Physicists
500 people
Ancient 6
Anaxagoras
5th-century BC Greek philosopher
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
Archytas
4th-century BC Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and statesman
Hero of Alexandria
ancient Greek mathematician and engineer
Posidonius
Greek Stoic philosopher (c.135 – c.51 BC)
Theophrastus
Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC)
Medieval 12
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
Anaximander
pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Avempace
Arab Andalusian polymath (c. 1085 – 1138)
Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
Farabi
10th century Persian philosopher and jurist
Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
Leucippus
5th-century BCE Greek philosopher
Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)
Roger Bacon
English polymath, philosopher and friar (c.1219/20–c.1292)
Shen Kuo
Chinese scientist and statesman (1031-1095)
William of Ockham
English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)
Renaissance 10
Conrad Gessner
Swiss physician, bibliographer and naturalist (1516–1565)
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
Johannes Kepler
German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
John Napier
Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
Marin Mersenne
French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as...
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
Pierre Gassendi
French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
William Gilbert
English physician, physicist and natural philosopher (1544-1603)
Enlightenment 78
Alessandro Volta
Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
Alexis Clairaut
French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (*1713 – †1765)
Amedeo Avogadro
Italian scientist
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
André-Marie Ampère
French physicist and mathematician (1775–1836)
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first...
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French engineer and physicist (1788-1827)
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
French mathematician (1789–1857)
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron
French physicist (1799-1864)
Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician and physicist (1777–1855)
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
French physicist (1736-1806)
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
Christopher Wren
English architect (1632–1723)
Daniel Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700-1782)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
David Brewster
Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1781–1868)
Denis Papin
French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian (1688-1772)
Evangelista Torricelli
Italian physicist and mathematician (1608-1647)
François Arago
French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician (1786-1853)
Friedrich Bessel
German astronomer and mathematician
Gaspard Monge
French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential...
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
French mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist (1792–1843)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
German scientist and satirist (1742-1799)
Georg Simon Ohm
German physicist and mathematician
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
Hans Christian Ørsted
Danish physicist and chemist (1777-1851)
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
German physician and astronomer (1758-1840)
Henry Cavendish
English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)
Humphry Davy
British chemist
Immanuel Kant
German philosopher (1724-1804)
Isaac Barrow
English Christian theologian, and mathematician (1630-1677)
Jacob Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1655-1705)
James Watt
British engineer (1736–1819)
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
Jean-Baptiste Biot
French scientist (1774-1862)
Jean-Victor Poncelet
French engineer and mathematician (1788-1867)
Johan Gadolin
Finnish chemist, physicist and mineralogist (1760–1852)
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
Johann Heinrich Lambert
German mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1728-1777)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician (1749–1832)
John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792–1871)
Joseph Black
Scottish physicist and chemist (1728–1799)
Joseph Henry
American scientist and the 1st Secretary of the Smithsonian (1797-1878)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
French chemist and physicist (1778–1850)
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
Joseph von Fraunhofer
Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Mathematician and astronomer (1736–1813)
Laura Bassi
Italian physicist (1711-1778)
Lazare Carnot
French political, engineering and mathematical figure (1753–1823)
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
Luigi Galvani
Italian physician, physicist, and philosopher
Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780–1872)
Michael Faraday
British scientist (1791–1867)
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
Nicolas Carnot
French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796–1832)
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
Ole Rømer
Danish astronomer (*1644 – †1710)
Otto von Guericke
German scientist, inventor, and politician (1602-1686)
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
Ruđer Josip Bošković
Croat physicist (1711–1787)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
American inventor and painter (1791–1872)
Siméon Denis Poisson
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist (1781–1840)
Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
William Hyde Wollaston
English chemist and physicist (1766–1828)
William Lassell
English merchant and astronomer (1799–1880)
Émilie du Châtelet
Era chiná physicist, and author (1706-1749)
19th Century 152
Albert Abraham Michelson
American physicist (1852–1931)
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
Aleksandr Popov
Russian physicist (1859–1906)
Alexander Friedmann
Russian mathematician (1888-1925)
Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
Alfred Wegener
German climatologist and geophysicist (1880–1930)
Anders Jonas Ångström
Swedish physicist
Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer (1863-1941)
Antoine Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
Antonio Meucci
Italian inventor and telephone pioneer (1808–1889)
Arnold Sommerfeld
German physicist (1868-1951)
Arthur Eddington
British astrophysicist (1882-1944)
Arthur Holly Compton
American physicist (1892–1962)
Bernhard Riemann
German mathematician (1826–1866)
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
German mathematician (1804–1851)
Carl Zeiss
German optical physicist (1816–1888)
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Indian physicist (1888–1970)
Charles Glover Barkla
English physicist (1877-1944)
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Scottish physicist and meteorologist (1869-1959)
Charles Édouard Guillaume
Swiss physicist (1861-1938)
Christian Dopplerr
Austrian mathematician and physicist (1803-1853)
Clinton Joseph Davisson
American physicist (1881-1958)
David Hilbert
German mathematician (1862–1943)
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
Eadweard Muybridge
English-American photographer (1830–1904)
Edward Victor Appleton
English physicist (1892–1965)
Emil Lenz
Baltic German physicist (1804-1865)
Emmy Noether
German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand physicist (1871–1937)
Ernst Abbe
German physicist (1840-1905)
Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist (1838–1916)
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist (1887–1961)
Felix Klein
German mathematician, author of the Erlangen Program (1849-1925)
Francis William Aston
British chemist (1877-1945)
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Frederick Soddy
English radiochemist (1877–1956)
Frits Zernike
Dutch physicist (1888–1966)
Fritz Haber
German chemist and receiver of the Nobel prize (1868–1934)
Fritz Pregl
Slovene-Austrian Nobel prize laureate and scientist (1869-1930)
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss astronomer who posited dark matter (1898–1974)
Gabriel Lippmann
Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French (1845-1921)
Georg von Békésy
Hungarian physicist (1899–1972)
George Biddell Airy
English mathematician and astronomer (*1801 – †1892)
George Paget Thomson
English physicist (1892–1975)
Georges Lemaître
Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest (1894–1966)
G
Gilbert N. Lewis
American physical chemist
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
Gustav Fechner
German scientist (1801-1887)
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist (1824–1887)
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
German physicist (1887–1975)
Gustave Le Bon
French psychologist (1841-1931)
Hans Geiger
German physicist (1882–1945)
Harold Urey
American physical chemist (1893-1981)
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Dutch physicist, Nobel prize winner (1853-1926)
Heinrich Hertz
German physicist (1857–1894)
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Dutch physicist (1853–1928)
Henri Poincaré
French mathematician, physicist and engineer (1854–1912)
Henry Moseley
English physicist
Hermann Minkowski
German mathematician and physicist (1864–1909)
Hermann Oberth
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
Hermann Weyl
German mathematician (1885–1955)
Hermann von Helmholtz
German physicist and physiologist (1821-1894)
Hippolyte Fizeau
French physicist (1819–1896)
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
Soviet physicist (1895–1971)
Irving Langmuir
American chemist and physicist (1881–1957)
Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist (1897–1956)
Isidor Isaac Rabi
American physicist (1898–1988)
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Dutch physical and organic chemist (1852-1911)
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali polymath, physicist, and biologist (1858–1937)
James Chadwick
English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist (1831–1879)
James Dewar
Scottish chemist and physicist (1842–1923)
James Franck
German-American physicist (1882–1964)
James Hopwood Jeans
British mathematician and astronomer (1877 – 1946)
James Prescott Joule
English physicist and brewer (1818–1889)
Jaroslav Heyrovský
Czech chemist (1890-1967)
Jean-Baptiste Perrin
French physicist (1870–1942)
Johann Jakob Balmer
Swiss mathematician (1825–1898)
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Dutch physicist (1837–1923)
Johannes Rydberg
Swedish physicist
Johannes Stark
German physicist (1874-1957)
John Douglas Cockcroft
British physicist (1897–1967)
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
American physicist (1899–1980)
John Logie Baird
Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)
John William Strutt
English physicist (1842–1919)
Josef Stefan
Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (1835-1893)
Joseph John Thomson
British physicist (1856-1940)
Josiah Willard Gibbs
American scientist (1839–1903)
Karl Ferdinand Braun
German inventor and physicist (1909 Nobel Prize)
Karl Weierstraß
German mathematician (1815–1897)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
Lee de Forest
American inventor (1873–1961)
Leó Szilárd
Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor (1898–1964)
Lise Meitner
Austrian-Swedish physicist
Louis de Broglie
Nobel laureate credited to pioneer the discovery of wave character of matter (1892–1987)
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
Léon Foucault
French physicist (1819–1868)
Manne Siegbahn
Swedish physicist (1886-1978)
Marie Curie
Polish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
Max Born
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882–1970)
Max Planck
German theoretical physicist (1858–1947)
Max von Laue
German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi (1879–1960)
Mikhail Ostrogradsky
Ukrainian mathematician (1801–1861)
Mileva Marić
Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
Milutin Milanković
Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, climatologist, and engineer (1879–1958)
Moritz Schlick
German philosopher (1882-1936)
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Nikolay Semyonov
