Physicist List

[edit] A

• André-Marie Ampère — France (1775–1836)
• Amedeo Avogadro — Italy (1776–1856)
• Ralph Asher Alpher — United States (1921–2007)
• Luis Walter Alvarez — United States (1911–1988) Nobel laureate
• Carl David Anderson — United States (1905–1991) Nobel laureate

[edit] B

• Henri Becquerel — France (1852–1908) Nobel laureate
• Daniel Bernoulli — Switzerland (1700–1782)
• Hans Bethe — Germany, United States (1906–2005)
• Homi J. Bhabha — India (1909–1966)
• Jean-Baptiste Biot — France (1774–1862)
• Patrick Blackett — UK (1897–1947)
• David Bohm — United States (1917–1992)
• Niels Bohr — Denmark (1885–1962) Nobel laureate
• Aage Bohr — Denmark (1922–2009) Nobel laureate
• Ludwig Boltzmann — Austria (1844–1906)
• Max Born — Germany, UK (1882–1970) Nobel laureate
• Jagadish Chandra Bose — India (1858–1937)
• Satyendra Nath Bose — India (1894–1974)
• Robert Boyle — Ireland, England (1627–1691)
• Louis-Victor de Broglie — France (1892–1987)

[edit] C

• Nicola Cabibbo — Italy (1935–2010)
• Hendrik Casimir — Netherlands (1909–2000)
• Henry Cavendish — UK (1731–1810)
• James Chadwick — UK (1891–1974)
• Owen Chamberlain — United States (1920–2006)
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar — India, United States (1910–1995) Nobel laureate
• Georges Charpak — France (1924–2010) Nobel laureate
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904–1990) Nobel laureate
• John Cockcroft — UK (1897–1967)
• Arthur Compton — United States (1892–1962)
• Karl Compton — United States (1887–1954)
• Edward Condon — United States (1902–1974)
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — France (1736–1806)
• Sir William Crookes — UK (1832–1919)
• Marie Curie — Poland, France (1867–1934) Nobel laureate
• Pierre Curie — France (1859–1906) Nobel laureate

[edit] D

• Jean le Rond d’Alembert — France (1717–1783)
• John Dalton — UK (1766–1844)
• Charles Galton Darwin — UK (1887–1962)
• Raymond Davis Jr. — United States (1914–2006)
• Clinton Davisson — United States (1881–1958)
• Paul Dirac — UK (1902–1984)

[edit] E

• Sir Arthur Eddington — UK (1882–1944)
• Paul Ehrenfest — Austria-Hungary, Netherlands (1880–1933)
• Albert Einstein — Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United States (1879–1955) Nobel laureate
• Leonhard Euler — Switzerland (1707–1783)

[edit] F

• Ludvig Faddeev — Russia (born 1934)
• Michael Faraday — UK (1791–1867)
• Enrico Fermi — Italy (1901–1954)
• Richard Feynman — United States (1918–1988) Nobel laureate
• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898–1974)
• Alexander_Friedmann — Russia (1888–1925)
• Joseph Fourier — France (1768–1830)
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France (1788–1827)

[edit] G

• Galileo Galilei — Italy (1564–1642)
• George Gamow — Russia, United States (1904–1968)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany (1777–1855)
• Josiah Willard Gibbs — United States (1839–1903)
• William Gilbert — England (1544–1603)
• Donald Arthur Glaser — United States (born 1926)
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer — Germany, United States (1906–1972)
• Maurice Goldhaber — Austria, United States (1911–2011)

[edit] H

• Otto Hahn — Germany (1879–1968)
• William Rowan Hamilton — Ireland (1805–1865)
• Oliver Heaviside — UK (1850–1925)
• Werner Karl Heisenberg — Germany (1901–1976)
• Hermann von Helmholtz — Germany (1821–1894)
• Joseph Henry — United States (1797–1878)
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz — Germany (1857–1894)
• Victor Francis Hess — Austria, United States (1883–1964)
• Robert Hooke — England (1635–1703)
• Sir Fred Hoyle — UK (1915–2001)
• Edwin Powell Hubble — United States (1889–1953)
• Christiaan Huygens — Netherlands (1629–1695)

[edit] I

[edit] J

• Sir James Jeans — UK (1877–1946)
• Irène Joliot-Curie — France (1897–1956)
• James Prescott Joule — UK (1818–1889)

[edit] K

• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — Netherlands (1853–1926)
• Pyotr Kapitza — UK, Soviet Union (1894–1984)
• Henry Way Kendall — United States (1926–1999)
• Johannes Kepler — Germany (1571–1630)
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff — Germany (1824–1887)
• Jacob Kistemaker — Netherlands (1917–2010)
• Bruce G. Klappauf — United States (born 1961)
• Oskar Klein — Sweden (1894–1977)
• Ryogo Kubo — Japan (1920–1995)

