List of physicists

Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements.

A

*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)
*Abdulla Majed-Syria(2007)
*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 – U.K. (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

B

* 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)
*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)
*C.H.D. Buys Ballot, Christophorus Buys Ballot – Netherlands (1817–1890)

C

*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 (born 1921)
*Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot – France (1796–1832)
*David Carroll (physicist), 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
*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 Paul Émile Clapeyron, Benoît Clapeyron – France (1799–1864)
*George W. Clark – United States
*John Clauser – United States (born 1942) Nobel laureate
*Rudolf Clausius – Germany (1822–1888)
*Gerald B. Cleaver – United States
*Richard Clegg – United Kingdom
*Gari Clifford - British-American physicist, biomedical engineer, academic, researcher
*John Cockcroft – United Kingdom (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 (physicist), 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

*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 Debye, 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)
*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

*Joseph H. Eberly – United States (born 1935)
*William Eccles (physicist), 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 (physicist, born 1946), 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)
*Ernst equation, 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)

F

*Ludvig Faddeev – Russia (1934–2017)
*Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit – Royal Prussia, 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)

G

*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 (astronomer), William Gilbert – England (1544–1603)
*Piara Singh Gill – India (1911–2002)
*Naomi Ginsberg – United States (born 1979)
*Vitaly Ginzburg, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg – Soviet Union, Russia (1916–2009) Nobel laureate
*Marvin D. Girardeau – United States (1930–2015)
*Marissa Giustina - United States (born 19??)
*Donald A. Glaser, 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 J. Glauber, Roy Jay Glauber – United States (1925–2018) Nobel laureate
*James Glimm – United States (born 1934)
*Karl Glitscher – Germany (1886–1945)
*Peter Goddard (physicist), 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 Edouard Guillaume, 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)

H

*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 L. Hall, John Lewis Hall – United States (born 1934) Nobel laureate
*Alexander_R._Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton – UK, Australia (born 1967)
*William Rowan Hamilton – Ireland (1805–1865)
*Theodor W. Hänsch, 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 Hartnett (physicist), 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. (born 1929) 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 Riefenstahl, 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 (physicist), 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 (physicist), Tahir Hussain – Pakistan (1923–2010)
*Andrew D. Huxley – U.K. (born 1966)
*Christiaan Huygens – Netherlands (1629–1695)

I

*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)

J

*Roman Jackiw – Poland, United States (born 1939)
*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 Thompson Jaynes, Edwin Jaynes – United States (1922–1998)
*Antal Jákli, Antal István Jákli – Hungary (born 1958)
*James Hopwood Jeans, Sir James Jeans – UK (1877–1946)
*J. Hans D. Jensen, 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

*Brian David Josephson – UK (born 1940) Nobel laureate
*James Prescott Joule – UK (1818–1889)
*Adolfas Jucys – Lithuania (1904–1974)
*Chang Kee Jung – South Korea, United States