Soviet physical chemist (1896-1986)
Nils Gustaf Dalén
Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist (1869–1937)
Odd Hassel
Norwegian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate (1897–1981)
Oliver Heaviside
electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist (1850–1925)
Osborne Reynolds
Anglo-Irish innovator (1842-1912)
Otto Hahn
German chemist and physicist (1879-1968)
Otto Stern
German-American physicist (1888–1969)
Owen Willans Richardson
British physicist (1879-1959)
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
British physicist (1897-1974)
Paul Langevin
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
Percy Williams Bridgman
American physicist
Peter Debye
Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966)
Philipp Lenard
German physicist (1862–1947)
Pierre Curie
French physicist (1859–1906)
Pierre Janssen
French astronomer (1824-1907)
Pieter Zeeman
Dutch physicist (1865–1943)
Pyotr Kapitsa
Soviet physicist
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Austrian chemist (1865-1929)
Robert Andrews Millikan
American physicist (1868–1953)
Robert Bunsen
German chemist (1811-1899)
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
Robert Mayer
German physicist (1814-1878)
Robert S. Mulliken
American physicist, chemist and botanical collector (1896 - 1986)
Rudolf Clausius
German mathematical physicist and professor (1822–1888)
Satyendra Nath Bose
Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Irish mathematician and physicist (1819–1903)
Sofia Kovalevskaya
19th-century Russian mathematician
Svante August Arrhenius
Swedish astronomer, chemist and physicist (1859–1927)
Theodor Svedberg
Swedish chemist (1884-1971)
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Victor Francis Hess
Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate (1883-1964)
Walther Bothe
German physicist, mathematician and chemist (1891-1957)
Walther Hermann Nernst
German physical chemist and physicist (1864–1941)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
German physicist (1845–1923)
Wilhelm Eduard Weber
German physicist (1804–1891)
Wilhelm Ostwald
Baltic German chemist (1853–1932)
Wilhelm Wien
German physicist (1864-1928)
William Crookes
British chemist and physicist (1832-1919)
William Henry Bragg
British scientist (1862–1942)
William John Macquorn Rankine
civil engineer (1820–1872)
William Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
British physicist and engineer (1824–1907)
Émile Borel
French mathematician and politician (1871-1956)
Modern 242
Aage Bohr
Danish physicist (1922–2009)
Abdus Salam
theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
Adam Riess
American astrophysicist
Ahmed Zewail
Egyptian chemist
Alain Aspect
French physicist
Alan J. Heeger
American chemist, physicist
Albert Fert
French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics
Alexander Prokhorov
Soviet and Russian physicist (1916-2002)
Alexei Abrikosov
Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist
Alfred Kastler
French physicist (1902–1984)
Allan McLeod Cormack
American physicist (1924-1998)
Andre Geim
Russian-born Dutch-British physicist
Andrew Fire
American biologist
Andrew Huxley
English physiologist and biophysicist (1917–2012)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
Andrey Kolmogorov
Russian mathematician (1903–1987)
Anne L'Huillier
French physicist
Anthony James Leggett
British physicist (1938–2026)
Anton Zeilinger
Austrian quantum physicist (born 1945)
Antony Hewish
English physicist and radio astronomer (1924–2021)
Arno Allan Penzias
German-born American physicist
Arthur Ashkin
American physicist (1922-2020)
Arthur B. McDonald
Canadian physicist (born 1943)
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
American physicist
Barry C. Barish
American physicist
Ben Roy Mottelson
Danish nuclear physicist (1926–2022)
Bernard Katz
German-British biophysicist (1911–2003)
Bertram Brockhouse
Canadian physicist
Brian David Josephson
Welsh physicist
Brian Kobilka
American physiologist
Brian May
British musician (born 1947)
Burton Richter
American physicist
Carl David Anderson
American physicist
Carl Sagan
American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author (1934–1996)
Carl Wieman
Nobel prize winning US physicist
Carlo Rubbia
Italian particle physicist
Cecil Frank Powell
British physicist
Charles Hard Townes
20th-century American physicist
Charles K. Kao
Hong Kong-British-American physicist
Chen-ning Yang
Chinese physicist (1922–2025)
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
French physicist (1933-)
Clifford Shull
American physicist (1915–2001)
Dan Shechtman
Israeli scientist
Daniel C. Tsui
Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
David Gross
American particle physicist and string theorist
David J. Thouless
British physicist (1934–2019)
David J. Wineland
American physicist
David Lee
physicist and Nobel Prize winner from the United States
Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
Donald Arthur Glaser
American physicist and neurobiologist (1926–2013)
Donna Strickland
Canadian physicist, Nobel laurate
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist
Douglas Osheroff
American physicist
Dudley R. Herschbach
American chemist
Duncan Haldane
professor of physics at Princeton University
E. Donnall Thomas
American hematologist (1920-2012)
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
Edward Mills Purcell
American physicist (1912-1997)
Edward Teller
Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)
Edward Witten
American theoretical physicist
Edwin McMillan
American physicist (1907-1991)
Emilio G. Segrè
Italian physicist and Nobel laureate
Enrico Fermi
Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)
Eric Allin Cornell
American physicist, professor (born 1961)
Eric Betzig
American physicist
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Irish physicist and Nobel laureate (1903-1995)
Ernesto Sabato
Argentine writer, painter and physicist (1911-2011)
E
Ernst Ruska
German physicist (1906–1988)
Eugene Paul Wigner
Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)
Felix Bloch
Swiss physicist (1905-1983)
Ferenc Krausz
Austrian-Hungarian laser physicist and university teacher (born 1962)
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the...
