A

• Avicenna -- Persian (980-1037)

• Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī -- Persian (973-1048)

• Ernst Karl Abbe — Germany (1840–1905)

• Miguel Alcubierre - Mexico (1964- )

• Derek Abbott — Australia (1960- )

• Marek Artur Abramowicz - Poland (1945- )

• Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov — Soviet Union/Russia (1928- )

• Robert Adler — USA (1913-2007)

• Stephen L. Adler — USA (1939-)

• Ronald Ernest Aitchison — Australia (1921- )

• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov — Russia (1930- )

• Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén — Sweden (1908–1995) Nobel laureate

• Jim Al-Khalili — UK (1962- )

• William Allis — USA (1901-1999)

• Samuel King Allison — USA (1900-1965)

• P.M. van Alphen — Netherlands (1906-1967)

• Ralph Asher Alpher — USA (1921–2007)

• Luis Walter Alvarez — USA (1911–1988) Nobel laureate

• Herbert L. Anderson — USA (1914–1988)

• André-Marie Ampère — France (1775–1836)

• Anders Jonas Ångström — Sweden (1814–1874)

• Hans Henrik Andersen — Denmark (1937- )

• Carl David Anderson — USA (1905-1991) Nobel laureate

• Philip Warren Anderson — USA (1923– ) Nobel laureate

• Thomas Appelquist — USA

• Edward Victor Appleton — UK (1892-1965) Nobel laureate

• François Jean Dominique Arago - France (1786-1853)

• Archimedes — Syracuse (ca. 287–212 BC)

• Manfred von Ardenne — Germany (1907-1997)

• Aristarchus of Samos — Samos (310 – ca. 230 BC)

• Aristotle — Athens, Greece (384–322 BC)

• Nima Arkani-Hamed — USA (1972- )

• Amedeo Avogadro — Italy (1776-1856)

B

• Alexander Graham Bell — UK (1847-1922)

• Tom Baehr-Jones — USA (1980- )

• Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran — India (1938- )

• Johann Jakob Balmer — Switzerland (1825–1898)

• John Bardeen — USA (1908–1991) double Nobel laureate

• William A. Bardeen — USA (1941– )

• Charles Glover Barkla — UK (1877-1944) Nobel laureate

• Boyd Bartlett — USA (1897- )

• Heinz Barwich — Germany (1911-1966)

• Laura Maria Caterina Bassi — Italy (1711-1778)

• Nikolay Basov — Russia (1922-2001)

• Zoltán Lajos Bay — Hungary (1900–1992)

• Karl Bechert — Germany (1901-1981)

• Karl Becker — Germany (1887-1955)

• Henri Becquerel — France (1852–1908) Nobel laureate

• Johannes Georg Bednorz — Germany (1950- ) Nobel laureate

• Isaac Beeckman — Netherlands (1588-1637)

• John Stewart Bell — UK (1928–1990)

• Carl M. Bender — USA

• Abraham Bennet — England(1749-1799)

• Daniel Bernoulli — Switzerland (1700–1782)

• Hans Bethe — Germany, USA (1906–2005)

• Homi J. Bhabha — India (1909–1966)

• Ikaros Bigi — Germany, USA

• Gerd Binnig — Germany (1947- ) Nobel laureate

• Jean-Baptiste Biot — France (1774–1862)

• Raymond T. Birge — USA (1887–1980)

• Vilhelm Bjerknes — Norway (1862–1951)

• James Bjorken — USA (1934– )

• Patrick Blackett — UK (1897–1947)

• Felix Bloch — Switzerland (1905–1983)

• Nicolaas Bloembergen — Netherlands, USA (1920- )

• Nikolay Bogolyubov — Soviet Union/Russia (1909–1992)

• David Bohm — USA (1917-1992)

• Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962) Nobel laureate

• Aage Niels Bohr — Denmark (1922– ) Nobel laureate

• Ludwig Boltzmann — Austria (1844–1906)

• Eugene T. Booth – USA (1912–2004)

• Max Born — Germany, UK (1882–1970) Nobel laureate

• Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik (1711–1787)

• Jagadish Chandra Bose — India (1858-1937)

• Satyendra Nath Bose — India (1894–1974)

• Johannes Bosscha — Netherlands (1831-1911)

• Walther Bothe — Germany (1891-1957)

• Robert Boyle — Ireland, England (1627–1691)

• William Henry Bragg — UK (1862-1942) Nobel laureate

• William Lawrence Bragg — Australia (1890-1971) Nobel laureate

• Walter Houser Brattain — USA (1902-1987)

• Karl Ferdinand Braun — Germany (1850-1918)

• David Brewster — UK (1781–1868)

• Percy Williams Bridgman — USA (1882-1961)

• Léon Nicolas Brillouin — France (1889-1969)

• Marcel Brillouin — France (1854—1948)

• Bertram Brockhouse — Canada (1918-2003)

• Stanley Brodsky — USA

• Louis-Victor de Broglie — France (1892–1987)

• Thomas Townsend Brown — USA (1905–1985)

• Ernst Brüche — Germany (1900-1985)

• Hermann Brück — Germany (1905-2000)