K

*Menas Kafatos – Greece, United States (born 1945)
*Takaaki Kajita – Japan (born 1959) Nobel laureate
*Michio Kaku – United States (born 1947)
*Theodor Kaluza – Germany (1885–1954)
*Heike Kamerlingh Onnes – Netherlands (1853–1926) Nobel laureate
*William R. Kanne – United States
*Charles K. Kao – China, Hong Kong, U.K., United States (1933–2018) Nobel laureate
*Pyotr Kapitsa – Russian Empire, Soviet Union (1894–1984) Nobel laureate
*Theodore von Kármán – Hungary, United States (1881–1963) aeronautical engineer
*Alfred Kastler – France (1902–1984) Nobel laureate
*Amrom Harry Katz – United States (1915–1997)
*Moshe Kaveh – Israel (born 1943) President of Bar-Ilan University
*Predhiman Krishan Kaw – India (1948–2017)
*Heinrich Kayser – Germany (1853–1940)
*Willem Hendrik Keesom – Netherlands (1876–1956)
*Edwin C. Kemble – United States (1889–1984)
*Henry Way Kendall – United States (1926–1999) Nobel laureate
*Johannes Kepler – Germany (1571–1630)
*John Kerr (physicist), John Kerr – Scotland (1824–1907)
*Wolfgang Ketterle – Germany (born 1957) Nobel laureate
*Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov – Soviet Union (1919–2021)
*Jim Al-Khalili – UK (born 1962)
*Abdul Qadeer Khan – Pakistan (1936–2021)
*Yulii Borisovich Khariton – Soviet Union, Russia (1904–1996)
*Erhard Kietz – Germany, United States (1909–1982)
*Jack Kilby – United States (1923–2005) electronics engineer, Nobel laureate
*Toichiro Kinoshita – Japan, United States (born 1925)
*Gustav Kirchhoff – Germany (1824–1887)
*Oskar Klein – Sweden (1894–1977)
*Hagen Kleinert – Germany (born 1941)
*Klaus von Klitzing – Germany (born 1943) Nobel laureate
*Jens Martin Knudsen – Denmark (1930–2005)
*Martin Knudsen – Denmark (1871–1949)
*Makoto Kobayashi (physicist), Makoto Kobayashi – Japan (born 1944) Nobel laureate
*Arthur Korn – Germany (1870–1945)
*Masatoshi Koshiba – Japan (1926–2020) Nobel laureate
*Matthew Koss – United States (born 1961)
*Walther Kossel – Germany (1888–1956)
*Ashutosh Kotwal – United States (born 1965)
*Lew Kowarski – France (1907–1979)
*Hendrik Kramers – Netherlands (1894–1952)
*Serguei Krasnikov – Russia (born 1961)
*Adolf Kratzer – Germany (1893–1983)
*Lawrence M. Krauss – United States (born 1954)
*Herbert Kroemer – Germany (born 1928) Nobel laureate
*August Krönig – Germany (1822–1879)
*Ralph Kronig – Germany, United States (1904–1995)
*Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov – Soviet Union (1917–1947)
*Ryogo Kubo – Japan (1920–1995)
*Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha – India (born 1951)
*Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov – Soviet Union (1903–1960)
*Behram Kursunoglu – Turkey (1922–2003)
*Polykarp Kusch – Germany (1911–1993) Nobel laureate

L

*James W. LaBelle – United States
*Joseph Louis Lagrange, Joseph-Louis Lagrange – France (1736–1813)
*Willis Lamb – United States (1913–2008) Nobel laureate
*Lev Davidovich Landau – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1908–1968) Nobel laureate
*Rolf Landauer – United States (1927–1999)
*Grigory Landsberg – Vologda (1890–1957)
*Kenneth Lane (physicist), 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)
*Cesar Lattes – Brazil (1924–2005)
*Max von Laue – Germany (1879–1960) Nobel laureate
*Robert B. Laughlin, Robert Betts Laughlin – United States (born 1950) Nobel laureate
*Mikhail Lavrentyev – Kazan (1900–1980)
*Melvin Lax – United States (1922–2002)
*Ernest Lawrence – United States (1901–1958) Nobel laureate
*T._H._Laby, TH Laby – Australia (1880–1946)
*Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev – Imperial Russia (1866–1912)
*Leon M. Lederman, Leon Max Lederman – United States (1922–2018) Nobel laureate
*Benjamin Lee (physicist), Benjamin Lee – Korea, United States (1935–1977)
*David Lee (physicist), David Lee – United States (born 1931) Nobel laureate
*Tsung-Dao Lee – China, United States (born 1926) Nobel laureate
*Anthony James Leggett – U.K., United States (born 1938) Nobel laureate
*Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Germany (1646–1716)
*Robert B. Leighton – United States (1919–1997)
*Georges Lemaître – Belgium (1894–1966)
*Philipp Lenard – Hungary, Germany (1862–1947) Nobel laureate
*John Lennard-Jones – U.K. (1894–1954)
*John Leslie (physicist), John Leslie – U.K. (1766–1832)
*Walter Lewin – Netherlands, United States (born 1936)
*Martin Lewis Perl – United States (1927–2014)
*Robert von Lieben – Austria-Hungary (1878–1913)
*Alfred-Marie Liénard – France (1869–1958)
*Evgeny Lifshitz – Soviet Union (1915–1985)
*David Lindley (physicist), David Lindley – United States (born 1956)
*John Linsley – United States (1925–2002)
*Chris Lintott – U.K. (born 1980)
*Gabriel Jonas Lippmann – France, Luxemburg (1845–1921) Nobel laureate
*Antony Garrett Lisi – United States (born 1968)
*Karl L. Littrow – Austria (1811–1877)
*Seth Lloyd – United States (born 1960)
*Oliver Lodge – U.K. (1851–1940)
*Maurice Loewy – Austria, France (1833–1907)
*Robert K. Logan – United States (born 1939)
*Mikhail Lomonosov – Denisovka (1711–1765)
*Alfred Lee Loomis – United States (1887–1975)
*Ramón E. López – United States (born 1959)
*Hendrik Lorentz – Netherlands (1853–1928) Nobel laureate
*Ludvig Lorenz – Denmark (1829–1891)
*Johann Josef Loschmidt – Austria (1821–1895)
*Oleg Losev – Tver (1903–1942)
*Archibald Low – U.K. (1888–1956)
*Per-Olov Löwdin – Sweden (1916–2000)
*Lucretius – Rome (98?–55BC)
*Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov – Imperial Russia (1857–1918)
*Joseph Lykken – United States (born 1957)

