List of physicists
Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements.
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- Jules Aarons – United States
- Ernst Karl Abbe – Germany
- Derek Abbott – Australia
- Hasan Abdullayev – Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Soviet Union, Azerbaijan
- Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov – Soviet Union, Russia Nobel laureate
- Robert Adler – United States
- Stephen L. Adler – United States
- Franz Aepinus – Rostock
- Mina Aganagic – Albania, United States
- David Z Albert – United States
- Felicie Albert – France, United States
- Miguel Alcubierre – Mexico
- Zhores Ivanovich Alferov – Soviet Union, Russia Nobel laureate
- Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén – Sweden Nobel laureate
- Alhazen – Basra, Iraq
- Artem Alikhanian – Soviet Union, Armenia
- Abram Alikhanov – Soviet Union, Russia
- John E. Allen – United Kingdom
- William Allis – United States
- Samuel King Allison – United States
- Yakov Lvovich Alpert – Soviet Union, Russia, United States
- Ralph Asher Alpher – United States
- Semen Altshuler – Soviet Union
- Luis Walter Alvarez – United States Nobel laureate
- Viktor Ambartsumian – Soviet Union, Armenia
- André-Marie Ampère – France
- Anja Cetti Andersen – Denmark
- Hans Henrik Andersen – Denmark
- Philip Warren Anderson – United States Nobel laureate
- Carl David Anderson – United States Nobel laureate
- Herbert L. Anderson – United States
- Elephter Andronikashvili – Soviet Union, Georgia
- Anders Jonas Ångström – Sweden
- Alexander Animalu, Nigeria
- Edward Victor Appleton – United Kingdom Nobel laureate
- François Arago – France
- Archimedes – Syracuse, Greece
- Manfred von Ardenne – Germany
- Aristarchus of Samos – Samos, Greece
- Aristotle – Athens, Greece
- Nima Arkani-Hamed – United States
- Lev Artsimovich – Soviet Union
- Aryabhata – Pataliputra, India
- Neil Ashby – United States
- Maha Ashour-Abdalla – Egypt, United States
- Gurgen Askaryan – Soviet Union
- Alain Aspect – France
- Marcel Audiffren – France
- Pierre Victor Auger – France
- Avicenna – Persia
- Amedeo Avogadro – Italy
- David Awschalom – United States
- APJ Abdul Kalam – India
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- Abu sahl Al-Quhi – İran
- Xiaoyi Bao – Canada
- Mani Lal Bhaumik – United States
- Tom Baehr-Jones – United States
- John Norris Bahcall – United States
- Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge – U.K.
- Cornelis Bakker – Netherlands
- Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran – India
- V Balakrishnan – India
- Milla Baldo-Ceolin – Italy
- Johann Jakob Balmer – Switzerland
- Tom Banks – United States
- Riccardo Barbieri – Italy
- Marcia Barbosa – Brazil
- John Bardeen – United States double Nobel laureate
- William A. Bardeen – United States
- Ronald Hugh Barker – Ireland
- Charles Glover Barkla – U.K. Nobel laureate
- Amanda Barnard – Australia
- Boyd Bartlett – United States
- Asım Orhan Barut – Malatya, Turkey
- Heinz Barwich – Germany
- Nikolay Basov – Soviet Union, Russia Nobel laureate
- Laura Maria Caterina Bassi – Italy
- Zoltán Lajos Bay – Hungary
- Karl Bechert – Germany
- Henri Becquerel – France Nobel laureate
- Johannes Georg Bednorz – Germany Nobel laureate
- Isaac Beeckman – Netherlands
- Jacob Bekenstein – Israel
- Alexander Graham Bell – Scotland, Canada, U.S.A.
- John Stewart Bell – U.K.
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Northern Ireland, U.K.
- Carl M. Bender – United States
- Abraham Bennet – England
- Daniel Bernoulli – Switzerland
- Hans Bethe – Germany, United States Nobel laureate
- Homi J. Bhabha – India
- Lars Bildsten – United States
- James Binney – England
- Gerd Binnig – Germany Nobel laureate
- Jean-Baptiste Biot – France
- Raymond T. Birge – United States
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī – Persia
- Vilhelm Bjerknes – Norway
- James Bjorken – United States
- Patrick Blackett – U.K. Nobel laureate
- Felix Bloch – Switzerland Nobel laureate
- Nicolaas Bloembergen – Netherlands, United States Nobel laureate
- Walter Boas – Germany, Australia
- Céline Bœhm – France
- Nikolay Bogolyubov – Soviet Union, Russia
- David Bohm – United States
- Aage Bohr – Denmark Nobel laureate
- Niels Bohr – Denmark Nobel laureate
- Martin Bojowald – Germany
- Ludwig Boltzmann – Austria
- Eugene T. Booth – United States
- Max Born – Germany, U.K. Nobel laureate
- Rudjer Josip Boscovich – Croatia
- Jagadish Chandra Bose – India
- Margrete Heiberg Bose – Denmark
- Satyendra Nath Bose – India
- Johannes Bosscha – Netherlands
- Walther Bothe – Germany Nobel laureate
- Edward Bouchet – United States
- Mustapha Ishak Boushaki – Algeria
- Mark Bowick – United States
- Robert Boyle – Ireland, England
- Willard S. Boyle – Canada, United States Nobel laureate
- William Henry Bragg – U.K. Nobel laureate
- William Lawrence Bragg – U.K., Australia Nobel laureate
- Tycho Brahe – Denmark
- Howard Brandt – United States
- Walter Houser Brattain – United States Nobel laureate
- Karl Ferdinand Braun – Germany Nobel laureate
- David Brewster – U.K.
