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. Not to be confused with physician, a person who practices medicine. ... Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...

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• Ernst Karl Abbe — Germany (1840–1905)
• Derek Abbott — Australia (1960- )
• Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov — Soviet Union/Russia (1928- )
• Robert Adler — USA (1913-2007)
• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov — Russia (1930- )
• Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén — Sweden (1908–1995)
• Jim Al-Khalili — UK (1962- )
• William Allis — USA (1901-1999)
• Samuel King Allison — USA (1900-1965)
• P.M. van Alphen — Netherlands
• Luis Walter Alvarez — USA (1911–1988)
• André-Marie Ampère — France (1775–1836)
• Anders Jonas Ångström — Sweden (1814–1874)
• Hans Henrik Andersen — Denmark (1937- )
• Carl David Anderson — USA (1905-1991)
• Philip Warren Anderson — USA (1923– )
• Edward Victor Appleton — UK (1892-1965)
• François Jean Dominique Arago - France (1786-1853)
• Archimedes — Syracuse (ca. 287–212 BC)
• Aristarchus of Samos — Samos (310 – ca. 230 BC)
• Aristotle — Athens, Greece (384–322 BC)
• Nima Arkani-Hamed — USA (1972- )
• Amedeo Avogadro — Italy (1776-1856)

Ernst Karl Abbe Ernst Karl Abbe (January 23, 1840 in Eisenach – January 14, 1905 in Jena), was a German physicist. ... Derek Abbott (May 3, 1960, in South Kensington, London, UK) is a physicist and electronic engineer. ... Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (Russian: ) (born June 25, 1928, in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Soviet/Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. ... Robert Adler Robert Adler (December 4, 1913 - February 15, 2007) was an Austrian-American inventor who held numerous patents. ... Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (also Alfyorov) (Russian: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров) (born March 15, 1930) is a Russian physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. ... Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (May 30, 1908; Norrköping, Sweden - April 2, 1995; Djursholm, Sweden) was a Swedish electrical power engineer. ... Jim Al-Khalili (born 20 September 1962) is a British theoretical nuclear physicist, academic, author and broadcaster. ... William Phelps Allis (November 15, 1901 in Menton, France – March 5, 1999 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American theoretical physicist specializing in electrical discharges in gases. ... Samuel King Allison Samuel King Allison (November 13, 1900 – September 15, 1965) was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project — where among other things he read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity test — and his postwar work in the scientists movement. Biography Samuel... Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988) of San Francisco, California, USA, was a famed physicist who worked at the University of California, Berkeley. ... André-Marie Ampère (January 20, 1775 – June 10, 1836), was a French physicist who is generally credited as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism. ... Anders Jonas Ã…ngström Anders Jonas Ã…ngström (August 13, 1814 – June 21, 1874) was a physicist in Sweden, one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy. ... Hans Henrik Andersen (* 1937 Frederiksberg, Denmark) is Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen (emeritus since 2004). ... Carl Anderson at LBNL 1937 Carl David Anderson (3 September 1905 – 11 January 1991) was a U.S. experimental physicist. ... Philip Warren Anderson (born December 13, 1923) is one of the most influential theoretical physicists of the 20th century. ... Sir Edward Victor Appleton (September 6, 1892 – April 21, 1965) was an English physicist. ... François Jean Dominique Arago (February 26, 1786 – October 2, 1853) was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician. ... For other uses, see Archimedes (disambiguation). ... For other uses of this name, including the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, see Aristarchus Statue of Aristarchus at Aristotle University in Thessalonica, Greece Aristarchus (Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος; 310 BC - ca. ... For other uses, see Aristotle (disambiguation). ... Prof. ... Avogadro redirects here. ...

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• 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)
• Henri Becquerel — France (1852–1908)
• Johannes Georg Bednorz — Germany (1950- )
• Isaac Beeckman — Netherlands (1588-1637)
• John Stewart Bell — UK (1928–1990)
• Carl M. Bender — USA
• 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, USA (1920- )
• David Bohm — USA (1917-1992)
• Aage Niels Bohr — Denmark (1922– )
• Niels Bohr — Denmark (1885–1962)
• Ludwig Boltzmann — Austria (1844–1906)
• Max Born — Germany, UK (1882–1970)
• Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik (1711–1787)
• Jagadish Chandra Bose — India (1858-1937)
• Satyendra Nath Bose — India (1894–1974)
• Johannes Bosscha — Netherlands (1831-1911)
• Walther Bothe — Germany (1891-1957)
• Robert Boyle — Ireland, England (1627–1691)
• William Henry Bragg — UK (1862-1942)
• William Lawrence Bragg — Australia (1890-1971)
• Walter Houser Brattain — USA (1902-1987)
• Karl Ferdinand Braun — Germany (1850-1918)
• David Brewster — UK (1781–1868)
• Percy Williams Bridgman — USA (1882-1961)
• Léon Nicolas Brillouin — France (1889-1969)
• Bertram Brockhouse — Canada (1918-2003)
• Louis-Victor de Broglie — France (1892–1987)
• Thomas Townsend Brown — USA (1905–1985)
• Hermann Brück — Germany (1905-2000)
• Johannes Martinus Burgers — Netherlands (1895-1981)
• W.G. Burgers — Netherlands
• Christophorus Buys Ballot — Netherlands (1817-1890)

Johann Jakob Balmer (May 1, 1825 – March 12, 1898) was a Swiss mathematician and an honorary physicist. ... John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. ... Charles Glover Barkla (June 7, 1877 – October 23, 1944) was a British physicist. ... Laura Bassi. ... Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (Russian:Николай Геннадиевич Басов) (December 14, 1922 – July 1, 2001) was a Soviet/Russian physicist and educator. ... Zoltán Lajos Bay (1900 – 1992) was a Hungarian physicist. ... Karl Richard Bechert (August 23, 1901 in Nuremberg, Germany — April 1, 1981 in Weilmünster-Möttau, Hesse, Germany) was a German theoretical physicist and political leader. ... Antoine Henri Becquerel (December 15, 1852 – August 25, 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity. ... Johannes Georg Bednorz (born May 16, 1950) is a German physicist who, along with Karl Alex Muller, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at temperatures higher than had previously been thought attainable. ... Isaac Beeckman (December 10, 1588 - May 19, 1637) was a Dutch philosopher and scientist. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Carl M. Bender is Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. ... Daniel Bernoulli Daniel Bernoulli (February 8, 1700 – March 17, 1782) was a Dutch-born mathematician who spent much of his life in Basel, Switzerland where he died. ... Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced bay-tuh; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. ... Gerd Binnig (born July 20, 1947) is a German-born physicist who shared with Heinrich Rohrer half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). ... Categories: People stubs | 1774 births | 1862 deaths | French physicists | French mathematicians | Members of the Acad mie fran aise ... Raymond Thayer Birge (March 13, 1887 - March 22, 1980) was a physicist. ... Vilhelm Bjerknes Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes (March 14, 1862 - April 9, 1951) was a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting. ... Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett, OM , CH , FRS (November 18, 1897–July 13, 1974) was a British experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism. ... Felix Bloch (October 23, 1905 – September 10, 1983) was a Swiss physicist, working mainly in the USA. // A stamp from Guyana commemorating Felix Bloch. ... Nicolaas Bloembergen (born Dordrecht, March 11, 1920) is a Dutch physicist. ... David Bohm. ... Aage Niels Bohr Aage Niels Bohr (born in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 19, 1922) is the son of Margrethe and Niels Bohr. ... Niels Henrik David Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. ... Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (Vienna, Austrian Empire, February 20, 1844 – Duino near Trieste, September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. ... Max Born (December 11, 1882 in Breslau – January 5, 1970 in Göttingen) was a mathematician and physicist. ... Rudjer Joseph Boscovich (first name also sometimes spelled Roger in English; Italian Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich; Croatian and Serbian Ruđer Josip Bošković, Руђер Јосип Бошковић) (May 18, 1711 – February 13... Nickname: 1995 map of Dubrovnik The location of Dubrovnik within Croatia Coordinates: , Country County Government  - Mayor Dubravka Å uica (HDZ) Area  - City 143. ... Jagdish Chandra Bose (November 30, 1858–November 23, 1937) was a leading physicist of his age. ... Satyendra Nath Bose Bengali: ) (January 1, 1894 – February 4, 1974) was an Indian physicist, specializing in mathematical physics. ... This article is considered orphaned, since there are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (January 8, 1891 – February 8, 1957) was a German physicist, mathematician, chemist, and Nobel Prize winner. ... Robert Boyle (Irish: Robaird Ó Bhaoill) (25 January 1627 – 30 December 1691) was an Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor, and early gentleman scientist, noted for his work in physics and chemistry. ... Sir William Henry Bragg OM, Cantab, OKW (Westward, Cumbria, England July 2, 1862 – March 10, 1942) was an English physicist and chemist, educated at King Williams College, Isle of Man, and Trinity College, Cambridge. ... Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH, FRS, (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 with his father Sir William Henry Bragg. ... Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was a physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley invented the transistor. ... Karl Ferdinand Braun (6 June 1850 in Fulda, Germany – 20 April 1918 in New York City, USA) was a German inventor, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. ... Sir David Brewster. ... Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21, 1882–August 20, 1961) was an American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. ... Léon N. Brillouin (August 7, 1889-1969) was a French physicist. ... Bertram Neville Brockhouse (July 15, 1918 – October 13, 2003) was a Nobel prize-winning Canadian physicist. ... Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, generally known as Louis de Broglie (August 15, 1892–March 19, 1987), was a French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate. ... Thomas Townsend Brown (March 18, 1905 – October 22, 1985) was an American physicist. ... Hermann Alexander Brück (August 15, 1905 in Berlin, Germany – March 4, 2000 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was a German-born astronomer who spent the great portion of his career in the United Kingdom. ... Johannes Martinus Burgers (1895-1981) was a Dutch physicist. ... C.H.D. Buys Ballot Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot (also Christoph Heinrich Diedrich Buys Ballot) (October 10, 1817-February 3, 1890) Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys-Ballots law and the Buys Ballot table are called. ...

