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• Ernst Karl Abbe
  Ernst Karl Abbe
  
  Ernst Karl Abbe was a Germany physicist and professor at the University of Jena. He was born in Eisenach, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and died in Jena....
   — Germany (1840–1905)
• Miguel Alcubierre
  Miguel Alcubierre
  
  Miguel Alcubierre is a Mexico theoretical physicist. Born in Mexico City, he obtained a degree in physics, and a Master of Science in theoretical physics at the School of Science of Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico ....
   - Mexico (1964- )
• Derek Abbott
  Derek Abbott
  
  Derek Abbott is a physicist and electronic engineer. He is a Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia....
   — Australia (1960- )
• Marek Artur Abramowicz - Poland (1945- )
• Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
  Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
  
  Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov is a Russian theoretical physics whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003....
   — Soviet Union/Russia (1928- )
• Robert Adler
  Robert Adler
  
  Robert Adler was an Austrian-born United States inventor who held numerous patents....
   — USA (1913-2007)
• Stephen L. Adler
  Stephen L. Adler
  
  Stephen L. Adler is an American physicist specializing in elementary particles and field theory.He received an A.B. degree at Harvard University in 1961 and a Ph.D....
   — USA (1939-)
• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
  Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
  
  Zhores Ivanovich Alferov is a Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics....
   — Russia (1930- )
• Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén — Sweden (1908–1995)
• Jim Al-Khalili
  Jim Al-Khalili
  
  Professor Jim Al-Khalili Order of the British Empire is a British theoretical nuclear physics, Academia, author and Broadcasting....
   — UK (1962- )
• William Allis
  William Allis
  
  William Phelps Allis was an American theoretical physicist specializing in electrical discharges in gases. He was the son of Edward P. Allis, Jr., a co-founder of Allis-Chalmers....
   — USA (1901-1999)
• Samuel King Allison
  Samuel King Allison
  
  Samuel King Allison was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project — where among other things he read the countdown for the detonation of the "Trinity test" test — and his postwar work in the "scientists' movement"....
   — USA (1900-1965)
• P.M. van Alphen — Netherlands (1906-1967)
• Ralph Asher Alpher
  Ralph Asher Alpher
  
  Ralph Asher Alpher was a United States of America physical cosmology....
   — USA (1921–2007)
• Luis Walter Alvarez — USA (1911–1988)
• Herbert L. Anderson
  Herbert L. Anderson
  
  Herbert L. Anderson was an United States nuclear physicist who contributed to the Manhattan Project. He was also a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University....
   – USA (1914–1988)
• André-Marie Ampère
  André-Marie Ampère
  
  Andr?-Marie Amp?re Fellow of the Royal Society , was a French physicist and mathematician who is generally credited as one of the main discoverers of electromagnetism....
   — France (1775–1836)
• Anders Jonas Ångström
  Anders Jonas Ångström
  
  Anders Jonas ?ngstr?m was a physicist in Sweden, one of the founders of the science of spectroscopy.Born in Medelpad, he moved to, and was educated at Uppsala University, where in 1839 he became docent in physics....
   — Sweden (1814–1874)
• Hans Henrik Andersen
  Hans Henrik Andersen
  
  Hans Henrik Andersen is Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen . He is co-editor of the scientific journal "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms"....
   — Denmark (1937- )
• Carl David Anderson
  Carl David Anderson
  
  Carl David Anderson was an United States physicist. He is best known for his discovery of the positron, an achievement for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936....
   — USA (1905-1991)
• Philip Warren Anderson
  Philip Warren Anderson
  
  Philip Warren Anderson is an United States physicist and Nobel laureate. Anderson has made contributions to the theories of Anderson localization, antiferromagnetism and high-temperature superconductivity....
   — USA (1923– )
• Edward Victor Appleton
  Edward Victor Appleton
  
