Following is: a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements.
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- Aryabhatta โ India (476โ550 CE)
- Jules Aarons โ United States (1921โ2016)
- Ernst Karl Abbe โ Germany (1840โ1905)
- Derek Abbott โ Australia (born 1960)
- Hasan Abdullayev โ Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, "Soviet Union," Azerbaijan (1918โ1993)
- Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov โ Soviet Union, Russia (1928โ2017) Nobel laureate
- Robert Adler โ United States (1913โ2007)
- Stephen L. Adler โ United States (born 1939)
- Franz Aepinus โ Rostock (1724โ1802)
- Mina Aganagic โ Albania, United States
- David Z Albert โ United States (born 1954)
- Felicie Albert โ France, United States
- Miguel Alcubierre โ Mexico (born 1964)
- Zhores Ivanovich Alferov โ Russia (1930โ2019) Nobel laureate
- Hannes Olof Gรถsta Alfvรฉn โ Sweden (1908โ1995) Nobel laureate
- Alhazen โ Basra, Iraq (965โ1040)
- Artem Alikhanian โ Armenia (1908โ1978)
- Abram Alikhanov โ Russia (1904โ1970)
- John E. Allen โ United Kingdom (born 1928)
- William Allis โ United States (1901โ1999)
- Samuel King Allison โ United States (1900โ1965)
- Yakov Lvovich Alpert โ Russia, United States (1911โ2010)
- Ralph Asher Alpher โ United States (1921โ2007)
- Semen Altshuler โ Vitebsk (1911โ1983)
- Luis Walter Alvarez โ United States (1911โ1988) Nobel laureate
- Viktor Ambartsumian โ Soviet Union, Armenia (1908โ1996)
- Andrรฉ-Marie Ampรจre โ France (1775โ1836)
- Anja Cetti Andersen โ Denmark (born 1965)
- Hans Henrik Andersen โ Denmark (1937โ2012)
- Philip Warren Anderson โ United States (1923โ2020) Nobel laureate
- Carl David Anderson โ United States (1905โ1991) Nobel laureate
- Herbert L. Anderson โ United States (1914โ1988)
- Elephter Andronikashvili โ Georgia (1910โ1989)
- Anders Jonas ร ngstrรถm โ Sweden (1814โ1874)
- Alexander Animalu, Nigeria (born 1938)
- Edward Victor Appleton โ United Kingdom (1892โ1965) Nobel laureate
- Franรงois Arago โ France (1786โ1853)
- Archimedes โ Syracuse, Greece (ca. 287โ212 BC)
- Manfred von Ardenne โ Germany (1907โ1997)
- Aristarchus of Samos โ Samos, Greece (310โca. 230 BC)
- Aristotle โ Athens, Greece (384โ322 BC)
- Nima Arkani-Hamed โ United States (born 1972)
- Lev Artsimovich โ Moscow (1909โ1973)
- Aryabhata โ Pataliputra, India (476โ550)
- Neil Ashby โ United States (born 1934)
- Maha Ashour-Abdalla โ Egypt, United States (1943โ2016)
- Gurgen Askaryan โ Soviet Union (1928โ1997)
- Alain Aspect โ France (born 1947)
- Marcel Audiffren โ France
- Avicenna โ Persia (980โ1037)
- Amedeo Avogadro โ Italy (1776โ1856)
- David Awschalom โ United States (born 1956)
- APJ Abdul Kalam โ India
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- Abu sahl Al-Quhi โ ฤฐran (born 940)
- Xiaoyi Bao โ Canada
- Mani Lal Bhaumik โ United States (born 1931)
- Tom Baehr-Jones โ United States (born 1980)
- Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge โ U.K. (1925โ2003)
- Cornelis Bakker โ Netherlands (1904โ1960)
- Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran โ India (born 1938)
- V Balakrishnan โ India (born 1943)
- Milla Baldo-Ceolin โ Italy (1924โ2011)
- Johann Jakob Balmer โ Switzerland (1825โ1898)
- Tom Banks โ United States (born 1949)
- Riccardo Barbieri โ Italy (born 1944)
- Marcia Barbosa โ Brazil (born 1960)
- John Bardeen โ United States (1908โ1991) double Nobel laureate
- William A. Bardeen โ United States (born 1941)
- Ronald Hugh Barker โ Ireland (1915โ2015)
- Charles Glover Barkla โ U.K. (1877โ1944) Nobel laureate
- Amanda Barnard โ Australia (born 1971)
- Boyd Bartlett โ United States (1897โ1965)
- Asฤฑm Orhan Barut โ Malatya, Turkey (1926โ1994)
- Heinz Barwich โ Germany (1911โ1966)
- Nikolay Basov โ Russia (1922โ2001) Nobel laureate
- Laura Maria Caterina Bassi โ Italy (1711โ1778)
- Zoltรกn Lajos Bay โ Hungary (1900โ1992)
- Karl Bechert โ Germany (1901โ1981)
- Henri Becquerel โ France (1852โ1908) Nobel laureate
- Johannes Georg Bednorz โ Germany (born 1950) Nobel laureate
- Isaac Beeckman โ Netherlands (1588โ1637)
- Alexander Graham Bell โ Scotland, "Canada," U.S.A. (1847โ1922)
- John Stewart Bell โ U.K. (1928โ1990)
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell โ Northern Ireland, U.K. (born 1943)
- Carl M. Bender โ United States (born 1943)
- Abraham Bennet โ England (1749โ1799)
- Daniel Bernoulli โ Switzerland (1700โ1782)
- Hans Bethe โ Germany, United States (1906โ2005) Nobel laureate
- Homi J. Bhabha โ India (1909โ1966)
- Lars Bildsten โ United States (1964)
- James Binney โ England (born 1950)
- Gerd Binnig โ Germany (born 1947) Nobel laureate
- Jean-Baptiste Biot โ France (1774โ1862)
- Raymond T. Birge โ United States (1887โ1980)
- Abลซ Rayhฤn al-Bฤซrลซnฤซ โ Persia (973โ1048)
- Vilhelm Bjerknes โ Norway (1862โ1951)
- James Bjorken โ United States (born 1934)
- Patrick Blackett โ U.K. (1897โ1974) Nobel laureate
- Felix Bloch โ Switzerland (1905โ1983) Nobel laureate
- Nicolaas Bloembergen โ Netherlands, United States (1920โ2017) Nobel laureate
- Walter Boas โ Germany, Australia (1904โ1982)
- Cรฉline Bลhm โ France (born 1974)
- Nikolay Bogolyubov โ Soviet Union, Russia (1909โ1992)
- David Bohm โ United States (1917โ1992)
- Aage Bohr โ Denmark (1922โ2009) Nobel laureate
- Niels Bohr โ Denmark (1885โ1962) Nobel laureate
- Martin Bojowald โ Germany (born 1973)
- Ludwig Boltzmann โ Austria (1844โ1906)
- Eugene T. Booth โ United States (1912โ2004)
- Max Born โ Germany, U.K. (1882โ1970) Nobel laureate
- Rudjer Josip Boscovich โ Croatia (1711โ1787)
- Jagadish Chandra Bose โ India (1858โ1937)
- Margrete Heiberg Bose โ Denmark (1866โ1952)
- Satyendra Nath Bose โ India (1894โ1974)
- Johannes Bosscha โ Netherlands (1831โ1911)
- Walther Bothe โ Germany (1891โ1957) Nobel laureate
- Edward Bouchet โ United States (1852โ1918)
- Mustapha Ishak Boushaki โ Algeria (1967โ)
- Mark Bowick โ United States (born 1957)
- Robert Boyle โ Ireland, England (1627โ1691)
- Willard S. Boyle โ Canada, United States (1924โ2011) Nobel laureate
- William Henry Bragg โ U.K. (1862โ1942) Nobel laureate
- William Lawrence Bragg โ U.K., Australia (1890โ1971) Nobel laureate
- Tycho Brahe โ Denmark (1546โ1601)
- Howard Brandt โ United States (1939โ2014)
- Walter Houser Brattain โ United States (1902โ1987) Nobel laureate