M

*Arthur B. McDonald – Canada (born 1943) Nobel laureate
*Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry – Netherlands (1904–1993)
*Ernst Mach – Austria-Hungary (1838–1916)
*Ray Mackintosh – U.K.
*Luciano Maiani – Italy, San Marino (born 1941)
*Theodore Maiman – United States (1927–2007)
*Arthur Maitland – U.K. (1925–1994)
*Ettore Majorana – Italy (1906–1938 presumed dead)
*Sudhansu Datta Majumdar – India (1915–1997)
*Richard Makinson – Australia (1913–1979)
*Juan Martín Maldacena – Argentina (born 1968)
*Étienne-Louis Malus – France (1775–1812)
*Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1879–1944)
*Franz Mandl (physicist), Franz Mandl – U.K. (1923–2009)
*Charles Lambert Manneback – Belgium (1894–1975)
*Peter Mansfield – U.K. (1933–2017)
*Carlo Marangoni – Italy (1840–1925)
*M. Cristina Marchetti – Italy, United States (born 1955)
*Guglielmo Marconi – Italy (1874–1937) Nobel laureate
*Henry Margenau – Germany, United States (1901–1977)
*Nina Marković – Croatia, United States
*William Markowitz – United States (1907–1998)
*Robert Marshak – United States (1916–1992)
*Walter Marshall, Baron Marshall of Goring, Walter Marshall – U.K. (1932–1996)
*Toshihide Maskawa – Japan (1940–2021) Nobel laureate
*Harrie Massey – Australia (1908–1983)
*John C. Mather, John Cromwell Mather – United States (born 1946) Nobel laureate
*James Clerk Maxwell – U.K. (1831–1879)
*Brian May – U.K. (born 1947)
*Maria Goeppert Mayer – Germany, United States (1906–1972)
*Ronald E. McNair – United States (1950–1986)
*Simon van der Meer – Netherlands (1925–2011) Nobel laureate
*Lise Meitner – Austria (1878–1968)
*Fulvio Melia – United States (born 1956)
*Macedonio Melloni – Italy (1798–1854)
*Adrian Melott – United States (born 1947)
*Thomas Corwin Mendenhall – United States (1841–1924)
*Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon, M. G. K. Menon – India (1928–2016)
*David Merritt – United States
*Albert Abraham Michelson – United States (1852–1931) Nobel laureate
*Arthur Alan Middleton – United States
*Stanislav Mikheyev – Russia (1940–2011)
*Robert Millikan, Robert Andrews Millikan – United States (1868–1953) Nobel laureate
*Robert Mills (physicist), Robert Mills- United States (1927-1999)
*Arthur Milne – U.K. (1896–1950)
*Shiraz Minwalla – India (born 1972)
*Rabindra Mohapatra, Rabindra Nath Mohapatra – India, United States (born 1944)
*Kathryn Moler – United States
*Merritt Moore – United States (born 1988)
*Tanya Monro – Australia (born 1973)
*John J. Montgomery – United States (1858–1911)
*Jagadeesh Moodera – India, United States (born 1950)
*Henry Moseley – U.K. (1887–1915)
*Rudolf Mössbauer – Germany (1929–2011) Nobel laureate
*Nevill Mott – U.K. (1905–1996) Nobel laureate
*Ben Roy Mottelson – Denmark, United States (1926–2022) Nobel laureate
*Amédée Mouchez – Spain, France (1821–1892)
*Moustafa Mosharafa, Ali Moustafa – Egypt (1898–1950)
*José Enrique Moyal – Palestine, France, U.K., United States, Australia (1910–1998)
*Karl Alexander Müller – Switzerland (born 1927) Nobel laureate
*Richard A. Muller – United States (born 1944)
*Robert S. Mulliken – United States (1896–1986)
*Pieter van Musschenbroek – Netherlands (1692–1762)