• Johannes Martinus Burgers — Netherlands (1895-1981)

• W.G. Burgers — Netherlands

• Friedrich Burmeister — Germany (1890-1969)

• Christophorus Buys Ballot — Netherlands (1817-1890)

C

• Nicola Cabibbo — Italy (1935– )

• Nicolás Cabrera — Spain (1913–1989)

• Curtis Callan — (1942– )

• Fritjof Capra — Austria, USA (1939– )

• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot — France (1796–1832)

• David Carroll — USA (1963–)

• Brandon Carter — Australia (1942– )

• Hendrik Casimir — Netherlands (1909-2000)

• Henry Cavendish — UK (1731–1810)

• Alejandro Corichi — Mexico (1967– )

• James Chadwick — UK (1891–1974)

• Owen Chamberlain — USA (1920–2006)

• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar — India, USA (1910–1995) Nobel laureate

• Georges Charpak — France (1924– ) Nobel laureate

• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904–1990)

• Geoffrey Chew — USA (1924– )

• Ernst Chladni — Germany (1756–1827)

• Steven Chu — USA (1948– )

• Giovanni Ciccotti — Italy (1943– )

• Benoît Clapeyron — France (1799–1864)

• Rudolf Clausius — Germany (1822–1888)

• Jacob Clay — Netherlands (1882–1955)

• Gerald B. Cleaver — USA

• John Cockcroft — UK (1897–1967)

• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji — France (1933– )

• John C. Collins — USA

• Arthur Compton — USA (1892–1962)

• Karl Compton — USA (1887–1954)

• Edward Condon — USA (1902–1974)

• Leon Cooper — USA (1930– ) Nobel laureate

• Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis — France (1792–1843)

• Allan McLeod Cormack — South Africa, USA (1924–1998)

• Eric Allin Cornell — USA (1961- ) Nobel laureate

• Marie Alfred Cornu — France (1841–1902)

• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — France (1736–1806)

• Ernest Courant — USA (1920– )

• Brian Cox — UK (1968– )

• James Cronin — USA (1931– ) Nobel laureate

• Sir William Crookes — UK (1832–1919)

• Marie Curie — Poland, France (1867–1934) Nobel laureate

• Pierre Curie — France (1859–1906) Nobel laureate

D

• Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France (1717–1783)

• Gustaf Dalén — Sweden (1869–1937)

• Richard Dalitz — UK, USA (1925–2006)

• John Dalton — UK (1766–1844)

• Charles Galton Darwin — UK (1887–1962)

• Paul Davies — Australia (1946– )

• Raymond Davis Jr. — USA (1914–2006)

• Clinton Davisson — USA (1881–1958)

• Peter Debije — Netherlands (1884–1966)

• Hans Georg Dehmelt — Germany, USA (1922– )

• Max Delbrück — Germany, USA (1906–1981)

• Democritus — Abdera (circa 460–360 BC)

• David M. Dennison — USA (1900–1976)

• David Deutsch — Israel, UK (1953– )

• James Dewar — UK (1842–1923)

• Robbert Dijkgraaf — Netherlands (1960– )

• Savas Dimopoulos — USA (1952– )

• Paul Dirac — UK (1902–1984)

• Revaz Dogonadze — Soviet Union, Georgia (1931–1985)

• Christian Doppler — Austria (1803–1853)

• Henk Dorgelo — Netherlands (1894–1961)

• Robert Döpel — Germany (1895–1982)

• Friedrich Ernst Dorn — Germany (1848–1916)

• Michael R. Douglas — USA (1961– )

• Sidney Drell — USA (1926– )

• Paul Drude — Germany (1863–1906)

• F. J. Duarte — USA

• Pierre Louis Dulong — France (1785–1838)

• Samuel T. Durrance — USA (1943– )

• Freeman Dyson — UK, USA (1923– ) Wolf laureate

E

• Joseph H. Eberly — USA (1935-)

• William Eccles — UK (1875–1966)

• Carl Eckart — USA (1902-1973)

• Sir Arthur Eddington — UK (1882–1944)

• Paul Ehrenfest — Austria-Hungary, Netherlands (1880–1933)

• Felix Ehrenhaft — Austria-Hungary, USA (1879–1952)

• Manfred Eigen — Germany (1927- )

• Albert Einstein — Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA (1879–1955) Nobel laureate

• Terence James Elkins — Australia, USA (1936- )

• John Ellis — UK (1946– )

• R. Keith Ellis — UK, USA (1949– )

• Arpad Elo — Hungary (1903-1992)

• David Enskog — Sweden (1884–1947)

• Loránd Eötvös — Austria-Hungary (1848–1919)

• Leo Esaki — Japan (1925- )

• Ernest Esclangon — France (1876–1954)

• Louis Essen — UK (1908–1997)

• Leonhard Euler — Switzerland (1707–1783)

• Denis Evans — Australia (1951– )

• Paul Peter Ewald — Germany, USA (1888-1985)

• James Alfred Ewing — UK (1855–1935)

• Franz S. Exner — Austria (1849-1926)

• Thomas Edison — US (1847-1931)