- Percy Williams Bridgman – United States Nobel laureate
- Léon Nicolas Brillouin – France
- Marcel Brillouin – France
- Bertram Brockhouse – Canada Nobel laureate
- Louis-Victor de Broglie – France Nobel laureate
- William Fuller Brown, Jr. – United States
- Ernst Brüche – Germany
- Hermann Brück – Germany
- Ari Brynjolfsson – Iceland
- Hans Buchdahl – Germany, Australia
- Gersh Budker – Soviet Union
- Silke Bühler-Paschen – Austria
- Johannes Martinus Burgers – Netherlands
- Friedrich Burmeister – Germany
- Bimla Buti – India
- Christophorus Buys Ballot – Netherlands
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- Nicola Cabibbo – Italy
- Nicolás Cabrera – Spain
- Orion Ciftja – United States
- Curtis Callan – United States
- Annie Jump Cannon – United States
- Fritjof Capra – Austria, United States
- Marcela Carena – Argentina
- Ricardo Carezani – Argentina, United States
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot – France
- David Carroll – United States
- Brandon Carter – Australia
- Hendrik Casimir – Netherlands
- Henry Cavendish – U.K.
- James Chadwick – U.K. Nobel laureate
- Owen Chamberlain – United States Nobel laureate
- Moses H. W. Chan – Hong Kong
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – India, United States Nobel laureate
- Tsao Chang - Chinese
- Georges Charpak – France Nobel laureate
- Émilie du Châtelet – France
- Swapan Chattopadhyay – India
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union Nobel laureate
- Maxim Chernodub – Soviet Union, Russia, France
- Geoffrey Chew – United States
- Boris Chirikov – Soviet Union, Russia
- Juansher Chkareuli – Soviet Union, Georgia
- Ernst Chladni – Germany
- Nicholas Christofilos – Greece
- Steven Chu – United States Nobel laureate
- Giovanni Ciccotti – Italy
- Benoît Clapeyron – France
- George W. Clark – United States
- John Clauser – United States Nobel laureate
- Rudolf Clausius – Germany
- Richard Clegg – U.K.
- Gari Clifford – British-American physicist, biomedical engineer, academic, researcher
- John Cockcroft – U.K. Nobel laureate
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji – France Nobel laureate
- Arthur Compton – United States Nobel laureate
- Karl Compton – United States
- Edward Condon – United States
- Leon Cooper – United States Nobel laureate
- Nicolaus Copernicus – Poland
- Alejandro Corichi – Mexico
- Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis – France
- Allan McLeod Cormack – South Africa, United States
- Eric Allin Cornell – United States Nobel laureate
- Marie Alfred Cornu – France
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb – France
- Ernest Courant – United States
- Brian Cox – U.K.
- Thomas E. Cravens - United States, cometary x-rays
- Charles Critchfield – United States
- James Cronin – United States Nobel laureate
- Sir William Crookes – U.K.
- Paul Crowell – United States
- Marie Curie – Russian Empire, France twice Nobel laureate
- Pierre Curie – France Nobel laureate
- Predrag Cvitanović – Croatia
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- Jean le Rond d'Alembert – France
- Gustaf Dalén – Sweden Nobel laureate
- Jean Dalibard – France
- Richard Dalitz – U.K., United States
- John Dalton – U.K.
- Sanja Damjanović – Yugoslavia, Montenegro
- Ranjan Roy Daniel – India
- Charles Galton Darwin – U.K.
- Ashok Das – India, United States
- James C. Davenport – United States
- Paul Davies – Australia
- Raymond Davis, Jr. – United States Nobel laureate
- Clinton Davisson – United States Nobel laureate
- Peter Debije – Netherlands
- Hans Georg Dehmelt – Germany, United States Nobel laureate
- Max Delbrück – Germany, United States
- Democritus – Abdera
- David M. Dennison – United States
- Beryl May Dent – U.K.
- David Deutsch – Israel, U.K.
- René Descartes – France
- James Dewar – U.K.
- Scott Diddams – United States
- Ulrike Diebold – Austria
- Robbert Dijkgraaf – Netherlands
- Viktor Dilman – Soviet Union, Russia
- Savas Dimopoulos – United States
- Paul Dirac – Switzerland, U.K. Nobel laureate
- Revaz Dogonadze – Soviet Union, Georgia
- Louise Dolan – United States
- Amos Dolbear – United States
- Robert Döpel – Germany
- Christian Doppler – Austria
- Henk Dorgelo – Netherlands
- Friedrich Ernst Dorn – Germany
- Geneva Smith Douglas – United States
- Michael R. Douglas – United States
- Jonathan Dowling – United States
- Claudia Draxl – Germany
- Sidney Drell – United States
- Mildred Dresselhaus – United States
- Paul Drude – Germany
- F. J. Duarte – United States
- Émilie du Châtelet – France
- Pierre Louis Dulong – France
- Janette Dunlop – Scotland
- Samuel T. Durrance – United States
- Freeman Dyson – U.K., United States Wolf laureate
- Arthur Jeffrey Dempster – Canada
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- Joseph H. Eberly – United States
- William Eccles – U.K.
- Carl Eckart – United States
- Arthur Stanley Eddington – U.K.
- Thomas Edison – U.S. Invented the lightbulb.
- Paul Ehrenfest – Austria-Hungary, Netherlands
- Felix Ehrenhaft – Austria-Hungary, United States
- Manfred Eigen – Germany
- Albert Einstein – Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United States Nobel laureate
- Laura Eisenstein – professor of physics at University of Illinois
- Terence James Elkins – Australia, United States
- John Ellis – U.K.