N

*Yoichiro Nambu – Japan, United States (1921–2015) Nobel laureate
*Meenakshi Narain - experimental physicist, Professor of Physics at Brown University
*Jayant Narlikar – India (born 1938)
*Seth Neddermeyer – United States (1907–1988)
*Louis Néel – France (1904–2000) Nobel laureate
*Yuval Ne'eman – Israel (1925–2006)
*Ann Nelson – United States (1958–2019)
*John von Neumann – Austria-Hungary, United States (1903–1957)
*Simon Newcomb – United States (1835–1909)
*Sir Isaac Newton – England (1642–1727)
*Edward P. Ney – United States (1920–1996)
*Kendal Nezan – France, Kurdistan (born 1949)
*Holger Bech Nielsen – Denmark (born 1941)
*Leopoldo Nobili – Italy (1784–1835)
*Emmy Noether – Germany (1882–1935)
*Lothar Nordheim – Germany (1899–1985)
*Gunnar Nordström – Finland (1881–1923)
*Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg – Germany (1787–1862)
*Konstantin Novoselov – Soviet Union, U.K. (born 1974) Nobel laureate
*H. Pierre Noyes – United States (1923–2016)
*John Nye (scientist), John Nye – U.K. (1923–2019)

O

*Yuri Oganessian – Russia (born 1933)
*Georg Ohm – Germany (1789–1854)
*Hideo Ohno – Japan (born 1954)
*Susumu Okubo – Japan, United States (1930–2015)
*Sir Mark Oliphant – Australia (1901–2000)
*David Olive – U.K. (1937–2012)
*Zaira Ollano – Italy (1904–1997)
*Gerard K. O'Neill – United States (1927–1992)
*Lars Onsager – Norway (1903–1976)
*Robert Oppenheimer – United States (1904–1967)
*Nicole Oresme – France (1325–1382)
*Yuri Feodorovich Orlov, Yuri Orlov – Soviet Union, United States (1924–2020)
*Leonard Salomon Ornstein – Netherlands (1880–1941)
*Egon Orowan – Austria-Hungary, United States (1901–1989)
*Hans Christian Ørsted – Denmark (1777–1851)
*Douglas D. Osheroff, Douglas Dean Osheroff – United States (born 1945) Nobel laureate
*Silke Ospelkaus – Germany
*Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky – Russia (1801–1862)