F

• Ludvig Faddeev — Russia (1934– )

• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — (1686–1736)

• Kazimierz Fajans — Poland, USA (1887-1975)

• Michael Faraday — UK (1791–1867)

• Eugene Feenberg — USA (1906–1977)

• Mitchell Feigenbaum — USA (1944– )

• Gerald Feinberg — USA (1933–1992)

• Enrico Fermi — Italy (1901–1954)

• Albert Fert — France (1938– )

• Herman Feshbach — USA (1917–2000)

• Richard Feynman — USA (1918–1988) Nobel laureate

• Wolfgang Finkelnburg — Germany (1905–1967)

• David Finkelstein — USA (1929– )

• Johannes Fischer — Germany (1887– )

• Val Logsdon Fitch — USA (1923– )

• George Francis FitzGerald — Ireland (1851–1901)

• Hippolyte Fizeau — France (1819–1896)

• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898–1974)

• Adriaan Fokker — Netherlands (1887–1972)

• James David Forbes — UK (1809–1868)

• Léon Foucault — France (1819–1868)

• Joseph Fourier — France (1768–1830)

• Ralph H. Fowler — UK (1889–1944)

• William Alfred Fowler — USA (1911–1995)

• James Franck — Germany, USA (1882–1964)

• Ilya Frank — Soviet Union (1908–1990)

• Benjamin Franklin — USA (1706–1790)

• Rosalind Franklin — UK (1920–1958)

• Walter Franz — Germany (1911–1992)

• Joseph von Fraunhofer — Germany (1787–1826)

• Steven Frautschi — USA (1933– )

• Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France (1788–1827)

• Peter Freund — USA (1936– )

• Alexander Friedman — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1888–1925)

• Daniel Friedan — USA

• B. Roy Frieden — USA (1936– )

• Jerome Isaac Friedman — USA (1930– )

• Otto Frisch — Austria, UK (1904–1979)

• Erwin Fues — Germany (1893–1970)

• Harald Fuchs — Germany (1951– )

G

• Dennis Gabor — Hungary (1900-1979)

• Mary K. Gaillard — France, USA (1939– )

• Galileo Galilei — Italy (1564-1642)

• Luigi Galvani — Italy (1737–1798)

• George Gamow — Russia, USA (1904-1968)

• Sylvester James Gates — USA (1950- )

• Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany (1777-1855)

• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — France (1778-1850)

• Murray Gell-Mann — USA (1929- ) Nobel laureate

• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes — France (1932-2007)

• Howard Georgi — USA (1947- )

• Walter Gerlach — Germany (1889-1979)

• Christian Gerthsen — Denmark, Germany (1894-1956)

• Riccardo Giacconi — Italy, USA (1931- )

• Ivar Giaever — Norway, USA (1929- )

• Gary Gibbons — UK (1946- )

• Josiah Willard Gibbs — USA (1839-1903)

• William Gilbert — England (1544-1603)

• Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg — Soviet Union/Russia (1916- )

• Donald Arthur Glaser — USA (1926- )

• Sheldon Lee Glashow — USA (1932- )

• G. N. Glasoe – USA (1902– )

• Roy Jay Glauber — USA (1925- )

• James Glimm — USA (1934– )

• Karl Glitscher — Germany (1886-1945)

• Peter Goddard — UK (1945-)

• Marvin Leonard Goldberger — USA (1922– )

• Maurice Goldhaber - Austria, USA (1911- )

• Jeffrey Goldstone — UK, USA (1933- )

• Lev Gor'kov — USA (1929- )

• Samuel Goudsmit — Netherlands, USA (1902-1978)

• Leo Graetz — Germany (1856-1941)

• Willem 's Gravesande — Netherlands (1688-1742)

• Brian Greene — USA (1963- )

• John Gribbin — UK (1946- )

• Vladimir Gribov — Russia (1930–1997)

• David Gross — USA (1941- )

• Frederick Grover — USA (1876-1973)

• Peter Grünberg — Germany (1939- )

• Charles Édouard Guillaume — Switzerland (1861-1931)

• Feza Gürsey — Turkey (1921-1992)

• Alan Guth - USA (1947- )

• Martin Gutzwiller — Switzerland (1925- )

H

• Rudolf Haag — Germany (1922– )

• Wander Johannes de Haas — Netherlands (1878-1960)

• Otto Hahn — Germany (1879-1968)

• Edwin Hall — USA (1855–1938)

• John Lewis Hall — USA (1934- )

• Viktor Hambardzumyan — Armenia, Russia (1908-1996)

• William Rowan Hamilton — Ireland (1805–1865)

• Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch — Germany (1941- )

• Peter Andreas Hansen — Denmark (1795–1874)

• W.W. Hansen — USA (1909–1949)

• Paul Harteck — Germany (1902-1985)

• Douglas Hartree — UK (1897–1958)

• Friedrich Hasenöhrl — Austria,Hungary (1874-1915)

• Stephen Hawking — UK (1942– ) Wolf laureate

• Ibn al-Haytham — Iraq (965-1039)

• Oliver Heaviside — UK (1850–1925)