Frank Wilczek
American theoretical physicist
Fred Hoyle
British astronomer (1915–2001)
Frederick Reines
American physicist (1918–1998)
Freeman Dyson
theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
Georg Bednorz
physicist
George E. Smith
Nobel prize winning American physicist
George Emil Palade
Romanian cell biologist, physician and Nobel laureate (1912–2008)
George F. Smoot
American astrophysicist and cosmologist (1945–2025)
George Gamow
Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968)
Georges Charpak
French physicist (1924-2010)
Gerald Edelman
American biologist (1929–2014)
Gerard 't Hooft
Dutch theoretical physicist
Gerd Binnig
German physicist (born 1947)
Gerhard Ertl
German physicist
Gerhard Herzberg
German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist (1904-1999)
Giorgio Parisi
Italian physicist (1948-)
Godfrey Hounsfield
English electrical engineer (1919–2004)
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
Gérard Mourou
French physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
Hannes Alfvén
Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995),...
Hans Bethe
German-American nuclear physicist
Hans Georg Dehmelt
German physicist (1922-2017)
Heinrich Rohrer
Swiss physicist (1933-2013)
Henry Way Kendall
American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
Herbert Kroemer
German-American physics (1928–2024)
Hiroshi Amano
Japanese doctor of engineering and physicist (1960-), 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics
Horst Ludwig Störmer
German physicist
Hugh David Politzer
American physicist
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank
Soviet physicist
Ilya Prigogine
Russian-Belgian physical chemist (1917–2003)
Imre Lakatos
Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922-1974)
Isamu Akasaki
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
Ivar Giæver
Norwegian-American physicist
J. Michael Kosterlitz
British-American physicist
Jack Kilby
American electrical engineer (1923–2005)
Jack Steinberger
German-American physicist, Nobel laureate (1921-2020)
James A. Van Allen
American astrophysicist (1914–2006)
James Cronin
American physicist
James Rainwater
American physicist
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
Jan Hendrik Oort
Dutch astronomer (1900–1992)
Jerome Isaac Friedman
American physicist
Jim Peebles
Canadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
British astrophysicist (born 1943)
Johann Deisenhofer
German scientist
Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen
German nuclear physicist (1907–1973)
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist (1911-2008)
John B. Goodenough
American materials scientist (1922–2023)
John Bardeen
American physicist and engineer (1908–1991)
John C. Mather
American astrophysicist and cosmologist
John Clarke
British physicist (born 1942)
John Clauser
American physicist
John Hopfield
American scientist (born 1933)
John L. Hall
American physicist (born 1934)
John Polanyi
Hungarian-Canadian chemist
John Pople
Nobel prize winning British chemist (1925-2004)
John Robert Schrieffer
American physicist (1931-2019)
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
Joseph Hooton Taylor
American astronomer
Joseph Rotblat
Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
Julian Seymour Schwinger
American theoretical physicist (1918–1994)
Kai Siegbahn
Swedish physicist (1918–2007)
Karl Alexander Müller
Swiss physicist (1927–2023)
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
Kenneth G. Wilson
Nobel prize winning US physicist
Kip S. Thorne
American physicist (born 1940)
Klaus von Klitzing
German physicist
Konstantin Novoselov
Russian-British physicist known for graphene work
Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906–1978)
Lars Onsager
American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist (1925-)
Leon Cooper
American physicist (1930–2024)
Leon M. Lederman
American mathematician and physicist
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
Linus Pauling
American scientist (1901–1994)
Louis Néel
French physicist (1904-2000)
Luis Federico Leloir
Argentine biochemist
Luis Walter Alvarez
American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)
Mae Jemison
American doctor and NASA astronaut
Makoto Kobayashi
Japanese theoretical physicist (1944–)
Manfred Eigen
German biophysical chemist (1927-2019)
Maria Göppert Mayer
German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)
Martin Lewis Perl
American scientist (1927–2014)
Martin Ryle
English radio astronomer (1918–1984)
Martinus J. G. Veltman
Dutch theoretical physicist (1931–2021)
Masatoshi Koshiba
Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
Maurice Allais
French economist (1911–2010)