P

*Thanu Padmanabhan – India (1957–2021)
*Heinz Pagels – United States (1939–1988)
*Abraham Pais – Netherlands, United States (1918–2000)
*Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky – Germany, United States (1919–2007)
*Blaise Pascal – France (1623–1662)
*John Pasta – United States (1918–1984)
*Jogesh Pati – United States (born 1937)
*Petr Paucek – United States
*Stephen Paul (physicist), Stephen Paul – United States (1953–2012)
*Wolfgang Paul – Germany (1913–1993) Nobel laureate
*Wolfgang Pauli – Austria-Hungary (1900–1958) Nobel laureate
*Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin -- United States (1900-1979) astronomer and astrophysicist
*Ruby Payne-Scott – Australia (1912-1981)
*George B. Pegram – United States (1876–1958)
*Rudolf Peierls – Germany, U.K. (1907–1995)
*Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Jean Peltier – France (1785–1845)
*Roger Penrose, mathematician – U.K. (born 1931) Wolf laureate
*Arno Allan Penzias, electrical engineer – U.S.A. (born 1933) Nobel laureate
*Martin Lewis Perl – United States (1927–2014) Nobel laureate
*Saul Perlmutter – United States (born 1959) Nobel laureate
*Jean Baptiste Perrin – France (1870–1942) Nobel laureate
*Konstantin Petrzhak – Soviet Union, Russia (1907–1998)
*Bernhard Philberth – Germany (1927–2010)
*William Daniel Phillips – United States (born 1948) Nobel laureate
*Max Planck – Germany (1858–1947) Nobel laureate
*Joseph Plateau – Belgium (1801–1883)
*Milton S. Plesset – United States (1908–1991)
*Ward Plummer – United States (1940–2020)
*Boris Podolsky – Taganrog (1896–1966)
*Henri Poincaré, mathematician – France (1854–1912)
*Eric Poisson – Canada (born 1965)
*Siméon Denis Poisson – France (1781–1840) mathematician
*Balthasar van der Pol – Netherlands (1889–1959) electrical engineer
*Joseph Polchinski – United States (1954–2018)
*Hugh David Politzer – United States (born 1949) Nobel laureate
*John Polkinghorne – U.K. (1930–2021)
*Julianne Pollard-Larkin – United States
*Alexander M. Polyakov – Russia, United States (born 1945)
*Bruno Pontecorvo – Italy, Soviet Union (1913–1993)
*Heraclides Ponticus – Greece (387–312 BC)
*Heinz Pose – Germany (1905–1975)
*Cecil Frank Powell – U.K. (1903–1969) Nobel laureate
*John Henry Poynting – U.K. (1852–1914)
*Ludwig Prandtl – Germany (1875–1953)
*Willibald Peter Prasthofer – Austria (1917–1993)
*Ilya Prigogine – Belgium (1917–2003)
*Alexander Prokhorov – Soviet, Russian (1916–2002) Nobel laureate
*William Prout – U.K. (1785–1850)
*Luigi Puccianti – Italy (1875–1952)
*Ivan Pulyuy – Ukraine (1845–1918)
*Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin – Serbia, United States (1858–1935)
*Edward Mills Purcell – United States (1912–1997) Nobel laureate

Q

*Qian Xuesen, Xuesen Qian – China (1911-2009)
*Helen Quinn – Australia, United States (born 1943)