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• Nicolás Cabrera — Spain (1913–1989)
• Fritjof Capra — Austria, USA (1939– )
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot — France (1796–1832)
• Hendrik Casimir — Netherlands (1909-2000)
• Henry Cavendish — UK (1731–1810)
• James Chadwick — UK (1891-1974)
• Owen Chamberlain — USA (1920– )
• 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– )
• Benoit Clapeyron — France (1799-1864)
• Rudolf Clausius — Germany (1822–1888)
• Jacob Clay — Netherlands (1882-1955)
• John Cockcroft — UK (1897-1967)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji — France (1933- )
• Arthur Compton — USA (1892-1962)
• Edward Condon — USA (1902-1974)
• Leon Cooper — USA (1930- )
• Allan McLeod Cormack — South Africa, USA (1924-1998)
• Eric Allin Cornell — USA (1961- )
• Marie Alfred Cornu — France (1841–1902)
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — France (1736–1806)
• James Cronin — USA (1931- )
• Marie Curie — Poland, France (1867–1934)
• Pierre Curie — France (1859–1906)

Nicolás Cabrera (1913-1989), was Spanish scientist who did important work on the theories of crystal growth (specifically the Burton-Cabrera-Frank theory) and the oxidisation of metals. ... Dr. Fritjof Capra – photo by Kate Mount Fritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist. ... Sadi Carnot in the dress uniform of a student of the École polytechnique Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (June 1, 1796 - August 24, 1832) was a French physicist and military engineer who gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the Carnot cycle, thereby laying the... Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir (July 15, 1909 – May 4, 2000) was a Dutch physicist. ... For other persons named Henry Cavendish, see Henry Cavendish (disambiguation). ... Sir James Chadwick, CH (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate who is best known for discovering the neutron. ... Owen Chamberlain Owen Chamberlain (July 10, 1920 – February 28, 2006) was a prominent American physicist. ... Chandrasekhar redirects here. ... Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics winner. ... Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Russian Павел Алексеевич Черенков) (July 28, 1904 - January 6, 1990) was a Soviet physicist and Nobel Prize winner. ... Ernst Chladni Ernest Florenz Friedrich Chladni (November 30, 1756–April 3, 1827) was a German physicist. ... Steven Chu (Chinese: ; pinyin: ), born 1948 in St. ... Giovanni Ciccotti (born in 1943, Rome Italy) is an internationally acclaimed physicist and holds the position of Professor of Structure of matter at the University of Roma, La Sapienza. ... Rudolf Clausius - physicist and mathematician Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (January 2, 1822 – August 24, 1888), was a German physicist and mathematician. ... See also: John Cockroft (politician) Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (May 27, 1897 - September 18, 1967) was a British physicist. ... Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, 1933) is a French physicist working at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he has also studied physics. ... Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1927) for discovery of the Compton effect named in his honor. ... Edward Uhler Condon (March 2, 1902 – March 26, 1974) was a distinguished nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons in World War II, research director of Corning Glass, director of the National Bureau of Standards, and president of the American... Leon N Cooper (born February 28, 1930) is an American physicist and winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, for his role in developing the BCS theory (named for their initials) of superconductivity, work he did in his 20s. ... Allan M. Cormack at Tufts University Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African-born American physicist who shared a part of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan. ... Carl Wieman (left) and Eric Cornell (right) on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is a physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. ... Marie Alfred Cornu (March 6, 1841—April 12, 1902) was a French physicist. ... Charles Augustin de Coulomb (born June 14, 1736, Angoulême, France - died August 23, 1806, Paris) was a French physicist. ... James Watson Cronin (born September 29, 1931) is an American nuclear physicist. ... This article is about the chemist and physicist. ... // Pierre Curie (Paris, France, May 15, 1859 – April 19, 1906, Paris) was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity. ...

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• 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)
• Peter Debije — Netherlands (1884-1966)
• Hans Georg Dehmelt — Germany, USA (1922- )
• Max Delbrück — Germany, USA (1906-1981)
• Democritus — Abdera (circa 460–360 BC)
• James Dewar — UK (1842–1923)
• Robbert Dijkgraaf — Netherlands (1960- )
• Savas Dimopoulos - USA
• Paul Dirac — UK (1902–1984)
• Revaz Dogonadze — Soviet Union, Georgia (1931–1985)
• Christian Doppler — Austria (1803–1853)
• Henk Dorgelo — Netherlands (1894-1961)
• Friedrich Ernst Dorn - Germany (1848-1916)
• Michael R. Douglas - USA
• Paul Drude — Germany (1863-1906)
• Freeman Dyson — UK, USA (1923– )

Jean le Rond dAlembert, pastel by Maurice Quentin de La Tour Jean le Rond dAlembert (November 16, 1717 – October 29, 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. ... Nils Gustaf Dalén (November 30, 1869 – December 9, 1937) was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, the founder of AGA, the company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dalén light. ... John Dalton John Dalton (September 6, 1766 – July 27, 1844) was an English chemist and physicist, born at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumberland. ... Sir Charles Galton Darwin. ... For the member of the National Assembly for Wales, see Paul Davies (Welsh politician). ... Raymond Davis Jr. ... Clinton Joseph Davisson (22 October 1881–1 February 1958), was an American physicist. ... Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije (March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch physical chemist. ... Hans Georg Dehmelt (born September 9, 1922 in Görlitz, Germany) is a German-born American physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. ... Max Delbrück in the early 1940s at Vanderbilt University. ... ‎ Democritus (Greek: ) was a pre-Socratic Greek materialist philosopher (born at Abdera in Thrace ca. ... For other persons named James Dewar, see James Dewar (disambiguation). ... Robbert Dijkgraaf at Harvard University Robbert Dijkgraaf (1960) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist. ... Savas Dimopoulos is a Greek born particle physicist at Stanford University. ... Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (IPA: [dɪræk]) (August 8, 1902 – October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum physics. ... Revaz Dogonadze Revaz Dogonadze (November 21, 1931 - May 13, 1985) was a notable Georgian scientist, one of the founders of quantum electrochemistry, main author of the Quantum-Mechanical Theory of Kinetics of the Elementary Act of Chemical, Electrochemical and Biochemical Processes in Polar Liquids, Corresponding Member of the Georgian Academy... Christian Doppler Johann Christian Andreas Doppler (November 29, 1803 – March 17, 1853) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist, most famous for the hypothesis of what is now known as the Doppler effect which is the apparent change in frequency and wavelength of a wave that is perceived by an observer... Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848-1916) was a German physicist who discovered radon in 1898. ... Michael R. Douglas is a prominent string theorist and the director of the New High Energy Theory Center at Rutgers University. ... Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (July 12, 1863–July 5, 1906) was a German physicist specializing in optics. ... Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, nuclear weapons design and policy, and for his serious theorizing in futurism and science fiction concepts, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. ...

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• William Eccles — UK (1875–1966)
• Carl Eckart — USA (1902-1973)
• Paul Ehrenfest — Austria-Hungary, Netherlands (1880–1933)
• Felix Ehrenhaft — Austria-Hungary, USA (1879–1952)
• Manfred Eigen — Germany (1927- )
• Albert Einstein — Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA (1879–1955)
• Arpad Elo — Hungary (1903-1992)
• Loránd Eötvös — Austria-Hungary (1848–1919)
• Leo Esaki — Japan (1925- )
• Ernest Esclangon — France (1876–1954)
• Louis Essen — UK (1908–1997)
• Leonhard Euler — Switzerland (1707–1783)
• Paul Peter Ewald — Germany, USA (1888-1985)
• James Alfred Ewing — UK (1855–1935)

Physicist William Eccles William Henry Eccles (August 23, 1875 - April 29, 1966) was a British physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication. ... Carl Henry Eckart (May 4, 1902 in St. ... Paul Ehrenfest Paul Ehrenfest (Vienna, January 18, 1880 – Amsterdam, September 25, 1933) was an Austrian physicist and mathematician, who obtained Dutch citizenship on March 24, 1922. ... Felix Ehrenhaft (April 24, 1879 - March 4, 1952) was an Austrian-Hungarian physicist known for his maverick style and controversy. ... Manfred Eigen (born May 9, 1927, Bochum) is a German biophysicist and a former director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. ... “Einstein” redirects here. ... . Árpád Élő (1903-1992) is the creator of the ELO rating system. ... Image:Lorand Eotvos. ... Leo Esaki, born Leona Esaki [1] (江崎 玲於奈 Esaki Reona, born March 12, 1925) is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. ... Ernest Benjamin Esclangon (March 17, 1876 – January 28, 1954) was a French astronomer and mathematician. ... Louis Essen (September 6, 1908 – August 24, 1997) was an English physicist whose most notable achievements were in the precise measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light. ... Leonhard Paul Euler (pronounced Oiler; IPA ) (April 15, 1707 – September 18 [O.S. September 7] 1783) was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist, who spent most of his life in Russia and Germany. ... Paul Peter Ewald (January 23, 1888 - August 22, 1985) was a U.S. (German-born) crystallographer and physicist. ... Sir James Alfred Ewing (March 27, 1855 - January 7, 1935) was a British physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis. ...