[edit] L

• Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736–1813)
• Willis Lamb — United States (1913–2008)
• Lev Davidovich Landau — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1908–1968)
• Paul Langevin — France (1872–1946)
• Max von Laue — Germany (1879–1960)
• Ernest Lawrence — United States (1901–1958)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany (1646–1716)
• Georges Lemaître — Belgium (1894–1966)
• Philipp Lenard — Hungary, Germany (1862–1947)
• Hendrik Lorentz — Netherlands (1853–1928)

[edit] M

• Ernst Mach — Austria-Hungary (1838–1916)
• James Clerk Maxwell — UK (1831–1879)
• Maria Goeppert Mayer — Germany, United States (1906–1972)
• Simon van der Meer — Netherlands (1925–2011)
• Lise Meitner — Austria (1878–1968)
• Albert Abraham Michelson — United States (1852–1931)
• Robert Andrews Millikan — United States (1868–1953)
• Rudolf Mössbauer — Germany (1929–2011)
• Henry Moseley — UK (1887–1915)
• Nevill Mott — UK (1905–1996)
• Robert S. Mulliken — United States (1896–1986)

[edit] N

• Yoichiro Nambu — Japan, United States (born 1921)
• John von Neumann — Austria-Hungary, United States (1903–1957)
• Sir Isaac Newton — England (1642–1727)
• Emmy Noether — Germany (1882–1935)

[edit] O

• Georg Ohm — Germany (1789–1854)
• Robert Oppenheimer — United States (1904–1967)
• Hans Christian Ørsted — Denmark (1777–1851)

[edit] P

• • Abraham Pais — Netherlands, United States (1918–2000)
  • Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky — Germany, United States (1919–2007)
  • Blaise Pascal — France (1623–1662)
  • Wolfgang Ernst Pauli — Austria-Hungary (1900–1958)
  • Jean Baptiste Perrin — France (1870–1942)
  • Max Planck — Germany (1858–1947)
  • Henri Poincaré — France (1854–1912)
  • Siméon Denis Poisson — France (1781–1840)

>Cecil Frank Powell— UK (1903–1969)

• John Henry Poynting — UK (1852–1914)

[edit] Q

[edit] R

• Isidor Isaac Rabi — Austria, United States (1898–1988)
• Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — India (1888–1970)
• Edward Ramberg — United States (1907–1995)
• Carl Ramsauer — Germany (1879–1955)
• Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. — United States (1915–2011)
• Lord Rayleigh — UK (1842–1919)
• Frederick Reines — United States (1918–1998)
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen — Germany (1845–1923)
• Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand, UK (1871–1937)
• Janne Rydberg — Sweden (1854–1919)

[edit] S

• Carl Sagan — United States (1934–1996)
• Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — Soviet Union (1929–1989)
• Abdus Salam — Pakistan, UK (1926–1996) Nobel laureate
• Erwin Schrödinger — Austria-Hungary (1887–1961)
• Melvin Schwartz — United States (1932–2006)
• Karl Schwarzschild — Germany (1876–1916)
• Julian Schwinger — United States (1918–1994)
• Emilio G. Segrè — United States, Italy (1905–1989)
• Robert Serber — United States (1909–1997)
• William Bradford Shockley — United States (1910–1989)
• Willem de Sitter — Netherlands (1872–1934)
• Arnold Sommerfeld — Germany (1868–1951)
• Johannes Stark — Germany (1874–1957)
• Otto Stern — Germany (1888–1969)
• Leó Szilárd — Austria-Hungary, United States (1898–1964)

[edit] T

• Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary, United States (1908–2003)
• Nikola Tesla — Croatia, United States (1856–1943)
• J. J. Thomson — UK (1856–1940)
• William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) — UK (1824–1907)
• Sin-Itiro Tomonaga — Japan (1906–1979)
• Evangelista Torricelli — Italy (1608–1647)

[edit] U

• George Eugene Uhlenbeck — Netherlands, United States (1900–1988)
• Stanislaw Ulam — Poland (1909–1984)

[edit] V

• Léon Van Hove — Belgium (1924–1990)
• Alessandro Volta — Italy (1745–1827)
• Wernher Von Braun — Germany (1912–1977)

[edit] W

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands (1837–1923)
• Kan-Chang Wang — China (1907–1998)
• James Watt — UK (1736–1819)
• Wilhelm Weber — Germany (1804–1891)
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, United States (1908–2002)
• John Archibald Wheeler — United States (1911–2008)
• Wilhelm Wien — Germany (1864–1928)
• Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary, United States (1902–1993)
• Charles Thomson Rees Wilson — UK (1869–1959)
• Robert R. Wilson — United States (1914–2000)
• Chien-Shiung Wu — United States (1912–1997)

[edit] X

• Basilis C. Xanthopoulos — Greece (1951–1990)

[edit] Y

• Thomas Young — UK (1773–1829)
• Hideki Yukawa — Japan (1907–1981)

[edit] Z

• Pieter Zeeman — Netherlands (1865–1943)
• Yakov Borisovich Zel’dovich — Russia (1914–1987)