List Of Famous Physicists

A

* Ernst Karl Abbe — Germany (1840–1905)
* Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov — Russia (1928- )
* 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)
* 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- )

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)
* Karl Bechert — Germany (1901-1981)
* Isaac Beeckman — Netherlands (1588-1637)
* John Stewart Bell — UK (1928–1990)
* Henri Becquerel — France (1852–1908)
* Johannes Georg Bednorz — Germany (1950- )
* 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 (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)
* 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)
* 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

C

* 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– )
* 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- )
* 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)

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)
* Peter Debye — Netherlands (1884-1966)
* Hans Georg Dehmelt — Germany, USA (1922- )
* Democritus — Abdera (circa 460–360 BC)
* Willem de Sitter — Netherlands (1872-1934)
* James Dewar — UK (1842–1923)
* Robbert Dijkgraaf — Netheralands (1960- )
* Savas Dimopoulos - USA
* Paul Dirac — UK (1902–1984)
* Revaz Dogonadze — Former Soviet Union, Georgia (1931–1985)
* Christian Doppler — Austria (1803–1853)
* Friedrich Ernst Dorn - Germany (1848-1916)
* Paul Drude - Germany (1863-1906)
* Freeman Dyson — UK, USA (1923– )

E

* William Eccles — UK (1875–1966)
* Carl Eckart — USA (1902-1973)
* 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)
* Paul Peter Ewald — Germany, USA (1888-1985)
* James Alfred Ewing — UK (1855–1935)

F

* Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — (1686–1736)
* Michael Faraday — UK (1791–1867)
* Eugene Feenberg — USA (1906-1977)
* 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 — Ireland (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- )
* Otto Frisch - Austria, UK (1904-1979)
* Erwin Fues - Germany (1893-1970)
* Harald Fuchs — Germany (1951-)

G

* Dennis Gabor — Hungary (1900—1979)
* Galileo Galilei — Italy (1564—1642)
* Sylvester James Gates — USA (1950— )
* Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany (1777—1855)
* Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — France (1778—1850)
* Murray Gell-Mann — USA (1929— )
* Howard Georgi — USA (1947— )
* Walter Gerlach — Germany (1889-1979)
* Josiah Willard Gibbs — USA (1839—1903)
* William Gilbert — England (1544—1603)
* 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— )
* Feza Gürsey — Turkey (1921—1992)
* Alan Guth - USA (1947— )
* Martin Gutzwiller — Switzerland (1925— )

H

* Rudolf Haag — Germany (1922– )
* Wander Johannes de Haas — Netherlands (1878-1960)
* 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 — 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)
* Peter Higgs — UK (1929-)
* George William Hill — USA (1838–1914)
* Gustave-Adolphe Hirn — France (1815-1890)
* Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — England (1910-1994)
* Gilles Holst — Netherlands (1886-1968)
* Helmut Hönl — Germany (1903-1981)
* Gerardus 't Hooft — The Netherlands (1946– )
* Robert Hooke — England (1635–1703)
* William V. Houston — USA (1900-1968)
* Fritz Houtermans — Netherlands/Germany/Austria (1903-1996)
* John H. Hubbell — USA (born 1925)
* Friedrich Hund — Germany (1896-1997)
* Christiaan Huygens — The Netherlands (1629–1695)

I

* Nathan Isgur - USA, Canada (1947-2001)

J

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

K

* 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 — German (1853-1940)
* Willem Hendrik Keesom — Netherlands (1876-1956)
* Edwin C. Kemble — USA (1889-1984)
* Johannes Kepler — Germany (1571–1630)
* John Kerr — UK (1824–1907)
* Julii Khariton — Soviet Union (1904-1996)
* Gustav Robert Kirchhoff — Germany (1824–1887)
* Jacob Kistemaker — Netherlands (1917- )
* Arthur Korn — Germany (1870-1945)
* Matthew Koss — USA (1961 - )
* Walther Kossel — Germany (1888-1956)
* Hendrick Kramers — Netherlands (1894-1952)
* Lawrence Krauss — USA (1954- )
* 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)
* Kenneth Lane — USA
* Irving Langmuir — USA (1851–1957)
* Max von Laue — Germany (1879–1960)
* Ernest Lawrence — USA (1901–1958)
* Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev — Imperial Russia (1866–1912)
* Georges-Louis Le Sage — Switzerland (1724–1803)
* Tsung-Dao Lee — China, USA (1926– )
* Benjamin Lee — Korea, USA (1935-1977)
* Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany (1646–1716)
* Robert B. Leighton — USA (1919-1997)
* Philipp Lenard — Hungary, Germany (1862-1947)
* John Leslie — UK (1766–1832)
* Walter Lewin — Netherlands, USA
* Robert von Lieben Austria-Hungary — (1878-1913)
* David Lindley — USA (1956– )
* Karl L. Littrow — Austria (1811–1877)
* 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 — Britain (1888–1956)
* Lucretius — Rome (98?–55 BC)
* Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia (1857–1918)