- Karl Ferdinand Braun โ Germany (1850โ1918) Nobel laureate
- David Brewster โ U.K. (1781โ1868)
- Percy Williams Bridgman โ United States (1882โ1961) Nobel laureate
- Lรฉon Nicolas Brillouin โ France (1889โ1969)
- Marcel Brillouin โ France (1854โ1948)
- Bertram Brockhouse โ Canada (1918โ2003) Nobel laureate
- Louis-Victor de Broglie โ France (1892โ1987) Nobel laureate
- William Fuller Brown, Jr. โ United States (1904โ1983)
- Ernst Brรผche โ Germany (1900โ1985)
- Hermann Brรผck โ Germany (1905โ2000)
- Ari Brynjolfsson โ Iceland (1927โ2013)
- Hans Buchdahl โ Germany, Australia (1918โ2010)
- Gersh Budker โ Soviet Union (1918โ1977)
- Silke Bรผhler-Paschen โ Austria (born 1967)
- Johannes Martinus Burgers โ Netherlands (1895โ1981)
- Friedrich Burmeister โ Germany (1890โ1969)
- Bimla Buti โ India (born 1933)
- Christophorus Buys Ballot โ Netherlands (1817โ1890)
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- Nicola Cabibbo โ Italy (1935โ2010)
- Nicolรกs Cabrera โ Spain (1913โ1989)
- Orion Ciftja โ United States
- Curtis Callan โ United States (born 1942)
- Annie Jump Cannon โ United States (1863โ1941)
- Fritjof Capra โ Austria, United States (born 1939)
- Marcela Carena โ Argentina (born 1962)
- Ricardo Carezani โ Argentina, United States (1921โ2016)
- Nicolas Lรฉonard Sadi Carnot โ France (1796โ1832)
- David Carroll โ United States (born 1963)
- Brandon Carter โ Australia (born 1942)
- Hendrik Casimir โ Netherlands (1909โ2000)
- Henry Cavendish โ U.K. (1731โ1810)
- James Chadwick โ U.K. (1891โ1974) Nobel laureate
- Owen Chamberlain โ United States (1920โ2006) Nobel laureate
- Moses H. W. Chan โ Hong Kong (born 1946)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar โ India, United States (1910โ1995) Nobel laureate
- Tsao Chang - Chinese (born 1942)
- Georges Charpak โ France (1924โ2010) Nobel laureate
- รmilie du Chรขtelet โ France (1706โ1749)
- Swapan Chattopadhyay โ India (born 1951)
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov โ Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904โ1990) Nobel laureate
- Maxim Chernodub โ Russia, France (born 1973)
- Geoffrey Chew โ United States (1924โ2019)
- Boris Chirikov โ Soviet Union, Russia (1928โ2008)
- Juansher Chkareuli โ Georgia (born 1940)
- Ernst Chladni โ Germany (1756โ1827)
- Nicholas Christofilos โ Greece (1916โ1972)
- Steven Chu โ United States (born 1948) Nobel laureate
- Giovanni Ciccotti โ Italy (born 1943)
- Benoรฎt Clapeyron โ France (1799โ1864)
- George W. Clark โ United States
- John Clauser โ United States (born 1942) Nobel laureate
- Rudolf Clausius โ Germany (1822โ1888)
- Richard Clegg โ U.K.
- Gari Clifford โ British-American physicist, biomedical engineer, academic, researcher
- John Cockcroft โ U.K. (1897โ1967) Nobel laureate
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji โ France (born 1933) Nobel laureate
- Arthur Compton โ United States (1892โ1962) Nobel laureate
- Karl Compton โ United States (1887โ1954)
- Edward Condon โ United States (1902โ1974)
- Leon Cooper โ United States (born 1930) Nobel laureate
- Alejandro Corichi โ Mexico (born 1967)
- Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis โ France (1792โ1843)
- Allan McLeod Cormack โ South Africa, United States (1924โ1998)
- Eric Allin Cornell โ United States (born 1961) Nobel laureate
- Marie Alfred Cornu โ France (1841โ1902)
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb โ France (1736โ1806)
- Ernest Courant โ United States (1920โ2020)
- Brian Cox โ U.K. (born 1968)
- Charles Critchfield โ United States (1910โ1994)
- James Cronin โ United States (1931โ2016) Nobel laureate
- Sir William Crookes โ U.K. (1832โ1919)
- Paul Crowell โ United States
- Marie Curie โ Poland, France (1867โ1934) twice Nobel laureate
- Pierre Curie โ France (1859โ1906) Nobel laureate
- Predrag Cvitanoviฤ โ Croatia (born 1946)
Dโป
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert โ France (1717โ1783)
- Gustaf Dalรฉn โ Sweden (1869โ1937) Nobel laureate
- Jean Dalibard โ France (born 1958)
- Richard Dalitz โ U.K., United States (1925โ2006)
- John Dalton โ U.K. (1766โ1844)
- Sanja Damjanoviฤ โ Montenegro (born 1972)
- Ranjan Roy Daniel โ India (1923โ2005)
- Charles Galton Darwin โ U.K. (1887โ1962)
- Ashok Das โ India, United States (born 1953)
- James C. Davenport โ United States (born 1938)
- Paul Davies โ Australia (born 1946)
- Raymond Davis, Jr. โ United States (1914โ2006) Nobel laureate
- Clinton Davisson โ United States (1881โ1958) Nobel laureate
- Peter Debije โ Netherlands (1884โ1966)
- Hans Georg Dehmelt โ Germany, United States (1922โ2017) Nobel laureate
- Max Delbrรผck โ Germany, United States (1906โ1981)
- Democritus โ Abdera (ca. 460โ360 BC)
- David M. Dennison โ United States (1900โ1976)
- Beryl May Dent โ U.K. (1900โ1977)
- David Deutsch โ Israel, U.K. (born 1953)
- Renรฉ Descartes โ France (1596โ1650)
- James Dewar โ U.K. (1842โ1923)
- Scott Diddams โ United States
- Ulrike Diebold โ Austria (born 1961)
- Robbert Dijkgraaf โ Netherlands (born 1960)
- Viktor Dilman โ Russia (born 1926)
- Savas Dimopoulos โ United States (born 1952)
- Paul Dirac โ Switzerland, U.K. (1902โ1984) Nobel laureate
- Revaz Dogonadze โ Soviet Union, Georgia (1931โ1985)
- Louise Dolan โ United States (born 1950)
- Amos Dolbear โ United States (1837โ1910)
- Robert Dรถpel โ Germany (1895โ1982)
- Christian Doppler โ Austria (1803โ1853)
- Henk Dorgelo โ Netherlands (1894โ1961)
- Friedrich Ernst Dorn โ Germany (1848โ1916)
- Michael R. Douglas โ United States (born 1961)
- Jonathan Dowling โ United States (1955โ2020)
- Claudia Draxl โ Germany (born 1959)
- Sidney Drell โ United States (1926โ2016)
- Mildred Dresselhaus โ United States (1930โ2017)
- Paul Drude โ Germany (1863โ1906)
- F. J. Duarte โ United States (born 1954)
- รmilie du Chรขtelet โ France (1706โ1749)
- Pierre Louis Dulong โ France (1785โ1838)
- Janette Dunlop โ Scotland (1891โ1971)
- Samuel T. Durrance โ United States (born 1943)
- Freeman Dyson โ U.K., United States (1923โ2020) Wolf laureate
- Arthur Jeffrey Dempster โ Canada (1886โ1950)
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- Joseph H. Eberly โ United States (born 1935)
- William Eccles โ U.K. (1875โ1966)
- Carl Eckart โ United States (1902โ1973)
- Arthur Stanley Eddington โ U.K. (1882โ1944)
- Thomas Edison โ U.S. Invented theโโlightbulb.