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• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — (1686–1736)
• Kazimierz Fajans — Poland, USA (1887-1975)
• Michael Faraday — UK (1791–1867)
• Eugene Feenberg — USA (1906-1977)
• Enrico Fermi — Italy (1901–1954)
• Albert Fert — France (1938- )
• 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)
• Adriaan Fokker — Netherlands (1887–1972)
• 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 — Soviet Union (1908-1990)
• Benjamin Franklin — USA (1706–1790)
• Rosalind Franklin — UK (1920-1958)
• 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-)

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) was a German physicist and engineer who worked most of his life in the Dutch Republic. ... Kazimierz Fajans (sometimes referred to as Kasimir or Casimir; 27 May 1887 - 18 May 1975), was a Polish-American chemist who did valuable work on chemical bonding and on radioactivity and isotopes. ... Michael Faraday, FRS (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was an English chemist and physicist (or natural philosopher, in the terminology of that time) who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. ... Eugene Feenberg (October 6, 1906 in Fort Smith, Texas – November 7, 1977) was an American physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics and nuclear physics. ... Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics and statistical mechanics. ... Albert Fert (b. ... Institute Professor Emeritus Herman Feshbach of Cambridge, a renowned nuclear physicist and champion of equal opportunity at MIT and around the world, died December 22 2000 of congestive heart failure at Youville Hospital in Cambridge. ... This article is about the physicist. ... David Finkelstein (born July 19, 1929, New York City) is currently professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. ... Val Logsdon Fitch (born March 10, 1923) is an American nuclear physicist. ... George FitzGerald George Francis FitzGerald, or Fitzgerald, (3 August 1851 - 22 February 1901) was a professor of natural and experimental philosophy (i. ... Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (September 23, 1819-1896), French physicist, was born in Paris. ... Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (or Fok, Владимир Александрович Фок) (December 22, 1898 - December 27, 1974) was a Soviet physicist, who did foundational work on quantum mechanics. ... Adriaan Daniël Fokker (Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies (now Bogor, Indonesia), August 17, 1887–Beekbergen (near Apeldoorn), September 24, 1972) was a Dutch physicist and musician. ... James David Forbes (April 20, 1809 - December 31, 1868) was a Scottish physicist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat, seismology and glaciology. ... ... Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (March 21, 1768 - May 16, 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist who is best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their application to problems of heat flow. ... For the British astronomer, see Alfred Fowler. ... James Franck (August 26, 1882 - May 21, 1964) was a German-born physicist and Nobel laureate. ... Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian: Илья́ Миха́йлович Франк) (October 23, 1908 – June 22, 1990) was a Russian winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. ... Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most well known Founding Fathers of the United States. ... Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 Kensington, London – 16 April 1958 Chelsea, London) was an English biophysicist and crystallographer who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of DNA, viruses, coal and graphite. ... Joseph von Fraunhofer Joseph von Fraunhofer (March 6, 1787 – June 7, 1826) was a German physicist. ... Augustin Fresnel Augustin-Jean Fresnel (pronounced [] in AmE (or fray-NELL), [] in French) (May 10, 1788 – July 14, 1827), was a French physicist who contributed significantly to the establishment of the theory of wave optics. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... B. Roy Frieden is a mathematical physicist living in Tucson, Arizona, in the United States. ... Jerome Isaac Friedman (born March 28, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois) is a US physicist. ... Erwin Richard Fues (January 17, 1893 in Stuttgart, Germany – 1970 in Germany) was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions to atomic physics and molecular physics, quantum wave mechanics, and solid-state physics. ... Harald Fuchs (born 1951) is a Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Münster, Germany, Scientific Director of the Center of Nanotechnology (CeNTech) in Münster, and co-director of the Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) in Karlsruhe. ...

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• Dennis Gabor — Hungary (1900-1979)
• Galileo Galilei — Italy (1564-1642)
• George Gamow — Russia, USA (1904-1968)
• Sylvester James Gates — USA (1950- )
• Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany (1777-1855)
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — France (1778-1850)
• Murray Gell-Mann — USA (1929- )
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes — France (1932-2007)
• Howard Georgi — USA (1947- )
• Walter Gerlach — Germany (1889-1979)
• Riccardo Giacconi — Italy, USA (1931- )
• Ivar Giaever — Norway, USA (1929- )
• Josiah Willard Gibbs — USA (1839-1903)
• William Gilbert — England (1544-1603)
• Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg — Soviet Union/Russia (1916- )
• Donald Arthur Glaser — USA (1926- )
• Sheldon Lee Glashow — USA (1932- )
• Roy Jay Glauber — USA (1925- )
• Lev Gor'kov — USA (1929- )
• Samuel Goudsmit — Netherlands, USA (1902-1978)
• Leo Graetz — Germany (1856-1941)
• Willem 's Gravesande — Netherlands (1688-1742)
• Brian Greene — USA (1963- )
• John Gribbin — UK (1946- )
• David Gross — USA (1941- )
• Peter Grünberg — Germany (1939- )
• Charles Édouard Guillaume — Switzerland (1861-1931)
• Feza Gürsey — Turkey (1921-1992)
• Alan Guth - USA (1947- )
• Martin Gutzwiller — Switzerland (1925- )

Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes) (June 5, 1900, Budapest – February 9, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist and inventor who is most notable for inventing holography. ... Galileo redirects here. ... George Gamow (pronounced GAM-off) (March 4, 1904 – August 19, 1968) , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov (Георгий Антонович Гамов) was a Ukrainian born physicist and cosmologist. ... Sylvester James Gates, Jr. ... Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß ( ; Latin: ) (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, electrostatics, astronomy, and optics. ... Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac. ... Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City, USA) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. ... Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (October 24, 1932 in Paris – May 18, 2007 in Orsay) was a French physicist and the Nobel laureate in 1991. ... Howard Mason Georgi III, born in 1947 in San Bernardino, California, is Harvard College Professor and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, where he is also Director of Undergraduate Studies in Physics and Master of Leverett House. ... Walter Gerlach (1 August 1889 - 10 August 1979) was a German physicist. ... Riccardo Giacconi (born October 6, 1931) is an Italian-born American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist. ... Ivar Giaever (originally spelled Giæver) (born April 5, 1929 in Bergen, Norway) is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian David Josephson for work in solid-state physics. ... Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American mathematical physicist who contributed much of the theoretical foundation that led to the development of chemical thermodynamics and was one of the founders of vector analysis. ... For other persons named William Gilbert, see William Gilbert (disambiguation). ... Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Russian: ; born October 4, 1916 in Moscow) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of Academys physics institute (FIAN). ... Donald Arthur Glaser (b. ... Sheldon Glashow at Harvard University Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is an American physicist. ... Roy Jay Glauber (born 1 September 1925) is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. ... Lev Gorkov is an American research physicist who is internationally known for his pioneering work in the field of superconductivity. ... Samuel Goudsmit (1902–1978) was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck. ... Leo Graetz (September 26, 1856 - November 12, 1941) was a German physicist. ... Willem s Gravesande (1688-1742) was a Dutch scientist and lawyer. ... Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963), is a theoretical physicist and one of the best-known string theorists. ... Dr. John Gribbin (1946 - ) is a British science writer and a visiting Fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. ... David Jonathan Gross (born February 19, 1941 in Washington, D.C.) is an American particle physicist and string theorist (although hes stated to the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, on 09/27/2006, that the second area is included in the first one). ... Dr Peter Grünberg is a German physicist and one of the discoverers of the Giant magnetoresistive effect which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. ... Charles Édouard Guillaume (February 15, 1861, Fleurier – June 13, 1938, Sèvres), was a French-Swiss Physicist that received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys. ... Feza Gürsey. ... Alan Harvey Guth (born February 27, 1947) is a physicist and cosmologist. ... Martin C. Gutzwiller is a physicist. ...

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• Rudolf Haag — Germany (1922– )
• Wander Johannes de Haas — Netherlands (1878-1960)
• Otto Hahn — Germany (1879-1968)
• Edwin Hall — USA (1855–1938)
• John Lewis Hall — USA (1934- )
• Viktor Hambardzumyan — Armenia, Russia (1908-1996)
• William Rowan Hamilton — Ireland (1805–1865)
• Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch — Germany (1941- )
• Peter Andreas Hansen — Denmark (1795–1874)
• W.W. Hansen — USA (1909–1949)
• 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)
• Victor Francis Hess — Austria, USA(1883–1964)
• Antony Hewish — UK (1924- )
• Peter Higgs — UK (1929- )
• George William Hill — USA (1838–1914)
• Gustave-Adolphe Hirn — France (1815-1890)
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — England (1910-1994)
• Robert Hofstadter — USA (1915-1990)
• Gilles Holst — Netherlands (1886-1968)
• Helmut Hönl — Germany (1903-1981)
• Gerardus 't Hooft — Netherlands (1946– )
• Robert Hooke — England (1635–1703)
• John Hopkinson — U.K. (1849-1898)
• William V. Houston — USA (1900-1968)
• Fritz Houtermans — Netherlands/Germany/Austria (1903-1996)
• John H. Hubbell — USA (1925-2007)
• Russell Alan Hulse — USA (1950- )
• Friedrich Hund — Germany (1896-1997)
• Andrew D. Huxley — U.K. (1966- )
• Christiaan Huygens — Netherlands (1629–1695)

