List of physicists
Many famous physicists of the 20th and 21st century are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.
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A
- Ernst Abbe – Germany (1840-1905)
- Hannes Alfvén – Sweden (1908-1995)
- Luis Alvarez – USA (1911 – 1988)
- Andre Marie Ampere,- France (1775-1836)
- Anders Jonas Ångström, – Sweden (1814-1874)
- Archimedes – Syracuse (circa 287 – 212 BC)
- Aristarchus of Samos (310 – circa 230 BC)
- Aristotle – Athens, Greece (384-322 BC)
- Amedeo Avogadro – Italy (1776-1856)
B
- Johann Jakob Balmer – Switzerland (1825-1898)
- John Bardeen – USA (1908-1991)
- Zoltán Lajos Bay – Hungary (1900–1992)
- John Stewart Bell – Britain (1928-1990)
- Henri Becquerel – France (1852-1908)
- Daniel Bernoulli – Switzerland (1700 – 1782)
- Jean-Baptist Biot, (1774-1862)
- Raymond T. Birge – USA (1887 – 1980)
- Vilhelm Bjerknes – Norway (1862 – 1951)
- Felix Bloch – Switzerland (1905-1983)
- René-Prosper Blondlot – France (1849-1930)
- Niels Bohr – Denmark (1885-1962)
- Aage Niels Bohr – Denmark (1922- )
- Ludwig Boltzmann – Austria (1844-1906)
- Max Born – Germany, Britain (1882-1970)
- Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik (1711 – 1787)
- Satyendra Nath Bose – India (1894-1974)
- Robert Boyle – Ireland, England (1627-1691)
- David Brewster – Scotland (1781-1868)
- Louis-Victor de Broglie – France (1892-1987)
- Thomas Townsend Brown – USA (1905 – 1985)
C
- Fritjof Capra – Austria, USA (1939- )
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot – France (1796-1832)
- Henry Cavendish — Britain (1731 – 1810)
- Owen Chamberlain – USA (1920-)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov – Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1904-1990)
- Ernst Chladni – Germany (1756-1827)
- Hans Christian Ørsted – Denmark (1777-1851)
- Giovanni Ciccotti – Italy (1943- )
- Rudolf Clausius – Germany (1822-1888)
- Alfred Cornu – France (1841-1902)
- Charles Augustin de Coulomb – France (1736-1806)
- Pierre Curie – France (1859-1906)
D
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France (1717 – 1783)
- John Dalton – England (1766-1844)
- Sir Charles Galton Darwin, England (1887-1962)
- Paul Davies – Australia (1946- )
- Democritus – Abdera (circa 460 – 360 BC)
- René Descartes – France (1596-1650)
- Henri-Alexandre Deslandres – France (1853-1948)
- James Dewar – Britain (1842-1923)
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac – Britain (1902-1984)
- Revaz Dogonadze – Former Soviet Union, Georgia (1931-1985)
- Christian Doppler – Austria (1803-1853)
- Freeman Dyson – Britain, USA (1923- )
E
- William Eccles – Britain, (1875-1966)
- Paul Ehrenfest – Austria, (1880-1933)
- Felix Ehrenhaft – Austria, USA (1879-1952)
- Albert Einstein – Germany, USA (1879-1955)
- V. Walfrid Ekman – Sweden, (1874-1954)
- Roland Eötvös – Hungary (1848-1919)
- Ernest Esclangon – France, (1876-1954)
- Louis Essen – England, (1908-1997)
- Leonard Euler -Switzerland (1707-1783)
- James Alfred Ewing – Scotland (1855-1935)
F
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — Poland, England, Netherlands (1686 – 1736)
- Michael Faraday – Britain (1791-1867)
- Enrico Fermi – Italy, (1901-1954)
- Richard Feynman – USA, (1918-1988)
- George Francis FitzGerald – Ireland (1851-1901)
- Hippolyte Fizeau – France (1819-1896)
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898-1974)
- James David Forbes – Scotland (1809-1868)
- Léon Focault – France (1819-1868)
- Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
- Benjamin Franklin — USA (1706 – 1790)
- Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany (1787-1826)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel – France (1788-1827)
- B. Roy Frieden — USA, ()
G
- Galileo Galilei – Italy (1564-1642)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss – Germany (1777-1855)
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac – France (1778-1850)
- Murray Gell-Mann – USA (1929- )
- Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
- William Gilbert – England (1544-1603)
- Martin Gutzwiller – Switzerland (1925- )
H
- Rudolf Haag – Germany (1922- )
- Edwin Hall – USA (1855-1938)
- William Hamilton – Ireland (1805-1865)
- Peter Andreas Hansen – Denmark (1795 – 1874)
- W.W. Hansen – USA (1909-1949)
- Douglas Hartree – England (1897-1958)
- Stephen Hawking – England (1942- )
- Oliver Heaviside – Britain (1850-1925)
- Werner Karl Heisenberg – Germany (1901-1976)
- Hermann von Helmholtz – Germany (1821-1894)
- Joseph Henry – USA (1797-1878)
- John Herapath – England (1790-1868)
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz – Germany (1857-1894)
- George William Hill – USA (1838 – 1914)
- Gerardus 't Hooft – The Netherlands, (1946- )
- Robert Hooke – England (1635-1703)
- Christian Huygens- The Netherlands, (1629-1695)
J
- Ali Javan – Iran (1928-)
- Edwin Jaynes – USA (1922-1998)
- Song Jin-joo – Korea/USA
- Brian David Josephson – Britain (1940- )