- Paul Ehrenfest โ Austria-Hungary, Netherlands (1880โ1933)
- Felix Ehrenhaft โ Austria-Hungary, United States (1879โ1952)
- Manfred Eigen โ Germany (1927โ2019)
- Albert Einstein โ Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United States (1879โ1955) Nobel laureate
- Laura Eisenstein โ (1942โ1985) professor of physics at University of Illinois
- Terence James Elkins โ Australia, United States (born 1936)
- John Ellis โ U.K. (born 1946)
- Paul John Ellis โ U.K., United States (1941โ2005)
- Richard Keith Ellis โ U.K., United States (born 1949)
- Arpad Elo โ Hungary (1903โ1992)
- Franรงois Englert โ Belgium (born 1932) Nobel laureate
- David Enskog โ Sweden (1884โ1947)
- Lorรกnd Eรถtvรถs โ Austria-Hungary (1848โ1919)
- Frederick J. Ernst โ United States (born 1933)
- Leo Esaki โ Japan (born 1925) Nobel laureate
- Ernest Esclangon โ France (1876โ1954)
- Louis Essen โ U.K. (1908โ1997)
- Leonhard Euler โ Switzerland (1707โ1783)
- Denis Evans โ Australia (born 1951)
- Paul Peter Ewald โ Germany, United States (1888โ1985)
- James Alfred Ewing โ U.K. (1855โ1935)
- Franz S. Exner โ Austria (1849โ1926)
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- Ludvig Faddeev โ Russia (1934โ2017)
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit โ Prussia (1686โ1736)
- Kazimierz Fajans โ Poland, United States (1887โ1975)
- James E. Faller โ United States
- Michael Faraday โ U.K. (1791โ1867)
- Eugene Feenberg โ United States (1906โ1977)
- Mitchell Feigenbaum โ United States (1944โ2019)
- Gerald Feinberg โ United States (1933โ1992)
- Enrico Fermi โ Italy (1901โ1954) Nobel laureate
- Albert Fert โ France (born 1938) Nobel laureate
- Herman Feshbach โ United States (1917โ2000)
- Richard Feynman โ United States (1918โ1988) Nobel laureate
- Wolfgang Finkelnburg โ Germany (1905โ1967)
- David Finkelstein โ United States (1929โ2016)
- Johannes Fischer โ Germany (born 1887)
- Willy Fischler โ Belgium (born 1949)
- Val Logsdon Fitch โ United States (1923โ2015) Nobel laureate
- George Francis FitzGerald โ Ireland (1851โ1901)
- Hippolyte Fizeau โ France (1819โ1896)
- Georgy Flyorov โ Rostov-on-Don (1913โ1990)
- Vladimir Fock โ Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898โ1974)
- Adriaan Fokker โ Netherlands (1887โ1972)
- Arthur Foley โ America (1867โ1945)
- James David Forbes โ U.K. (1809โ1868)
- Jeff Forshaw โ U.K. (born 1968)
- Lรฉon Foucault โ France (1819โ1868)
- Joseph Fourier โ France (1768โ1830)
- Ralph H. Fowler โ U.K. (1889โ1944)
- William Alfred Fowler โ United States (1911โ1995) Nobel laureate
- James Franck โ Germany, United States (1882โ1964) Nobel laureate
- Ilya Frank โ Soviet Union (1908โ1990) Nobel laureate
- Benjamin Franklin โ British America, United States (1706โ1790)
- Rosalind Franklin โ U.K. (1920โ1958)
- Walter Franz โ Germany (1911โ1992)
- Joseph von Fraunhofer โ Germany (1787โ1826)
- Steven Frautschi โ United States (born 1933)
- Joan Maie Freeman โ Australia (1918โ1998)
- Phyllis S. Freier โ United States (1921โ1992))
- Yakov Frenkel โ Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1894โ1952)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel โ France (1788โ1827)
- Peter Freund โ United States (1936โ2018)
- Daniel Friedan โ United States (born 1948)
- B. Roy Frieden โ United States (born 1936)
- Alexander Friedman โ Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1888โ1925)
- Jerome Isaac Friedman โ United States (born 1930) Nobel laureate
- Otto Frisch โ Austria, U.K. (1904โ1979)
- Erwin Fues โ Germany (1893โ1970)
- Harald Fuchs โ Germany (born 1951)
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- Dennis Gabor โ Hungary (1900โ1979) Nobel laureate
- Mary K. Gaillard โ France, United States (born 1939)
- Galileo Galilei โ Italy (1564โ1642)
- Luigi Galvani โ Italy (1737โ1798)
- George Gamow โ Russia, United States (1904โ1968)
- Sylvester James Gates โ United States (born 1950)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss โ Germany (1777โ1855)
- Pamela L. Gay โ United States (born 1973)
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac โ France (1778โ1850)
- Hans Geiger โ Germany (1882โ1945)
- Andre Geim โ Russian/British (born 1958) Nobel laureate
- Murray Gell-Mann โ United States (1929โ2019) Nobel laureate
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes โ France (1932โ2007) Nobel laureate
- Howard Georgi โ United States (born 1947)
- Walter Gerlach โ Germany (1889โ1979)
- Christian Gerthsen โ Denmark, Germany (1894โ1956)
- Ezra Getzler โ Australia (born 1962)
- Andrea M. Ghez โ United States (born 1955) Nobel laureate
- Riccardo Giacconi โ Italy, United States (1931โ2018) Nobel laureate
- Ivar Giaever โ Norway, United States (born 1929) Nobel laureate
- Josiah Willard Gibbs โ United States (1839โ1903)
- Valerie Gibson โ U.K. (born 19??)
- William Gilbert โ England (1544โ1603)
- Piara Singh Gill โ India (1911โ2002)
- Naomi Ginsberg โ United States (born 1979)
- Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg โ Soviet Union, Russia (1916โ2009) Nobel laureate
- Marvin D. Girardeau โ United States (1930โ2015)
- Marissa Giustina โ United States (born 19??)
- Donald Arthur Glaser โ United States (1926โ2013) Nobel laureate
- Sheldon Glashow โ United States (born 1932) Nobel laureate
- G. N. Glasoe โ United States (1902โ1987)
- Roy Jay Glauber โ United States (1925โ2018) Nobel laureate
- James Glimm โ United States (born 1934)
- Karl Glitscher โ Germany (1886โ1945)
- Peter Goddard โ U.K. (born 1945)
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer โ Germany, United States (1906โ1972) Nobel laureate
- Gerald Goertzel โ United States (1920โ2002)
- Marvin Leonard Goldberger โ United States (1922โ2014)
- Maurice Goldhaber โ Austria, United States (1911โ2011)
- Jeffrey Goldstone โ U.K., United States (born 1933)
- Sixto Gonzรกlez โ Puerto Rico, United States (born 1965)
- Ravi Gomatam โ India (born 1950)
- Lev Gor'kov โ United States (1929โ2016)
- Samuel Goudsmit โ Netherlands, United States (1902โ1978)
- Leo Graetz โ Germany (1856โ1941)
- Willem 's Gravesande โ Netherlands (1688โ1742)
- Michael Green (physicist) โ Britain (born 1946)
- Daniel Greenberger โ United States (born 1932)
- Brian Greene โ United States (born 1963)
- John Gribbin โ U.K. (born 1946)
- Vladimir Gribov โ Russia (1930โ1997)
- David J. Griffiths โ United States (born 1942)
- David Gross โ United States (born 1941) Nobel laureate
- Frederick Grover โ United States (1876โ1973)
- Peter Grรผnberg โ Germany (1939โ2018) Nobel laureate
- Charles รdouard Guillaume โ Switzerland (1861โ1931) Nobel laureate
- Ayyub Guliyev โ Azerbaijan (born 1954)
- Feza Gรผrsey โ Turkey (1921โ1992)
- Alan Guth โ United States (born 1947)
- Martin Gutzwiller โ Switzerland (1925โ2014)
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- Rudolf Haag โ Germany (1922โ2016)
- Wander Johannes de Haas โ Netherlands (1878โ1960)
- Alain Hachรฉ โ Canada (born 1970)
- Carl Richard Hagen โ United States (born 1937)
- Otto Hahn โ Germany (1879โ1968)
- Edwin Hall โ United States (1855โ1938)
- John Lewis Hall โ United States (born 1934) Nobel laureate
