Lithuania (1904–1974)
- Chang Kee Jung – South Korea, United States
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edit- Menas Kafatos – Greece, United States (born 1945)
- Takaaki Kajita – Japan (born 1959) Nobel laureate
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- Moshe Kaveh – Israel (born 1943) President of Bar-Ilan University
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- Serguei Krasnikov – Russia (born 1961)
- Adolf Kratzer – Germany (1893–1983)
- Lawrence M. Krauss – United States (born 1954)
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- Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov – Soviet Union (1917–1947)
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- Rolf Landauer – United States (1927–1999)
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- Kenneth Lane – United States
- Paul Langevin – France (1872–1946)
- Irving Langmuir – United States (1881–1957)
- Pierre-Simon Laplace – France (1749–1827)
- Joseph Larmor – U.K. (1857–1942)
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- Cesar Lattes – Brazil (1924–2005)
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edit- Arthur B. McDonald – Canada (born 1943) Nobel laureate
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edit- Yuri Oganessian – Russia (born 1933)
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- Hiranmay Sen Gupta – Bangladesh (1934–2022)
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- Shen Kuo – China (1031–1095)
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- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) – Ireland, U.K. (1824–1907)
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- Yoshinori Tokura – Japan (born 1954)
- Samuel Tolansky – U.K. (1907–1973)
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- Akira Tonomura – Japan (1942–2012)
- Evangelista Torricelli – Italy (1608–1647)
- Yoji Totsuka – Japan (1942–2008)
- Bruno Touschek – Italy (1921–1978)
- Charles Townes – United States (1915–2015) Nobel laureate
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- Johann Georg Tralles – Germany (1763–1822)
- Sam Treiman – United States (1925–1999)
- Daniel Chee Tsui – China, United States (born 1939) Nobel laureate
- Vipin Kumar Tripathi – India (born 1948)
- John J. Turin – United States (1913–1973)
- Neil Turok – South Africa (born 1958)
- Victor Twersky – United States (1923–1998)
- Sergei Tyablikov – Russia (1921–1968)
- John Tyndall – U.K. (1820–1893)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson – United States (born 1958)
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edit- George Eugene Uhlenbeck – Netherlands, United States (1900–1988)
- Stanislaw Ulam – Poland, United States (1909–1984)
- Nikolay Umov – Russia (1846–1915)
- Juris Upatnieks – Latvia, United States (born 1936)
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edit- Cumrun Vafa – Iran, United States (born 1960)
- Oriol Valls – (born 1947 in Barcelona, Spain) university physics professor
- Léon Van Hove – Belgium (1924–1990)
- Sergei Vavilov – Soviet Union (1891–1951)
- Vlatko Vedral – U.K., Serbia (born 1971)
- Evgeny Velikhov – Russia (born 1935)
- Martinus J. G. Veltman – Netherlands, United States (1931–2021) Nobel laureate
- Gabriele Veneziano – Italy (born 1942)
- Giovanni Battista Venturi – Italy (1746–1822)
- Émile Verdet – France (1824–1866)
- Erik Verlinde – Netherlands (1962)
- Herman Verlinde – Netherlands (1962)
- Leonardo da Vinci – Italy (1452–1519)
- Jean-Pierre Vigier – France (1920–2004)
- Gaetano Vignola – Italy
- Anatoly Vlasov – Russia (1908–1975)
- John Hasbrouck van Vleck – United States (1899–1980) Nobel laureate
- Woldemar Voigt – Germany (1850–1919)
- Burchard de Volder – Netherlands (1643–1709)
- Max Volmer – Germany (1885–1965)
- Alessandro Volta – Italy (1745–1827)
- Wernher Von Braun – Germany (1912–1977) aerospace engineer
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edit- Johannes Diderik van der Waals – Netherlands (1837–1923) Nobel laureate
- James Wait – Canada (1924–1998)
- Ludwig Waldmann – Germany (1913–1980)
- Alan Walsh – U.K., Australia (1916–1988)
- Ernest Walton – Ireland (1903–1995) Nobel laureate
- Dezhao Wang – China (1905–1998)
- Enge Wang – China (born 1957)
- Huanyu Wang – China (1954—2018)
- Kan-Chang Wang – China (1907–1998)
- Pu (Paul) Wang – China (1902–1969)
- Zhuxi Wang – China (1911–1983)
- Aaldert Wapstra – Netherlands (1923–2006)
- John Clive Ward – England, Australia (1924–2000)
- Gleb Wataghin – Ukraine, Italy, Brazil (1896–1986)