- Paul John Ellis – U.K., United States
- Richard Keith Ellis – U.K., United States
- Arpad Elo – Hungary
- François Englert – Belgium Nobel laureate
- David Enskog – Sweden
- Loránd Eötvös – Austria-Hungary
- Frederick J. Ernst – United States
- Leo Esaki – Japan Nobel laureate
- Ernest Esclangon – France
- Louis Essen – U.K.
- Leonhard Euler – Switzerland
- Denis Evans – Australia
- Paul Peter Ewald – Germany, United States
- James Alfred Ewing – U.K.
- Franz S. Exner – Austria
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- Ludvig Faddeev – Soviet Union, Russia
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit – Prussia
- Kazimierz Fajans – Russian Empire, Poland, United States
- James E. Faller – United States
- Michael Faraday – U.K.
- Eugene Feenberg – United States
- Mitchell Feigenbaum – United States
- Gerald Feinberg – United States
- Enrico Fermi – Italy Nobel laureate
- Albert Fert – France Nobel laureate
- Herman Feshbach – United States
- Richard Feynman – United States Nobel laureate
- Wolfgang Finkelnburg – Germany
- David Finkelstein – United States
- Johannes Fischer – Germany
- Willy Fischler – Belgium
- Val Logsdon Fitch – United States Nobel laureate
- George Francis FitzGerald – Ireland
- Hippolyte Fizeau – France
- Georgy Flyorov – Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Vladimir Fock – Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Adriaan Fokker – Netherlands
- Arthur Foley – America
- James David Forbes – U.K.
- Jeff Forshaw – U.K.
- Léon Foucault – France
- Joseph Fourier – France
- Ralph H. Fowler – U.K.
- William Alfred Fowler – United States Nobel laureate
- James Franck – Germany, United States Nobel laureate
- Ilya Frank – Russian Empire, Soviet Union Nobel laureate
- Benjamin Franklin – British America, United States
- Rosalind Franklin – U.K.
- Walter Franz – Germany
- Joseph von Fraunhofer – Germany
- Steven Frautschi – United States
- Joan Maie Freeman – Australia
- Phyllis S. Freier – United States )
- Yakov Frenkel – Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel – France
- Peter Freund – United States
- Daniel Friedan – United States
- B. Roy Frieden – United States
- Alexander Friedman – Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Jerome Isaac Friedman – United States Nobel laureate
- Otto Frisch – Austria, U.K.
- Erwin Fues – Germany
- Harald Fuchs – Germany
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- Dennis Gabor – Hungary Nobel laureate
- Mary K. Gaillard – France, United States
- Galileo Galilei – Italy
- Luigi Galvani – Italy
- George Gamow – Russian Empire, Soviet Union, United States
- Domenica Garzón – Ecuador
- Sylvester James Gates – United States
- Carl Friedrich Gauss – Germany
- Pamela L. Gay – United States
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac – France
- Hans Geiger – Germany
- Andre Geim – Soviet Union, Russia, Netherlands, U.K. Nobel laureate
- Murray Gell-Mann – United States Nobel laureate
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes – France Nobel laureate
- Howard Georgi – United States
- Walter Gerlach – Germany
- Christian Gerthsen – Denmark, Germany
- Ezra Getzler – Australia
- Andrea M. Ghez – United States Nobel laureate
- Riccardo Giacconi – Italy, United States Nobel laureate
- Ivar Giaever – Norway, United States Nobel laureate
- Josiah Willard Gibbs – United States
- Valerie Gibson – U.K.
- William Gilbert – England
- Mar Gómez – Spain
- Piara Singh Gill – India
- Naomi Ginsberg – United States
- Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg – Soviet Union, Russia Nobel laureate
- Marvin D. Girardeau – United States
- Marissa Giustina – United States
- Donald Arthur Glaser – United States Nobel laureate
- Sheldon Glashow – United States Nobel laureate
- G. N. Glasoe – United States
- Roy Jay Glauber – United States Nobel laureate
- James Glimm – United States
- Karl Glitscher – Germany
- Peter Goddard – U.K.
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer – Germany, United States Nobel laureate
- Gerald Goertzel – United States
- Marvin Leonard Goldberger – United States
- Maurice Goldhaber – Austria, United States
- Jeffrey Goldstone – U.K., United States
- Sixto González – Puerto Rico, United States
- Ravi Gomatam – India
- Deryck Goodwin – U.K.
- Lev Gor'kov – United States
- Samuel Goudsmit – Netherlands, United States
- Leo Graetz – Germany
- Willem 's Gravesande – Netherlands
- Michael Green (physicist) – Britain
- Daniel Greenberger – United States
- Brian Greene – United States
- John Gribbin – U.K.
- Vladimir Gribov – Soviet Union, Russia
- David J. Griffiths – United States
- David Gross – United States Nobel laureate
- Frederick Grover – United States
- Peter Grünberg – Germany Nobel laureate
- Charles Édouard Guillaume – Switzerland Nobel laureate
- Ayyub Guliyev – Soviet Union, Azerbaijan
- Feza Gürsey – Turkey
- Hanoch Gutfreund – Israel
- Alan Guth – United States
- Martin Gutzwiller – Switzerland
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- Rudolf Haag – Germany
- Wander Johannes de Haas – Netherlands
- Alain Haché – Canada
- Carl Richard Hagen – United States
- Otto Hahn – Germany
- Edwin Hall – United States
- John Lewis Hall – United States Nobel laureate
- Alexander Hamilton – U.K., Australia
- William Rowan Hamilton – Ireland
- Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch – Germany Nobel laureate
- Peter Andreas Hansen – Denmark
- W.W. Hansen – United States
- Serge Haroche – France Nobel laureate
- Paul Harteck – Germany
- John G. Hartnett – Australia
- Douglas Hartree – U.K.