- Alexander Hamilton โ U.K., Australia (born 1967)
- William Rowan Hamilton โ Ireland (1805โ1865)
- Theodor Wolfgang Hรคnsch โ Germany (born 1941) Nobel laureate
- Peter Andreas Hansen โ Denmark (1795โ1874)
- W.W. Hansen โ United States (1909โ1949)
- Serge Haroche โ France (born 1944) Nobel laureate
- Paul Harteck โ Germany (1902โ1985)
- John G. Hartnett โ Australia (born 1952)
- Douglas Hartree โ U.K. (1897โ1958)
- Friedrich Hasenรถhrl โ Austria, Hungary (1874โ1915)
- Lene Vestergaard Hau โ Vejle, Denmark (born 1959)
- Stephen Hawking โ U.K. (1942โ2018) Wolf laureate
- Ibn al-Haytham โ Iraq (965โ1039)
- Evans Hayward โ United States (1922โ2020)
- Oliver Heaviside โ U.K. (1850โ1925)
- Werner Heisenberg โ Germany (1901โ1976) Nobel laureate
- Walter Heitler โ Germany, Ireland (1904โ1981)
- Hermann von Helmholtz โ Germany (1821โ1894)
- Charles H. Henry โ United States (1937โ2016)
- Joseph Henry โ United States (1797โ1878)
- John Herapath โ U.K. (1790โ1868)
- Carl Hermann โ Germany (1898โ1961)
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz โ Germany (1887โ1975) Nobel laureate
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz โ Germany (1857โ1894)
- Karl Herzfeld โ Austria, United States (1892โ1978)
- Victor Francis Hess โ Austria, United States (1883โ1964) Nobel laureate
- Mahmoud Hessaby โ Iran (1903โ1992)
- Antony Hewish โ U.K. (1924โ2021) Nobel laureate
- Paul G. Hewitt โ United States (born 1931)
- Peter Higgs โ U.K. (1929โ2024) Nobel laureate
- George William Hill โ United States (1838โ1914)
- Gustave-Adolphe Hirn โ France (1815โ1890)
- Carol Hirschmugl โ United States, professor of physics, laboratory director
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin โ England (1910โ1994)
- Robert Hofstadter โ United States (1915โ1990) Nobel laureate
- Helmut Hรถnl โ Germany (1903โ1981)
- Pervez Hoodbhoy โ Pakistan (born 1950)
- Gerardus 't Hooft โ Netherlands (born 1946) Nobel laureate
- Robert Hooke โ England (1635โ1703)
- John Hopkinson โ United Kingdom (1849โ1898)
- Johann Baptiste Horvath โ Slovakia (1732โ1799)
- William V. Houston โ United States (1900โ1968)
- Charlotte (nรฉe Riefenstahl) Houtermans โ Germany (1899โ1993)
- Fritz Houtermans โ Netherlands, Germany, Austria (1903โ1966)
- Archibald Howie โ U.K. (born 1934)
- Fred Hoyle โ U.K. (1915โ2001)
- Veronika Hubeny โ United States
- John Hubbard โ U.K. (1931โ1980)
- John H. Hubbell โ United States (1925โ2007)
- Edwin Powell Hubble โ United States (1889โ1953)
- Russell Alan Hulse โ United States (born 1950) Nobel laureate
- Friedrich Hund โ Germany (1896โ1997)
- Tahir Hussain โ Pakistan (1923โ2010)
- Andrew D. Huxley โ U.K. (born 1966)
- Christiaan Huygens โ Netherlands (1629โ1695)
Iโป
- Arthur Iberall โ United States (1918โ2002)
- Sumio Iijima โ Japan (born 1939)
- John Iliopoulos โ Greece (born 1940)
- Ataรง ฤฐmamoฤlu โ Turkey, United States (born 1962)
- Elmer Imes โ United States (1883โ1941)
- Abram Ioffe โ Russia (1880โ1960)
- Nathan Isgur โ United States, Canada (1947โ2001)
- Ernst Ising โ Germany (1900โ1998)
- Jamal Nazrul Islam โ Bangladesh (1939โ2013)
- Werner Israel โ Canada (born 1931)
Jโป
- Roman Jackiw โ Poland, United States (1939โ2023)
- Shirley Ann Jackson โ United States (born 1946)
- Boris Jacobi โ Germany, Russia (1801โ1874)
- Gregory Jaczko โ United States (born 1970)
- Chennupati Jagadish โ India, Australia (born 1957)
- Jainendra Jain โ India (born 1960)
- Ratko Janev โ North Macedonia (1939โ2019)
- Andreas Jaszlinszky โ Hungary (1715โ1783)
- Ali Javan โ Iran (1928โ2016)
- Edwin Jaynes โ United States (1922โ1998)
- Antal Istvรกn Jรกkli โ Hungary (born 1958)
- Sir James Jeans โ U.K. (1877โ1946)
- Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen โ Germany (1907โ1973) Nobel laureate
- Deborah S. Jin โ United States (born 1968)
- Anthony M. Johnson โ United States (born 1954)
- Irรจne Joliot-Curie โ France (1897โ1956)
- Lorella Jones โ United States (1943โ1995)
- Pascual Jordan โ Germany (1902โ1980)
- Vania Jordanova โ United States, physicist, space weather and geomagnetic storms
- Brian David Josephson โ U.K. (born 1940) Nobel laureate
- James Prescott Joule โ U.K. (1818โ1889)
- Adolfas Jucys โ Lithuania (1904โ1974)
- Chang Kee Jung โ South Korea, United States
Kโป
- Menas Kafatos โ Greece, United States (born 1945)
- Takaaki Kajita โ Japan (born 1959) Nobel laureate
- Michio Kaku โ United States (born 1947)
- Theodor Kaluza โ Germany (1885โ1954)
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes โ Netherlands (1853โ1926) Nobel laureate
- William R. Kanne โ United States
- Charles K. Kao โ China, Hong Kong, U.K., United States (1933โ2018) Nobel laureate
- Pyotr Kapitsa โ Russian Empire, Soviet Union (1894โ1984) Nobel laureate
- Theodore von Kรกrmรกn โ Hungary, United States (1881โ1963) aeronautical engineer
- Alfred Kastler โ France (1902โ1984) Nobel laureate
- Amrom Harry Katz โ United States (1915โ1997)
- Moshe Kaveh โ Israel (born 1943) President of Bar-Ilan University
- Predhiman Krishan Kaw โ India (1948โ2017)
- Heinrich Kayser โ Germany (1853โ1940)
- Willem Hendrik Keesom โ Netherlands (1876โ1956)
- Edwin C. Kemble โ United States (1889โ1984)
- Henry Way Kendall โ United States (1926โ1999) Nobel laureate
- Johannes Kepler โ Germany (1571โ1630)
- John Kerr โ Scotland (1824โ1907)
- Wolfgang Ketterle โ Germany (born 1957) Nobel laureate
- Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov โ Soviet Union (1919โ2021)
- Jim Al-Khalili โ U.K. (born 1962)
- Abdul Qadeer Khan โ Pakistan (1936โ2021)
- Yulii Borisovich Khariton โ Soviet Union, Russia (1904โ1996)
- Erhard Kietz โ Germany, United States (1909โ1982)
- Jack Kilby โ United States (1923โ2005) electronics engineer, Nobel laureate
- Toichiro Kinoshita โ Japan, United States (1925โ2023)
- Gustav Kirchhoff โ Germany (1824โ1887)
- Oskar Klein โ Sweden (1894โ1977)
- Hagen Kleinert โ Germany (born 1941)
- Klaus von Klitzing โ Germany (born 1943) Nobel laureate
- Jens Martin Knudsen โ Denmark (1930โ2005)
- Martin Knudsen โ Denmark (1871โ1949)
- Makoto Kobayashi โ Japan (born 1944) Nobel laureate
- Arthur Korn โ Germany (1870โ1945)
- Masatoshi Koshiba โ Japan (1926โ2020) Nobel laureate
- Matthew Koss โ United States (born 1961)
- Walther Kossel โ Germany (1888โ1956)
- Ashutosh Kotwal โ United States (born 1965)
- Lew Kowarski โ France (1907โ1979)
- Hendrik Kramers โ Netherlands (1894โ1952)
- Serguei Krasnikov โ Russia (born 1961)
- Adolf Kratzer โ Germany (1893โ1983)
- Lawrence M. Krauss โ United States (born 1954)
- Herbert Kroemer โ Germany (1928โ2024) Nobel laureate
- August Krรถnig โ Germany (1822โ1879)
- Ralph Kronig โ Germany, United States (1904โ1995)
- Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov โ Soviet Union (1917โ1947)
- Ryogo Kubo โ Japan (1920โ1995)
- Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha โ India (born 1951)
- Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov โ Soviet Union (1903โ1960)
- Behram Kursunoglu โ Turkey (1922โ2003)
- Polykarp Kusch โ Germany (1911โ1993) Nobel laureate
Lโป
- Anne L'Huillier โ France, Sweden (born 1958) Nobel laureate
- James W. LaBelle โ United States