- John James Waterston – U.K. (1811–1883)
- Alan Andrew Watson – U.K. (born 1938)
- James Watt – U.K. (1736–1819)
- Denis Weaire – Ireland (born 1942)
- Colin Webb – U.K. (born 1937)
- Wilhelm Weber – Germany (1804–1891)
- Katherine Weimer – United States (1919–2000)
- Alvin Weinberg – United States (1915–2006)
- Steven Weinberg – United States (1933–2021) Nobel laureate
- Rainer Weiss – United States (born 1932) Nobel laureate
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf – Austria, United States (1908–2002)
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker – Germany (1912–2007)
- Heinrich Welker – Germany (1912–1981)
- Gregor Wentzel – Germany (1898–1978)
- Paul Werbos – United States (born 1947)
- Siebren van der Werf – Netherlands (born 1942)
- Peter Westervelt – United States (1919–2015)
- Hermann Weyl – Germany (1885–1955)
- Christof Wetterich – Germany (born 1952)
- John Archibald Wheeler – United States (1911–2008)
- Gian-Carlo Wick – Italy (1909–1992)
- Emil Wiechert – Prussia (1861–1928)
- Carl Wieman – United States (born 1951) Nobel laureate
- Wilhelm Wien – Germany (1864–1928) Nobel laureate
- Arthur Wightman – United States (1922–2013)
- Eugene Wigner – Austria-Hungary, United States (1902–1993) Nobel laureate
- Frank Wilczek – United States (born 1951) Nobel laureate
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson – U.K. (1869–1959) Nobel laureate
- Christine Wilson (scientist) – Canadian-American physicist and astronomer
- Kenneth Geddes Wilson – United States (1936–2013) Nobel laureate
- Robert R. Wilson – United States (1914–2000) Nobel laureate
- Robert Woodrow Wilson – United States (born 1936)
- John R. Winckler – United States (1918–2001)
- David J. Wineland – United States (born 1944) Nobel laureate
- Karl Wirtz – Germany (1910–1994)
- Mark B. Wise – Canada, United States (born 1953)
- Edward Witten – United States (born 1951)
- Emil Wolf – Czechoslovakia, United States (1922–2018)
- Fred Alan Wolf – United States (born 1934)
- Lincoln Wolfenstein – United States (1923–2015)
- Stephen Wolfram – U.K. (born 1959)
- Ewald Wollny – Germany (1846–1901)
- Michael Woolfson – U.K. (1927–2019)
- Chien-Shiung Wu – United States (1912–1997)
- Sau Lan Wu – United States (born early 1940s)
- Tai Tsun Wu – United States (born 1933)
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edit- Basilis C. Xanthopoulos – Greece (1951–1990)
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edit- Rosalyn Yalow – United States (1921–2011)
- Chen Ning Yang – China (born 1922) Nobel laureate
- Félix Ynduráin – Spain (born 1946)
- Francisco José Ynduráin – Spain (1940–2008)
- Kenneth Young – United States, China (born 1947)
- Thomas Young – U.K. (1773–1829)
- Hideki Yukawa – Japan (1907–1981) Nobel laureate
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edit- Jan Zaanen – Netherlands (born 1957)
- Daniel Zajfman – Israel (born 1959)
- Anthony Zee – United States (born 1945)
- Pieter Zeeman – Netherlands (1865–1943) Nobel laureate
- Ludwig Zehnder – Switzerland (1854–1949)
- Anton Zeilinger – Austria (born 1945)
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich – Russia (1914–1987)
- John Zeleny – United States (1872–1951)
- Frits Zernike – Netherlands (1888–1960) Nobel laureate
- Antonino Zichichi – Italy (born 1929)
- Hans Ziegler – Switzerland, United States (1910–1985)
- Karl Zimmer – Germany (1911–1988)
- Georges Zissis – Greece (born 1964)
- Peter Zoller – Austria (born 1952)
- Dmitry Zubarev – Russia (1917–1992)
- Bruno Zumino – Italy (1923–2014)
- Wojciech H. Zurek – Poland, United States (born 1951)
- Robert Zwanzig – United States (1928–2014)
- George Zweig – United States (born 1937)
- Barton Zwiebach – United States (born 1954)
External links
edit- Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th-century American) are collected in the Emilio Segrè Visual Archives and A Picture Gallery of Famous Physicists
- 20th-century women in physics in the Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics archive
References
edit- ^ Jordanova, V. K.; Delzanno, G. L.; Henderson, M. G.; Godinez, H. C.; Jeffery, C. A.; Lawrence, E. C.; Morley, S. K.; Moulton, J. D.; Vernon, L. J.; Woodroffe, J. R.; Brito, T. V. (2018-10-01). "Specification of the near-Earth space environment with SHIELDS" (PDF). Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. Dynamics of the Sun-Earth System: Recent Observations and Predictions. 177: 148–159. Bibcode:2018JASTP.177..148J. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2017.11.006. ISSN 1364-6826. S2CID 125573634.