  Sir Edward Victor Appleton, Order of the British Empire, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Fellow of the Royal Society was an English physicist....
   — UK (1892-1965)
• François Jean Dominique Arago - France (1786-1853)
• Archimedes
  Archimedes
  
  Archimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematics, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity....
   — Syracuse (ca. 287–212 BC)
• Manfred von Ardenne
  Manfred von Ardenne
  
  Manfred von Ardenne was a Germany research and applied physicist and inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology....
   — Germany (1907-1997)
• Aristarchus of Samos
  Aristarchus of Samos
  
  Aristarchus or Aristarch was a Greeks astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos Island, in Greece. He was the first Greek, and the first man in general, to present an explicit argument for a Heliocentrism of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe....
   — Samos (310 – ca. 230 BC)
• Aristotle
  Aristotle
  
  Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
   — Athens, Greece (384–322 BC)
• Nima Arkani-Hamed
  Nima Arkani-Hamed
  
  Nima Arkani-Hamed is a leading Iranian-United States theoretical physics with interests in high-energy physics, string theory and cosmology....
   — USA (1972- )
• Amedeo Avogadro
  Amedeo Avogadro
  
  Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro di Quaregna e di Cerreto, Count of Quaregna and Cerreto was an Italian savant. He is most noted for his contributions to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro's law....
   — Italy (1776-1856)

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• Tom Baehr-Jones
  Tom Baehr-Jones
  
  Tom Baehr-Jones is an American physicist who has made contributions in the field of Nanophotonics. His findings have been published in Nature Materials, the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, and Optics Express, among many others....
   — USA (1980- )
• Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran — India (1938- )
• Johann Jakob Balmer
  Johann Jakob Balmer
  
  Johann Jakob Balmer was a Swiss mathematician and an honorary physicist....
   — Switzerland (1825–1898)
• John Bardeen
  John Bardeen
  
  John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS t...
   — USA (1908–1991)
• Charles Glover Barkla
  Charles Glover Barkla
  
  Charles Glover Barkla was an English physics....
   — UK (1877-1944)
• Boyd Bartlett
  Boyd Bartlett
  
  Boyd Wheeler Bartlett was an American military officer, professor, school administrator, and physicist....
   — USA (1897- )
• Heinz Barwich
  Heinz Barwich
  
  Heinz Barwich was a Germany nuclear physicist. He was deputy director of the Siemens Research Laboratory II in Berlin. At the close of World War II, he went to the Soviet Union for ten years to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, for which he received a Stalin Prize....
   — Germany (1911-1966)
• Laura Maria Caterina Bassi — Italy (1711-1778)
• Nikolay Basov
  Nikolay Basov
  
  Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov was a Soviet physicist and educator. For his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics that lead to the development of laser and maser, Basov shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov and Charles Hard Townes....
   — Russia (1922-2001)
• Zoltán Lajos Bay
  Zoltán Lajos Bay
  
  Zolt?n Lajos Bay was a Hungarian people physicist, professor, and engineer who developed microwave technology, including tungsten lamps. He was the first person to observe radar echoes from the Moon....
   — Hungary (1900–1992)
• Karl Bechert
  Karl Bechert
  
  Karl Richard Bechert was a German theoretical physicist and political leader. As a scientist, his contributions were in atomic physics....
   — Germany (1901-1981)
• Karl Becker
  Karl Becker
  
  Karl Ferdinand Becker was a German people physician. educationalist, and philologist. Becker was born in Lieser and died in Offenbach am Main....
   — Germany (1887-1955)
• Henri Becquerel
  Henri Becquerel
  
  Antoine Henri Becquerel was a France physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the discoverers of radioactivity. He won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering radioactivity....
   — France (1852–1908)
• Johannes Georg Bednorz
  Johannes Georg Bednorz
  
  Johannes Georg Bednorz is a German people physicist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics for work in high-temperature superconductivity....
   — Germany (1950- )
• Isaac Beeckman
  Isaac Beeckman
  
