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