natural philosophy, physical science, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactions

acoustician - a physicist who specializes in acoustics

astronomer, uranologist, stargazer - a physicist who studies astronomy

biophysicist - a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology

nuclear physicist - a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics

man of science, scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one of more sciences

Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, al-Haytham, Alhazen, Ibn al-Haytham - an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040)

Phil Anderson, Philip Anderson, Philip Warren Anderson, Anderson - United States physicist who studied the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems (1923-)

Appleton, Edward Appleton, Sir Edward Victor Appleton - English physicist remembered for his studies of the ionosphere (1892-1966)

Archimedes - Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC)

Arrhenius, Svante August Arrhenius - Swedish chemist and chemist noted for his theory of chemical dissociation (1859-1927)

Amedeo Avogadro, Avogadro - Italian physicist noted for his work on gases; proposed what has come to be called Avogadro's law (1776-1856)

Bardeen, John Bardeen - United States physicist who won the Nobel Prize for physics twice (1908-1991)

Antoine Henri Becquerel, Becquerel, Henri Becquerel - French physicist who discovered that rays emitted by uranium salts affect photographic plates (1852-1908)

Bernoulli, Daniel Bernoulli - Swiss physicist who contributed to hydrodynamics and mathematical physics (1700-1782)

Boltzmann, Ludwig Boltzmann - Austrian physicist who contributed to the kinetic theory of gases (1844-1906)

Carnot, Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot, Sadi Carnot - French physicist who founded thermodynamics (1796-1832)

Cavendish, Henry Cavendish - British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)

Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles, Jacques Charles, Charles - French physicist and uathor of Charles's law which anticipated Gay-Lussac's law (1746-1823)

Charles Augustin de Coulomb, Coulomb - French physicist famous for his discoveries in the field of electricity and magnetism; formulated Coulomb's Law (1736-1806)

Crookes, Sir William Crookes, William Crookes - English chemist and physicist; discovered thallium; invented the radiometer and studied cathode rays (1832-1919)

Pierre Curie, Curie - French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)

Dalton, John Dalton - English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844)

Sir James Dewar, Dewar - Scottish chemist and physicist noted for his work in cryogenics and his invention of the Dewar flask (1842-1923)

Christian Johann Doppler, Doppler - Austrian physicist famous for his discovery of the Doppler effect (1803-1853)

Albert Einstein, Einstein - physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955)

Esaki, Leo Esaki - physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925)

Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit - German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature that bears his name (1686-1736)

Faraday, Michael Faraday - the English physicist nd chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867)

Fechner, Gustav Theodor Fechner - German physicist who founded psychophysics; derived Fechner's Law on the basis of early work by E. H. Weber (1801-1887)