- Friedrich Hasenöhrl – Austria, Hungary
- Lene Vestergaard Hau – Vejle, Denmark
- Stephen Hawking – U.K. Wolf laureate
- Ibn al-Haytham – Iraq
- Evans Hayward – United States
- Oliver Heaviside – U.K.
- Werner Heisenberg – Germany Nobel laureate
- Walter Heitler – Germany, Ireland
- Hermann von Helmholtz – Germany
- Charles H. Henry – United States
- Joseph Henry – United States
- John Herapath – U.K.
- Carl Hermann – Germany
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz – Germany Nobel laureate
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz – Germany
- Karl Herzfeld – Austria, United States
- Victor Francis Hess – Austria, United States Nobel laureate
- Mahmoud Hessaby – Iran
- Antony Hewish – U.K. Nobel laureate
- Paul G. Hewitt – United States
- Peter Higgs – U.K. Nobel laureate
- George William Hill – United States
- Gustave-Adolphe Hirn – France
- Carol Hirschmugl – United States, professor of physics, laboratory director
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin – England
- Robert Hofstadter – United States Nobel laureate
- Helmut Hönl – Germany
- Pervez Hoodbhoy – Pakistan
- Gerardus 't Hooft – Netherlands Nobel laureate
- Robert Hooke – England
- John Hopkinson – United Kingdom
- Johann Baptiste Horvath – Slovakia
- William V. Houston – United States
- Charlotte (née Riefenstahl) Houtermans – Germany
- Fritz Houtermans – Netherlands, Germany, Austria
- Archibald Howie – U.K.
- Fred Hoyle – U.K.
- Veronika Hubeny – United States
- John Hubbard – U.K.
- John H. Hubbell – United States
- Edwin Powell Hubble – United States
- Russell Alan Hulse – United States Nobel laureate
- Friedrich Hund – Germany
- Tahir Hussain – Pakistan
- Andrew D. Huxley – U.K.
- Christiaan Huygens – Netherlands
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- Arthur Iberall – United States
- Sumio Iijima – Japan
- John Iliopoulos – Greece
- Ataç İmamoğlu – Turkey, United States
- Elmer Imes – United States
- Abram Ioffe – Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Nathan Isgur – United States, Canada
- Ernst Ising – Germany
- Jamal Nazrul Islam – Bangladesh
- Werner Israel – Canada
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- Roman Jackiw – Poland, United States
- Shirley Ann Jackson – United States
- Boris Jacobi – Germany, Russia
- Gregory Jaczko – United States
- Chennupati Jagadish – India, Australia
- Jainendra Jain – India
- Ratko Janev – North Macedonia
- Andreas Jaszlinszky – Hungary
- Ali Javan – Iran
- Edwin Jaynes – United States
- Antal István Jákli – Hungary
- Sir James Jeans – U.K.
- Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen – Germany Nobel laureate
- Deborah S. Jin – United States
- Anthony M. Johnson – United States
- Irène Joliot-Curie – France
- Lorella Jones – United States
- Pascual Jordan – Germany
- Vania Jordanova – United States, physicist, space weather and geomagnetic storms
- Brian David Josephson – U.K. Nobel laureate
- James Prescott Joule – U.K.
- Adolfas Jucys – Russian Empire, Lithuania, Soviet Union
- Chang Kee Jung – South Korea, United States
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- Menas Kafatos – Greece, United States
- Takaaki Kajita – Japan Nobel laureate
- Michio Kaku – United States
- Theodor Kaluza – Germany
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes – Netherlands Nobel laureate
- William R. Kanne – United States
- Charles K. Kao – China, Hong Kong, U.K., United States Nobel laureate
- Pyotr Kapitsa – Russian Empire, Soviet Union Nobel laureate
- Theodore von Kármán – Hungary, United States aeronautical engineer
- Alfred Kastler – France Nobel laureate
- Amrom Harry Katz – United States
- Moshe Kaveh – Israel President of Bar-Ilan University
- Predhiman Krishan Kaw – India
- Heinrich Kayser – Germany
- Willem Hendrik Keesom – Netherlands
- Edwin C. Kemble – United States
- Henry Way Kendall – United States Nobel laureate
- Johannes Kepler – Germany
- John Kerr – Scotland
- Wolfgang Ketterle – Germany Nobel laureate
- Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov – Soviet Union, Russia
- Jim Al-Khalili – U.K.
- Abdul Qadeer Khan – Pakistan
- Yulii Borisovich Khariton – Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Russia
- Erhard Kietz – Germany, United States
- Jack Kilby – United States electronics engineer, Nobel laureate
- Toichiro Kinoshita – Japan, United States
- Gustav Kirchhoff – Germany
- Oskar Klein – Sweden
- Hagen Kleinert – Germany
- Klaus von Klitzing – Germany Nobel laureate
- Jens Martin Knudsen – Denmark
- Martin Knudsen – Denmark
- Makoto Kobayashi – Japan Nobel laureate
- Arthur Korn – Germany
- Masatoshi Koshiba – Japan Nobel laureate
- Matthew Koss – United States
- Walther Kossel – Germany
- Ashutosh Kotwal – United States
- Lew Kowarski – France
- Hendrik Kramers – Netherlands
- Sabine Kraml – Austria
- Serguei Krasnikov – Soviet Union, Russia
- Adolf Kratzer – Germany
- Lawrence M. Krauss – United States
- Herbert Kroemer – Germany Nobel laureate
- August Krönig – Germany
- Ralph Kronig – Germany, United States
- Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov – Soviet Union
- Ryogo Kubo – Japan
- Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha – India
- Shaiwatna Kupratakul – Thailand
- Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov – Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Behram Kursunoglu – Turkey
- Polykarp Kusch – Germany Nobel laureate
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- Anne L'Huillier – France, Sweden Nobel laureate
- James W. LaBelle – United States
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange – France
- Willis Lamb – United States Nobel laureate
- Lev Davidovich Landau – Russian Empire, Soviet Union Nobel laureate
- Rolf Landauer – United States
- Grigory Landsberg – Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Kenneth Lane – United States
- Paul Langevin – France
- Irving Langmuir – United States
- Pierre-Simon Laplace – France
- Joseph Larmor – U.K.