R

*Raúl Rabadán – United States
*Gabriele Rabel – Austria, United Kingdom (1880–1963)
*Isidor Isaac Rabi – Austria, United States (1898–1988) Nobel laureate
*Giulio Racah – Italian-Israeli (1909–1965)
*James Rainwater – United States (1917–1986) Nobel laureate
*Mark G. Raizen – New York City United States (born 1955)
*Alladi Ramakrishnan – India (1923–2008)
*Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman – India (1888–1970) Nobel laureate
*Edward Ramberg – United States (1907–1995)
*Carl Ramsauer – Germany (1879–1955)
*Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. – United States (1915–2011) Nobel laureate
*Lisa Randall – United States (born 1962)
*Riccardo Rattazzi – Italy (born 1964)
*Lord Rayleigh – U.K. (1842–1919) Nobel laureate
*René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur – France (1683–1757)
*Sidney Redner – Canada, United States (born 1951)
*Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, Martin John Rees – U.K. (born 1942)
*Hubert Reeves – Canada (born 1932)
*Tullio Regge – Italy (1931–2014)
*Frederick Reines – United States (1918–1998) Nobel laureate
*Louis Rendu – France (1789–1859)
*Osborne Reynolds – U.K. (1842–1912)
*Owen Willans Richardson – U.K. (1879–1959) Nobel laureate
*Robert Coleman Richardson – United States (1937–2013) Nobel laureate
*Burton Richter – United States (1931–2018) Nobel laureate
*Floyd K. Richtmyer – United States (1881–1939)
*Robert D. Richtmyer – (1910–2003)
*Charlotte Riefenstahl – Germany (1899–1993)
*Nikolaus Riehl – Germany (1901–1990)
*Adam Riess – United States (born 1969) Nobel laureate
*Karl-Heinrich Riewe – Germany
*Walther Ritz – Switzerland (1878–1909)
*Étienne-Gaspard Robert – Belgium (1763–1837)
*Heinrich Rohrer – Switzerland (1933–2013) Nobel laureate
*Joseph Romm – United States (born 1960)
*Wilhelm Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen – Germany (1845–1923) Nobel laureate
*Clemens C. J. Roothaan – Netherlands (1918–2019)
*Nathan Rosen – United States, Israel (1909–1995)
*Marshall Rosenbluth – United States (1927–2003)
*Yasha Rosenfeld – Israel (1948–2002)
*Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby – Sweden, United States (1898–1957)
*Bruno Rossi – Italy, United States (1905–1993)
*Joseph Rotblat – Poland, U.K. (1908–2005)
*Carlo Rovelli – Italy (born 1956)
*Subrata Roy (scientist) – India, United States
*Carlo Rubbia – Italy (born 1934) Nobel laureate
*Vera Rubin – United States (1928–2016)
*Serge Rudaz – Canada, United States (born 1954)
*David Ruelle – Belgium, France (born 1935)
*Ernst Ruska, Ernst August Friedrich Ruska – Germany (1906–1988) Nobel laureate
*Ernest Rutherford – New Zealand, U.K. (1871–1937)
*Johannes Rydberg, Janne Rydberg – Sweden (1854–1919)
*Martin Ryle – U.K. (1918–1984) Nobel laureate