• Werner Karl Heisenberg — Germany (1901–1976)

• Walter Heitler — Germany/Ireland (1904-1981)

• Hermann von Helmholtz — Germany (1821–1894)

• Charles H. Henry — USA (1937- )

• Joseph Henry — USA (1797–1878)

• John Herapath — UK (1790–1868)

• Carl Hermann — Germany (1898–1961)

• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz — Germany (1857–1894)

• Karl Herzfeld — Austria, USA (1892-1978)

• Victor Francis Hess — Austria, USA (1883–1964)

• Mahmoud Hessaby — Iran (1903-1992)

• Antony Hewish — UK (1924- )

• Peter Higgs — UK (1929- )

• George William Hill — USA (1838–1914)

• Gustave-Adolphe Hirn — France (1815-1890)

• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — England (1910-1994)

• Robert Hofstadter — USA (1915-1990)

• Gilles Holst — Netherlands (1886-1968)

• Helmut Hönl — Germany (1903-1981)

• Gerardus 't Hooft — Netherlands (1946– )

• Robert Hooke — England (1635–1703)

• John Hopkinson — U.K. (1849-1898)

• Johann Baptiste Horvath — Slovakia (1732-1799)

• William V. Houston — USA (1900-1968)

• Charlotte (nee Riefenstahl) Houtermans — Germany (1899 - )

• Fritz Houtermans — Netherlands, Germany, Austria (1903-1996)

• Sir Fred Hoyle — UK (1915–2001)

• John H. Hubbell — USA (1925-2007)

• Russell Alan Hulse — USA (1950- ) Nobel laureate

• Friedrich Hund — Germany (1896-1997)

• Andrew D. Huxley — U.K. (1966– )

• Christiaan Huygens — Netherlands (1629–1695)

I

• John Iliopoulos — Greece (1940– )

• Nathan Isgur — USA, Canada (1947–2001)

• Werner Israel — Canada (1931– )

J

• Roman Jackiw — Poland, USA (1939-)

• Andreas Jaszlinszky — Hungary (1715-1783)

• Ali Javan — Iran (1928– )

• Edwin Jaynes — USA (1922–1998)

• Sir James Jeans — UK (1877–1946)

• Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen — Germany (1907-1973)

• Irene Joliot-Curie — France (1897-1956)

• Pascual Jordan — Germany (1902-1980)

• Brian David Josephson — UK (1940– )

• James Prescott Joule — UK (1818–1889)

• Adolfas Jucys — Lithuania (1904–1974)

K

• Michio Kaku — USA (1947- )

• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — Netherlands (1853-1926)

• Theodor Kaluza — Germany (1885-1954)

• William R. Kanne — USA

• Pyotr Kapitza — UK, Soviet Union (1894-1984)

• Theodore von Kármán — Hungary, USA (1881-1963)

• Alfred Kastler — France (1902-1984)

• Heinrich Kayser — Germany (1853-1940)

• Willem Hendrik Keesom — Netherlands (1876-1956)

• Edwin C. Kemble — USA (1889-1984)

• Henry Way Kendall — USA (1926-1999)

• Johannes Kepler — Germany (1571–1630)

• John Kerr — UK (1824–1907)

• Wolfgang Ketterle — Germany (1957- )

• Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov — Soviet Union (1919- )

• Abdul Qadeer Khan — Pakistan (1936- )

• Julii Khariton — Soviet Union (1904-1996)

• Jack St. Clair Kilby — USA (1923-2005)

• Toichiro Kinoshita — Japan, USA

• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff — Germany (1824–1887)

• Jacob Kistemaker — Netherlands (1917- )

• Bruce G. Klappauf — USA (1961- )

• Oskar Klein — Sweden (1894-1977)

• Hagen Kleinert — Germany (1941- )

• Klaus von Klitzing — Germany (1943- )

• Jens Martin Knudsen — Denmark (1930–2005)

• Martin Knudsen — Denmark (1871-1949)

• Makoto Kobayashi — Japan (1944– )

• Arthur Korn — Germany (1870-1945)

• Masatoshi Koshiba — Japan (1926- )

• Matthew Koss — USA (1961- )

• Walther Kossel — Germany (1888-1956)

• Gabriel Kotliar — USA (1950- )

• Lew Kowarski — France (1907-1979)

• Hendrik Kramers — Netherlands (1894-1952)

• Adolf Kratzer — Germany (1893- )

• Lawrence Krauss — USA (1954- )

• Herbert Kroemer — Germany (1928– )

• August Krönig — Germany (1822–1879)

• Ralph Kronig Germany, USA (1904–1995)

• Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov — Soviet Union (1917–1947)

• Ryogo Kubo — Japan (1920–1995)

• Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov — Soviet Union (1903–1960)

• Behram Kurşunoğlu — Turkey (1922-2003)

• Polykarp Kusch Germany (1911-1993)

L

• Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736–1813)

• Willis Lamb - USA (1913-)

• Lev Davidovich Landau — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1908–1968)

• Rolf Landauer — USA (1927-1999)

• Kenneth Lane — USA

• Paul Langevin — France (1872-1946)