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange โ France (1736โ1813)
- Willis Lamb โ United States (1913โ2008) Nobel laureate
- Lev Davidovich Landau โ Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1908โ1968) Nobel laureate
- Rolf Landauer โ United States (1927โ1999)
- Grigory Landsberg โ Vologda (1890โ1957)
- Kenneth Lane โ United States
- Paul Langevin โ France (1872โ1946)
- Irving Langmuir โ United States (1881โ1957)
- Pierre-Simon Laplace โ France (1749โ1827)
- Joseph Larmor โ U.K. (1857โ1942)
- Cesar Lattes โ Brazil (1924โ2005)
- Max von Laue โ Germany (1879โ1960) Nobel laureate
- Robert Betts Laughlin โ United States (born 1950) Nobel laureate
- Mikhail Lavrentyev โ Kazan (1900โ1980)
- Melvin Lax โ United States (1922โ2002)
- Ernest Lawrence โ United States (1901โ1958) Nobel laureate
- TH Laby โ Australia (1880โ1946)
- Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev โ Imperial Russia (1866โ1912)
- Leon Max Lederman โ United States (1922โ2018) Nobel laureate
- Benjamin Lee โ Korea, United States (1935โ1977)
- David Lee โ United States (born 1931) Nobel laureate
- Tsung-Dao Lee โ China, United States (born 1926) Nobel laureate
- Anthony James Leggett โ U.K., United States (born 1938) Nobel laureate
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz โ Germany (1646โ1716)
- Robert B. Leighton โ United States (1919โ1997)
- Georges Lemaรฎtre โ Belgium (1894โ1966)
- Philipp Lenard โ Hungary, Germany (1862โ1947) Nobel laureate
- John Lennard-Jones โ U.K. (1894โ1954)
- John Leslie โ U.K. (1766โ1832)
- Walter Lewin โ Netherlands, United States (born 1936)
- Martin Lewis Perl โ United States (1927โ2014)
- Robert von Lieben โ Austria-Hungary (1878โ1913)
- Alfred-Marie Liรฉnard โ France (1869โ1958)
- Evgeny Lifshitz โ Soviet Union (1915โ1985)
- David Lindley โ United States (born 1956)
- John Linsley โ United States (1925โ2002)
- Chris Lintott โ U.K. (born 1980)
- Gabriel Jonas Lippmann โ France, Luxemburg (1845โ1921) Nobel laureate
- Antony Garrett Lisi โ United States (born 1968)
- Karl L. Littrow โ Austria (1811โ1877)
- Seth Lloyd โ United States (born 1960)
- Oliver Lodge โ U.K. (1851โ1940)
- Maurice Loewy โ Austria, France (1833โ1907)
- Robert K. Logan โ United States (born 1939)
- Mikhail Lomonosov โ Denisovka (1711โ1765)
- Alfred Lee Loomis โ United States (1887โ1975)
- Ramรณn E. Lรณpez โ United States (born 1959)
- Hendrik Lorentz โ Netherlands (1853โ1928) Nobel laureate
- Ludvig Lorenz โ Denmark (1829โ1891)
- Johann Josef Loschmidt โ Austria (1821โ1895)
- Oleg Losev โ Tver (1903โ1942)
- Archibald Low โ U.K. (1888โ1956)
- Per-Olov Lรถwdin โ Sweden (1916โ2000)
- Lucretius โ Rome (98?โ55 BC)
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov โ Imperial Russia (1857โ1918)
- Joseph Lykken โ United States (born 1957)
Mโป
- Arthur B. McDonald โ Canada (born 1943) Nobel laureate
- Carolina Henriette MacGillavry โ Netherlands (1904โ1993)
- Ernst Mach โ Austria-Hungary (1838โ1916)
- Katie Mack (astrophysicist) โ United States (born 1981)
- Gladys Mackenzie โ Scotland (1903โ1972)
- Ray Mackintosh โ U.K.
- Luciano Maiani โ Italy, San Marino (born 1941)
- Theodore Maiman โ United States (1927โ2007)
- Arthur Maitland โ U.K. (1925โ1994)
- Ettore Majorana โ Italy (1906โ1938 presumed dead)
- Sudhansu Datta Majumdar โ India (1915โ1997)
- Richard Makinson โ Australia (1913โ1979)
- Juan Martรญn Maldacena โ Argentina (born 1968)
- รtienne-Louis Malus โ France (1775โ1812)
- Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam โ Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1879โ1944)
- Franz Mandl โ U.K. (1923โ2009)
- Charles Lambert Manneback โ Belgium (1894โ1975)
- Peter Mansfield โ U.K. (1933โ2017)
- Carlo Marangoni โ Italy (1840โ1925)
- M. Cristina Marchetti โ Italy, United States (born 1955)
- Guglielmo Marconi โ Italy (1874โ1937) Nobel laureate
- Henry Margenau โ Germany, United States (1901โ1977)
- Nina Markoviฤ โ Croatia, United States
- William Markowitz โ United States (1907โ1998)
- Laurence D. Marks โ United States (born 1954)
- Robert Marshak โ United States (1916โ1992)
- Walter Marshall โ U.K. (1932โ1996)
- Toshihide Maskawa โ Japan (1940โ2021) Nobel laureate
- Harrie Massey โ Australia (1908โ1983)
- John Cromwell Mather โ United States (born 1946) Nobel laureate
- James Clerk Maxwell โ U.K. (1831โ1879)
- Brian May โ U.K. (born 1947)
- Maria Goeppert Mayer โ Germany, United States (1906โ1972)
- Ronald E. McNair โ United States (1950โ1986)
- Anna McPherson โ Canadian (1901โ1979)
- Simon van der Meer โ Netherlands (1925โ2011) Nobel laureate
- Lise Meitner โ Austria (1878โ1968)
- Fulvio Melia โ United States (born 1956)
- Macedonio Melloni โ Italy (1798โ1854)
- Adrian Melott โ United States (born 1947)
- Thomas Corwin Mendenhall โ United States (1841โ1924)
- M. G. K. Menon โ India (1928โ2016)
- David Merritt โ United States
- Albert Abraham Michelson โ United States (1852โ1931) Nobel laureate
- Arthur Alan Middleton โ United States
- Stanislav Mikheyev โ Russia (1940โ2011)
- Robert Andrews Millikan โ United States (1868โ1953) Nobel laureate
- Robert Mills โ United States (1927โ1999)
- Arthur Milne โ U.K. (1896โ1950)
- Shiraz Minwalla โ India (born 1972)
- Bedangadas Mohanty โ India (born 1973)
- Rabindra Nath Mohapatra โ India, United States (born 1944)
- Kathryn Moler โ United States
- Merritt Moore โ United States (born 1988)
- Tanya Monro โ Australia (born 1973)
- John J. Montgomery โ United States (1858โ1911)
- Jagadeesh Moodera โ India, United States (born 1950)
- Jonathan P. Morris โ United States (born 2010)
- Henry Moseley โ U.K. (1887โ1915)
- Rudolf Mรถssbauer โ Germany (1929โ2011) Nobel laureate
- Nevill Mott โ U.K. (1905โ1996) Nobel laureate
- Ben Roy Mottelson โ Denmark, United States (1926โ2022) Nobel laureate
- Amรฉdรฉe Mouchez โ Spain, France (1821โ1892)
- Ali Moustafa โ Egypt (1898โ1950)
- Josรฉ Enrique Moyal โ Palestine, France, U.K., United States, Australia (1910โ1998)
- Karl Alexander Mรผller โ Switzerland (1927โ2023) Nobel laureate
- Richard A. Muller โ United States (born 1944)
- Robert S. Mulliken โ United States (1896โ1986)
- Pieter van Musschenbroek โ Netherlands (1692โ1762)
Nโป
- Yoichiro Nambu โ Japan, United States (1921โ2015) Nobel laureate
- Meenakshi Narain โ United States (1964โ2022)
- Jayant Narlikar โ India (born 1938)
- Seth Neddermeyer โ United States (1907โ1988)
- Louis Nรฉel โ France (1904โ2000) Nobel laureate
- Yuval Ne'eman โ Israel (1925โ2006)
- Ann Nelson โ United States (1958โ2019)
- John von Neumann โ Austria-Hungary, United States (1903โ1957)
- Simon Newcomb โ United States (1835โ1909)
- Sir Isaac Newton โ England (1642โ1727)
- Edward P. Ney โ United States (1920โ1996)
- Kendal Nezan โ France, Kurdistan (born 1949)
- Holger Bech Nielsen โ Denmark (born 1941)
- Leopoldo Nobili โ Italy (1784โ1835)
- Emmy Noether โ Germany (1882โ1935)
- Lothar Nordheim โ Germany (1899โ1985)
- Gunnar Nordstrรถm โ Finland (1881โ1923)
- Johann Gottlieb Nรถrremberg โ Germany (1787โ1862)
- Konstantin Novoselov โ Soviet Union, U.K. (born 1974) Nobel laureate
- H. Pierre Noyes โ United States (1923โ2016)
- John Nye โ U.K. (1923โ2019)
Oโป