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
Max Delbrück
biophysicist (1906–1981)
Melvin Schwartz
American experimental physicist (1932-2006)
Michael Levitt
biophysicist and Professor of Structural biology
Michel Mayor
Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
Michio Kaku
U.S.-American theoretical physicist, futurist and author (1947-)
Murray Gell-Mann
American physicist (1929–2019)
Nevill Francis Mott
English physicist, Nobel prize winner
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Dutch-born American physicist
Norman Foster Ramsey
American physicist (1915–2011)
Owen Chamberlain
American physicist
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
British theoretical physicist (1902–1984)
Paul Flory
American chemist (1910-1985)
Paul Lauterbur
American chemist (1929–2007)
Pavel Cherenkov
Soviet physicist (1904-1990)
Peter Grünberg
German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)
Peter Higgs
British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)
Peter Mansfield
English physicist known for magnetic resonance imaging
Philip W. Anderson
American physicist (1923-2020)
Pierre Agostini
French physicist
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
French physicist
Polykarp Kusch
German-American physicist (1911-1993)
Rainer Weiss
American physicist (1932–2025)
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914-2006)
Riccardo Giacconi
Italian-American astrophysicist (1931-2018)
Richard E. Taylor
Canadian physicist (1929-2018)
Robert B. Laughlin
American physicist
Robert Coleman Richardson
American physicist
Robert Hofstadter
American physicist and Nobel laureate (1915-1990)
Robert Noyce
American businessman and engineer (1927–1990)
Robert Oppenheimer
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
Robert Wilson
American astronomer (born 1936)
Roger Penrose
English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher
Rosalind Franklin
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer (1920–1958)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
American medical physicist (1921-2011)
Roy J. Glauber
American theoretical physicist (1925–2018)
Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
German nuclear physicist and Noble Prize in Physics
Russell Alan Hulse
American astronomer
Sally Ride
American astronaut and physicist (1951–2012)
Samuel C. C. Ting
Chinese-American physicist
Saul Perlmutter
American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
Serge Haroche
French physicist, Nobel laureate
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
Sheldon Glashow
American theoretical physicist
Shinichiro Tomonaga
Japanese physicist (1906-1979)
Shinya Yamanaka
Japanese doctor and medical scientist (born 1962)
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate...
Sidney Altman
Canadian American molecular biologist (1939-2022)
Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist (1925–2011)
Stanisław Ulam
Polish-American mathematician
Stefan Hell
director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany
Steven Weinberg
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)
Subhash Kak
Indian computer scientist
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
Takaaki Kajita
Japanese physicist and astronomer
Theodor W. Hänsch
German physicist and nobel laureate (born 1941)
Thomas Kuhn
American historian, physicist and philosopher (1922 – 1996)
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
Tjalling Koopmans
Dutch American economist (1910–1985)
Toshihide Maskawa
Japanese theoretical physicist (1940–2021)
Tsung-Dao Lee
Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)
Val Logsdon Fitch
American physicist
Vera Rubin
American astronomer and physicist (1928-2016)
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist (1916–2009)
Vladimir Arnold
Russian mathematician who studied integrable systems and differential equations (1937–2010)
Walter Gilbert
American biochemist
Walter Houser Brattain
American physicist (1902–1987)
Walter Kohn
American physicist (1923–2016)
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
Willard Boyle
Canadian physicist and inventor (1924–2011)
William Alfred Fowler
American nuclear physicist (1911-1995)
William Bradford Shockley
American physicist and inventor (1910–1989)
William Daniel Phillips
physics Nobel laureate
William E. Moerner
Nobel prize winning American chemical physicist
Willis Eugene Lamb
American physicist (1913–2008)
Wolfgang Ketterle
German physicist
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Wolfgang Paul
German physicist (1913–1993)
Yakov Zeldovich
Soviet physicist, physical chemist and cosmologist (1914-1987)
Yoichiro Nambu
American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)