List of physicists
Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements.
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- 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
- David Z Albert — United States
- Felicie Albert — France, United States
- Miguel Alcubierre — Mexico
- Zhores Ivanovich Alferov — Russia Nobel laureate
- Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén — Sweden Nobel laureate
- Alhazen — Basra, Iraq
- Artem Alikhanian — Armenia
- Abram Alikhanov — Russia
- William Allis — United States
- Samuel King Allison — United States
- Yakov Lvovich Alpert — Russia, United States
- Ralph Asher Alpher — United States
- Semen Altshuler — Vitebsk
- 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 — Georgia
- Anders Jonas Ångström — Sweden
- Alexander Animalu, Nigeria
- Edward Victor Appleton — U.K. Nobel laureate
- François Jean Dominique Arago — France
- Archimedes — Syracuse, Greece
- Manfred von Ardenne — Germany
- Aristarchus of Samos — Samos, Greece
- Aristotle — Athens, Greece
- Nima Arkani-Hamed — United States
- Lev Artsimovich — Moscow
- Aryabhata — Pataliputra, India
- Neil Ashby — United States
- Maha Ashour-Abdalla — Egypt, United States
- Gurgen Askaryan — Soviet Union
- Alain Aspect — France
- Avicenna — Persia
- Amedeo Avogadro — Italy
- David Awschalom — United States
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- Xiaoyi Bao — Canada
- Mani Lal Bhaumik — United States
- Tom Baehr-Jones — United States
- Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge — U.K. Wolfson Professor of Energy Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- 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
- Charles Glover Barkla — U.K. Nobel laureate
- Amanda Barnard — Australia
- Boyd Bartlett — United States
- Asım Orhan Barut — Malatya, Turkey
- Heinz Barwich — Germany
- Nikolay Basov — 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
- 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
- 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 — working in Australia
- 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
- 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
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- Nicola Cabibbo — Italy
- Nicolás Cabrera — Spain
- Curtis Callan — United States
- Annie Jump Cannon — United States
- Fritjof Capra — Austria, United States
- Marcela Carena — Argentina
- Ricardo Carezani — Argentina
- 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
- Georges Charpak — France Nobel laureate
- Émilie du Châtelet — France
- Swapan Chattopadhyay — India
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union Nobel laureate
- Maxim Chernodub — Russia, France
- Geoffrey Chew — United States
- Boris Chirikov — Soviet Union, Russia
- Juansher Chkareuli — Georgia
- Ernst Chladni — Germany
- Steven Chu — United States Nobel laureate
- Giovanni Ciccotti — Italy
- Benoît Clapeyron — France
- George W. Clark — United States
- Rudolf Clausius — Germany
- Gerald B. Cleaver — United States
- Richard Clegg — United Kingdom
- John Cockcroft — United Kingdom 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
- 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.
- Charles Critchfield — United States
- James Cronin — United States Nobel laureate
- Sir William Crookes — U.K.
- Paul Crowell — United States
- Marie Curie — Poland, France twice Nobel laureate
- Pierre Curie — France Nobel laureate
- Predrag Cvitanović — Croatia
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- 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 – Montenegro
- Ranjan Roy Daniel — India
- Charles Galton Darwin — U.K.
- Ashok Das — India, 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.
- James Dewar — U.K.
- Scott Diddams — United States
- Ulrike Diebold — Austria
- Robbert Dijkgraaf — Netherlands
- Viktor Dilman — Russia
- Savas Dimopoulos — United States
- Paul Dirac — Switzerland, U.K. Nobel laureate
- Revaz Dogonadze — Soviet Union, Georgia
- Amos Dolbear — United States
- Robert Döpel — Germany
- Christian Doppler — Austria
- Henk Dorgelo — Netherlands
- Friedrich Ernst Dorn — Germany
- 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
- Samuel T. Durrance — United States
- Freeman Dyson — U.K., United States Wolf laureate
- Arthur Jeffrey Dempster — Canada
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- Joseph H. Eberly — United States
- William Eccles — U.K.
- Carl Eckart — United States
- Arthur Stanley Eddington — U.K.
- 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
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- Ludvig Faddeev — Russia
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — Prussia
- Kazimierz Fajans — 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 — Rostov-on-Don
- Vladimir Fock — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union
- Adriaan Fokker — Netherlands
- 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 — 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 — St. Petersburg
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France
- Peter Freund — United States
- Daniel Friedan — United States
- B. Roy Frieden — United States
- Alexander Friedman — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union
- Jerome Isaac Friedman — United States Nobel laureate
- Otto Frisch — Austria, U.K.