Rudolf Haag (* 1922 in Tübingen, Germany) is a German physicist. ... Wander Johannes de Haas (1878 – 1960) was a Dutch physicist. ... Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, 1913, at the KWI for Chemistry in Berlin Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879 – July 28, 1968) was a German chemist and received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ... See Edwin Arthur Hall for the former U.S. Congressman from New York and Edwin R. Hall for the Kansas man accused of murdering Kelsey Smith Edwin Herbert Hall (November 7, 1855 - November 20, 1938) was an American physicist who discovered the Hall effect. Hall conducted thermoelectric research at Harvard... John L. Hall (born 1934) is a JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) fellow and Physics lecturer at the University of Colorado at Boulder Physics department. ... Viktor Hambardzumyan (Armenian: ; September 18, 1908 [O.S. September 5] – August 12, 1996) was an Armenian astronomer and astrophysicist, who achieved his main results in Soviet times. ... For other persons named William Hamilton, see William Hamilton (disambiguation). ... Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (b. ... Peter Andreas Hansen (December 8, 1795 – March 28, 1874), Danish astronomer, was born at Tondern, in the duchy of Schleswig (now Tønder, Denmark). ... William Webster Hansen (May 27, 1909 - May 23, 1949) was a US physicist who was one of the founders of the technology of microwave electronics. ... Douglas Rayner Hartree (March 27, 1897 - February 12, 1958) was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to atomic physics. ... Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA, (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist. ... Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 – February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, developed techniques for applying Laplace transforms to the solution of differential equations, reformulated Maxwells field equations in terms of electric and... Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics and acknowledged to be one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. ... Walter Heinrich Heitler (02. ... Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (August 31, 1821 – September 8, 1894) was a German physician and physicist. ... Joseph Henry Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797 – May 13, 1878) was a Scottish-American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. ... John Herapath (May 30, 1790 - February 24, 1868) was an English physicist who gave a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1820 though it was neglected by the scientific community at the time. ... German professor of crystallography Carl Hermann (1898 June 17–1961 September 12) was an inventor (with Charles-Victor Mauguin) of an international standard notation for crystallographic groups. ... Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894) was the German physicist and mechanician for whom the hertz, an SI unit, is named. ... Victor Francis Hess (June 24, 1883 – December 17, 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist. ... Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars. ... Peter Ware Higgs (born May 29, 1929), FRSE, FRS, until recently held a personal chair in theoretical physics at the University of Edinburgh and is now an emeritus professor. ... George William Hill (March 3, 1838 – April 16, 1914), was a U.S. astronomer and mathematician. ... Frédéric Bartholdis sculpture of Gustave-Adolphe Hirn in Colmar Gustave-Adolphe Hirn (August 21, 1815 - January 14, 1890) was a French physicist, astronomer. ... Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, OM , FRS (12 May 1910 – 29 July 1994) was a British founder of protein crystallography. ... Robert Hofstadter (February 5, 1915 - November 17, 1990) was the winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons. ... Helmut Hönl (1903 in Mannheim, Germany – 1981) was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics and the understanding of atomic and molecular structure. ... Gerard t Hooft at Harvard University Gerardus (Gerard) t Hooft [ut-hooft] (The prefix ’t is pronounced as ‘ut’ and stands for ‘het’) (born July 5, 1946) is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ... Robert Hooke, FRS (July 18, 1635 – March 3, 1703) was an English polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... William Vermillion Houston (January 19, 1900 in Mount Gilead, Ohio, USA – August 22, 1968 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was an American physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics as well as being a teacher and administrator. ... Friedrich Georg Houtermans (January 22, 1903 - March 1, 1966) was a physicist born in Zoppod near Danzig (today Gdansk, Poland). ... John Howard Hubbell (born 1925) is an American radiation physicist. ... Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. ... Carl von Weizacker & Friedrich Hund, Goettingen DPI Friedrich Hund (February 4, 1896 - March 31, 1997) : German physicist known for his work on atoms and molecules. ... Andrew D. Huxley (born 1966) is the chair of the physics department of Edinburgh University. ... Christiaan Huygens (pronounced in English (IPA): ; in Dutch: ) (April 14, 1629 – July 8, 1698), was a Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist; born in The Hague as the son of Constantijn Huygens. ...

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

Nathan Isgur, 2000 Nathan Isgur (May 25, 1947 – July 24, 2001) was a theoretical physicist from the USA and Canada[1]. // Isgur was born in South Houston, Texas and finished high school there. ...

J

• Ali Javan — Iran (1928– )
• Edwin Jaynes — USA (1922–1998)
• Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen — Germany (1907-1973)
• Irene Joliot-Curie — France (1897-1956)
• Pascual Jordan - Germany (1902-1980)
• Brian David Josephson — UK (1940– )
• James Prescott Joule — UK (1818–1889)

Ali Javan (Persian: علی جوان , born 1928 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian inventor and physicist at MIT. He invented the gas laser in 1960. ... Edwin Thompson Jaynes (July 5, 1922 – April 30, 1998) was Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. ... Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (June 25, 1907 – February 11, 1973) was a German physicist who shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the shell nuclear model. ... Irène Joliot-Curie née Curie (September 12, 1897 – March 17, 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. ... Pascual Jordan (October 18, 1902 in Hanover - July 31, 1980 in Hamburg) was a German physicist. ... Brian David Josephson (born Cardiff, Wales, UK, January 4, 1940) is a British physicist whose discovery of the Josephson effect as a 22-year-old graduate student won him the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics, which he shared with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever. ... James Joule - English physicist James Prescott Joule, FRS (December 24, 1818 – October 11, 1889) was an English physicist, born in Sale, Cheshire. ...

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• Michio Kaku — USA (1947- )
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — Netherlands (1853-1926)
• William R. Kanne — USA
• Pyotr Kapitza — UK, Soviet Union (1894-1984)
• Alfred Kastler — France (1902-1984)
• Heinrich Kayser — Germany (1853-1940)
• Willem Hendrik Keesom — Netherlands (1876-1956)
• Edwin C. Kemble — USA (1889-1984)
• Henry Way Kendall — USA (1926-1999)
• Johannes Kepler — Germany (1571–1630)
• John Kerr — UK (1824–1907)
• Wolfgang Ketterle — Germany (1957- )
• Julii Khariton — Soviet Union (1904-1996)
• Jack St. Clair Kilby — USA (1923-2005)
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff — Germany (1824–1887)
• Jacob Kistemaker — Netherlands (1917- )
• Bruce G. Klappauf — USA (1961 - )
• Klaus von Klitzing - Germany (1943- )
• Arthur Korn — Germany (1870-1945)
• Masatoshi Koshiba — Japan (1926- )
• Matthew Koss — USA (1961- )
• Walther Kossel — Germany (1888-1956)
• Hendrick Kramers — Netherlands (1894-1952)
• Lawrence Krauss — USA (1954- )
• Herbert Kroemer — Germany (1928– )
• August Krönig — Germany (1822–1879)
• Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov — Soviet Union (1903–1960)
• Behram Kurşunoğlu — Turkey (1922-2003)
• Polykarp Kusch Germany (1911-1993)

Michio Kaku (加來 道雄 Kaku Michio, born January 24, 1947 in the United States) is an American theoretical physicist, tenured professor, and co-founder of string field theory, a branch of superstring theory. ... Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (September 21, 1853 – February 21, 1926) was a Dutch physicist. ... William R. Kanne worked on Chicago Pile One along with Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard. ... Semenov (on the right) and Kapitsa (on the left), portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1921 Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Russian Пётр Леонидович Капица) (July 9, 1894 – April 8, 1984) was a Russian physicist who discovered superfluidity with contribution from John F. Allen and Don Misener in 1937. ... Alfred Kastler (May 3, 1902 - January 7, 1984) is a French physicist, born in Guebwiller, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1966. ... Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser (born 16 March 1853 in Bingen am Rhein; died 14 October 1940 in Bonn) was a German physicist. ... Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876-1956) was a Dutch scientist who, in 1926, invented a method to solidify helium. ... Edwin Crawford Kemble (January 28, 1889 in Delaware, Ohio – March 12, 1984) was an American physicist who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics and molecular structure and spectroscopy. ... Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American physicist. ... Kepler redirects here. ... Rev. ... Wolfgang Ketterle (born October 21, 1957, in Heidelberg, Germany) is a German physicist and a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Julii Borisovich Khariton (Ю́лий Бори́сович Харито́н, February 27, 1904 - December 18, 1996) was a Soviet physicist working in the field of atomic energy. ... Jack St. ... Gustav Robert Kirchhof (March 12, 1824 – October 17, 1887) was a German physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. ... Klaus von Klitzing, (born June 28, 1943 in German occupied Åšroda Wielkopolska) is a German physicist. ... Arthur Korn (May 20, 1870, Breslau - December 21/22, 1945, Jersey City) was a German physicist. ... Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴 昌俊 Koshiba Masatoshi, born on September 19, 1926 in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture -) is a Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. ... Matthew B. Koss (born August 12, 1961 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a widely published solid state physicist. ... Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel (January 4, 1888 in Berlin, Germany – 22 May 1956 in Tübingen, Germany) was a German physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld-Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel... Hendrick Antony Kramers (1894–1952) was a Dutch physicist. ... Lawrence M. Krauss Lawrence M. Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is Professor of Physics, Professor of Astronomy, and former Chair of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University. ... Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara, received a Ph. ... August Karl Krönig (1822 - 1879) was a German chemist and physicist who published an account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1856, probably after reading a paper by John James Waterston. ... Igor The Beard Kurchatov Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (И́горь Васи́льевич Курча́тов) (January 8, 1903 – February 7, 1960), Soviet/Russian physicist. ... Behram Kurşunoğlu (Turkey, 1922 _ Miami (USA), 2003) was a Turkish physicist and one of the founders of the University of Miamis Center for Theoretical Studies. ... Polykarp Kusch (January 26, 1911 - March 20, 1993) was a German-American physicist who, with Willis Eugene Lamb, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955 for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of and...

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• Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736–1813)
• Willis Lamb - USA (1913-)
• Lev Davidovich Landau — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1908–1968)
• Irving Langmuir — USA (1881-1957)
• Kenneth Lane — USA
• Paul Langevin — France (1872-1946)
• Irving Langmuir — USA (1851–1957)
• Max von Laue — Germany (1879–1960)
• Robert Betts Laughlin — USA (1950– )
• Ernest Lawrence — USA (1901–1958)
• Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev — Imperial Russia (1866–1912)
• Leon Max Lederman — USA (1922– )
• Benjamin Lee — Korea, USA (1935-1977)
• David Lee) — USA (1931- )
• Tsung-Dao Lee — China, USA (1926– )
• Anthony James Leggett — UK, USA (1938– )
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany (1646–1716)
• Robert B. Leighton — USA (1919-1997)
• Georges Lemaître — Belgium (1894–1966)
• Philipp Lenard — Hungary, Germany (1862-1947)
• John Leslie — UK (1766–1832)
• Walter Lewin — Netherlands, USA
• Martin Lewis Perl — USA (1927- )
• Robert von Lieben — Austria-Hungary (1878-1913)
• Evgeny Lifshitz — Soviet Union (1915-1985)
• David Lindley — USA (1956– )
• Gabriel Jonas Lippmann — France, Luxemburg (1845–1921)
• Karl L. Littrow — Austria (1811–1877)
• Oliver Lodge — UK (1851-1940)
• Maurice Loewy — Austria/France (1833–1907)
• Robert K. Logan — USA (1939– )
• Alfred Loomis — USA (1887–1975)
• Hendrik Lorentz — Netherlands (1853–1928)
• Johann Loschmidt — Germany (1821–1895)
• Archibald Low — UK (1888–1956)
• Per-Olov Löwdin — Sweden (1916–2000)
• Lucretius — Rome (98?–55 BC)
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia (1857–1918)