• Irving Langmuir — USA (1881-1957)

• Max von Laue — Germany (1879–1960)

• Robert Betts Laughlin — USA (1950– )

• Ernest Lawrence — USA (1901–1958)

• Bob Lazar - USA (1959- )

• Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev — Imperial Russia (1866–1912)

• Leon Max Lederman — USA (1922– )

• Benjamin Lee — Korea, USA (1935-1977)

• David Lee — USA (1931- )

• Tsung-Dao Lee — China, USA (1926– )

• Anthony James Leggett — UK, USA (1938– )

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany (1646–1716)

• Robert B. Leighton — USA (1919-1997)

• Georges Lemaître — Belgium (1894–1966)

• Philipp Lenard — Hungary, Germany (1862-1947)

• John Lennard-Jones — UK (1894–1954)

• John Leslie — UK (1766–1832)

• Walter Lewin — Netherlands, USA

• Martin Lewis Perl — USA (1927- )

• Robert von Lieben — Austria-Hungary (1878-1913)

• Alfred-Marie Liénard — France (1869-1958)

• Evgeny Lifshitz — Soviet Union (1915-1985)

• David Lindley — USA (1956– )

• Gabriel Jonas Lippmann — France, Luxemburg (1845–1921)

• Karl L. Littrow — Austria (1811–1877)

• Oliver Lodge — UK (1851-1940)

• Maurice Loewy — Austria/France (1833–1907)

• Robert K. Logan — USA (1939– )

• Alfred Lee Loomis — USA (1887–1975)

• Hendrik Lorentz — Netherlands (1853–1928)

• Johann Loschmidt — Germany (1821–1895)

• Archibald Low — UK (1888–1956)

• Per-Olov Löwdin — Sweden (1916–2000)

• Lucretius — Rome (98?–55 BC)

• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia (1857–1918)

M

• Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry — Netherlands (1904–1993)

• Ernst Mach — Austria-Hungary (1838–1916)

• Luciano Maiani — Italy, San Marino (1941– )

• Theodore Maiman — USA (1927–2007)

• Ettore Majorana — Italy (1906-1938 presumed dead)

• Richard Makinson — Australia (1913-1979)

• Juan Martín Maldacena — Argentina (1968– )

• Etienne-Louis Malus — France (1775–1812)

• Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1879–1944)

• Peter Mansfield — UK (1933– )

• Carlo Marangoni — Italy (1840–1925)

• William J. Marciano — USA

• Guglielmo Marconi — Italy (1874–1937)

• Henry Margenau — Germany, USA (1901–1977)

• William Markowitz — USA (1907–1998)

• Robert Marshak — USA (1916–1992)

• Walter Marshall — UK (1932–1996)

• Toshihide Maskawa — Japan (1940– )

• Harrie Massey — Australia (1908-1983)

• John Cromwell Mather — USA (1946– )

• James Clerk Maxwell — UK (1831–1879)

• Brian May — UK (1947– )

• Maria Goeppert Mayer — Germany, USA (1906-1972)

• Ronald E. McNair — USA (1950–1986)

• Simon van der Meer — Netherlands (1925- )

• Fulvio Melia — USA (1956- )

• Macedonio Melloni — Italy (1798–1854)

• Lise Meitner — Austria (1878-1968)

• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall — USA (1841–1924)

• M. G. K. Menon — India (1928– )

• David Merritt — USA

• Albert Abraham Michelson — USA (1852–1931)

• Stanislav Mikheyev — Russia

• Robert Andrews Millikan — USA (1868–1953)

• Arthur Milne — UK (1896-1950)

• Shiraz Minwalla — India

• John J. Montgomery — USA (1858-1911)

• Jagadeesh Moodera — India, USA (1950– )

• Rudolf Mössbauer — Germany (1929– )

• Henry Moseley — UK (1887–1915)

• Nevill Mott — UK (1905–1996)

• Ben Roy Mottelson — Denmark, USA (1926- )

• Amédée Mouchez — Spain, France (1821–1892)

• Ali Moustafa — Egypt (1898 –1950)

• José Enrique Moyal — Palestine, France, UK, USA, Australia (1910-1998)

• Mozi — China (ca. 450 BC)

• Karl Alexander Müller — Switzerland (1927– )

• Alfred Mueller — USA

• Richard A. Muller — USA (1944– )

• Robert S. Mulliken — USA (1896–1986)

• Pieter van Musschenbroek — Netherlands (1692-1762)

N

• Yoichiro Nambu — Japan, USA (1921– )

• Jayant Narlikar — India (1938– )

• Seth Neddermeyer — USA (1907–1988)

• Louis Eugène Félix Néel — France (1904–2000)

• Yuval Ne'eman — Israel (1925-2006)

• Ann Nelson — USA (1958– )

• John von Neumann — Austria-Hungary, USA (1903–1957)

• Simon Newcomb — USA (1835–1909)

• Sir Isaac Newton — England (1642–1727)

• Holger Bech Nielsen — Denmark (1941– )

• Leopoldo Nobili — Italy (1784–1835)

• Emmy Noether — Germany (1882–1935)