- Erwin Fues — Germany
- Harald Fuchs — Germany
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- Dennis Gabor — Hungary Nobel laureate
- Mary K. Gaillard — France, United States
- Galileo Galilei — Italy
- Luigi Galvani — Italy
- George Gamow — Russia, United States
- Sylvester James Gates — United States
- Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany
- Pamela L. Gay — United States
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — France
- Hans Geiger — Germany
- Andre Geim — Russian/British 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
- 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
- Piara Singh Gill — India
- Naomi Ginsberg — United States
- Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg — Soviet Union, Russia Nobel laureate
- Marvin D. Girardeau — United States
- Donald Arthur Glaser — United States Nobel laureate
- Sheldon Lee 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
- Lev Gor'kov — United States
- Samuel Goudsmit — Netherlands, United States
- Leo Graetz — Germany
- Willem 's Gravesande — Netherlands
- Michael Green — Britain
- Daniel Greenberger — United States
- Brian Greene — United States
- John Gribbin — U.K.
- Vladimir Gribov — 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 — Azerbaijan
- Feza Gürsey — Turkey
- Alan Guth — United States
- Martin Gutzwiller — Switzerland
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- 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 — UK, 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
- 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 Houtermans — Germany
- Fritz Houtermans — Netherlands, Germany, Austria
- Archibald Howie — U.K.
- Fred Hoyle — U.K.
- 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
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- Arthur Iberall – United States
- Sumio Iijima — Japan
- John Iliopoulos — Greece
- Ataç İmamoğlu — Turkey, United States
- Elmer Imes — United States
- Abram Ioffe — Russia
- Nathan Isgur — United States, Canada
- Ernst Ising — Germany
- Jamal Nazrul Islam — Bangladesh
- Werner Israel — Canada
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- 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 — UK
- 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
- Brian David Josephson — UK Nobel laureate
- James Prescott Joule — UK
- Adolfas Jucys — Lithuania
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- 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
- Jim Al-Khalili — UK
- Abdul Qadeer Khan — Pakistan
- Yulii Borisovich Khariton — 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
- Serguei Krasnikov — 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
- Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov — Soviet Union
- Behram Kursunoglu — Turkey
- Polykarp Kusch — Germany Nobel laureate
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- James W. LaBelle — United States
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France
- Willis Lamb — United States Nobel laureate
- Lev Davidovich Landau — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union Nobel laureate
- Rolf Landauer — United States
- Grigory Landsberg — Vologda
- Kenneth Lane — United States
- Paul Langevin — France
- Irving Langmuir — United States
- Pierre-Simon Laplace — France
- Joseph Larmor — U.K.
- Cesar Lattes — Brazil
- Max von Laue — Germany Nobel laureate
- Robert Betts Laughlin — United States Nobel laureate
- Mikhail Lavrentyev — Kazan
- Melvin Lax — United States
- Ernest Lawrence — United States Nobel laureate
- TH Laby — Australia
- Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev — Imperial Russia
- 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 — 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 — Denisovka
- Alfred Lee Loomis — United States
- Ramón E. López — United States
- Hendrik Lorentz — Netherlands Nobel laureate
- Ludvig Lorenz — Denmark
- Johann Josef Loschmidt — Austria
- Oleg Losev — Tver
- Archibald Low — U.K.
- Per-Olov Löwdin — Sweden
- Lucretius — Rome
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia
- Joseph Lykken — United States
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- Arthur B. McDonald — Canada Nobel laureate
- Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry — Netherlands
- Ernst Mach — Austria-Hungary
- 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 — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union
- Franz Mandl – U.K.
- Charles Lambert Manneback — Belgium
- Peter Mansfield — U.K.
- Carlo Marangoni — Italy
- Guglielmo Marconi — Italy Nobel laureate
- Henry Margenau — Germany, United States
- Nina Marković — Croatia, United States
- William Markowitz — 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
- 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
- Stanislav Mikheyev — Russia
- Robert Andrews Millikan — United States Nobel laureate
- Arthur Milne — U.K.
- Shiraz Minwalla — India
- Rabindra N. 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 — Palestine, France, U.K., United States, Australia
- Karl Alexander Müller — Switzerland Nobel laureate
- Richard A. Muller — United States
- Robert S. Mulliken — United States
- Pieter van Musschenbroek — Netherlands
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- Yoichiro Nambu — Japan, United States Nobel laureate
- Jayant Narlikar — India
- Seth Neddermeyer — United States
- Louis Néel — France Nobel laureate
- Yuval Ne'eman — 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 — Italy
- Emmy Noether — Germany
- Lothar Nordheim — Germany
- Gunnar Nordström — Finland
- Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg — Germany
- Konstantin Novoselov — Soviet Union, U.K. Nobel laureate
- H. Pierre Noyes — United States
- John Nye — U.K.
