List of physicists

A

• 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

B

• 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

C

• 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

D

• 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

E

• 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

F

• 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

G

• 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

H

• 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

I

• 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

J

• 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

K

• 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

L

• 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

M

• 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

N

• 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.

O

• 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

P

• 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

Q

• Xuesen Qian – China
• Helen Quinn – Australia, United States

R

• 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
• Robert Coleman Richardson – United States Nobel laureate
• 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

S

• 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
• Anthony Ichiro Sanda – Japan, United States
• 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
• Melvin Schwartz – United States Nobel laureate
• 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
• Nikolay Semyonov – Russia
• 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
• Max Steenbeck –
• Joseph Stefan – Austria-Hungary, Slovenia
• Jack Steinberger – Germany, United States Nobel laureate
• Paul J. Steinhardt – United States
• Carl August Steinheil – Germany
• George Sterman – United States
• Otto Stern – Germany Nobel laureate
• Simon Stevin – Belgium, Netherlands
• 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

T

• 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

U

• George Eugene Uhlenbeck – Netherlands, United States
• Stanislaw Ulam – Poland, United States
• Nikolay Umov – Russia
• Juris Upatnieks – Latvia, United States

V

• 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

W

• 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
• John R. Winckler – United States
• David J. Wineland – United States Nobel laureate
• 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

X

• Basilis C. Xanthopoulos – Greece

Y

• 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

Z

• 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