- John Latham - U.K.
- Cesar Lattes – Brazil
- Max von Laue – Germany Nobel laureate
- Robert Betts Laughlin – United States Nobel laureate
- Mikhail Lavrentyev – Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Melvin Lax – United States
- Ernest Lawrence – United States Nobel laureate
- TH Laby – Australia
- Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev – Russian Empire
- Lindsay LeBlanc – Canada
- Leon Max Lederman – United States Nobel laureate
- Benjamin Lee – Korea, United States
- David Lee – United States Nobel laureate
- Tsung-Dao Lee – China, United States Nobel laureate
- Anthony James Leggett – U.K., United States Nobel laureate
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Germany
- Robert B. Leighton – United States
- Georges Lemaître – Belgium
- Philipp Lenard – Hungary, Germany Nobel laureate
- John Lennard-Jones – U.K.
- John Leslie – U.K.
- Walter Lewin – Netherlands, United States
- Martin Lewis Perl – United States
- Robert von Lieben – Austria-Hungary
- Alfred-Marie Liénard – France
- Evgeny Lifshitz – Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- David Lindley – United States
- John Linsley – United States
- Chris Lintott – U.K.
- Gabriel Jonas Lippmann – France, Luxemburg Nobel laureate
- Antony Garrett Lisi – United States
- Karl L. Littrow – Austria
- Seth Lloyd – United States
- Oliver Lodge – U.K.
- Maurice Loewy – Austria, France
- Robert K. Logan – United States
- Mikhail Lomonosov – Tsardom of Russia, Russian Empire
- Alfred Lee Loomis – United States
- Ramón E. López – United States
- Hendrik Lorentz – Netherlands Nobel laureate
- Ludvig Lorenz – Denmark
- Johann Josef Loschmidt – Austria
- Oleg Losev – Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Archibald Low – U.K.
- Per-Olov Löwdin – Sweden
- Lucretius – Rome
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov – Russian Empire
- Joseph Lykken – United States
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- Arthur B. McDonald – Canada Nobel laureate
- Carolina Henriette MacGillavry – Netherlands
- Ernst Mach – Austria-Hungary
- Katie Mack (astrophysicist) – United States
- Gladys Mackenzie – Scotland
- Ray Mackintosh – U.K.
- Luciano Maiani – Italy, San Marino
- Theodore Maiman – United States
- Arthur Maitland – U.K.
- Ettore Majorana – Italy
- Sudhansu Datta Majumdar – India
- Richard Makinson – Australia
- Juan Martín Maldacena – Argentina
- Étienne-Louis Malus – France
- Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam – Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Franz Mandl – U.K.
- Charles Lambert Manneback – Belgium
- Peter Mansfield – U.K.
- Carlo Marangoni – Italy
- M. Cristina Marchetti – Italy, United States
- Guglielmo Marconi – Italy Nobel laureate
- Henry Margenau – Germany, United States
- Nina Marković – Yugoslavia, Croatia, United States
- William Markowitz – United States
- Laurence D. Marks – United States
- Robert Marshak – United States
- Walter Marshall – U.K.
- Toshihide Maskawa – Japan Nobel laureate
- Harrie Massey – Australia
- John Cromwell Mather – United States Nobel laureate
- James Clerk Maxwell – U.K.
- Brian May – U.K.
- Maria Goeppert Mayer – Germany, United States
- Ronald E. McNair – United States
- Anna McPherson – Canadian
- Simon van der Meer – Netherlands Nobel laureate
- Lise Meitner – Austria
- Fulvio Melia – United States
- Macedonio Melloni – Italy
- Adrian Melott – United States
- Thomas Corwin Mendenhall – United States
- M. G. K. Menon – India
- David Merritt – United States
- Albert Abraham Michelson – United States Nobel laureate
- Arthur Alan Middleton – United States
- Stanislav Mikheyev – Soviet Union, Russia
- Robert Andrews Millikan – United States Nobel laureate
- Robert Mills – United States
- Arthur Milne – U.K.
- Shiraz Minwalla – India
- Bedangadas Mohanty – India
- Rabindra Nath Mohapatra – India, United States
- Kathryn Moler – United States
- Merritt Moore – United States
- Tanya Monro – Australia
- John J. Montgomery – United States
- Jagadeesh Moodera – India, United States
- Henry Moseley – U.K.