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- Yuri Oganessian — Russia
- Georg Ohm — Germany
- Hideo Ohno — Japan
- Susumu Okubo — Japan, United States
- Sir Mark Oliphant — Australia
- David Olive — U.K.
- Gerard K. O'Neill — United States
- 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
- Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky — Russia
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- 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
- Jogesh Pati — United States
- Petr Paucek — United States
- Stephen Paul — United States
- Wolfgang Paul — Germany Nobel laureate
- Wolfgang Pauli — Austria-Hungary Nobel laureate
- Ruby Payne-Scott — Australia
- George B. Pegram — United States
- Rudolf Peierls — Germany, U.K.
- Jean Peltier — France
- Roger Penrose, mathematician — U.K. Wolf laureate
- Arno Allan Penzias, electrical engineer — U.S.A. Nobel laureate
- Martin Lewis Perl — United States Nobel laureate
- Saul Perlmutter — United States Nobel laureate
- Jean Baptiste Perrin — France Nobel laureate
- Konstantin Petrzhak — 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 — Taganrog
- Henri Poincaré, mathematician — France
- Eric Poisson — Canada
- Siméon Denis Poisson, mathematician — France
- Balthasar van der Pol, electrical engineer — Netherlands
- Joseph Polchinski — United States
- Hugh David Politzer — United States Nobel laureate
- John Polkinghorne — U.K.
- Alexander M. Polyakov — Russia, United States
- Bruno Pontecorvo — Italy, Soviet Union
- 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 — Soviet, Russian Nobel laureate
- William Prout — U.K.
- Luigi Puccianti — Italy
- Ivan Pulyuy — Ukraine
- Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin — Serbia, United States
- Edward Mills Purcell — United States Nobel laureate
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- Helen Quinn — Australia, United States
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- 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 — New York City United States
- Alladi Ramakrishnan — India
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — 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 —
- 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 — Poland, U.K.
- Carlo Rovelli — Italy
- Subrata Roy — 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
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- Mendel Sachs — 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
- Matthew Sanders — 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 Nobel laureate
- John Henry Schwarz — United States
- Melvin Schwartz — United States Nobel laureate
- Karl Schwarzschild — German Empire
- Julian Schwinger — United States Nobel laureate
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Bent Sørensen — Denmark
- Rafael Sorkin — United States
- 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
- Andrew Strominger — United States
- 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
- Sai Srujan Palateru — Visakhapatnam-Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union Nobel laureate
- Abraham H. Taub — United States
- Martin Tajmar — Austria
- 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 — 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.
- Baien Tomlin — U.K.
- 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
- 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
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- George Eugene Uhlenbeck — Netherlands, United States
- Stanislaw Ulam — Poland, United States
- Nikolay Umov — Russia
- Juris Upatnieks — Latvia, United States
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- Vipin Kumar Tripathi - India.
- Cumrun Vafa — Iran, United States
- Léon Van Hove — Belgium
- Sergei Vavilov — Soviet Union
- Vlatko Vedral — United Kingdom, Serbia
- Evgeny Velikhov — Russia
- Martinus J. G. Veltman — Netherlands, United States Nobel laureate
- Gabriele Veneziano — Italy
- Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy
- Émile Verdet — France
- 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, aerospace engineer — Germany
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- Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands Nobel laureate
- James Watt — 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 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
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, United States
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker — Germany
- Heinrich Welker — Germany
- Gregor Wentzel — Germany
- Paul Werbos — United States
- 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
- 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
- Robert W. Wood — United States
- Michael Woolfson — U.K.
- Chien-Shiung Wu — United States
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- Basilis C. Xanthopoulos — Greece
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- Rosalyn Yalow — United States
- Chen Ning Yang — China Nobel laureate
- Félix Ynduráin — Spain
- Francisco José Ynduráin — Spain
- Kenneth Young — United States, China
- Thomas Young — UK
- Hideki Yukawa — Japan Nobel laureate
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- 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
- Peter Zoller — Austria
- Dmitry Zubarev — Russia
- Bruno Zumino — Italy
- Wojciech H. Zurek — Poland – United States
- Robert Zwanzig — United States
- George Zweig — United States
- Barton Zwiebach — United States