List of physicists
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Below is a list of famous physicists. Many of these from the 20th and 21st centuries are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.
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A
- Ernst Karl Abbe — Germany (1840–1905)
- Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov — Russia (1928- )
- Zhores Ivanovich Alferov — Russia (1930- )
- Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén — Sweden (1908–1995)
- Samuel King Allison - USA - (1900-1965)
- Luis Walter Alvarez — USA (1911–1988)
- André-Marie Ampère — France (1775–1836)
- Anders Jonas Ångström — Sweden (1814–1874)
- Carl David Anderson — USA (1905-1991)
- Philip Warren Anderson – USA (1923– )
- Edward Victor Appleton — UK (1892-1965)
- Archimedes — Syracuse (circa 287–212 BC)
- Aristarchus of Samos — Samos (310 – ca. 230 BC)
- Aristotle — Athens, Greece (384–322 BC)
- Mary Christine M. Tangpuz - PHL. (1990-2006)
B
- Johann Jakob Balmer — Switzerland (1825–1898)
- John Bardeen — USA (1908–1991)
- Charles Glover Barkla — UK (1877-1944)
- Laura Maria Caterina Bassi - Italy (1711-1778)
- Nikolay Basov — Russia (1922-2001)
- Zoltán Lajos Bay — Hungary (1900–1992)
- John Stewart Bell — UK (1928–1990)
- Henri Becquerel — France (1852–1908)
- Johannes Georg Bednorz — Germany (1950- )
- Daniel Bernoulli — Switzerland (1700–1782)
- Hans Bethe — USA (1906–2005)
- Gerd Binnig — Germany (1947- )
- Jean-Baptiste Biot — France (1774–1862)
- Raymond T. Birge — USA (1887–1980)
- Vilhelm Bjerknes — Norway (1862–1951)
- Patrick Blackett — UK (1897-1947)
- Felix Bloch — Switzerland (1905–1983)
- Nicolaas Bloembergen — Netherlands (1920- )
- David Bohm - USA - (1917-1992)
- Niels Bohr — Denmark (1885–1962)
- Aage Niels Bohr — Denmark (1922– )
- Ludwig Boltzmann — Austria (1844–1906)
- Max Born — Germany, UK (1882–1970)
- Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik (1711–1787)
- Satyendra Nath Bose — India (1894–1974)
- Walther Bothe — Germany (1891-1957)
- Robert Boyle — Ireland, England (1627–1691)
- William Lawrence Bragg — Australia (1890-1971)
- William Henry Bragg — UK (1862-1942)
- Walter Houser Brattain — USA (1902-1987)
- Karl Ferdinand Braun — Germany (1850-1918)
- David Brewster — UK (1781–1868)
- Percy Williams Bridgman — USA (1882-1961)
- Bertram Brockhouse — Canada (1918-2003)
- Louis-Victor de Broglie — France (1892–1987)
- Thomas Townsend Brown — USA (1905–1985)
C
- Nicolás Cabrera — Spain (1913–1989)
- Fritjof Capra — Austria, USA (1939– )
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot — France (1796–1832)
- Henry Cavendish — UK (1731–1810)
- James Chadwick — UK (1891-1974)
- Owen Chamberlain — USA (1920– )
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar — India, USA (1910–1995)
- Georges Charpak — France (1924- )
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904–1990)
- Ernst Chladni — Germany (1756–1827)
- Steven Chu — USA (1948– )
- Giovanni Ciccotti — Italy (1943– )
- Rudolf Clausius — Germany (1822–1888)
- John Cockcroft — UK (18979-1967)
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji — France (1933- )
- Arthur Compton — USA (1892-1962)
- Leon Cooper — USA (1930- )
- Eric Allin Cornell — USA (1961- )
- Marie Alfred Cornu — France (1841–1902)
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — France (1736–1806)
- James Cronin — USA (1931- )
- Pierre Curie — France (1859–1906)
- Marie Curie — Poland, France (1867–1934)
D
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France (1717–1783)
- Gustaf Dalén — Sweden (1869-1937)
- John Dalton — UK (1766–1844)
- Charles Galton Darwin — UK (1887–1962)
- Paul Davies — Australia (1946– )
- Raymond Davis Jr. — USA (1914-2006)
- Clinton Davisson — USA (1881-1958)
- Hans Georg Dehmelt — Germany, USA (1922- )
- Democritus — Abdera (circa 460–360 BC)
- James Dewar — UK (1842–1923)
- Paul Dirac — UK (1902–1984)
- Revaz Dogonadze — Former Soviet Union, Georgia (1931–1985)
- Christian Doppler — Austria (1803–1853)
- Freeman Dyson — UK, USA (1923– )
E
- William Eccles — UK (1875–1966)
- Paul Ehrenfest — Austria-Hungary, Netherlands (1880–1933)
- Felix Ehrenhaft — Austria-Hungary, USA (1879–1952)