- Rudolf Mössbauer – Germany Nobel laureate
- Nevill Mott – U.K. Nobel laureate
- Ben Roy Mottelson – Denmark, United States Nobel laureate
- Amédée Mouchez – Spain, France
- Ali Moustafa – Egypt
- José Enrique Moyal – Ottoman Empire, Mandatory Palestine, France, U.K., United States, Australia
- Christine Muschik – Germany
- Karl Alexander Müller – Switzerland Nobel laureate
- Richard A. Muller – United States
- Robert S. Mulliken – United States
- Pieter van Musschenbroek – Netherlands
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- Yoichiro Nambu – Japan, United States Nobel laureate
- Meenakshi Narain – United States
- Jayant Narlikar – India
- Quirino Navarro – Filipino nuclear physicist and chemist
- Seth Neddermeyer – United States
- Louis Néel – France Nobel laureate
- Yuval Ne'eman – Mandatory Palestine, Israel
- Ann Nelson – United States
- John von Neumann – Austria-Hungary, United States
- Simon Newcomb – United States
- Sir Isaac Newton – England
- Edward P. Ney – United States
- Kendal Nezan – France, Kurdistan
- Holger Bech Nielsen – Denmark
- Leopoldo Nobili – Grand Duchy of Tuscany
- Emmy Noether – Germany
- Lothar Nordheim – Germany
- Gunnar Nordström – Russian Empire, Finland
- Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg – Germany
- Konstantin Novoselov – Soviet Union, Russia, U.K. Nobel laureate
- H. Pierre Noyes – United States
- John Nye – U.K.
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- Yuri Oganessian – Soviet Union, Russia
- Georg Ohm – Germany
- Hideo Ohno – Japan
- Susumu Okubo – Japan, United States
- Sir Mark Oliphant – Australia
- David Olive – U.K.
- Zaira Ollano – Italy
- Gerard K. O'Neill – United States
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes - Netherlands
- Lars Onsager – Norway
- Robert Oppenheimer – United States
- Nicole Oresme – France
- Yuri Orlov – Soviet Union, United States
- Leonard Salomon Ornstein – Netherlands
- Egon Orowan – Austria-Hungary, United States
- Hans Christian Ørsted – Denmark
- Douglas Dean Osheroff – United States Nobel laureate
- Silke Ospelkaus – Germany
- Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky – Russian Empire
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- Thanu Padmanabhan – India
- Heinz Pagels – United States
- Abraham Pais – Netherlands, United States
- Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky – Germany, United States
- Blaise Pascal – France
- John Pasta – United States
- Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski – United States
- Jogesh Pati – United States
- Petr Paucek – United States
- Stephen Paul – United States
- Wolfgang Paul – Germany Nobel laureate
- Wolfgang Pauli – Austria-Hungary Nobel laureate
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin – United States astronomer and astrophysicist
- Ruby Payne-Scott – Australia
- George B. Pegram – United States
- Rudolf Peierls – Germany, U.K.
- Jean Peltier – France
- Roger Penrose – U.K. Wolf laureate, mathematician
- Arno Allan Penzias – United States Nobel laureate, electrical engineer
- Martin Lewis Perl – United States Nobel laureate
- Saul Perlmutter – United States Nobel laureate
- Jean Baptiste Perrin – France Nobel laureate
- Mario Petrucci - U.K.
- Konstantin Petrzhak – Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Russia
- Bernhard Philberth – Germany
- William Daniel Phillips – United States Nobel laureate
- Max Planck – Germany Nobel laureate
- Joseph Plateau – Belgium
- Milton S. Plesset – United States
- Ward Plummer – United States
- Boris Podolsky – Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Henri Poincaré – France mathematician
- Eric Poisson – Canada
- Siméon Denis Poisson – France mathematician
- Balthasar van der Pol – Netherlands electrical engineer
- Joseph Polchinski – United States
- Hugh David Politzer – United States Nobel laureate
- John Polkinghorne – U.K.
- Julianne Pollard-Larkin – United States
- Alexander M. Polyakov – Soviet Union, United States
- Bruno Pontecorvo – Italy, Soviet Union, Russia
- Heraclides Ponticus – Greece
- Heinz Pose – Germany
- Cecil Frank Powell – U.K. Nobel laureate
- John Henry Poynting – U.K.
- Ludwig Prandtl – Germany
- Willibald Peter Prasthofer – Austria
- Ilya Prigogine – Belgium
- Alexander Prokhorov – Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Russia Nobel laureate
- William Prout – U.K.
- Luigi Puccianti – Italy
- Ivan Pulyuy – Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary
- Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin – Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary, Serbia, United States
- Edward Mills Purcell – United States Nobel laureate
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- Xuesen Qian – China
- Helen Quinn – Australia, United States
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- Raúl Rabadán – United States
- Gabriele Rabel – Austria, United Kingdom
- Isidor Isaac Rabi – Austria, United States Nobel laureate
- Giulio Racah – Italian-Israeli
- James Rainwater – United States Nobel laureate
- Mark G. Raizen – United States
- Alladi Ramakrishnan – British Empire, India
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman – British Empire, India Nobel laureate
- Edward Ramberg – United States
- Carl Ramsauer – Germany
- Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. – United States Nobel laureate
- Lisa Randall – United States
- Riccardo Rattazzi – Italy
- Lord Rayleigh – U.K. Nobel laureate
- René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur – France
- Sidney Redner – Canada, United States
- Martin John Rees – U.K.
- Hubert Reeves – Canada
- Tullio Regge – Italy
- Frederick Reines – United States Nobel laureate
- Louis Rendu – France
- Osborne Reynolds – U.K.
- Owen Willans Richardson – U.K. Nobel laureate
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- Burton Richter – United States Nobel laureate
- Floyd K. Richtmyer – United States
- Robert D. Richtmyer – United States
- Charlotte Riefenstahl – Germany
- Nikolaus Riehl – Germany
- Adam Riess – United States Nobel laureate
- Karl-Heinrich Riewe – Germany
- Walther Ritz – Switzerland
- Étienne-Gaspard Robert – Belgium
- Heinrich Rohrer – Switzerland Nobel laureate
- Joseph Romm – United States
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen – Germany Nobel laureate
- Clemens C. J. Roothaan – Netherlands
- Nathan Rosen – United States, Israel
- Marshall Rosenbluth – United States
- Yasha Rosenfeld – Israel
- Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby – Sweden, United States
- Bruno Rossi – Italy, United States
- Joseph Rotblat – Russian Empire, Poland, U.K.
