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
.
A
Ernst Abbe
- Germany (
1840
-
1905
)
Hannes Alfvn
- Sweden (
1908
-
1995
)
Luis Alvarez
- USA (
1911
-
1988
)
Andre Marie Ampere
, (
1775
-
1836
)
Anders Jonas ngstrm
, - 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
)
Zoltn 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
)
Ren-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 Lonard 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 rsted
- Denmark (
1777
-
1851
)
Giovanni Ciccotti
- Italy (
1943
- )
Rudolf Clausius
- Germany (
1822
-
1888
)
Alfred Cornu
, (
1841
-
1902
)
Charles Augustin de Coulomb
— (
1736
–
1806
)
Marie Curie
- Poland (
1867
-
1934
)
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
)
Ren 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 Etvs
- Hungary (
1848
-
1919
)
Ernest Esclangon
- France, (
1876
-
1954
)
Louis Essen
- England, (
1908
-
1997
)
Leonard Euler
— (
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
)
Lon 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
)
Robert Hooke
- England (
1635
-
1703
)
Christian Huygens
, (
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
(
1571
-
1630
)
John Kerr
- Britain (
1824
-
1907
)
Bernard Bruno Kinsey
- Britain, USA (
1910
-
1995
)
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
, (
1824
-
1887
)
August Krnig
- Germany (
1822
-
1879
)
L
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
—
France
(
1736
–
1813
)
Lev Davidovich Landau
- Imperial Russia, Soviet union (
1908
-
1968
)
Irving Langmuir
- USA (
1851
-
1957
)
Ernest Lawrence
- USA (
1901
-
1958
)
Georges-Louis LeSage
—
Switzerland
(
1724
–
1803
)
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
)
Etienne-Louis Malus
—
France
(
1775
–
1812
)
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam
- Imperial Russia, Soviet union (
1879
-
1944
)
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
- US (
1841
-
1924
)
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
)
Amde Mouchez
- Spain, France (
1821
-
1892
)
Richard A. Muller
- USA
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
)
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 Poincar
, (
1854
-
1912
)
Heraclides Ponticus
- Greece (
387
-
312 BC
)
John Henry Poynting
- Britain (
1852
-
1914
)
William Prout
- England (
1785
-
1850
)
R
Hubert Reeves
- Canada (
1932
- )
Osborne Reynolds
- Britain (
1842
-
1912
)
Wilhelm Conrad Rntgen
- 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 Schrdinger
, (
1887
-
1961
)
Emilio G. Segr
- USA/Italy (
1905
-
1989
)
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
)
Evangelista Torricelli
- Italy (
1608
-
1647
)
Charles Townes
- USA (
1915
-)
Johann Georg Tralles
—
Germany
(
1763
–
1822
)
U
Zurab Urushadze
-
Georgia
(
1930
-)
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 mathematicians
Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th century American) are collected in the
Emilio Segre Visual Archives
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