- Yuri Oganessian โ Russia (born 1933)
- Georg Ohm โ Germany (1789โ1854)
- Hideo Ohno โ Japan (born 1954)
- Susumu Okubo โ Japan, United States (1930โ2015)
- Sir Mark Oliphant โ Australia (1901โ2000)
- David Olive โ U.K. (1937โ2012)
- Zaira Ollano โ Italy (1904โ1997)
- Gerard K. O'Neill โ United States (1927โ1992)
- Lars Onsager โ Norway (1903โ1976)
- Robert Oppenheimer โ United States (1904โ1967)
- Nicole Oresme โ France (1325โ1382)
- Yuri Orlov โ Soviet Union, United States (1924โ2020)
- Leonard Salomon Ornstein โ Netherlands (1880โ1941)
- Egon Orowan โ Austria-Hungary, United States (1901โ1989)
- Hans Christian รrsted โ Denmark (1777โ1851)
- Douglas Dean Osheroff โ United States (born 1945) Nobel laureate
- Silke Ospelkaus โ Germany
- Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky โ Russia (1801โ1862)
Pโป
- Thanu Padmanabhan โ India (1957โ2021)
- Heinz Pagels โ United States (1939โ1988)
- Abraham Pais โ Netherlands, United States (1918โ2000)
- Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky โ Germany, United States (1919โ2007)
- Blaise Pascal โ France (1623โ1662)
- John Pasta โ United States (1918โ1984)
- Jogesh Pati โ United States (born 1937)
- Petr Paucek โ United States
- Stephen Paul โ United States (1953โ2012)
- Wolfgang Paul โ Germany (1913โ1993) Nobel laureate
- Wolfgang Pauli โ Austria-Hungary (1900โ1958) Nobel laureate
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin โ United States (1900โ1979) astronomer and astrophysicist
- Ruby Payne-Scott โ Australia (1912โ1981)
- George B. Pegram โ United States (1876โ1958)
- Rudolf Peierls โ Germany, U.K. (1907โ1995)
- Jean Peltier โ France (1785โ1845)
- Roger Penrose โ U.K. (born 1931) Wolf laureate, mathematician
- Arno Allan Penzias โ United States (1933โ2024) Nobel laureate, electrical engineer
- Martin Lewis Perl โ United States (1927โ2014) Nobel laureate
- Saul Perlmutter โ United States (born 1959) Nobel laureate
- Jean Baptiste Perrin โ France (1870โ1942) Nobel laureate
- Konstantin Petrzhak โ Soviet Union, Russia (1907โ1998)
- Bernhard Philberth โ Germany (1927โ2010)
- William Daniel Phillips โ United States (born 1948) Nobel laureate
- Max Planck โ Germany (1858โ1947) Nobel laureate
- Joseph Plateau โ Belgium (1801โ1883)
- Milton S. Plesset โ United States (1908โ1991)
- Ward Plummer โ United States (1940โ2020)
- Boris Podolsky โ Taganrog (1896โ1966)
- Henri Poincarรฉ โ France (1854โ1912) mathematician
- Eric Poisson โ Canada (born 1965)
- Simรฉon Denis Poisson โ France (1781โ1840) mathematician
- Balthasar van der Pol โ Netherlands (1889โ1959) electrical engineer
- Joseph Polchinski โ United States (1954โ2018)
- Hugh David Politzer โ United States (born 1949) Nobel laureate
- John Polkinghorne โ U.K. (1930โ2021)
- Julianne Pollard-Larkin โ United States
- Alexander M. Polyakov โ Russia, United States (born 1945)
- Bruno Pontecorvo โ Italy, Soviet Union (1913โ1993)
- Heraclides Ponticus โ Greece (387โ312 BC)
- Heinz Pose โ Germany (1905โ1975)
- Cecil Frank Powell โ U.K. (1903โ1969) Nobel laureate
- John Henry Poynting โ U.K. (1852โ1914)
- Ludwig Prandtl โ Germany (1875โ1953)
- Willibald Peter Prasthofer โ Austria (1917โ1993)
- Ilya Prigogine โ Belgium (1917โ2003)
- Alexander Prokhorov โ Soviet, Russian (1916โ2002) Nobel laureate
- William Prout โ U.K. (1785โ1850)
- Luigi Puccianti โ Italy (1875โ1952)
- Ivan Pulyuy โ Ukraine (1845โ1918)
- Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin โ Serbia, United States (1858โ1935)
- Edward Mills Purcell โ United States (1912โ1997) Nobel laureate
Qโป
- Xuesen Qian โ China (1911โ2009)
- Helen Quinn โ Australia, United States (born 1943)
Rโป
- Raรบl Rabadรกn โ United States
- Gabriele Rabel โ Austria, United Kingdom (1880โ1963)
- Isidor Isaac Rabi โ Austria, United States (1898โ1988) Nobel laureate
- Giulio Racah โ Italian-Israeli (1909โ1965)
- James Rainwater โ United States (1917โ1986) Nobel laureate
- Mark G. Raizen โ New York City United States (born 1955)
- Alladi Ramakrishnan โ India (1923โ2008)
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman โ India (1888โ1970) Nobel laureate
- Edward Ramberg โ United States (1907โ1995)
- Carl Ramsauer โ Germany (1879โ1955)
- Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. โ United States (1915โ2011) Nobel laureate
- Lisa Randall โ United States (born 1962)
- Riccardo Rattazzi โ Italy (born 1964)
- Lord Rayleigh โ U.K. (1842โ1919) Nobel laureate
- Renรฉ Antoine Ferchault de Rรฉaumur โ France (1683โ1757)
- Sidney Redner โ Canada, United States (born 1951)
- Martin John Rees โ U.K. (born 1942)
- Hubert Reeves โ Canada (born 1932)
- Tullio Regge โ Italy (1931โ2014)
- Frederick Reines โ United States (1918โ1998) Nobel laureate
- Louis Rendu โ France (1789โ1859)
- Osborne Reynolds โ U.K. (1842โ1912)
- Owen Willans Richardson โ U.K. (1879โ1959) Nobel laureate
- Robert Coleman Richardson โ United States (1937โ2013) Nobel laureate
- Burton Richter โ United States (1931โ2018) Nobel laureate
- Floyd K. Richtmyer โ United States (1881โ1939)
- Robert D. Richtmyer โ (1910โ2003)
- Charlotte Riefenstahl โ Germany (1899โ1993)
- Nikolaus Riehl โ Germany (1901โ1990)
- Adam Riess โ United States (born 1969) Nobel laureate
- Karl-Heinrich Riewe โ Germany
- Walther Ritz โ Switzerland (1878โ1909)
- รtienne-Gaspard Robert โ Belgium (1763โ1837)
- Heinrich Rohrer โ Switzerland (1933โ2013) Nobel laureate
- Joseph Romm โ United States (born 1960)
- Wilhelm Conrad Rรถntgen โ Germany (1845โ1923) Nobel laureate
- Clemens C. J. Roothaan โ Netherlands (1918โ2019)
- Nathan Rosen โ United States, Israel (1909โ1995)
- Marshall Rosenbluth โ United States (1927โ2003)
- Yasha Rosenfeld โ Israel (1948โ2002)
- Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby โ Sweden, United States (1898โ1957)
- Bruno Rossi โ Italy, United States (1905โ1993)
- Joseph Rotblat โ Poland, U.K. (1908โ2005)
- Carlo Rovelli โ Italy (born 1956)
- Mary Laura Chalk Rowles โ United States (1904โ1996)
- Subrata Roy (scientist) โ India, United States
- Carlo Rubbia โ Italy (born 1934) Nobel laureate
- Vera Rubin โ United States (1928โ2016)
- Serge Rudaz โ Canada, United States (born 1954)
- David Ruelle โ Belgium, France (born 1935)
- Ernst August Friedrich Ruska โ Germany (1906โ1988) Nobel laureate
- Ernest Rutherford โ New Zealand, U.K. (1871โ1937)
- Janne Rydberg โ Sweden (1854โ1919)
- Martin Ryle โ U.K. (1918โ1984) Nobel laureate
Sโป
- Subir Sachdev โ United States (born 1961)
- Mendel Sachs โ United States (1927โ2012)
- Rainer K. Sachs โ Germany and United States (born 1932)
- Robert G. Sachs โ United States (1916โ1999)
- Carl Sagan โ United States (1934โ1996)
- Georges-Louis le Sage โ Switzerland (1724โ1803)
- Georges Sagnac โ France (1869โ1926)
- Megh Nad Saha โ Bengali India (1893โ1956)
- Shoichi Sakata โ Japan (1911โ1970)
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov โ Soviet Union (1929โ1989)
- Oscar Sala โ Brazil (1922โ2010)
- Abdus Salam โ Pakistan (1926โ1996) Nobel laureate
- Edwin Ernest Salpeter โ Austria, Australia, United States (1924โ2008)
- Anthony Ichiro Sanda โ Japan, United States (born 1944)
- Antonella De Santo โ Italy, U.K.