- Carlo Rovelli – Italy
- Mary Laura Chalk Rowles – United States
- Subrata Roy (scientist) – India, United States
- Carlo Rubbia – Italy Nobel laureate
- Vera Rubin – United States
- Serge Rudaz – Canada, United States
- David Ruelle – Belgium, France
- Ernst August Friedrich Ruska – Germany Nobel laureate
- Ernest Rutherford – New Zealand, U.K.
- Janne Rydberg – Sweden
- Martin Ryle – U.K. Nobel laureate
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- Subir Sachdev – United States
- Mendel Sachs – United States
- Rainer K. Sachs – Germany and United States
- Robert G. Sachs – United States
- Carl Sagan – United States
- Georges-Louis le Sage – Switzerland
- Georges Sagnac – France
- Megh Nad Saha – Bengali India
- Shoichi Sakata – Japan
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov – Soviet Union
- Oscar Sala – Brazil
- Abdus Salam – Pakistan Nobel laureate
- Edwin Ernest Salpeter – Austria, Australia, United States
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- Leonard Sander – United states
- Antonella De Santo – Italy, U.K.
- Vikram Sarabhai – India
- Isidor Sauers – Austria
- Félix Savart – France
- Brendan Scaife – Ireland
- Martin Schadt – Switzerland
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow – United States Nobel laureate
- Craige Schensted – United States
- Joël Scherk – France
- Otto Scherzer – Germany
- Brian Schmidt – Australia, United States Nobel laureate
- Alan Schoen – United States
- Walter H. Schottky – Germany
- Kees A. Schouhamer Immink – Netherlands
- John Robert Schrieffer – United States Nobel laureate
- Erwin Schrödinger – Austria-Hungary, Austria, Ireland Nobel laureate
- John Henry Schwarz – United States
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- Karl Schwarzschild – German Empire
- Julian Schwinger – United States Nobel laureate
- Marlan Scully – United States
- Dennis William Sciama – U.K.
- Bice Sechi-Zorn – Italy, United States
- Thomas Johann Seebeck – Estonia
- Raymond Seeger – United States
- Emilio G. Segre – Italy, United States Nobel laureate
- Nathan Seiberg – United States
- Frederick Seitz – United States
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- Ashoke Sen – India
- Hiranmay Sen Gupta – Bangladesh
- Robert Serber – United States
- Roman U. Sexl – Austria
- Shen Kuo – China
- Mikhail Shifman – Russia, United States
- Dmitry Shirkov – Russia
- William Shockley – United States Nobel laureate
- Boris Shraiman – United States
- Lev Shubnikov – Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine
- Clifford Shull – United States Nobel laureate
- Kai Siegbahn – Sweden Nobel laureate
- Manne Siegbahn – Sweden Nobel laureate
- Ludwik Silberstein – Poland, Germany, Italy, United States, Canada
- Eva Silverstein – United States
- John Alexander Simpson – United States
- Willem de Sitter – Netherlands
- Uri Sivan – Israel
- Tamitha Skov – United States space weather physicist, researcher and public speaker
- G. V. Skrotskii – Russia
- Francis G. Slack – United States
- John C. Slater – United States
- Louis Slotin – United States
- Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov – Russia, Italy
- George E. Smith – United States Nobel laureate
- Lee Smolin – United States
- Marian Smoluchowski – Poland
- George Smoot – United States Nobel laureate
- Willebrord Snell – Netherlands
- Arsenij Sokolov – Russia
- Arnold Sommerfeld – Germany
- Haim Sompolinsky – Israel
- Bent Sørensen – Denmark
- Rafael Sorkin – United States
- Zeinabou Mindaoudou Souley Nuclear physicist from Niger
- Nicola Spaldin – United Kingdom
- Maria Spiropulu – Greece
- Henry Stapp – United States
- Johannes Stark – Germany Nobel laureate
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- Thomas H. Stix – United States
- George Gabriel Stokes – Ireland, U.K.
- Aleksandr Stoletov – Russia
- Donna Strickland – Canada Nobel laureate
- Horst Ludwig Störmer – Germany Nobel laureate
- Leonard Strachan – United States, astrophysicist
- Julius Adams Stratton – United States
- Andrew Strominger – United States
- Audrey Stuckes – U.K.
- Ernst Stueckelberg – Switzerland
- George Sudarshan – India, United States
- Rashid Sunyaev – USSR
- Oleg Sushkov – USSR, Australia
- Leonard Susskind – United States
- Joseph Swan – U.K.
- Jean Henri van Swinden – Netherlands
- Bertha Swirles – U.K.
- Leo Szilard – Austria-Hungary, United States
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- Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union Nobel laureate
- Rachel Takserman-Krozer – Ukraine
- Abraham H. Taub – United States
- Geoffrey Ingram Taylor – U.K.
- Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. – United States Nobel laureate
- Richard Edward Taylor – United States Nobel laureate
- Max Tegmark – Sweden, United States
- Valentine Telegdi – Hungary, United States Wolf laureate
- Edward Teller – Austria-Hungary, United States
- Igor Ternov – Russia
- George Paget Thomson – U.K. Nobel laureate
- J. J. Thomson – U.K. Nobel laureate
- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) – Ireland, U.K.