• Lothar Nordheim — Germany (1899–1985)

• Gunnar Nordström — Finland (1881–1923)

• Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg — Germany (1787–1862)

O

• Georg Ohm — Germany (1789–1854)

• Susumu Okubo — Japan, USA

• David Olive — UK (1937– )

• Gerard K. O'Neill — USA (1927–1992)

• Lars Onsager — Norway (1903–1976)

• Robert Oppenheimer — USA (1904–1967)

• Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh — Ireland (1933–2000)

• Nicole Oresme — France (1325–1382)

• Leonard Salomon Ornstein — Netherlands (1880–1941)

• Egon Orowan — Austria-Hungary, USA (1901–1989)

• Yuri Orlov — Soviet Union, USA (1924– )

• Douglas Dean Osheroff — USA (1945– )

• Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky — Russia (1801–1862)

• Hans Christian Ørsted — Denmark (1777–1851)

P

• Thanu Padmanabhan — India (1957- )

• Abraham Pais — Netherlands, USA (1918-2000)

• Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky — Germany/USA (1919- )

• Blaise Pascal — France (1623–1662)

• John Pasta — USA (1918-1984)

• Jogesh Pati — USA (1937- )

• Wolfgang Paul — Germany (1913–1993)

• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli — Austria-Hungary (1900–1958)

• G. B. Pegram — USA (1876–1958)

• Rudolf Peierls — Germany/UK (1907-1995)

• Jean Peltier — France (1785–1845)

• Roger Penrose — UK (1931– ) Wolf laureate

• Arno Allan Penzias — USA (1933– )

• Saul Perlmutter — USA (1959- )

• Jean Baptiste Perrin — France (1870-1942)

• Bernhard Philberth — Germany (1927– )

• William Daniel Phillips — USA (1948– )

• Algis Petras Piskarskas — Lithuania (1942– )

• Max Planck — Germany (1858–1947)

• Joseph Plateau — Belgium (1801–1883)

• Milton S. Plesset — USA (1908–1991)

• Ward Plummer - USA (1940-)

• Henri Poincaré — France (1854–1912)

• Eric Poisson — Canada ( – )

• Balthasar van der Pol — Netherlands (1889-1959)

• Joseph Polchinski — UK (1954–)

• Hugh David Politzer — USA (1949– )

• John Polkinghorne — UK (1930– )

• Alexander M. Polyakov - Russia-USA (1945-)

• Heraclides Ponticus — Greece (387–312 BC)

• Heinz Pose — Germany (1905-1975)

• Cecil Frank Powell — UK (1903–1969)

• John Henry Poynting — UK (1852–1914)

• Juras Požela — Lithuania (1925– )

• Ludwig Prandtl — Germany (1875-1953)

• Ilya Prigogine — Belgium (1917-2003)

• Aleksandr Prokhorov — Soviet/Russian (1916-2002)

• William Prout — UK (1785–1850)

• Luigi Puccianti — Italy (1875–1952)

• Ivan Pulyuy — Ukraine (1845-1918)

• Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin — Serbia/USA (1858-1935)

• Edward Mills Purcell — USA (1912-1997)

Q

• Helen Quinn — USA (1943- )

R

• Isidor Isaac Rabi — Austria, USA (1898-1988)

• Mario Rabinowitz - USA (1936-)

• Mark G. Raizen -New York City USA (1955-)

• James Rainwater-USA (1917-1986)

• Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — India (1888–1970)

• Edward Ramberg — USA (1907-1995)

• Carl Ramsauer — Germany (1879-1955)

• Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. — USA (1915- )

• Lisa Randall — USA (1962– )

• Lord Rayleigh — UK (1842–1919)

• René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur — France (1683–1757)

• Sidney Redner — Canada, USA (1951- )

• Martin John Rees — UK (1942- )

• Hubert Reeves — Canada (1932– )

• Tullio Regge — Italy (1931–)

• Frederick Reines — USA (1918–1998)

• Louis Rendu — France (1789–1859)

• Osborne Reynolds — UK (1842–1912)

• Owen Willans Richardson — UK (1879-1959)

• Robert Coleman Richardson — USA (1937- )

• Burton Richter — USA (1931- )

• Charlotte Riefenstahl — Germany (1899- )

• Nikolaus Riehl — Germany (1901-1990)

• Karl-Heinrich Riewe — Germany

• Walter Ritz — Switzerland (1878-1909)

• Étienne-Gaspard Robert — Belgium (1763-1837)

• Heinrich Rohrer — Switzerland (1933- )

• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen — Germany (1845–1923)

• Clemens C. J. Roothaan — Netherlands (1918–)

• Marshall Rosenbluth — USA (1927–2003)

• Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby — Sweden, USA (1898–1957)

• Joseph Rotblat — Poland, UK (1908-2005)

• Carlo Rubbia — Italy (1934– )

• Serge Rudaz — Canada, USA (1954– )

• David Ruelle — Belgium, France (1935– )

• Ernst August Friedrich Ruska — Germany (1906–1988)

• Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand, UK (1871–1937)

• Janne Rydberg — Sweden (1854–1919)

• Martin Ryle — UK (1918–1984)