Joseph-Louis, comte de Lagrange (January 25, 1736 Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia - April 10, 1813 Paris) was an Italian-French mathematician and astronomer who made important contributions to all fields of analysis and number theory and to classical and celestial mechanics as arguably the greatest mathematician of the 18th century. ... Willis Eugene Lamb, Junior (b. ... Lev Davidovich Landau (Ле́в Дави́дович Ланда́у) (January 22, 1908 – April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics whose broad field of work included the theory of superconductivity and superfluidity, quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics and particle physics. ... Irving Langmuir (January 31, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York - August 16, 1957 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts) was an American chemist and physicist. ... Kenneth D. Lane is an American physicist and professor of physics at Boston University. ... Paul Langevin (January 23, 1872 â€“ December 19, 1946) was a prominent French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. ... Irving Langmuir (January 31, 1881 in Brooklyn, New York - August 16, 1957 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts) was an American chemist and physicist. ... Max von Laue (October 9, 1879 - April 24, 1960) was a German physicist, who studied under Max Planck. ... Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University who, together with Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. ... Ernest O. Lawrence Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate best known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron beginning in 1929, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation in the Manhattan Project. ... Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev (Russian: ) was a promiment Russian physicist. ... Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922 in New York) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. ... Benjamin W. Lee (이휘소) was a Korean American theoretical physicist. ... David M. Lee (born January 20, 1931) is a physicist whose work on low-temperature helium-3 won him the Nobel Prize in 1996. ... Tsung-Dao Lee (T. D. Lee, 李政道 Pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào) (born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese American physicist, well known for parity violation, Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars. ... Sir Anthony James Leggett, KBE, FRS, (born March 26, 1938 in Camberwell, London, England), is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ... Gottfried Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (July 1, 1646 in Leipzig - November 14, 1716 in Hannover) was a German philosopher, scientist, mathematician, diplomat, librarian, and lawyer of Sorb descent. ... Robert B. Leighton Robert B. Leighton (September 10, 1919 – March 9, 1997) was an American physicist who spent his professional career at the California Institute of Technology. ... Monsignor Georges Lemaître, priest and scientist. ... Philipp Eduard Anton von Lénárd, (June 7, 1862 in Preßburg, Austria-Hungary (today Bratislava, Slovakia)–May 20, 1947 in Messelhausen, Germany) was a Hungarian-German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of... Sir John Leslie (April 10, 1766 - November 3, 1832) was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat Born in Largo, Fife, Leslie gave the first modern account of capillary action in 1802 and froze water using an air-pump in 1810, the first artificial production... Walter H. G. Lewin is currently a professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Martin Lewis Perl (b. ... Robert von Lieben (September 5, 1878 in Vienna – February 20, 1913 in Vienna) was a notable Austrian physicist. ... Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz (Russian: ; February 21, 1915 – October 29, 1985) was a notable Soviet physicist. ... David Lindley is a theoretical physicist and author who was born in 1956. ... Gabriel Jonas Lippmann ( August 16, 1845 – July 13, 1921) was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference, known as the Lippmann plate. ... Karl Ludwig von Littrow (July 18, 1811 - November 16, 1877) was an Austrian astronomer. ... Vanity Fair cartoon. ... Maurice (Moritz) Loewy (April 15, 1833 – October 15, 1907) was a French astronomer. ... Robert K. Logan Robert K. Logan (born August 31, 1939), originally trained as a physicist, is a media ecologist. ... Alfred Lee Loomis (1887-1975) was a wealthy scientist who funded and championed the development of radar in the United States. ... Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, Arnhem – February 4, 1928, Haarlem) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and elucidation of the Zeeman effect. ... Johann Josef Loschmidt (March 15, 1821 - July 8, 1895) was an Austrian physicist and chemist. ... Professor Archibald Montgomery Low Professor Archibald Montgomery Low (born 1888 Purley, London, died September 1956) was an English engineer, research physicist and inventor, he was also the author of more than 40 books. ... Per-Olov Löwdin (born in 1916 in Uppsala, Sweden, died in 2000) was a Swedish physicist, professor at the University of Uppsala in 1960-1983, and in parallel at the University of Florida until 1993. ... Lucretius Titus Lucretius Carus (c. ... Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (Александр Михайлович Ляпунов) (June 6, 1857 - November 3, 1918, all new style) was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. ...

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• Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry — Netherlands (1904–1993)
• 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)
• Robert Marshak — USA (1916–1992)
• Harrie Massey — Australia (1908-1983)
• John Cromwell Mather — USA (1946- )
• James Clerk Maxwell — UK (1831–1879)
• Maria Goeppert Mayer — Germany, USA (1906-1972)
• Ronald E. McNair — USA (1950–1986)
• Simon van der Meer — Netherlands (1925- )
• Fulvio Melia — USA (1956- )
• Macedonio Melloni — Italy (1798–1854)
• Lise Meitner — Austria (1878-1968)
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall — USA (1841–1924)
• Albert Abraham Michelson — USA (1852–1931)
• Robert Andrews Millikan — USA (1868–1953)
• John J. Montgomery — USA (1858-1911)
• Jagadeesh Moodera — India, USA (1950— )
• Rudolf Mössbauer — Germany (1929– )
• Henry Moseley — UK (1887–1915)
• Nevill Mott — UK (1905-1996)
• Ben Roy Mottelson — Denmark, USA (1926- )
• Amédée Mouchez — Spain, France (1821–1892)
• José Enrique Moyal — Palestine, France, UK, USA, Australia (1910-1998)
• Karl Alexander Müller — Switzerland (1927– )
• Richard A. Muller — USA (1944– )
• Pieter van Musschenbroeck — Netherlands (1692-1762)

Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry (Amsterdam, January 22, 1904 - Amsterdam, May 9, 1993) was a Dutch chemist and crystallographer. ... Ernst Mach Ernst Mach (February 18, 1838 – February 19, 1916) was an Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher and is the namesake for the Mach number and the optical illusion known as Mach bands. ... Theodore Maiman. ... Ettore Majorana (Catania, Sicily, 1906 – Tyrrhenian Sea, 27 March 1938 (presumed)) was an Italian physicist who began promising work on neutrino masses. ... Juan Maldacena at Harvard Juan Martín Maldacena (born September 10, 1968) is a theoretical physicist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... Etienne-Louis Malus (July 23, 1775 - February 24, 1812) was a French officer, engineer, physicist, and mathematician. ... Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam (Леонид Исаакович Мандельштам, last name more often spelled as Mandelstam) (May 4, 1879 - November 27, 1944) was a Russian/Soviet physicist of Jewish background. ... For the inventor of radio,and macoroni see the competing claims in history of radio and the invention of radio. ... Henry Margenau (1901 - February 8, 1997) was a German-U.S. physicist, historian and philosopher of science, and Christian writer. ... William Markowitz (February 8, 1907 - October 10, 1998) was a Polish-American astronomer, principally known for his work on the standardization of time. ... This page may meet Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey (16 May 1908 - 27 November 1983) was a highly accomplished and influential mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. ... John Cromwell Mather (b. ... James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. His most significant achievement was aggregating a set of equations in electricity, magnetism and inductance — eponymously named Maxwells equations — including an important modification (extension) of the Ampères... Prof. ... Ronald McNair Ronald Erwin McNair (October 21, 1950 - January 28, 1986) was one of the astronauts killed in the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, mission STS-51-L. He was a native of Lake City, South Carolina. ... Simon van der Meer (born November 24, 1925) is a Dutch physicist. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Macedonio Melloni (April 11, 1798 – August 11, 1854) was an Italian physicist, notable for demonstrating that radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light. ... Lise Meitner ca. ... Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (October 4, 1841 – March 23, 1924) was an autodidact US physicist and meteorologist. ... His signature. ... Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist who won the 1923 Nobel Prize for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect. ... John Joseph Montgomery (c. ... Jagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera is an American physicist of Indian origin and is senior research scientist at MITs Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory. ... Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (born January 31, 1929) is a German physicist who studied gamma rays from nuclear transitions. ... Henry Moseley at work. ... Sir Nevill Francis Mott (September 30, 1905 – August 8, 1996) was a British physicist. ... Ben Roy Mottelson (born July 9, 1926) is an American-Danish physicist. ... Amédée Ernest Barthélemy Mouchez (August 24, 1821 – June 29, 1892) was a 19th century French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887. ... José Enrique, Jo or Joe, Moyal (October 1, 1910 - May 22, 1998) was an aeronautical and electrical engineer, statistician, and mathematical physicist who established the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics in 1949 by bringing together some previous works of Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, and H. Groenewold. ... Karl Alexander Müller (born April 20, 1927) is a Swiss physicist who, along with J. Georg Bednorz, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at higher temperatures than had previously been thought attainable. ... Richard Muller Richard A. Muller (January 6, 1944 -) of San Francisco, California, USA, is a physicist who works at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ... Pieter (Petrus) van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692 - 19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist who is credited with the invention of the Leyden jar, the first capacitor. ...

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• Yoichiro Nambu — Japan, USA (1921- )
• Jayant Narlikar — India (1938 - )
• Yuval Ne'eman — Israel (1925-2006)
• Louis Eugène Félix Néel — France (1904-2000)
• Ann Nelson — USA (1958- )
• John von Neumann — Austria-Hungary, USA (1903–1957)
• Simon Newcomb — USA (1835–1909)
• Sir Isaac Newton — England (1642–1727)
• Leopoldo Nobili — Italy (1784–1835)
• Emmy Noether — Germany (1882-1935)
• Lothar Nordheim — Germany (1899-1985)
• Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg — Germany (1787 - 1862)
• Seth Neddermeyer - USA (1907 - 1988)

Yoichiro Nambu (1921–) is a Japanese-born American physicist. ... Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born July 19,1938) (Marathi: प्रा. जयंत विष्णू नारळीकर) is an eminent Indian astrophysicist. ... Yuval Neeman (May 14, 1925 – April 26, 2006), was an Israeli physicist and politician. ... Louis Eugène Félix Néel (November 2, 1904 – November 17, 2000), a French physicist born in Lyons, was corecipient (with the Swedish astrophysicist Hannes Alfvén) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his pioneering studies of the magnetic properties of solids. ... This article is for Ann Nelson the physicist, not actress Ann Nelson who played Mrs. ... For other persons named John Neumann, see John Neumann (disambiguation). ... Simon Newcomb. ... Sir Isaac Newton in Knellers portrait of 1689. ... Leopoldo Nobili Leopoldo Nobili (1784 - 1835) was an Italian physicist who invented a number of instruments critical to investigating thermodynamics and electrochemistry. ... Amalie Emmy Noether [1] (March 23, 1882 – April 14, 1935) was a German-born mathematician, said by Einstein in eulogy to be [i]n the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, [...] the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. ... Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (November 7, 1899, München - October 5, 1985, La Jolla, California, USA) was a German-born Jewish theoretical physicist. ... Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg (1787 - 1862) was a German physicist who worked on the polarisation of light. ... Seth Neddermeyer was a physicist who worked in the Manhattan project. ...