- James Prescott Joule – Britain (1818-1889)
K
- Johannes Kepler – Germany (1571-1630)
- John Kerr – Britain (1824-1907)
- Bernard Bruno Kinsey – Britain, USA (1910-1995)
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff – Germany (1824 – 1887)
- August Krönig – Germany (1822-1879)
L
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736 – 1813)
- Lev Davidovich Landau – Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908-1968)
- Irving Langmuir – USA (1851-1957)
- Max von Laue- Germany (1879-1960)
- Ernest Lawrence – USA (1901-1958)
- Georges-Louis LeSage — Switzerland (1724 – 1803)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz- Germany (16461716)
- John Leslie – Scotland (1766-1832)
- Karl L. Littrow – Austria (1811 – 1877)
- Maurice Loewy – Austria/France (1833 – 1907)
- Johann Loschmidt – Germany (1821-1895)
- Lucretius – Rome (98? – 55 BC)
M
- Ernst Mach – Austria (1838-1916)
- Theodore Maiman – USA (1927- )
- Etienne-Louis Malus — France (1775 – 1812)
- Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam – Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1879-1944)
- Thomas Corwin Mendenhall – USA (1841-1924)
- Guglielmo Marconi – Italy (1874-1937)
- William Markowitz – USA (1907-1998)
- James Clerk Maxwell – Britain (1831-1879)
- Ronald E. McNair – USA (1950-1986)
- Macedonio Melloni – Italy (1798–1854)
- Albert Abraham Michelson – USA (1852-1931)
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov – Imperial Russia (1857-1918)
- Robert Andrews Millikan – USA (1868- 1953)
- Amédée Mouchez – Spain, France (1821-1892)
- Richard A. Muller – USA (1944- )
N
- John von Neumann – Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
- Simon Newcomb – USA (1835 – 1909)
- Isaac Newton – England (1642-1727)
- Leopoldo Nobili – Italy (1784-1835)
O
- Georg Ohm – Germany (1789-1854)
- Lars Onsager – Norway (1903-1976)
- Robert Oppenheimer – USA (1904-1967)
- Nicolas Oresme – France (1325-1382)
- Egon Orowan – Hungary/ USA (1901-1989)
- Yuri Orlov – Soviet Union, USA (1924- )
P
- Blaise Pascal – France (1623-1662)
- Wolfgang Ernst Pauli – Austria (1900-1958)
- G. B. Pegram – USA (1876-1958)
- Max Planck – Germany (1858-1947)
- Joseph Plateau – Belgium (1801 – 1883)
- John Polkinghorne – Britain (1930- )
- Henri Poincaré – France (1854-1912)
- Heraclides Ponticus – Greece (387 – 312 BC)
- John Henry Poynting – Britain (1852-1914)
- William Prout – England (1785-1850)
R
- Lord Rayleigh – Britain (1842-1919)
- Hubert Reeves – Canada (1932- )
- Osborne Reynolds – Britain (1842-1912)
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen – Germany (1845-1923)
- Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby – Sweden, USA (1898-1957)
- David Ruelle – Belgium, France (1935- )
- Ernest Rutherford – New Zealand, England (1871-1937)
- Janne Rydberg, Sweden (1854-[[1919])
S
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov – Soviet Union (1929-1989)
- Oscar Sala – Brazil (1922-)
- Jack Sarfatti, (1939- )
- Felix Savart – France (1791-1841)
- Erwin Schrödinger – Austria (1887-1961)
- Emilio G. Segrè – USA/Italy (1905-1989)
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie – Poland (1867-1934)
- Willebrord Snell – Netherlands (1580-1626)
- Jožef Stefan – Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
- Karl August von Steinheil – Germany, (1801-1870)
- George Gabriel Stokes – Britain (1819-1903)
- Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)
T
- Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm – Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895-1971)
- Edward Teller – Austria-Hungary/USA (1908-2003)
- Nikola Tesla – Austria-Hungary/USA (1856-1943)
- Joseph John Thomson, England (1856-1940)
- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) – Ireland (1824-1907)
- Kip Stephen Thorne – USA (1940-)
- Evangelista Torricelli – Italy (1608-1647)
- Charles Townes – USA (1915-)
- Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763 – 1822)
U
V
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals – Netherlands (1837-1923)
- Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746 – 1822)
- Alessandro Volta – Italy (1745-1827)
W
- John James Waterston – Scotland (1811–1883)
- James Watt – Scotland (1736–1819)
- Gleb Wataghin – Ukraine/Italy/Brazil (1896-1986)
- Wilhelm Weber, (1804–1891)
- Steven Weinberg – USA (1933– )
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf – Austria, USA (1908–2002)
- Eugene Wigner – Austria-Hungary/USA (1902–1993)
- Robert R. Wilson – USA (1914–2000)
- Edward Witten – USA (1951– )
- Robert W. Wood – USA (1868–1955)
- Arthur Wightman – USA
Y
- Thomas Young – England (1773–1829)
- Hideki Yukawa – Japan (1907–1981)
See also
- List of theoretical physicists
- List of plasma physicists
- List of mathematicians
- Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th century American) are collected in the Emilio Segre Visual Archives
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