- Vikram Sarabhai โ India (1919โ1971)
- Isidor Sauers โ Austria (born 1948)
- Fรฉlix Savart โ France (1791โ1841)
- Brendan Scaife โ Ireland (born 1928)
- Martin Schadt โ Switzerland (born 1938)
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow โ United States (1921โ1999) Nobel laureate
- Craige Schensted โ United States
- Joรซl Scherk โ France (1946โ1979)
- Otto Scherzer โ Germany (1909โ1982)
- Brian Schmidt โ Australia, United States (born 1967) Nobel laureate
- Alan Schoen โ United States (1924โ2023)
- Walter H. Schottky โ Germany (1886โ1976)
- Kees A. Schouhamer Immink โ Netherlands (born 1946)
- John Robert Schrieffer โ United States (1931โ2019) Nobel laureate
- Erwin Schrรถdinger โ Austria-Hungary (1887โ1961) Nobel laureate
- John Henry Schwarz โ United States (born 1941)
- Melvin Schwartz โ United States (1932โ2006) Nobel laureate
- Karl Schwarzschild โ German Empire (1876โ1916)
- Julian Schwinger โ United States (1918โ1994) Nobel laureate
- Marlan Scully โ United States (born 1939)
- Dennis William Sciama โ U.K. (1926โ1999)
- Bice Sechi-Zorn โ Italy, United States (1928โ1984)
- Thomas Johann Seebeck โ Estonia (1770โ1831)
- Raymond Seeger โ United States (1906โ1992)
- Emilio G. Segre โ Italy, United States (1905โ1989) Nobel laureate
- Nathan Seiberg โ United States (born 1956)
- Frederick Seitz โ United States (1911โ2008)
- Nikolay Semyonov โ Russia (1896โ1986)
- Ashoke Sen โ India (born 1956)
- Hiranmay Sen Gupta โ Bangladesh (1934โ2022)
- Robert Serber โ United States (1909โ1997)
- Roman U. Sexl โ Austria (1939โ1986)
- Shen Kuo โ China (1031โ1095)
- Mikhail Shifman โ Russia, United States (born 1949)
- Dmitry Shirkov โ Russia (1928โ2016)
- William Shockley โ United States (1910โ1989) Nobel laureate
- Boris Shraiman โ United States (1956)
- Lev Shubnikov โ Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine (1901โ1937)
- Clifford Shull โ United States (1915โ2001) Nobel laureate
- Kai Siegbahn โ Sweden (1918โ2007) Nobel laureate
- Manne Siegbahn โ Sweden (1886โ1978) Nobel laureate
- Ludwik Silberstein โ Poland, Germany, Italy, United States, Canada (1872โ1948)
- Eva Silverstein โ United States (born 1970)
- John Alexander Simpson โ United States (1916โ2000)
- Willem de Sitter โ Netherlands (1872โ1934)
- Uri Sivan โ Israel (born 1955)
- Tamitha Skov โ United States space weather physicist, researcher and public speaker
- G. V. Skrotskii โ Russia (1915โ1992)
- Francis G. Slack โ United States (1897โ1985)
- John C. Slater โ United States (1900โ1976)
- Louis Slotin โ United States (1910โ1946)
- Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov โ Russia, Italy (born 1951)
- George E. Smith โ United States (born 1930) Nobel laureate
- Lee Smolin โ United States (born 1955)
- Marian Smoluchowski โ Poland (1872โ1917)
- George Smoot โ United States (born 1945) Nobel laureate
- Willebrord Snell โ Netherlands (1580โ1626)
- Arsenij Sokolov โ Russia (1910โ1986)
- Arnold Sommerfeld โ Germany (1868โ1951)
- Bent Sรธrensen โ Denmark (born 1941)
- Rafael Sorkin โ United States (born 1945)
- Zeinabou Mindaoudou Souley (1964โ) Nuclear physicist from Niger
- Nicola Spaldin โ United Kingdom (born 1969)
- Maria Spiropulu โ Greece (born 1970)
- Henry Stapp โ United States (born 1928)
- Johannes Stark โ Germany (1874โ1957) Nobel laureate
- Max Steenbeck โ (1901โ1981)
- Joseph Stefan โ Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835โ1893)
- Jack Steinberger โ Germany, United States (1921โ2020) Nobel laureate
- Paul J. Steinhardt โ United States (born 1952)
- Carl August Steinheil โ Germany (1801โ1870)
- George Sterman โ United States (born 1946)
- Otto Stern โ Germany (1888โ1969) Nobel laureate
- Simon Stevin โ Belgium, Netherlands (1548โ1620)
- Thomas H. Stix โ United States (1924โ2001)
- George Gabriel Stokes โ Ireland, U.K. (1819โ1903)
- Aleksandr Stoletov โ Russia (1839โ1896)
- Donna Strickland โ Canada (born 1959) Nobel laureate
- Horst Ludwig Stรถrmer โ Germany (born 1949) Nobel laureate
- Leonard Strachan โ United States, astrophysicist
- Julius Adams Stratton โ United States
- Andrew Strominger โ United States (born 1955)
- Audrey Stuckes โ U.K. (1923โ2006)
- Ernst Stueckelberg โ Switzerland (1905โ1984)
- George Sudarshan โ India, United States (1931โ2018)
- Rashid Sunyaev โ USSR (born 1943)
- Oleg Sushkov โ USSR, Australia (born 1950)
- Leonard Susskind โ United States (born 1940)
- Joseph Swan โ U.K. (1828โ1914)
- Jean Henri van Swinden โ Netherlands (1746โ1823)
- Bertha Swirles โ U.K. (1903โ1999)
- Leo Szilard โ Austria-Hungary, United States (1898โ1964)
Tโป
- Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm โ Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1895โ1971) Nobel laureate
- Rachel (Raya) Takserman-Krozer โ Ukraine (1921โ1987)
- Abraham H. Taub โ United States (1911โ1999)
- Martin Tajmar โ Austria (born 1974)
- Geoffrey Ingram Taylor โ U.K. (1886โ1975)
- Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. โ United States (born 1941) Nobel laureate
- Richard Edward Taylor โ United States (1929โ2018) Nobel laureate
- Max Tegmark โ Sweden, United States (born 1967)
- Valentine Telegdi โ Hungary, United States (1922โ2006) Wolf laureate
- Edward Teller โ Austria-Hungary, United States (1908โ2003)
- Igor Ternov โ Russia (1921โ1996)
- George Paget Thomson โ U.K. (1892โ1975) Nobel laureate
- J. J. Thomson โ U.K. (1856โ1940) Nobel laureate
- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) โ Ireland, U.K. (1824โ1907)
- Charles Thorn โ United States (born 1946)
- Kip Stephen Thorne โ United States (born 1940)
- Peter Adolf Thiessen โ Germany (1899โ1990)
- Samuel Chao Chung Ting โ United States (born 1936) Nobel laureate
- Frank J. Tipler โ United States (born 1947)
- Ernest William Titterton โ U.K., Australia (1916โ1990)
- Yoshinori Tokura โ Japan (born 1954)
- Samuel Tolansky โ U.K. (1907โ1973)
- Sin-Itiro Tomonaga โ Japan (1906โ1979) Nobel laureate
- Lewi Tonks โ United States (1897โ1971)
- Akira Tonomura โ Japan (1942โ2012)
- Evangelista Torricelli โ Italy (1608โ1647)
- Yoji Totsuka โ Japan (1942โ2008)
- Bruno Touschek โ Italy (1921โ1978)
- Charles Townes โ United States (1915โ2015) Nobel laureate
- John Townsend โ U.K. (1868โ1957)
- Johann Georg Tralles โ Germany (1763โ1822)
- Sam Treiman โ United States (1925โ1999)
- Daniel Chee Tsui โ China, United States (born 1939) Nobel laureate
- Vipin Kumar Tripathi โ India (born 1948)
- John J. Turin โ United States (1913โ1973)
- Neil Turok โ South Africa (born 1958)