M

* 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)
* Harrie Massey — Australia (1908-1983)
* 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— )
* Henry Moseley — UK (1887–1915)
* Nevill Mott — UK (1905-1996)
* Amédée Mouchez — Spain, France (1821–1892)
* José Enrique Moyal — Palestine, France, UK, USA, Australia (1910-1998)
* Richard A. Muller — USA (1944– )
* Pieter van Musschenbroeck — Netherlands (1692-1762)

N

* Yoichiro Nambu - Japan, USA (1921- )
* Jayant Narlikar - India (1938 - )
* 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)

O

* 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– )
* Hans Christian Ørsted — Denmark (1777–1851)

P

* Thanu Padmanabhan — India (1957- )
* Blaise Pascal — France (1623–1662)
* Jogesh Pati — USA (1937- )
* Wolfgang Ernst Pauli — Austria-Hungary (1900–1958)
* G. B. Pegram — USA (1876–1958)
* Rudolf Peierls — Germany/UK (1907-1995)
* Roger Penrose — UK (1931– )
* Saul Perlmutter — USA (1959- )
* Bernhard Philberth — Germany (1927– )
* Max Planck — Germany (1858–1947)
* 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)
* Aleksandr Prokhorov — Soviet/Russian (1916-2002)
* William Prout — UK (1785–1850)
* Ivan Pulyuy — Ukraine (1845-1918)
* Michael Pupin — Austria-Hungary/USA (1858-1935)

Q

* Helen Quinn - USA (1943- )

R

* I. I. Rabi — Austria, USA (1898-1988)
* Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — India (1888–1970)
* Edward Ramberg — USA (1907-1995)
* Carl Ramsauer — Germany (1879-1955)
* Lisa Randall — USA (1962– )
* Lord Rayleigh — UK (1842–1919)
* Sidney Redner — Canada, USA (1951– )
* 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– )
* Serge Rudaz — Canada, USA (1954– )
* 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)
* Otto Scherzer — Germany (1909-1982)
* Kees A. Schouhamer Immink — Netherlands (1946- )
* John Robert Schrieffer — USA (1931- )
* Erwin Schrödinger — Austria-Hungary (1887–1961)
* Julian Schwinger — USA (1918-1994)
* Emilio G. Segrè — USA/Italy (1905–1989)
* Robert Serber — USA (1909-1997)
* Ludwik Silberstein — Poland, Germany, Italy, USA, Canada (1872-1948)
* 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)
* 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)
* Max Tegmark — Sweden, USA (1967– )
* Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary/USA (1908–2003)
* 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)
* Bruno Touschek — Italy (1921-1978)
* Charles Townes — USA (1915– )
* Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763–1822)
* Sam Treiman — USA (1926- )
* John J. Turin — USA (1913-1973)

U

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

V

* Balthasar van der Pol — Netherlands (1889-1959)
* Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands (1837–1923)
* 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)
* Woldemar Voigt — Germany (1850-1919)
* Alessandro Volta — Italy (1745–1827)

W

* Ludwig Waldmann — Germany (1913-1980)
* Ernest Walton — Republic of 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 — Republic of Ireland (194?- )
* Wilhelm Weber — Germany (1804–1891)
* 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)
* Wilhelm Wien - Germany (1864-1928)
* Arthur Wightman — USA (1922– )
* Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary/USA (1902–1993)
* Frank Wilczek — USA (1951– )
* Robert R. Wilson — USA (1914–2000)
* 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)

Y

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

Z

* Anthony Zee — USA
* Pieter Zeeman — Netherland (1865-1943)
* Frits Zernike — Netherland (1888-1960)
* Barton Zwiebach — USA (1954- )