S

• Mendel Sachs — USA (1927- )

• Georges-Louis le Sage — Switzerland (1724–1803)

• Georges Sagnac — France (1869-1926)

• Megh Nad Saha — Bengali India (1893-1956)

• Gilles Saint-Hilaire — Canada (1948– )

• Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — Soviet Union (1929–1989)

• Oscar Sala — Brazil (1922– )

• Abdus Salam — Pakistan, UK (1926–1996)

• Edwin Ernest Salpeter — Austria, Australia, USA (1924– )

• Anthony Ichiro Sanda — Japan, USA (1944– )

• Vikram Sarabhai — India (1919-1971)

• Jack Sarfatti — USA (1939– )

• Isidor Sauers — Austria (1948- )

• Felix Savart — France (1791–1841)

• Martin Schadt — Switzerland (1938- )

• Arthur Leonard Schawlow — USA (1921-1999)

• Craige Schensted — USA

• Joël Scherk — USA (1946-1979)

• Otto Scherzer — Germany (1909-1982)

• Walter H. Schottky — Germany (1886-1976)

• Kees A. Schouhamer Immink — Netherlands (1946- )

• John Robert Schrieffer — USA (1931- )

• Erwin Schrödinger — Austria-Hungary (1887–1961)

• Melvin Schwartz — USA (1932-2006)

• John Henry Schwarz — USA (1941–)

• Karl Schwarzschild — Germany (1876–1916)

• Julian Schwinger — USA (1918-1994)

• Dennis William Sciama — UK (1926-1999)

• Thomas Johann Seebeck — Estonia (1770–1831)

• Emilio G. Segrè — USA/Italy (1905–1989)

• Nathan Seiberg — USA (1956– )

• Frederick Seitz — USA (1911- )

• Nikolay Semyonov — Russia (1896-1986)

• Ashoke Sen — India (1956- )

• Robert Serber — USA (1909-1997)

• Roman U. Sexl — Austria (1939-1986)

• Mikhail Shifman — Russia, USA (1949–

• Dmitry Shirkov — Russia (1928– )

• William Bradford Shockley — USA (1910-1989)

• Lev Shubnikov — Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine (1901-1937)

• Clifford Shull — USA (1915-2001)

• Manne Siegbahn — Sweden (1886-1978)

• Kai Siegbahn — Sweden (1918-2007)

• Ludwik Silberstein — Poland, Germany, Italy, USA, Canada (1872-1948)

• Alberto Sirlin — Argentina, USA

• Willem de Sitter — Netherlands (1872-1934)

• Francis G. Slack — USA (1897–1985)

• John C. Slater — USA (1900-1976)

• Louis Slotin — USA (1910-1946)

• Alexei Smirnov — Russia, Italy (1951– )

• Lee Smolin — USA (1955- )

• Marian Smoluchowski — Poland (1872-1917)

• George Smoot — USA (1945- )

• Willebrord Snel van Royen (Snellius) — Netherlands (1580–1626)

• Arsenij Sokolov — Russia (1910-1986)

• Arnold Sommerfeld — Germany (1868-1951)

• Davison E. Soper — USA

• Rafael Sorkin - USA (1945- )

• Johannes Stark — Germany (1874-1957)

• Max Steenbeck — (1901-1981)

• Jožef Stefan — Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835–1893)

• Jack Steinberger — Germany, USA (1921- )

• Karl August von Steinheil — Germany (1801–1870)

• George Sterman — USA

• Otto Stern — Germany (1888–1969)

• Simon Stevin — Belgium, Netherlands (1548–1620)

• George Gabriel Stokes — Ireland / UK (1819–1903)

• Aleksandr Stoletov — Russia (1839-1896)

• Horst Ludwig Störmer — Germany (1949– )

• Andrew Strominger — USA (1955– )

• Ernst Stueckelberg — Switzerland (1905–1984)

• George Sudarshan — India, USA (1931– )

• Oleg Sushkov — Australia-Russia (1950- )

• Leonard Susskind — USA (1940- )

• Joseph Wilson Swan — UK (1828–1914)

• Jean Henri van Swinden — Netherlands (1746-1823)

• Bertha Swirles — UK (1903–1999)

• Leó Szilárd — Austria-Hungary, USA (1898–1964)

• Shen Kuo — China (1031 - 1095)

T

• Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1895–1971)

• Abraham Haskel Taub — USA (1911–1999)

• Geoffrey Ingram Taylor — UK (1886–1975)

• Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. — USA (1941– )

• Richard Edward Taylor — USA (1929– )

• Max Tegmark — Sweden, USA (1967– )

• Valentine Telegdi - Hungary, USA (1922-2006) Wolf laureate

• Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary, USA (1908–2003)

• Igor Ternov — Russia (1921-1996)

• Nikola Tesla — Serbia/Croatia, USA (1856–1943)

• George Paget Thomson — UK (1892–1975)

• J. J. Thomson — UK (1856–1940)

• William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) — UK (1824–1907)

• Charles Thorn — USA

• Kip Stephen Thorne — USA (1940– )

• Peter Adolf Thiessen — Germany (1899–1990)