- Victor Twersky โ United States (1923โ1998)
- Sergei Tyablikov โ Russia (1921โ1968)
- John Tyndall โ U.K. (1820โ1893)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson โ United States (born 1958)
Uโป
- George Eugene Uhlenbeck โ Netherlands, United States (1900โ1988)
- Stanislaw Ulam โ Poland, United States (1909โ1984)
- Nikolay Umov โ Russia (1846โ1915)
- Juris Upatnieks โ Latvia, United States (born 1936)
Vโป
- Cumrun Vafa โ Iran, United States (born 1960)
- Oriol Valls โ (born 1947 in Barcelona, Spain) university physics professor
- Lรฉon Van Hove โ Belgium (1924โ1990)
- Sergei Vavilov โ Soviet Union (1891โ1951)
- Vlatko Vedral โ U.K., Serbia (born 1971)
- Evgeny Velikhov โ Russia (born 1935)
- Martinus J. G. Veltman โ Netherlands, United States (1931โ2021) Nobel laureate
- Gabriele Veneziano โ Italy (born 1942)
- Giovanni Battista Venturi โ Italy (1746โ1822)
- รmile Verdet โ France (1824โ1866)
- Erik Verlinde โ Netherlands (1962)
- Herman Verlinde โ Netherlands (1962)
- Leonardo da Vinci โ Italy (1452โ1519)
- Jean-Pierre Vigier โ France (1920โ2004)
- Gaetano Vignola โ Italy
- Anatoly Vlasov โ Russia (1908โ1975)
- John Hasbrouck van Vleck โ United States (1899โ1980) Nobel laureate
- Woldemar Voigt โ Germany (1850โ1919)
- Burchard de Volder โ Netherlands (1643โ1709)
- Max Volmer โ Germany (1885โ1965)
- Alessandro Volta โ Italy (1745โ1827)
- Wernher Von Braun โ Germany (1912โ1977) aerospace engineer
Wโป
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals โ Netherlands (1837โ1923) Nobel laureate
- James Wait โ Canada (1924โ1998)
- Ludwig Waldmann โ Germany (1913โ1980)
- Alan Walsh โ U.K., Australia (1916โ1988)
- Ernest Walton โ Ireland (1903โ1995) Nobel laureate
- Dezhao Wang โ China (1905โ1998)
- Enge Wang โ China (born 1957)
- Huanyu Wang โ China (1954โ2018)
- Kan-Chang Wang โ China (1907โ1998)
- Pu (Paul) Wang โ China (1902โ1969)
- Zhuxi Wang โ China (1911โ1983)
- Aaldert Wapstra โ Netherlands (1923โ2006)
- John Clive Ward โ England, Australia (1924โ2000)
- Gleb Wataghin โ Ukraine, Italy, Brazil (1896โ1986)
- John James Waterston โ U.K. (1811โ1883)
- Alan Andrew Watson โ U.K. (born 1938)
- James Watt โ U.K. (1736โ1819)
- Denis Weaire โ Ireland (born 1942)
- Colin Webb โ U.K. (born 1937)
- Wilhelm Weber โ Germany (1804โ1891)
- Katherine Weimer โ United States (1919โ2000)
- Alvin Weinberg โ United States (1915โ2006)
- Steven Weinberg โ United States (1933โ2021) Nobel laureate
- Rainer Weiss โ United States (born 1932) Nobel laureate
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf โ Austria, United States (1908โ2002)
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsรคcker โ Germany (1912โ2007)
- Heinrich Welker โ Germany (1912โ1981)
- Gregor Wentzel โ Germany (1898โ1978)
- Paul Werbos โ United States (born 1947)
- Siebren van der Werf โ Netherlands (born 1942)
- Peter Westervelt โ United States (1919โ2015)
- Hermann Weyl โ Germany (1885โ1955)
- Christof Wetterich โ Germany (born 1952)
- John Archibald Wheeler โ United States (1911โ2008)
- Gian-Carlo Wick โ Italy (1909โ1992)
- Emil Wiechert โ Prussia (1861โ1928)
- Carl Wieman โ United States (born 1951) Nobel laureate
- Wilhelm Wien โ Germany (1864โ1928) Nobel laureate
- Arthur Wightman โ United States (1922โ2013)
- Eugene Wigner โ Austria-Hungary, United States (1902โ1993) Nobel laureate
- Frank Wilczek โ United States (born 1951) Nobel laureate
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson โ U.K. (1869โ1959) Nobel laureate
- Christine Wilson (scientist) โ Canadian-American physicist and astronomer
- Kenneth Geddes Wilson โ United States (1936โ2013) Nobel laureate
- Robert R. Wilson โ United States (1914โ2000) Nobel laureate
- Robert Woodrow Wilson โ United States (born 1936)
- John R. Winckler โ United States (1918โ2001)
- David J. Wineland โ United States (born 1944) Nobel laureate
- Karl Wirtz โ Germany (1910โ1994)
- Mark B. Wise โ Canada, United States (born 1953)
- Edward Witten โ United States (born 1951)
- Emil Wolf โ Czechoslovakia, United States (1922โ2018)
- Fred Alan Wolf โ United States (born 1934)
- Lincoln Wolfenstein โ United States (1923โ2015)
- Stephen Wolfram โ U.K. (born 1959)
- Ewald Wollny โ Germany (1846โ1901)
- Michael Woolfson โ U.K. (1927โ2019)
- Chien-Shiung Wu โ United States (1912โ1997)
- Sau Lan Wu โ United States (born early 1940s)
- Tai Tsun Wu โ United States (born 1933)
Xโป
- Basilis C. Xanthopoulos โ Greece (1951โ1990)
Yโป
- Rosalyn Yalow โ United States (1921โ2011)
- Chen Ning Yang โ China (born 1922) Nobel laureate
- Fรฉlix Yndurรกin โ Spain (born 1946)
- Francisco Josรฉ Yndurรกin โ Spain (1940โ2008)
- Kenneth Young โ United States, China (born 1947)
- Thomas Young โ U.K. (1773โ1829)
- Hideki Yukawa โ Japan (1907โ1981) Nobel laureate
Zโป
- Jan Zaanen โ Netherlands (born 1957)
- Daniel Zajfman โ Israel (born 1959)
- Anthony Zee โ United States (born 1945)
- Pieter Zeeman โ Netherlands (1865โ1943) Nobel laureate
- Ludwig Zehnder โ Switzerland (1854โ1949)
- Anton Zeilinger โ Austria (born 1945)
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich โ Russia (1914โ1987)
- John Zeleny โ United States (1872โ1951)
- Frits Zernike โ Netherlands (1888โ1960) Nobel laureate
- Antonino Zichichi โ Italy (born 1929)
- Hans Ziegler โ Switzerland, United States (1910โ1985)
- Karl Zimmer โ Germany (1911โ1988)
- Georges Zissis โ Greece (born 1964)
- Peter Zoller โ Austria (born 1952)
- Dmitry Zubarev โ Russia (1917โ1992)
- Bruno Zumino โ Italy (1923โ2014)
- Wojciech H. Zurek โ Poland, United States (born 1951)
- Robert Zwanzig โ United States (1928โ2014)
- George Zweig โ United States (born 1937)
- Barton Zwiebach โ United States (born 1954)
External linksโป
- Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th-century American) are collected in the Emilio Segrรจ Visual Archives and A Picture Gallery of Famous Physicists
- 20th-century women in physics in the Contributions of 20th Century Womenโโto Physics archive
Referencesโป
- ^ Jordanova, V. K.; Delzanno, G. L.; Henderson, M. G.; Godinez, H. C.; Jeffery, C. A.; Lawrence, E. C.; Morley, S. K.; Moulton, J. D.; Vernon, L. J.; Woodroffe, J. R.; Brito, T. V. (2018-10-01). "Specification of the near-Earth space environment with SHIELDS" (PDF). Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. Dynamics of the Sun-Earth System: Recent Observations and "Predictions." 177: 148โ159. Bibcode:2018JASTP.177..148J. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2017.11.006. ISSN 1364-6826. S2CID 125573634.