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• Georg Ohm — Germany (1789–1854)
• Lars Onsager — Norway (1903–1976)
• Robert Oppenheimer — USA (1904–1967)
• Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh — Ireland (1933-2000)
• Nicole Oresme — France (1325–1382)
• Leonard Salomon Ornstein — Netherlands (1880-1941)
• Egon Orowan — Austria-Hungary/ USA (1901–1989)
• Yuri Orlov — Soviet Union, USA (1924– )
• Douglas Dean Osheroff — USA (1945– )
• Hans Christian Ørsted — Denmark (1777–1851)

Georg Simon Ohm (March 16, 1789 - July 6, 1854) was a German physicist. ... Lars Onsager (November 27, 1903 – October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-American physical chemist and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ... J. Robert Oppenheimer[1] (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. ... Lochlainn O’Raifeartaigh (born 11 March 1933, died 18 November 2000) was an Irish physicist of world-wide repute in the field of theoretical particle physics. ... Portrait of Nicole Oresme: Miniature of Nicole Oresmes Traité de l’espere, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France, fonds français 565, fol. ... Leonard Salomon Ornstein. ... Egon Orowan (in Hungarian Orován Egon) (August 2, 1901 — August 3, 1989) was an Hungarian/US physicist and metallurgist. ... Yuri Feodorovich Orlov (Russian: , born August 13, 1924) is a prominent nuclear physicist, a former Soviet dissident, and a human rights activist. ... Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is a American physicist. ... “Ørsted” redirects here. ...

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• Thanu Padmanabhan — India (1957- )
• Abraham Pais — Netherlands, USA (1918-2000)
• Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky — Germany/USA (1919- )
• Blaise Pascal — France (1623–1662)
• Jogesh Pati — USA (1937- )
• Wolfgang Paul — Germany (1913–1993)
• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli — Austria-Hungary (1900–1958)
• G. B. Pegram — USA (1876–1958)
• Rudolf Peierls — Germany/UK (1907-1995)
• Roger Penrose — UK (1931– )
• Arno Allan Penzias — USA (1933– )
• Saul Perlmutter — USA (1959- )
• Jean Baptiste Perrin — France (1870-1942)
• Bernhard Philberth — Germany (1927– )
• William Daniel Phillips — USA (1948– )
• Max Planck — Germany (1858–1947)
• Joseph Plateau — Belgium (1801–1883)
• Henri Poincaré — France (1854–1912)
• Balthasar van der Pol — Netherlands (1889-1959)
• Hugh David Politzer — USA (1949– )
• John Polkinghorne — UK (1930– )
• Heraclides Ponticus — Greece (387–312 BC)
• Cecil Frank Powell — UK (1903–1969)
• John Henry Poynting — UK (1852–1914)
• Ilya Prigogine — Belgium (1917-2003)
• Aleksandr Prokhorov — Soviet/Russian (1916-2002)
• William Prout — UK (1785–1850)
• Ivan Pulyuy — Ukraine (1845-1918)
• Michael Pupin — Austria-Hungary/USA (1858-1935)
• Edward Mills Purcell — USA (1912-1997)

Thanu Padmanabhan, (born. ... Abraham (Bram) Pais (May 19, 1918, Amsterdam, The Netherlands — July 28, 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. ... Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Pief Panofsky (April 24, 1919 – September 24, 2007), a German-American physicist. ... Blaise Pascal (pronounced ), (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. ... Professor Jogesh C. Pati is a physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park, the joint recipient of the 2000 Dirac Medal. ... Wolfgang Paul (August 10, 1913 - December 7, 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. ... This article is about Austrian-Swiss physicist Wolfgang Pauli. ... George Braxton Pegram (October 24, 1876 - August 12, 1958) was a US physicist who played a key role in the technical administration of the Manhattan Project. ... Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (June 5, 1907, Berlin – September 19, 1995, Oxford), was a German-born British physicist. ... Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. ... Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, 1933) is an American physicist and winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. ... Saul Perlmutter receiving the Shaw Prize for astronomy in 2006. ... Jean Baptiste Perrin (b. ... Bernhard Philberth, independent physicist, philosopher and theologian, Munich (1927). ... Photograph of William Daniel Phillips William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is an American physicist. ... “Planck” redirects here. ... Plateaus phenakistiscope Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau (October 14, 1801 - September 15, 1883) was a Belgian physicist. ... Jules TuPac Henri Poincaré (April 29, 1854 – July 17, 1912) (IPA: [][1]) was one of Frances greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. ... Balthasar van der Pol (27 January 1889 – 6 October 1959) was a Dutch physicist. ... Prof. ... John Polkinghorne, KBE, FRS, PhD, ScD, MA, (born October 16, 1930 in Weston-super-Mare, England) is a British particle physicist and theologian. ... Heraclides Ponticus (387 - 312 BCE), also known as Heraklides, was a Greek philosopher who lived and died at Heraclea, now Eregli, Turkey. ... Cecil Frank Powell (December 5, 1903 - August 9, 1969) was a British physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1950 for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a heavy subatomic particle. ... Categories: People stubs | 1852 births | 1914 deaths | Physicists ... Ilya Prigogine (January 25, 1917 – May 28, 2003) was a Belgian physicist and chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility. ... Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Прохоров) (July 11, 1916 – January 8, 2002) was an Australian-Russian physicist. ... William Prout (January 15, 1785 – April 9, 1850) was an English chemist and physician. ... Ivan Pulyui (Іван Пулюй, Ivan Pulyuy, Johann Puluj) (February 2, 1845 in Hrymayliv village - January 31, 1918 in Prague) was a Ukrainian physicist, inventor and patriot who has been championed as an early developer of the use of X-rays for medical imaging. ... Mihajlo Pupin. ... Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. ...

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• Helen Quinn — USA (1943- )

Helen Quinn was born in Australia in 1943. ...

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• Isidor Isaac Rabi — Austria, USA (1898-1988)
• James Rainwater — USA (1917-1986)
• Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — India (1888–1970)
• Edward Ramberg — USA (1907-1995)
• Carl Ramsauer — Germany (1879-1955)
• Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. — USA (1915- )
• Lisa Randall — USA (1962– )
• Lord Rayleigh — UK (1842–1919)
• René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur — France (1683–1757)
• Sidney Redner — Canada, USA (1951- )
• Hubert Reeves — Canada (1932– )
• Frederick Reines — USA (1918–1998)
• Louis Rendu — France (1789–1859)
• Osborne Reynolds — UK (1842–1912)
• Owen Willans Richardson — UK (1879-1959)
• Robert Coleman Richardson — USA (1937- )
• Burton Richter — USA (1931- )
• Walter Ritz — Switzerland (1878-1909)
• Étienne-Gaspard Robert — Belgium (1763-1837)
• Heinrich Rohrer — Switzerland (1933- )
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen — Germany (1845–1923)
• Marshall Rosenbluth — USA (1927–2003)
• Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby — Sweden, USA (1898–1957)
• Joseph Rotblat — Poland, UK (1908-2005)
• Carlo Rubbia — Italy (1934– )
• Serge Rudaz — Canada, USA (1954– )
• David Ruelle — Belgium, France (1935– )
• Ernst August Friedrich Ruska — Germany (1906–1988)
• Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand, UK (1871–1937)
• Janne Rydberg — Sweden (1854–1919)
• Martin Ryle — UK (1918–1984)

