List of physicists

Many famous physicists of the 20th and 21st century are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.

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A

• Ernst Abbe — Germany (1840–1905)
• Hannes Alfvén — Sweden (1908–1995)
• Luis Alvarez — USA (1911–1988)
• Andre Marie Ampere — France (1775–1836)
• Anders Jonas Ångström — Sweden (1814–1874)
• Archimedes — Syracuse (circa 287–212 BC)
• Aristarchus of Samos — Samos (310–circa 230 BC)
• Aristotle — Athens, Greece (384–322 BC)
• Amedeo Avogadro — Italy (1776–1856)

B

• Johann Jakob Balmer — Switzerland (1825–1898)
• John Bardeen — USA (1908–1991)
• Zoltán Lajos Bay — Hungary (1900–1992)
• John Stewart Bell — Britain (1928–1990)
• Henri Becquerel — France (1852–1908)
• Daniel Bernoulli — Switzerland (1700–1782)
• Hans Bethe — USA (1906–2005)
• Jean-Baptist Biot — France (1774–1862)
• Raymond T. Birge — USA (1887–1980)
• Vilhelm Bjerknes — Norway (1862–1951)
• Felix Bloch — Switzerland (1905–1983)
• René-Prosper Blondlot — France (1849–1930)
• Niels Bohr — Denmark (1885–1962)
• Aage Niels Bohr — Denmark (1922– )
• Ludwig Boltzmann — Austria (1844–1906)
• Max Born — Germany, Britain (1882–1970)
• Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik (1711–1787)
• Satyendra Nath Bose — India (1894–1974)
• Robert Boyle — Ireland, England (1627–1691)
• David Brewster — Scotland (1781–1868)
• Louis-Victor de Broglie — France (1892–1987)
• Thomas Townsend Brown — USA (1905–1985)

C

• Nicolás Cabrera — Spain (1913–1989)
• Fritjof Capra — Austria, USA (1939– )
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot — France (1796–1832)
• Henry Cavendish — Britain (1731–1810)
• Owen Chamberlain — USA (1920– )
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar India, USA (1910–1995)
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904–1990)
• Ernst Chladni — Germany (1756–1827)
• Hans Christian Ørsted — Denmark (1777–1851)
• Steven Chu — USA (1948– )
• Giovanni Ciccotti — Italy (1943– )
• Rudolf Clausius — Germany (1822–1888)
• Alfred Cornu — France (1841–1902)
• Charles Augustin de Coulomb — France (1736–1806)
• Pierre Curie — France (1859–1906)
• Marie Curie — Poland, France (1867–1934)

D

• Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France (1717–1783)
• John Dalton — England (1766–1844)
• Charles Galton Darwin — England (1887–1962)
• Paul Davies — Australia (1946– )
• Democritus — Abdera (circa 460–360 BC)
• René Descartes — France (1596–1650)
• Henri-Alexandre Deslandres — France (1853–1948)
• James Dewar — Britain (1842–1923)
• Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac — Britain (1902–1984)
• Revaz Dogonadze — Former Soviet Union, Georgia (1931–1985)
• Christian Doppler — Austria (1803–1853)
• Freeman Dyson — Britain, USA (1923– )

E

• William Eccles — Britain (1875–1966)
• Paul Ehrenfest — Austria (1880–1933)
• Felix Ehrenhaft — Austria, USA (1879–1952)
• Albert Einstein — Germany, Switzerland, USA (1879–1955)
• V. Walfrid Ekman — Sweden (1874–1954)
• Roland Eötvös — Hungary (1848–1919)
• Ernest Esclangon — France (1876–1954)
• Louis Essen — England (1908–1997)
• Leonard Euler — Switzerland (1707–1783)
• James Alfred Ewing — Scotland (1855–1935)

F

• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — Poland, England, Netherlands (1686–1736)
• Michael Faraday — Britain (1791–1867)
• Enrico Fermi — Italy (1901–1954)
• Herman Feshbach - USA (1917 - 2000)
• Richard Feynman — USA (1918–1988)
• George Francis FitzGerald — Ireland (1851–1901)
• Hippolyte Fizeau — France (1819–1896)
• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898–1974)
• James David Forbes — Scotland (1809–1868)
• Léon Foucault — France (1819–1868)
• Joseph Fourier — France 1768–1830)
• Benjamin Franklin — USA (1706–1790)
• Joseph von Fraunhofer — Germany (1787–1826)
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France (1788–1827)
• B. Roy Frieden — USA (1936– )
• Harald Fuchs - Germany (1951-)

G

• Galileo Galilei — Italy (1564–1642)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany (1777–1855)
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — France (1778–1850)
• Murray Gell-Mann — USA (1929– )
• Josiah Willard Gibbs — USA (1839–1903)
• William Gilbert — England (1544–1603)
• Feza Gürsey — Turkey (1921–1992)
• Martin Gutzwiller — Switzerland (1925– )

H

• Rudolf Haag — Germany (1922– )
• Edwin Hall — USA (1855–1938)
• William Rowan Hamilton — Ireland (1805–1865)
• Peter Andreas Hansen — Denmark (1795–1874)
• W.W. Hansen — USA (1909–1949)
• Douglas Hartree — England (1897–1958)
• Stephen Hawking — England (1942– )
• Oliver Heaviside — Britain (1850–1925)
• Werner Karl Heisenberg — Germany (1901–1976)
• Hermann von Helmholtz — Germany (1821–1894)
• Joseph Henry — USA (1797–1878)
• John Herapath — England (1790–1868)
• Carl Hermann — Germany (1898–1961)
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz — Germany (1857–1894)
• George William Hill — USA (1838–1914)
• Gerardus 't Hooft — The Netherlands (1946– )
• Robert Hooke — England (1635–1703)
• Christian Huygens — The Netherlands (1629–1695)

