Physicists
physicists of the 20th and 21st century are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.
Famous early physicists
Famous physicists of the 18th century
Famous physicists of the 19th century
- Ernst Abbe - Germany (1840-1905)
- Andre Marie Ampere, (1775-1836)
- Anders Jonas Ångström, - Sweden(1814-1874)
- Amedeo Avogadro - Italy (1776-1856)
- Johann Jakob Balmer - Switzerland (1825-1898)
- Jean-Baptist Biot, (1774-1862)
- René-Prosper Blondlot - France (1849-1930)
- Ludwig Boltzmann - Austria (1844-1906)
- David Brewster - Scotland (1781-1868)
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot - France (1796-1832)
- Ernst Chladni - Germany (1756-1827)
- Rudolf Clausius - Germany (1822-1888)
- Alfred Cornu, (1841-1902)
- John Dalton - England (1766-1844)
- Henri-Alexandre Deslandres - France (1853-1948)
- James Dewar - Britain (1842-1923)
- Christian Doppler - Austria (1803-1853)
- Roland Eötvös - Hungary (1848-1919)
- James Alfred Ewing - Scotland (1855-1935)
- Michael Faraday - Britain (1791-1867)
- James David Forbes - Scotland (1809–1868)
- George Francis FitzGerald - Ireland (1851-1901)
- Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
- Léon Focault - France (1819-1868)
- Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
- Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany (1787-1826)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel - France (1788-1827)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss - Germany (1777-1855)
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
- Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
- Edwin Hall - USA (1855-1938)
- William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
- Peter Andreas Hansen - Denmark (1795 - 1874)
- Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
- 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)
- James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)
- John Kerr - Britain (1824-1907)
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, (1824 - 1887)
- August Krönig - Germany (1822-1879)
- John Leslie - Scotland (1766-1832)
- Karl L. Littrow - Austria (1811 - 1877)
- Maurice Loewy - Austria/France (1833 - 1907)
- Johann Loschmidt - Germany (1821-1895)
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov - Imperial Russia (1857-1918)
- Ernst Mach - Austria (1838-1916)
- James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
- Macedonio Melloni - Italy (1798–1854)
- Thomas Corwin Mendenhall - US (1841-1924)
- Amédée Mouchez - Spain, France (1821-1892)
- Simon Newcomb - USA (1835 - 1909)
- Leopoldo Nobili - Italy (1784-1835)
- Georg Ohm - Germany (1789-1854)
- Hans Christian Ørsted - Denmark (1777-1851)
- Joseph Plateau - Belgium (1801 - 1883)
- Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912)
- John Henry Poynting - Britain (1852-1914)
- William Prout - England (1785-1850)
- Osborne Reynolds - Britain (1842-1912)
- Janne Rydberg, Sweden (1854-1919)
- Felix Savart - France (1791-1841)
- Jožef Stefan - Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
- George Gabriel Stokes - Britain (1819-1903)
- Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)
- Joseph John Thomson, England (1856-1940)
- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) - England (1824-1907)
- Alessandro Volta - Italy (1745-1827)
- John James Waterston - Scotland (1811-1883)
- Wilhelm Weber, (1804-1891)
- Thomas Young - England (1773-1829)
- Hannes Alfven - Sweden (1908-1995)
- Luis Alvarez - USA (1911 - 1988)
- Henri Becquerel - France (1852-1908)
- John Stewart Bell - Britain (1928-1990)
- Raymond T. Birge - USA (1887 - 1980)
- Vilhelm Bjerknes - Norway (1862 - 1951)
- Felix Bloch - Switzerland (1905-1983)
- Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962)
- Max Born - Germany, Britain (1882-1970)
- Satyendra Nath Bose - India (1894-1974)
- Louis-Victor de Broglie - France (1892-1987)
- Thomas Townsend Brown - USA (1905 - 1985)
- Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
- Owen Chamberlain - USA (1920-)
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1904-1990)
- Giovanni Ciccotti - Italy (1943- )
- Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)
- Sir Charles Galton Darwin, England (1887-1962)
- Paul Davies - Australia (1946- )
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Britain (1902-1984)
- Revaz Dogonadze - Former Soviet Union, Georgia (1931-1985)
- Freeman Dyson - Britain, USA (1923- )
- 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)
- Ernest Esclangon - France, (1876-1954)
- Louis Essen - England, (1908-1997)
- Enrico Fermi - Italy, (1901-1954)
- Richard Feynman - USA, (1918-1988)
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock - Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898-1974)
- B. Roy Frieden -- USA, ()
- Murray Gell-Mann - USA, (1929- )
- W.W. Hansen - USA (1909-1949)
- Werner Karl Heisenberg - Germany (1901-1976)
- Stephen Hawking - England (1942- )
- Edwin Jaynes - USA (1922-1998)
- Bernard Bruno Kinsey - Britain, USA (1910-1995)
- Lev Davidovich Landau - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908-1968)
- Irving Langmuir - USA (1851-1957)
- Ernest Lawrence - USA (1901-1958)
- Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1879-1944)
- William Markowitz - USA (1907-1998)
- Albert Abraham Michelson - USA (1852-1931)
- Robert Andrews Millikan - USA (1868- 1953)
- John von Neumann - Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
- Robert Oppenheimer - USA (1904-1967)
- Wolfgang Ernst Pauli - Austria (1900-1958)
- G. B. Pegram - USA (1876-1958)
- Max Planck - Germany (1858-1947)
- John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
- Hubert Reeves - Canada (1932- )
- 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)
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Soviet Union (1929-1989)
- Erwin Schrödinger, (1887-1961)
- Emilio G. Segrè - USA/Italy (1905-1989)
- Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895-1971)
- Edward Teller - Austria-Hungary/USA (1908-2003)
- Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary/USA (1856-1943)
- Charles Townes - USA (1915-)
- Steven Weinberg - USA (1933- )
- Arthur Wightman - USA
- Eugene Wigner - Austria-Hungary/USA (1902-1993)
- Robert R. Wilson - USA (1914-2000)
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf - Austria, USA (1908-2002)
- Robert W. Wood - USA (1868 - 1955)
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