List of physicists


Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements.

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