J

• Ali Javan — Iran (1928– )
• Edwin Jaynes — USA (1922–1998)
• Brian David Josephson — Britain (1940– )
• James Prescott Joule — Britain (1818–1889)

K

• Alfred Kastler — France (1902-1984)
• Johannes Kepler — Germany (1571–1630)
• John Kerr — Britain (1824–1907)
• Ken Kiers - Canada, USA (1968- )
• Bernard Bruno Kinsey — Britain, USA (1910–1995)
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff — Germany (1824–1887)
• August Krönig — Germany (1822–1879)

L

• Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736–1813)
• Lev Davidovich Landau — Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908–1968)
• Irving Langmuir — USA (1851–1957)
• Max von Laue — Germany (1879–1960)
• Ernest Lawrence — USA (1901–1958)
• Tsung-Dao Lee — PRC (1926– )
• Georges-Louis LeSage — Switzerland (1724–1803)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany (1646–1716)
• John Leslie — Scotland (1766–1832)
• David Lindley — USA (?– )
• Karl L. Littrow — Austria (1811–1877)
• Maurice Loewy — Austria/France (1833–1907)
• Johann Loschmidt — Germany (1821–1895)
• Lucretius — Rome (98?–55 BC)
• Markus Luty — USA
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia (1857–1918)

M

• Ernst Mach — Austria (1838–1916)
• Theodore Maiman — USA (1927– )
• Etienne-Louis Malus — France (1775–1812)
• Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam — Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1879–1944)
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall — USA (1841–1924)
• Guglielmo Marconi — Italy (1874–1937)
• William Markowitz — USA (1907–1998)
• James Clerk Maxwell — Britain (1831–1879)
• Ronald E. McNair — USA (1950–1986)
• Macedonio Melloni — Italy (1798–1854)
• Albert Abraham Michelson — USA (1852–1931)
• Henry Moseley — Britain (1887–1915)
• Robert Andrews Millikan — USA (1868–1953)
• Amédée Mouchez — Spain, France (1821–1892)
• Richard A. Muller — USA (1944– )

N

• John von Neumann — Austria-Hungary, USA (1903–1957)
• Simon Newcomb — USA (1835–1909)
• Isaac Newton — England (1642–1727)
• Leopoldo Nobili — Italy (1784–1835)

O

• Georg Ohm — Germany (1789–1854)
• Lars Onsager — Norway (1903–1976)
• Robert Oppenheimer — USA (1904–1967)
• Nicolas Oresme — France (1325–1382)
• Egon Orowan — Hungary/ USA (1901–1989)
• Yuri Orlov — Soviet Union, USA (1924– )

P

• Blaise Pascal — France (1623–1662)
• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli — Austria (1900–1958)
• G. B. Pegram — USA (1876–1958)
• Max Planck — Germany (1858–1947)
• Roger Penrose — UK (1931– )
• Joseph Plateau — Belgium (1801–1883)
• John Polkinghorne — Britain (1930– )
• Henri Poincaré — France (1854–1912)
• Heraclides Ponticus — Greece (387–312 BC)
• John Henry Poynting — Britain (1852–1914)
• William Prout — England (1785–1850)

R

• Lord Rayleigh — Britain (1842–1919)
• Hubert Reeves — Canada (1932– )
• Osborne Reynolds — Britain (1842–1912)
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen — Germany (1845–1923)
• Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby — Sweden, USA (1898–1957)
• David Ruelle — Belgium, France (1935– )
• Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand, England (1871–1937)
• Janne Rydberg — Sweden (1854–1919)

S

• Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — Soviet Union (1929–1989)
• Oscar Sala — Brazil (1922– )
• Jack Sarfatti — USA (1939– )
• Felix Savart — France (1791–1841)
• Erwin Schrödinger — Austria (1887–1961)
• Emilio G. Segrè — USA/Italy (1905–1989)
• Willebrord Snell — Netherlands (1580–1626)
• Javier Solana — Spain (1942– )
• Jožef Stefan — Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835–1893)
• Karl August von Steinheil — Germany (1801–1870)
• George Gabriel Stokes — Britain (1819–1903)
• Joseph Wilson Swan — England (1828–1914)

T

• Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm — Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895–1971)
• Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary/USA (1908–2003)
• Max Tegmark — Sweden, USA (1967– )
• Nikola Tesla — Austria-Hungary/USA (1856–1943)
• Joseph John Thomson — England (1856–1940)
• William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) — Ireland (1824–1907)
• Kip Stephen Thorne — USA (1940– )
• Evangelista Torricelli — Italy (1608–1647)
• Charles Townes — USA (1915– )
• Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763–1822)

U

• Zurab Urushadze — Georgia (1930– )

V

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands (1837–1923)
• Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746–1822)
• Alessandro Volta — Italy (1745–1827)

W

• Gleb Wataghin — Ukraine/Italy/Brazil (1896–1986)
• John James Waterston — Scotland (1811–1883)
• James Watt — Scotland (1736–1819)
• Denis Weaire — Ireland (194?- )
• Wilhelm Weber — Germany (1804–1891)
• Steven Weinberg — USA (1933– )
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, USA (1908–2002)
• Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary/USA (1902–1993)
• Frank Wilczek — USA (1951– )
• Robert R. Wilson — USA (1914–2000)
• Edward Witten — USA (1951– )
• Robert W. Wood — USA (1868–1955)
• Arthur Wightman — USA (?– )

Y

• Chen Ning Yang — PRC (1922– )
• Thomas Young — England (1773–1829)
• Hideki Yukawa — Japan (1907–1981)

See also

• List of theoretical physicists
• List of plasma physicists
• List of mathematicians
• Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th century American) are collected in the Emilio Segre Visual Archives