• Samuel Chao Chung Ting — USA (1936– )

• Frank J. Tipler — USA (1947– )

• Ernest William Titterton — UK/Australia (1916–1990)

• Samuel Tolansky — UK (1907–1973)

• Sin-Itiro Tomonaga — Japan (1906–1979)

• Evangelista Torricelli — Italy (1608–1647)

• Bruno Touschek — Italy (1921–1978)

• Charles Townes — USA (1915– ) Nobel laureate

• John Townsend — UK (1868–1957)

• Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763–1822)

• Sam Treiman — USA (1925–1999)

• Paolo Tripodi — Italy (1963– )

• Daniel Chee Tsui — China, USA (1939– )

• John J. Turin — USA (1913–1973)

• Sergei Tyablikov — Russia (1921-1968)

• John Tyndall — UK (1820–1893)

• Neil deGrasse Tyson — USA (1958– )

U

• George Eugene Uhlenbeck — Netherlands, USA (1900-1988)

• Stanislaw Ulam — Poland (1909-1984)

• Nikolay Umov — Russia (1846-1915)

• Juris Upatnieks — Latvia, USA (1936- )

V

• Arkady Vainshtein — Russia, USA

• Léon Van Hove — Belgium (1924–1990)

• Sergei Vavilov — Soviet Union (1891–1951)

• Evgeny Velikhov — Russia (1935–)

• Martinus J. G. Veltman — Netherlands, USA (1931- )

• Gabriele Veneziano — Italy (1942- )

• Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746–1822)

• Émile Verdet — France (1824-1866)

• Jenny Darja Vinko — Slovenija (1963- )

• Anatoly Vlasov — Russia (1908–1975)

• John Hasbrouck van Vleck — USA (1899–1980)

• Woldemar Voigt — Germany (1850-1919)

• Burchard de Volder — Netherlands (1643-1709)

• Max Volmer — Germany (1885-1965)

• Mikhail Voloshin — Russia, USA

• Alessandro Volta — Italy (1745–1827)

• Wernher Von Braun - Germany (1912-1977)

W

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands (1837–1923)

• Ludwig Waldmann — Germany (1913–1980)

• Ernest Walton — Ireland (1903–1995)

• Kan-Chang Wang — China (1907–1998)

• Aaldert Wapstra — Netherlands (1923–2006)

• John Clive Ward — England/Australia (1924-2000)

• Gleb Wataghin — Ukraine/Italy/Brazil (1896–1986)

• John James Waterston — UK (1811–1883)

• James Watt — UK (1736–1819)

• Denis Weaire — Ireland (194?- )

• Colin Webb — UK (1937- )

• Wilhelm Weber — Germany (1804–1891)

• Alvin Weinberg — USA (1915-2006)

• Steven Weinberg — USA (1933– )

• Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, USA (1908–2002)

• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker — Germany (1912-2007)

• Heinrich Welker — Germany (1912-1981)

• Peter Westervelt — USA (1919-)

• Gregor Wentzel — Germany (1898-1978)

• John Archibald Wheeler — USA (1911-2008)

• Gian-Carlo Wick — Italy (1909-1992)

• Emil Wiechert — Prussia (1861-1928)

• Carl Wieman — USA (1951- )

• Wilhelm Wien — Germany (1864-1928)

• Arthur Wightman — USA (1922– )

• Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary, USA (1902–1993)

• Frank Wilczek — USA (1951– )

• Charles Thomson Rees Wilson — UK (1869–1959)

• Kenneth Geddes Wilson — USA (1936– )

• Robert R. Wilson — USA (1914–2000)

• Karl Wirtz — Germany (1910-1994)

• Robert Woodrow Wilson — USA (1936– )

• Mark B. Wise — Canada, USA (1953– )

• Edward Witten — USA (1951– )

• Emil Wolf — Czechoslovakia, USA (1922– )

• Lincoln Wolfenstein — USA (1923– )

• Stephen Wolfram — UK (1959– )

• Robert W. Wood — USA (1868–1955)

• Chien-Shiung Wu — USA (1912-1997)

X

• Basilis C. Xanthopoulos — Greece (1951–1990)

Y

• Rosalyn Yalow — USA (1921- )

• Chen Ning Yang — China (1922– )

• Thomas Young — UK (1773–1829)

• Francisco Jose Yndurain — Spain (1940–2008)

• Hideki Yukawa — Japan (1907–1981)

Z

• Jan Zaanen — Netherlands (1957- )

• Valentin Zakharov — Russia, Germany

• Anthony Zee — USA

• Pieter Zeeman — Netherlands (1865-1943)

• Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich — Russia (1914-1987)

• John Zeleny — USA (1872-1951)

• Frits Zernike — Netherlands (1888-1960)

• Antonino Zichichi — Italy (1929- )

• Karl Zimmer — Germany (1911-1988)

• Dmitry Zubarev — Russia (1917-1992)

• Barton Zwiebach — USA (1954- )

See also

• List of theoretical physicists

• Genealogy of theoretical physicists

• Physics in medieval Islam

• List of plasma physicists

• List of mathematicians

• List of women scientists