S

*Mendel Sachs – United States (1927–2012)
*Rainer K. Sachs – Germany and United States (1932- )
*Robert G. Sachs – United States (1916–1999)
*Carl Sagan – United States (1934–1996)
*Georges-Louis Le Sage, Georges-Louis le Sage – Switzerland (1724–1803)
*Georges Sagnac – France (1869–1926)
*Megh Nad Saha – Bengali India (1893–1956)
*Shoichi Sakata – Japan (1911–1970)
*Andrei Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov – Soviet Union (1929–1989)
*Oscar Sala – Brazil (1922–2010)
*Abdus Salam – Pakistan (1926–1996) Nobel laureate
*Edwin Ernest Salpeter – Austria, Australia, United States (1924–2008)
*Anthony Ichiro Sanda – Japan, United States (born 1944)
*Antonella De Santo – Italy, U.K.
*Vikram Sarabhai – India (1919–1971)
*Isidor Sauers – Austria (born 1948)
*Félix Savart – France (1791–1841)
*Brendan Scaife – Ireland (born 1928)
*Martin Schadt – Switzerland (born 1938)
*Arthur Leonard Schawlow – United States (1921–1999) Nobel laureate
*Craige Schensted – United States
*Joël Scherk – France (1946–1979)
*Otto Scherzer – Germany (1909–1982)
*Brian Schmidt – Australia, United States (born 1967) Nobel laureate
*Alan Schoen – United States (born 1924)
*Walter H. Schottky – Germany (1886–1976)
*Kees A. Schouhamer Immink – Netherlands (born 1946)
*John Robert Schrieffer – United States (1931–2019) Nobel laureate
*Erwin Schrödinger – Austria-Hungary (1887–1961) Nobel laureate
*John Henry Schwarz – United States (born 1941)
*Melvin Schwartz – United States (1932–2006) Nobel laureate
*Karl Schwarzschild – German Empire (1876–1916)
*Julian Schwinger – United States (1918–1994) Nobel laureate
*Marlan Scully – United States (born 1939)
*Dennis William Sciama – U.K. (1926–1999)
*Bice Sechi-Zorn – Italy, United States (1928–1984)
*Thomas Johann Seebeck – Estonia (1770–1831)
*Raymond Seeger – United States (1906–1992)
*Emilio G. Segre – Italy, United States (1905–1989) Nobel laureate
*Nathan Seiberg – United States (born 1956)
*Frederick Seitz – United States (1911–2008)
*Nikolay Semyonov – Russia (1896–1986)
*Ashoke Sen – India (born 1956)
*Hiranmay Sen Gupta – Bangladesh (1934–2022)
*Robert Serber – United States (1909–1997)
*Roman U. Sexl – Austria (1939–1986)
*Shen Kuo – China (1031–1095)
*Mikhail Shifman – Russia, United States (born 1949)
*Dmitry Shirkov – Russia (1928–2016)
*William Shockley – United States (1910–1989) Nobel laureate
*Boris Shraiman – United States (1956)
*Lev Shubnikov – Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine (1901–1937)
*Clifford Shull – United States (1915–2001) Nobel laureate
*Kai Siegbahn – Sweden (1918–2007) Nobel laureate
*Manne Siegbahn – Sweden (1886–1978) Nobel laureate
*Ludwik Silberstein – Poland, Germany, Italy, United States, Canada (1872–1948)
*Eva Silverstein – United States (born 1970)
*John Alexander Simpson – United States (1916–2000)
*Willem de Sitter – Netherlands (1872–1934)
*Uri Sivan – Israel (born 1955)
*Tamitha Skov - space weather physicist, researcher and public speaker
*G. V. Skrotskii – Russia (1915–1992)
*Francis G. Slack – United States (1897–1985)
*John C. Slater – United States (1900–1976)
*Louis Slotin – United States (1910–1946)
*Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov – Russia, Italy (born 1951)
*George E. Smith – United States (born 1930) Nobel laureate
*Lee Smolin – United States (born 1955)
*Marian Smoluchowski – Poland (1872–1917)
*George Smoot – United States (born 1945) Nobel laureate
*Willebrord Snell – Netherlands (1580–1626)
*Arsenij Sokolov – Russia (1910–1986)
*Arnold Sommerfeld – Germany (1868–1951)
*Bent Sørensen (physicist), Bent Sørensen – Denmark (born 1941)
*Rafael Sorkin – United States (born 1945)
*Nicola Spaldin – United Kingdom (born 1969)
*Maria Spiropulu – Greece (born 1970)
*Henry Stapp – United States (born 1928)
*Johannes Stark – Germany (1874–1957) Nobel laureate
*Max Steenbeck – (1901–1981)
*Joseph Stefan – Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835–1893)
*Jack Steinberger – Germany, United States (1921–2020) Nobel laureate
*Paul J. Steinhardt – United States (born 1952)
*Carl August Steinheil – Germany (1801–1870)
*George Sterman – United States (born 1946)
*Otto Stern – Germany (1888–1969) Nobel laureate
*Simon Stevin – Belgium, Netherlands (1548–1620)
*Thomas H. Stix – United States (1924–2001)
*George Gabriel Stokes – Ireland, U.K. (1819–1903)
*Aleksandr Stoletov – Russia (1839–1896)
*Donna Strickland – Canada (born 1959) Nobel laureate
*Horst Ludwig Störmer – Germany (born 1949) Nobel laureate
*Leonard Strachan - United States, astrophysicist
*Julius Adams Stratton - United States
*Andrew Strominger – United States (born 1955)
*Audrey Stuckes – U.K. (1923–2006)
*Ernst Stueckelberg – Switzerland (1905–1984)
*George Sudarshan – India, United States (1931–2018)
*Rashid Sunyaev – USSR (born 1943)
*Oleg Sushkov – USSR, Australia (born 1950)
*Leonard Susskind – United States (born 1940)
*Joseph Swan – U.K. (1828–1914)
*Jean Henri van Swinden – Netherlands (1746–1823)
*Bertha Swirles – U.K. (1903–1999)
*Leo Szilard – Austria-Hungary, United States (1898–1964)