Isidor Isaac Rabi (July 29, 1898 - January 11, 1988) was an American physicist of Austro-Hungarian origin. ... Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 - May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who won a share of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei. ... Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, CBE (Tamil: சந்திரசேகர வெங்கடராமன்) (November 7, 1888 – November 21, 1970) was an Indian physicist, who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the Raman effect, which is named after him. ... Edward G. Ramberg (June 14, 1907 in Florence, Italy – January 9, 1995) was an American physicist who contributed to the early development of electron microscopy and color television. ... Carl Wilhelm Ramsauer (February 6, 1879 in Osterburg, Oldenburg, Germany – December 24, 1955 in Berlin, Germany) was an internationally notable professor of physics and research physicist, famous for the discovery of the Ramsauer-Townsend effect. ... Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. ... Lisa Randall at Harvard University Lisa Randall (born 18 June 1962) is a well-known American particle physicist, and the most cited high-energy physicist in the period 1999 to 2004. ... See also Rayleigh fading Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh number Rayleigh waves Rayleigh-Jeans law External links Nobel website bio of Rayleigh About John William Strutt MacTutor biography of Lord Rayleigh Categories: People stubs | 1842 births | 1919 deaths | Nobel Prize in Physics winners | Peers | British physicists | Discoverer of a chemical element ... René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. ... Sidney Redner (born 1951) is a Canadian-born physicist and professor of physics at Boston University. ... Hubert Reeves (born July 13, 1932 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science. ... Frederick Reines Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 - August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. ... Louis Rendu (December 9, 1789 - August 28, 1859) was French Roman Catholic bishop of Annecy and a scientist, author of Theorie des glaciers de la Savoie, an important book on the mechanisms of glacial motion. ... Osborne Reynolds Osborne Reynolds (23 August 1842–21 February 1912) was a British fluid dynamics engineer. ... Owen Willans Richardson (down) Solvay conference 1927 Sir Owen Willans Richardson (April 26, 1879 - February 15, 1959) was a British physicist, a professor at Princeton University from 1906 to 1913, and a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially... Robert Coleman Richardson (born June 26, 1937 in Washington D.C.) is an American physicist. ... Burton Richter (Born March 22, 1931) is a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. ... Walter Ritz Walter Ritz (b. ... Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1764-1837), better known by his stage name Étienne Robertson, was a Belgian stage magician and early exploiter of the phantasmagoria. ... Heinrich Rohrer (born June 6, 1933) is a Swiss physicist who, with Gerd Binnig, received half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). ... Wilhelm Röntgen Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (March 27, 1845 – February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, of the University of Würzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that are now known as x-rays or Röntgen Rays. ... Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth (5 February 1927–-28 September 2003) was an American nuclear physicist. ... Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby (December 28, 1898 – August 19, 1957) was a Swedish-US meteorologist who first explained the large_scale motions of the atmosphere in terms of fluid mechanics. ... Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS, (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish-born British-naturalised physicist. ... Carlo Rubbia (born March 31, 1934) is an Italian physicist. ... Serge Rudaz Serge Rudaz (born August 19, 1954, pronounced Ru-DAH) is a Canadian theoretical physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Minnesota. ... (Born August 20, 1935) Belgian-French physicist. ... Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (December 25, 1906–May 25, 1988) was a German physicist. ... Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937), widely referred to as Lord Rutherford, was a nuclear physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. ... Janne Rydberg Johannes Robert Rydberg, commonly known as Janne Rydberg, (November 8, 1854 - December 28, 1919), was a Swedish physicist mainly known for devising the Rydberg formula, in 1888, which is used to predict the wavelengths of photons (of light and other electromagnetic radiation) emitted by changes in the energy... Sir Martin Ryle (September 27, 1918 – October 14, 1984) was a British radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e. ...

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• Sam Leyh - USA . (1961 -)
• Georges-Louis le Sage — Switzerland (1724–1803)
• Georges Sagnac — France (1869-1926)
• Megh Nad Saha — Bengali India (1893-1956)
• Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — Soviet Union (1929–1989)
• Oscar Sala — Brazil (1922– )
• Abdus Salam — Pakistan, UK (1926–1996)
• Vikram Sarabhai — India (1919-1971)
• Jack Sarfatti — USA (1939– )
• Isidor Sauers — Austria (1948- )
• Felix Savart — France (1791–1841)
• Martin Schadt — Switzerland (1938- )
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow — USA (1921-1999)
• Otto Scherzer — Germany (1909-1982)
• Kees A. Schouhamer Immink — Netherlands (1946- )
• John Robert Schrieffer — USA (1931- )
• Erwin Schrödinger — Austria-Hungary (1887–1961)
• Melvin Schwartz — USA (1932-2006)
• Julian Schwinger — USA (1918-1994)
• Emilio G. Segrè — USA/Italy (1905–1989)
• Frederick Seitz — USA (1911- )
• Nikolay Semyonov — Russia (1896-1986)
• Robert Serber — USA (1909-1997)
• Roman U. Sexl — Austria (1939-1986)
• William Bradford Shockley — USA(1910-1989)
• Lev Shubnikov — Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine (1901-1937)
• Clifford Shull — USA (1915-2001)
• Manne Siegbahn — Sweden (1886-1978)
• Kai Siegbahn — Sweden (1918-2007)
• Ludwik Silberstein — Poland, Germany, Italy, USA, Canada (1872-1948)
• Willem de Sitter — Netherlands (1872-1934)
• John C. Slater — USA (1900-1976)
• Louis Slotin — USA (1910-1946)
• George Smoot — USA (1945- )
• Willebrord Snel van Royen (Snellius) — Netherlands (1580–1626)
• Arnold Sommerfeld — Germany (1868-1951)
• Johannes Stark — Germany (1874-1957)
• Jožef Stefan — Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835–1893)
• Jack Steinberger — Germany, USA (1921- )
• Karl August von Steinheil — Germany (1801–1870)
• Otto Stern — Germany (1888–1969)
• Simon Stevin — Belgium, Netherlands (1548–1620)
• George Gabriel Stokes — UK (1819–1903)
• Horst Ludwig Störmer — Germany (1949– )
• Oleg Sushkov — Australia-Russia (~1950- )
• Joseph Wilson Swan — UK (1828–1914)
• Jean Henri van Swinden — Netherlands (1746-1823)
• Leó Szilárd — Austria-Hungary, USA (1898–1964)
• Shen Kuo — China (1031 - 1095)

Georges-Louis Lesage (1724 - 1803) was a Swiss physicist. ... Georges Sagnac (1869-1926) was a French physicist who lent his name to the Sagnac effect, a phenomenon which is at the basis of interferometers and laser gyroscopes developed since the 1970s. ... Megh Nad Saha (Bangla:মেঘনাদ সাহা) (Devanagari: मेघनाद साहा) (October 6, 1893 – February 16, 1956) was a Bengali Indian astrophysicist. ... Andrei Sakharov, 1943 For the historian, see Andrey Nikolayevich Sakharov. ... Oscar Sala (b. ... For other uses, see Abdus Salam (disambiguation). ... Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai (August 12, 1919 – December 31, 1971) was an Indian physicist. ... Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist and the author of a number of popular works on quantum physics and consciousness. ... Isidor Sauers, a naturalized American citizen born in Austria in 1948, is a physicist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Martin Schadt, PhD, is a Swiss physicist // In 1970 the physicists Martin Schadt and Wolfgang Helfrich invented and patented the twisted nematic (TN)-effect in the Central Research Laboratories of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, in Basel, Switzerland. ... Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist. ... Otto Scherzer (9 March 1909 – 15 November 1982) was a German theoretical physicist from Passau who made contributions to electron microscopy. ... Kees A. Schouhamer Immink Kees (Kornelis) Antonie Schouhamer Immink was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on December 18, 1946. ... John Robert Schrieffer (born May 31, 1931) is an American physicist and winner, with John Bardeen and Leon Neil Cooper, of the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physics for developing the BCS theory (for their initials), the first successful microscopic theory of superconductivity. ... Schrödinger in 1933, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics Bust of Schrödinger, in the courtyard arcade of the main building, University of Vienna, Austria. ... Melvin Schwartz (born November 2, 1932) is an American physicist. ... Julian Seymour Schwinger (February 12, 1918 -- July 16, 1994) was an American theoretical physicist. ... Portrait of Emilio Segrè. Emilio Gino Segrè (February 1, 1905 – April 22, 1989) was an Italian American physicist who, with Owen Chamberlain, won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the antiproton. ... Frederick Seitz (July 4, 1911-) is an American scientist. ... Semyonov (right) and Kapitsa, portrait by Boris Kustodiev, 1921. ... Robert Serber (1909 - June 1, 1997) was a physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. ... Roman Ulrich Sexl (October 19, 1939 - July 10, 1986, Vienna) was one of the leading Austrian theoretical physicists and pfrofessor at the University of Vienna. ... William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was a British-born American physicist and inventor. ... Lev Shubnikov Lev Vasilyevich Shubnikov (Russian: ; Ukrainian: ) (September 9, 1901— November 10, 1937) was a Russian physicist and experimenter who worked in Russia, Holland and Ukraine. ... Clifford Glenwood Shull (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 23, 1915 – March 31, 2001) was a Nobel Prize-winning American physicist. ... Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (December 3, 1886 - September 26, 1978) was a Swedish physicist, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy. ... Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (born April 20, 1918) is a Swedish physicist. ... Ludwik Silberstein (1872 – 1948) was a Polish-American physicist that helped make special relativity and general relativity staples of university coursework. ... 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Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld (December 5, 1868 in Königsberg, East Prussia – April 26, 1951 in Munich, Germany) was a German physicist who introduced the fine-structure constant in 1919. ... Johannes Stark (April 15, 1874 – June 21, 1957) was a prominent 20th century physicist, and a Physics Nobel Prize laureate. ... Joseph Stefan (Slovene Jožef Stefan) (March 24, 1835 – January 7, 1893) was a Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet. ... Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a physicist. ... Carl August von Steinheil was a French physicist who is known for several different inventions. ... Otto Stern Otto Stern (February 17, 1888 – August 17, 1969) was an German physicist and Nobel laureate. ... Simon Stevin Simon Stevin (1548/49 – 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. ... 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• Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1895–1971)
• Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. — USA (1941– )
• Richard Edward Taylor — USA (1929– )
• Max Tegmark — Sweden, USA (1967– )
• Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary/USA (1908–2003)
• Nikola Tesla — Serbia(nation)/Croatia(home country)/USA (1856–1943)
• George Paget Thomson — UK (1892–1975)
• Joseph John Thomson — UK (1856–1940)
• William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) — UK (1824–1907)
• Kip Stephen Thorne — USA (1940– )
• Samuel Chao Chung Ting — USA (1936– )
• Samuel Tolansky - UK (1907-1973)
• Sin-Itiro Tomonaga - Japan (1906-1979)
• Evangelista Torricelli — Italy (1608–1647)
• Bruno Touschek — Italy (1921-1978)
• Charles Townes — USA (1915– )
• Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763–1822)
• Sam Treiman — USA (1926- )
• Daniel Chee Tsui — China, USA (1939- )
• John J. Turin — USA (1913-1973)