- Albert Einstein — Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA (1879–1955)
- Loránd Eötvös — Austria-Hungary (1848–1919)
- Leo Esaki — Japan (1925- )
- Ernest Esclangon — France (1876–1954)
- Louis Essen — UK (1908–1997)
- Leonhard Euler — Switzerland (1707–1783)
- James Alfred Ewing — UK (1855–1935)
F
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — Poland, UK, Netherlands (1686–1736)
- Michael Faraday — UK (1791–1867)
- Enrico Fermi — Italy (1901–1954)
- Herman Feshbach - USA (1917 - 2000)
- Richard Feynman — USA (1918–1988)
- David Finkelstein - USA (1929 - )
- Val Logsdon Fitch — USA (1923- )
- George Francis FitzGerald — UK (1851–1901)
- Hippolyte Fizeau — France (1819–1896)
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898–1974)
- James David Forbes — UK (1809–1868)
- Léon Foucault — France (1819–1868)
- Joseph Fourier — France 1768–1830)
- William Alfred Fowler — USA (1911-1995)
- James Franck — Germany, USA (1882-1964)
- Ilya Frank — Russia (1908-1990)
- Benjamin Franklin — USA (1706–1790)
- Joseph von Fraunhofer — Germany (1787–1826)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France (1788–1827)
- Daniel Friedan - USA
- B. Roy Frieden — USA (1936– )
- Jerome Isaac Friedman — USA (1930- )
- Harald Fuchs - Germany (1951-)
G
- Dennis Gabor — Hungary (1900—1979)
- Galileo Galilei — Italy (1564—1642)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany (1777–1855)
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — France (1778–1850)
- Murray Gell-Mann — USA (1929– )
- Josiah Willard Gibbs — USA (1839–1903)
- William Gilbert — England (1544–1603)
- Brian Greene — USA (1963— )
- John Gribbin — UK (1946 — )
- David Gross — USA (1941— )
- Alessio Guarino — Italy (1970–)
- Feza Gürsey — Turkey (1921–1992)
- Martin Gutzwiller — Switzerland (1925– )
H
- Rudolf Haag — Germany (1922– )
- Edwin Hall — USA (1855–1938)
- William Rowan Hamilton — UK (1805–1865)
- Peter Andreas Hansen — Denmark (1795–1874)
- W.W. Hansen — USA (1909–1949)
- Douglas Hartree — UK (1897–1958)
- Stephen Hawking — UK (1942– )
- Oliver Heaviside — UK (1850–1925)
- Werner Karl Heisenberg — Germany (1901–1976)
- Hermann von Helmholtz — Germany (1821–1894)
- Joseph Henry — USA (1797–1878)
- John Herapath — UK (1790–1868)
- Carl Hermann — Germany (1898–1961)
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz — Germany (1857–1894)
- Peter Higgs - UK (1929-)
- George William Hill — USA (1838–1914)
- Gustave-Adolphe Hirn — France (1815-1890)
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgson - England (1910-)
- Gerardus 't Hooft — The Netherlands (1946– )
- Robert Hooke — England (1635–1703)
- John H. Hubbell — USA (born 1925)
- Christian Huygens — The Netherlands (1629–1695)
J
- Ali Javan — Iran (1928– )
- Edwin Jaynes — USA (1922–1998)
- Irene Joliot-Curie - France (1897-1956)
- Brian David Josephson — UK (1940– )
- James Prescott Joule — UK (1818–1889)
K
- William R. Kanne - USA
- Pyotr Kapitza — UK, Soviet Union (1894-1984)
- Alfred Kastler — France (1902-1984)
- Johannes Kepler — Germany (1571–1630)
- John Kerr — UK (1824–1907)
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff — Germany (1824–1887)
- August Krönig — Germany (1822–1879)
- Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov — Soviet Union (1903–1960)
- Behram Kurşunoğlu — Turkey (1922-2003)
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)
- Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev — Imperial Russia (1866–1912)
- Tsung-Dao Lee — China (1926– )
- Georges-Louis Le Sage — Switzerland (1724–1803)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany (1646–1716)
- John Leslie — UK (1766–1832)
- Robert von Lieben Austria-Hungary — (1878-1913)
- 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)
- Benjamin Lee — Korean American (1935-1977)
- Washington Roberto Lerias — Brazil (1972-)
M
- Ernst Mach — Austria-Hungary (1838–1916)
- Theodore Maiman — USA (1927– )
- 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)
- James Clerk Maxwell — UK (1831–1879)
- Maria Goeppert Mayer - Germany, USA (1906-1972)
- Ronald E. McNair — USA (1950–1986)
- Macedonio Melloni — Italy (1798–1854)
- Thomas Corwin Mendenhall — USA (1841–1924)