T

*Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1895–1971) Nobel laureate
*Abraham H. Taub – United States (1911–1999)
*Martin Tajmar – Austria (born 1974)
*Geoffrey Ingram Taylor – U.K. (1886–1975)
*Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. – United States (born 1941) Nobel laureate
*Richard E. Taylor, Richard Edward Taylor – United States (1929–2018) Nobel laureate
*Max Tegmark – Sweden, United States (born 1967)
*Valentine Telegdi – Hungary, United States (1922–2006) Wolf laureate
*Edward Teller – Austria-Hungary, United States (1908–2003)
*Igor Ternov – Russia (1921–1996)
*George Paget Thomson – U.K. (1892–1975) Nobel laureate
*J. J. Thomson – U.K. (1856–1940) Nobel laureate
*William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) – Ireland, U.K. (1824–1907)
*Charles Thorn – United States (born 1946)
*Kip Stephen Thorne – United States (born 1940)
*Peter Adolf Thiessen – Germany (1899–1990)
*Samuel C. C. Ting, Samuel Chao Chung Ting – United States (born 1936) Nobel laureate
*Frank J. Tipler – United States (born 1947)
*Ernest William Titterton – U.K., Australia (1916–1990)
*Yoshinori Tokura – Japan (born 1954)
*Samuel Tolansky – U.K. (1907–1973)
*Sin-Itiro Tomonaga – Japan (1906–1979) Nobel laureate
*Lewi Tonks – United States (1897–1971)
*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
*John Sealy Townsend, John Townsend – U.K. (1868–1957)
*Johann Georg Tralles – Germany (1763–1822)
*Sam Treiman – United States (1925–1999)
*Daniel C. Tsui, 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)
*Twersky#Twersky, Victor Twersky – United States (1923–1998)
*Sergei Tyablikov – Russia (1921–1968)
*John Tyndall – U.K. (1820–1893)
*Neil deGrasse Tyson – United States (born 1958)

U

*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)

V

*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 – United Kingdom, 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)
*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, aerospace engineer – Germany (1912–1977)

W

*Johannes Diderik van der Waals – Netherlands (1837–1923) Nobel laureate
*James Wait – Canada (1924–1998)
*Ludwig Waldmann – Germany (1913–1980)
*Alan_Walsh_(physicist), Alan Walsh – U.K., Australia (1916–1988)
*Ernest Walton – Ireland (1903–1995) Nobel laureate
*Wang Dezhao, Dezhao Wang – China (1905–1998)
*Wang Enge, Enge Wang – China (born 1957)
*Wang Huanyu, Huanyu Wang – China (1954—2018)
*Kan-Chang Wang – China (1907–1998)
*Wang Pu (physicist), Pu (Paul) Wang – China (1902–1969)
*Wang Zhuxi, 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 Eduard Weber, 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 G. Wilson, 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)

X

* Basilis C. Xanthopoulos – Greece (1951–1990)

Y

*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 (physicist), Kenneth Young – United States, China (born 1947)
*Thomas Young (scientist), Thomas Young – UK (1773–1829)
*Hideki Yukawa – Japan (1907–1981) Nobel laureate

Z

*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 (physicist), Hans Ziegler – Switzerland, United States (1910–1985)
*Karl Zimmer – Germany (1911–1988)
*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

*Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th-century American) are collected in th
Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
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*20th-century women in physics in th
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics archive

References

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