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (Russian И́горь Евге́ньевич Та́мм, also transcribed sometimes as Igor Evgenevich Tamm) (July 8, 1895 – April 12, 1971) was a Russian physicist. ... Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. ... Richard E. Taylor Professor Richard E. Taylor, CC , FRS , FRSC , Ph. ... Max Tegmark Max Tegmark born 1967 in Sweden to Karin Tegmark and Harold S Shapiro, is a cosmologist formerly at the University of Pennsylvania and now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor. ... Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Austria-Hungary-born American theoretical physicist, known colloquially as the father of the hydrogen bomb. ... Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)[1] was a world-renowned Serbian inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. ... Joe has no friends what-so-ever Sir George Paget Thomson FRS (May 3, 1892 – September 10, 1975) was a Nobel-Prize-winning, English physicist who discovered the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. ... Sir Joseph John Thomson Sir Joseph John Thomson (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940), often known as J. J. Thomson, was an English physicist, the discoverer of the electron. ... For other persons named William Thomson, see William Thomson (disambiguation). ... Kip S. Thorne Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in the field of gravitation physics and astrophysics. ... Samuel Chao Chung Ting (丁肇中 pinyin: Dīng Zhàozhōng; Wade-Giles: Ting¹ Chao⁴-chung¹) (born January 27, 1936) is a Michigan-born Chinese American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for the discovery of the subatomic J particle with Burton Richter. ... Samuel Tolansky (17 November 1907-4 March 1973) was Professor of Physics at Royal Holloway College (University of London), 1947-1973 and an expert on spectroscopy. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Evangelista Torricelli portrayed on the frontpage of Lezioni dEvangelista Torricelli. ... Photograph of Bruno Touschek. ... Charles Hard Townes (born July 28, 1915) is an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educator. ... Johann George Tralles (October 15, 1763 – November 19, 1822) was a German mathematician and physicist. ... Sam Treiman is an American theoretical physicist who produced important research in the fields of quantum physics, plasma physics and gravity physics. ... Daniel Chee Tsui 崔琦 (pinyin: Cuī Qí)(born February 28, 1939, Henan Province, China) is a Chinese American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics. ... John J. Turin (1913-1973) was an American mathematician and physicist, especially active in the field of astronomy. ...

U

• George Eugene Uhlenbeck — Netherlands, USA (1900-1988)

George Uhlenbeck, Hendrik Kramers, and Samuel Goudsmit around 1928 in Ann Arbor. ...

V

• Sergei Vavilov — Soviet Union (1891–1951)
• Martinus J. G. Veltman — Netherlands, USA (1931- )
• Gabriele Veneziano — Italy (1942- )
• Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746–1822)
• Émile Verdet — France (1824-1866)
• John Hasbrouck van Vleck — USA (1899–1980)
• Woldemar Voigt — Germany (1850-1919)
• Alessandro Volta — Italy (1745–1827)

Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (March 12, 1891–January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences from July 1945 until his death, and the brother of Nikolai Vavilov. ... Martinus J.G. Veltman (Tini for short) (born June 27, 1931, Waalwijk) is a 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics, work done at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ... Gabriele Veneziano (b. ... Giovanni Battista Venturi. ... Émile Verdet (1824 - 1866) was a French physicist. ... John Hasbrouck van Vleck (March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist. ... Woldemar Voigt (September 2, 1850 - December 13, 1919) was a German physicist. ... This article is about the physicist Alessandro Volta. ...

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• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands (1837–1923)
• Ludwig Waldmann — Germany (1913-1980)
• Ernest Walton — Ireland (1903 - 1995)
• Aaldert Wapstra — Netherlands (1923-2006)
• Gleb Wataghin — Ukraine/Italy/Brazil (1896–1986)
• John James Waterston — UK (1811–1883)
• James Watt — UK (1736–1819)
• Denis Weaire — Ireland (194?- )
• Wilhelm Weber — Germany (1804–1891)
• Alvin Weinberg — USA (1915-2006)
• Steven Weinberg — USA (1933– )
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, USA (1908–2002)
• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker — Germany (1912-2007)
• Heinrich Welker — Germany (1912-1981)
• Peter Westervelt — USA (1919-)
• Gregor Wentzel — Germany (1898-1978)
• John Archibald Wheeler — USA (1911-)
• Gian-Carlo Wick — Italy (1909-1992)
• Emil Wiechert — Prussia (1861-1928)
• Carl Wieman — USA (1951- )
• Wilhelm Wien — Germany (1864-1928)
• Arthur Wightman — USA (1922– )
• Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary/USA (1902–1993)
• Frank Wilczek — USA (1951– )
• Charles Thomson Rees Wilson — UK (1869–1959)
• Kenneth Geddes Wilson — USA (1936– )
• Robert R. Wilson — USA (1914–2000)
• Robert Woodrow Wilson — USA (1936– )
• 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)
• Chien-Shiung Wu — USA (1912-1997)

Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 – March 8, 1923) was a Dutch scientist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids which describe the relation between the pressure, volume, and temperature of fluids (gases and liquids). ... Ludwig Waldmann (June 8, 1913 in Fürth – February 9, 1980) was a German physicist who specialized in transport phenomena in gases. ... Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (October 6, 1903 – June 25, 1995) was an Irish physicist, the winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics along with Sir John Douglas Cockcroft. ... Aaldert Wapstra (24 April 1922 (or 1923) - 3 December 2006) was a Dutch physicist. ... Gleb Wataghin in the 1970s Gleb Vassielievich Wataghin (November 3, 1899, Birsula, Ukraine – October 10, 1986, Turin, Italy); was a Ukrainian-Italian experimental physicist and a great scientific leader who gave a great impulse to the teaching and research on physics in two continents: in the University of São... John James Waterston (1811 - June 18, 1883) was a Scottish physicist, a neglected pioneer of the kinetic theory of gases. ... For other persons named James Watt, see James Watt (disambiguation). ... Denis L. Weaire (FRS) is an Irish physicist, based in Trinity College Dublin. ... Wilhelm Eduard Weber (October 24, 1804 - June 23, 1891) was a noted physicist. ... Alvin Martin Weinberg (April 20, 1915 - October 18, 2006) was a nuclear physicist and administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). ... Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. ... Weisskopf redirects here. ... Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, 1993 Carl Friedrich Freiherr (Baron) von Weizsäcker (28 June 1912, Kiel – 28 April 2007, Söcking near Starnberg) was a German physicist and philosopher. ... Heinrich Johann Welker (September 9, 1912 in Ingolstadt, Germany – December 25, 1981 in Erlangen, Germany) was a German theoretical and applied physicist who invented the transistron. ... Peter Westervelt (born 1919) is an American physicist and Professor Emeritus of Physics at Brown University. ... Gregor Wentzel (February 17, 1898, in Düsseldorf, Germany – August 12, 1978, in Ascona, Switzerland) was a German physicist known for development of quantum mechanics. ... John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. ... Gian-Carlo Wick (1909-1992) was an Italian theoretical physicist. ... Emil Johann Wiechert (December 26, 1861–March 19, 1928) was a Prussian geophysicist. ... Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is a Nobel-prize winning American physicist at the University of British Columbia who (with Eric Allin Cornell), in 1995, produced the first true Bose-Einstein condensate. ... Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (January 13, 1864 – August 30, 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to compose Wiens displacement law, which relates the maximum emission of a blackbody to its temperature. ... Arthur Strong Wightman is an American mathematical physicist. ... Eugene Wigner Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Pál JenÅ‘) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and... Frank Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is a Nobel prize winning American physicist. ... Charles Thomson Rees Wilson CH (February 14, 1869 – November 15, 1959) was a Scottish physicist. ... Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American theoretical physicist. ... Robert Rathbun Wilson (March 4, 1914–January 16, 2000) was an American physicist who was the youngest group leader of the Manhattan Project, a sculptor, and an architect of Fermi National Laboratory (Fermilab), where he was also the director from 1967-1978. ... Robert Woodrow Wilson Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American physicist. ... Mark Brian Wise (born 9 November 1953) is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist. ... Edward Witten (born August 26, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist and professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. ... Emil Wolf (July 30, 1922- ) made advancements in Physical Optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct scattering and inverse scattering. ... Lincoln Wolfenstein is an American particle physicist who studies the weak interaction. ... Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 - August 11, 1955) was a physicist. ... Chien-Shiung Wu (Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Wú Jiànxíong; May 13, 1912–February 16, 1997) was a Chinese American physicist with an expertise in radioactivity. ...

Y

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

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (born on July 19, 1921) is an American medical physicist, and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her development of the radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique. ... Zhen-Ning Franklin Yang (Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ) (born 22 September[1], 1922) is a Chinese American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles. ... Thomas Young, English scientist Thomas Young (June 13, 1773-May 10, 1829) was an English polymath, contributing to the scientific understanding of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, and Egyptology. ... Hideki Yukawa Hideki Yukawa FRSE (湯川 秀樹, January 23, 1907 - September 8, 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese to win the Nobel prize. ...

Z

• Jan Zaanen — Netherlands (1957- )
• Anthony Zee — USA
• Pieter Zeeman — Netherlands (1865-1943)
• Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich — Russia (1914-1987)
• Frits Zernike — Netherlands (1888-1960)
• Barton Zwiebach — USA (1954- )

Anthony Zee is a physicist, currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California. ... Pieter Zeeman (May 25, 1865 – October 9, 1943) (pronounced zāmän) was a physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect. ... Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich (Russian:Яков Борисович Зельдович) (March 8, 1914 – December 2, 1987) was a prolific Soviet physicist. ... Frederik Zernike (Amsterdam, July 16, 1888 – March 10, 1966) was a Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase contrast microscope, an instrument that permits the study of internal cell structure without the need to stain and thus kill the... Barton Zwiebach is a string theorist, a professor at the MIT. He is one of the worlds leading experts in string field theory. ...

See also

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

The following is a partial list of theoretical physicists: // Pythagoras^* (circa 569–475 BCE) Democritus° (circa 460 BCE) Archimedesº* (287–212 BCE) Nicolaus Copernicusº (1473-1543) Galileo Galileiº* (1564–1642) Johannes Keplerº (1571-1630) René Descartes‡^ (1596–1650) Blaise Pascal^ (1623 - 1662) Isaac Newton^*º (1642-1727) Gottfried Leibniz^ (1646–1716... It is possible to build an academic genealogy of researchers and scholars in theoretical physics by following the pedigree of their thesis advisors. ... Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov Hannes Alfvén - Received the only Nobel Prize specifically for contributions to plasma physics. ... Mathematicians by letter: 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 Requested mathematicians articles Lists of mathematicians (by country, etc. ... Women in science have made significant contributions to scientific thought and practice since antiquity. ...

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