- Albert Abraham Michelson — USA (1852–1931)
- Robert Andrews Millikan — USA (1868–1953)
- Jagadeesh Moodera — India, USA (1950— )
- Henry Moseley — UK (1887–1915)
- Amédée Mouchez — Spain, France (1821–1892)
- José Enrique Moyal — Palestine, France, UK, USA, Australia (1910-1998)
- Richard A. Muller — USA (1944– )
N
- 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)
O
- Georg Ohm — Germany (1789–1854)
- Lars Onsager — Norway (1903–1976)
- Robert Oppenheimer — USA (1904–1967)
- Nicolas Oresme — France (1325–1382)
- Egon Orowan — Austria-Hungary/ USA (1901–1989)
- Yuri Orlov — Soviet Union, USA (1924– )
- Hans Christian Ørsted — Denmark (1777–1851)
P
- Blaise Pascal — France (1623–1662)
- Wolfgang Ernst Pauli — Austria-Hungary (1900–1958)
- G. B. Pegram — USA (1876–1958)
- Max Planck — Germany (1858–1947)
- Roger Penrose — UK (1931– )
- Saul Perlmutter — USA
- Bernhard Philberth — Germany (1927– )
- Joseph Plateau — Belgium (1801–1883)
- John Polkinghorne — UK (1930– )
- Henri Poincaré — France (1854–1912)
- Heraclides Ponticus — Greece (387–312 BC)
- John Henry Poynting — UK (1852–1914)
- William Prout — UK (1785–1850)
- Ivan Pulyuy - Ukraine (1845-1918)
- Michael Pupin - Austria-Hungary/USA (1858-1935)
R
- Lord Rayleigh — UK (1842–1919)
- Hubert Reeves — Canada (1932– )
- Louis Rendu — France (1789-1859)
- Osborne Reynolds — UK (1842–1912)
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen — Germany (1845–1923)
- Marshall Rosenbluth — USA (1927-2003)
- Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby — Sweden, USA (1898–1957)
- Carlo Rubbia -- Italy (1934- )
- David Ruelle — Belgium, France (1935– )
- Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand, UK (1871–1937)
- Janne Rydberg — Sweden (1854–1919)
S
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — Soviet Union (1929–1989)
- Oscar Sala — Brazil (1922– )
- Abdus Salam — Pakistan-UK (1926–1996)
- Jack Sarfatti — USA (1939– )
- Isidor Sauers - Austria (1948- )
- Felix Savart — France (1791–1841)
- Erwin Schrödinger — Austria-Hungary (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 — UK (1819–1903)
- Oleg Sushkov - Australia-Russia (~1950- )
- Joseph Wilson Swan — UK (1828–1914)
- Leó Szilárd — Austria-Hungary, USA (1898–1964)
- Shen Kuo -China （1031 - 1095)
T
- Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm — Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895–1971)
- Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary/USA (1908–2003)
- Max Tegmark — Sweden, USA (1967– )
- Nikola Tesla — Serbia(nation)/Croatia(home country)/USA (1856–1943)
- Joseph John Thomson — UK (1856–1940)
- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) — UK (1824–1907)
- Kip Stephen Thorne — USA (1940– )
- Evangelista Torricelli — Italy (1608–1647)
- Charles Townes — USA (1915– )
- Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763–1822)
- Sam Treiman - USA (1926- )
- Bruno Touschek - Italy ([[1921-1978)
V
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands (1837–1923)
- Sergei Vavilov — Soviet Union (1891–1951)
- Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746–1822)
- Émile Verdet — France (1824-1866)
- Alessandro Volta — Italy (1745–1827)
W
- Gleb Wataghin — Ukraine/Italy/Brazil (1896–1986)
- John James Waterston — UK (1811–1883)
- James Watt — UK (1736–1819)
- Denis Weaire — Republic of Ireland (194?- )
- Wilhelm Weber — Germany (1804–1891)
- Steven Weinberg — USA (1933– )
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, USA (1908–2002)
- John Archibald Wheeler - USA (1911-)
- Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary/USA (1902–1993)
- Frank Wilczek — USA (1951– )
- Robert R. Wilson — USA (1914–2000)
- Edward Witten — USA (1951– )
- Lincoln Wolfenstein - USA (1923-)
- Robert W. Wood — USA (1868–1955)
- Arthur Wightman — USA (?– )
Y
- Rosalyn Yalow - USA - (1921- )
- Chen Ning Yang — China (1922– )
- Thomas Young — UK (1773–1829)
- Hideki Yukawa — Japan (1907–1981)
See also
- List of theoretical physicists
- Genealogy of theoretical physicists
- List of plasma physicists
- List of mathematicians
- List of women scientists
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]
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