- Charles Thorn – United States
- Kip Stephen Thorne – United States
- Peter Adolf Thiessen – Germany
- Samuel Chao Chung Ting – United States Nobel laureate
- Frank J. Tipler – United States
- Ernest William Titterton – U.K., Australia
- Yoshinori Tokura – Japan
- Samuel Tolansky – U.K.
- Orlando Toledo -- Chile
- Sin-Itiro Tomonaga – Japan Nobel laureate
- Lewi Tonks – United States
- Akira Tonomura – Japan
- Evangelista Torricelli – Italy
- Yoji Totsuka – Japan
- Bruno Touschek – Italy
- Charles Townes – United States Nobel laureate
- John Townsend – U.K.
- Johann Georg Tralles – Germany
- Sam Treiman – United States
- Daniel Chee Tsui – China, United States Nobel laureate
- Vipin Kumar Tripathi – India
- John J. Turin – United States
- Neil Turok – South Africa
- Victor Twersky – United States
- Sergei Tyablikov – Russia
- John Tyndall – U.K.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson – United States
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- George Eugene Uhlenbeck – Netherlands, United States
- Stanislaw Ulam – Poland, United States
- Nikolay Umov – Russia
- Juris Upatnieks – Latvia, United States
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- Cumrun Vafa – Iran, United States
- Oriol Valls – university physics professor
- Léon Van Hove – Belgium
- Sergei Vavilov – Soviet Union
- Vlatko Vedral – U.K., Serbia
- Evgeny Velikhov – Russia
- Martinus J. G. Veltman – Netherlands, United States Nobel laureate
- Gabriele Veneziano – Italy
- Giovanni Battista Venturi – Italy
- Émile Verdet – France
- Erik Verlinde – Netherlands
- Herman Verlinde – Netherlands
- Leonardo da Vinci – Italy
- Jean-Pierre Vigier – France
- Gaetano Vignola – Italy
- Anatoly Vlasov – Russia
- John Hasbrouck van Vleck – United States Nobel laureate
- Woldemar Voigt – Germany
- Burchard de Volder – Netherlands
- Max Volmer – Germany
- Alessandro Volta – Italy
- Wernher von Braun – Germany aerospace engineer
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- Johannes Diderik van der Waals – Netherlands Nobel laureate
- James Wait – Canada
- Ludwig Waldmann – Germany
- Alan Walsh – U.K., Australia
- Ernest Walton – Ireland Nobel laureate
- Dezhao Wang – China
- Enge Wang – China
- Huanyu Wang – China
- Kan-Chang Wang – China
- Pu (Paul) Wang – China
- Zhuxi Wang – China
- Aaldert Wapstra – Netherlands
- John Clive Ward – England, Australia
- Gleb Wataghin – Ukraine, Italy, Brazil
- John James Waterston – U.K.
- Alan Andrew Watson – U.K.
- James Watt – U.K.
- Denis Weaire – Ireland
- Colin Webb – U.K.
- Wilhelm Weber – Germany
- Katherine Weimer – United States
- Alvin Weinberg – United States
- Steven Weinberg – United States Nobel laureate
- Silke Weinfurtner – Germany
- Rainer Weiss – United States Nobel laureate
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf – Austria, United States
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker – Germany
- Heinrich Welker – Germany
- Gregor Wentzel – Germany
- Paul Werbos – United States
- Siebren van der Werf – Netherlands
- Peter Westervelt – United States
- Hermann Weyl – Germany
- Christof Wetterich – Germany
- John Archibald Wheeler – United States
- Gian-Carlo Wick – Italy
- Emil Wiechert – Prussia
- Carl Wieman – United States Nobel laureate
- Wilhelm Wien – Germany Nobel laureate
- Arthur Wightman – United States
- Eugene Wigner – Austria-Hungary, United States Nobel laureate
- Frank Wilczek – United States Nobel laureate
- Charles Thomson Rees Wilson – U.K. Nobel laureate
- Christine Wilson (scientist) – Canadian-American physicist and astronomer
- Kenneth Geddes Wilson – United States Nobel laureate
- Robert R. Wilson – United States Nobel laureate
- Robert Woodrow Wilson – United States
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- Karl Wirtz – Germany
- Mark B. Wise – Canada, United States
- Edward Witten – United States
- Emil Wolf – Czechoslovakia, United States
- Fred Alan Wolf – United States
- Lincoln Wolfenstein – United States
- Stephen Wolfram – U.K.
- Ewald Wollny – Germany
- Michael Woolfson – U.K.
- Chien-Shiung Wu – United States
- Sau Lan Wu – United States
- Tai Tsun Wu – United States
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- Basilis C. Xanthopoulos – Greece
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- Rosalyn Yalow – United States
- Chen Ning Yang – China Nobel laureate
- Félix Ynduráin – Spain
- Francisco José Ynduráin – Spain
- Kenneth Young – United States, China
- Thomas Young – U.K.
- Hideki Yukawa – Japan Nobel laureate
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- Jan Zaanen – Netherlands
- Daniel Zajfman – Israel
- Anthony Zee – United States
- Pieter Zeeman – Netherlands Nobel laureate
- Ludwig Zehnder – Switzerland
- Anton Zeilinger – Austria
- Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich – Russia
- John Zeleny – United States
- Frits Zernike – Netherlands Nobel laureate
- Antonino Zichichi – Italy
- Hans Ziegler – Switzerland, United States
- Karl Zimmer – Germany
- Georges Zissis – Greece
- Peter Zoller – Austria
- Zongfu Yu – United States
- Dmitry Zubarev – Russia
- Bruno Zumino – Italy
- Wojciech H. Zurek – Poland, United States
- Robert Zwanzig – United States
- George Zweig – United States
- Fritz Zwicky - Bulgaria, United States
- Barton Zwiebach – United States