  Isaac Beeckman was a Netherlands philosopher and scientist, who, through his studies and contact with leading natural philosophers, may have "virtually given birth to modern atomism"....
   — Netherlands (1588-1637)
• John Stewart Bell
  John Stewart Bell
  
  John Stewart Bell was a physicist, and the originator of Bell's Theorem, one of the most important theorems in quantum mechanics....
   — UK (1928–1990)
• Carl M. Bender
  Carl M. Bender
  
  Carl M. Bender is Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his A.B. in 1964 from Cornell University, where he graduated summa cum laude and with Distinction in All Subjects....
   — USA
• Abraham Bennet
  Abraham Bennet
  
  Abraham Bennet Fellow of the Royal Society was an English clergyman and physicist, the inventor of the gold-leaf electroscope and developer of an improved magnetometer....
   — England(1749-1799)
• Daniel Bernoulli
  Daniel Bernoulli
  
  Daniel Bernoulli was a Netherlands-Switzerland mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics....
   — Switzerland (1700–1782)
• Hans Bethe
  Hans Bethe
  
  Hans Albrecht Bethe was a Germany-United States physicist, and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis....
   — Germany, USA (1906–2005)
• Homi J. Bhabha
  Homi J. Bhabha
  
  Homi Jehangir Bhabha, Royal Society#Fellowship was an Indian nuclear physics who had a major role in the development of the Indian atomic energy program and is considered to be the father of India's nuclear program....
   — India (1909–1966)
• Gerd Binnig
  Gerd Binnig
  
  Gerd Binnig is a German physicist, and a Nobel laureate.He was born in Frankfurt am Main and played in the ruins of the city during his childhood....
   — Germany (1947- )
• Jean-Baptiste Biot
  Jean-Baptiste Biot
  
  Jean-Baptiste Biot was a France physicist, astronomer and mathematician who established the reality of meteorite....
   — France (1774–1862)
• Raymond T. Birge — USA (1887–1980)
• Vilhelm Bjerknes
  Vilhelm Bjerknes
  
  Vilhelm Friman Koren Bjerknes was a Norway physicist and meteorologist who did much to find the modern practice of weather forecasting....
   — Norway (1862–1951)
• James Bjorken
  James Bjorken
  
  James Daniel "Bj" Bjorken is one of the world's foremost theoretical physicists. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1954 and obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1959....
   — USA (1934– )
• Patrick Blackett — UK (1897–1947)
• Felix Bloch
  Felix Bloch
  
  Felix Bloch was a Switzerland physicist, working mainly in the U.S....
   — Switzerland (1905–1983)
• Nicolaas Bloembergen
  Nicolaas Bloembergen
  
  Nicolaas Bloembergen is a Netherlands/ United States physics and Nobel laureate.He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from University of Leiden in 1948; while pursuing his PhD at Harvard, Bloembergen also worked part-time as a graduate research assistant for Edward Mills Purcell at the MIT Radiation Laboratory....
   — Netherlands, USA (1920- )
• David Bohm
  David Bohm
  
  David Joseph Bohm was an United States-born Quantum mechanics physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology, and to the Manhattan Project....
   — USA (1917-1992)
• Aage Niels Bohr
  Aage Niels Bohr
  
  Aage Niels Bohr is a Denmark nuclear physics and Nobel Prize in Physics, and the son of Niels Bohr and Margrethe Bohr....
   — Denmark (1922– )
• Nikolay Bogolyubov
  Nikolay Bogolyubov
  
  Nikolay Nikolaevich Bogoliubov was a Russians and Ukraine mathematician and theoretical physics known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, statistical mechanics, and dynamical systems; a recipient of the Dirac Prize ....
   — Soviet Union/Russia (1909–1992)
• Niels Bohr
  Niels Bohr
  
  Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Denmark physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922....
   — Denmark (1885–1962)
• Ludwig Boltzmann
  Ludwig Boltzmann
  
  Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics....
   — Austria (1844–1906)
• Eugene T. Booth
  Eugene T. Booth
  
  Eugene Theodore Booth was an United States nuclear physicist. He was a member of the historic Columbia University team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States....
   – USA (1912–2004)
• Max Born
  Max Born
  
  Max Born was a Germany physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 30s....
   — Germany, UK (1882–1970)
• Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik
  Dubrovnik
  
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   (1711–1787)
• Jagadish Chandra Bose — India (1858-1937)
• Satyendra Nath Bose
  Satyendra Nath Bose
  
  Satyendra Nath Bose , Fellow of the Royal Society, was an Indian physicist from the state of West Bengal, specializing in mathematical physics....
   — India (1894–1974)
• Johannes Bosscha
  Johannes Bosscha
  
  Johannes Bosscha Jr. was a Dutch people physicist.Bosscha came from a family long known for their academic achievements. His great-grandfather and grandfather were classical scholars....
   — Netherlands (1831-1911)
• Walther Bothe
  Walther Bothe
  
  Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe was a Germany nuclear physicist.In 1913, he joined the newly created Laboratory for Radioactivity at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute , where he remained until 1930, the latter few years as the director of the laboratory....
   — Germany (1891-1957)
• Robert Boyle
  Robert Boyle
  
  Robert Boyle was an Irish People theologian, natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor, and early gentleman scientist, noted for his work in physics and chemistry....
   — Ireland, England (1627–1691)
• William Henry Bragg
  William Henry Bragg
  
  Sir William Henry Bragg Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom physicist and chemist who uniquely shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his son, William Lawrence Bragg, in 1915....
   — UK (1862-1942)
• William Lawrence Bragg
  William Lawrence Bragg
  
  Sir William Lawrence Bragg, Companion of Honour, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Military Cross, Royal Society was an English people physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 with his father William Henry Bragg....
   — Australia (1890-1971)
• Walter Houser Brattain
  Walter Houser Brattain
  
  Walter Houser Brattain was an United States physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention....
   — USA (1902-1987)
• Karl Ferdinand Braun
  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  
  Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German inventor, physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics . Braun contributed significantly to the development of the radio and TV technology....
   — Germany (1850-1918)
• David Brewster
  David Brewster
  
  Sir David Brewster, Fellow of the Royal Society was a Scotland scientist, inventor and writer.He was born at Jedburgh, where his father, a teacher of high reputation, was rector of the grammar school....
   — UK (1781–1868)
• Percy Williams Bridgman
  Percy Williams Bridgman
  
  Percy Williams Bridgman was an American List of physicists who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures....
   — USA (1882-1961)
• Léon Nicolas Brillouin
  Léon Brillouin
  
  L?on Nicolas Brillouin was a France physicist. He was born in S?vres , France. His father, Marcel Brillouin, grand-father, ?leuth?re Mascart, and great-grand-father, Charles Briot, were physicists as well....
   — France (1889-1969)
• Marcel Brillouin
  Marcel Brillouin
  
  Louis "Marcel" Brillouin was a France physicist and mathematician who made a significant contribution to the development of quantum mechanics....
   — France (1854—1948)
• Bertram Brockhouse
  Bertram Brockhouse
  
  Bertram Neville Brockhouse, Order of Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada was a Canada physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize Nobel Prize in Physics "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter", in particular "for the development of neutron spectroscopy"....
   — Canada (1918-2003)
• Louis-Victor de Broglie — France (1892–1987)
• Thomas Townsend Brown
  Thomas Townsend Brown
  
  Thomas Townsend Brown was an United States physicist....
   — USA (1905–1985)
• Ernst Brüche
  Ernst Brüche
  
  Ernst Carl Reinhold Br?che was a German physicist. From 1944 to 1972, he was the editor of the Physikalische Bl?tter, a publication of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft....
   — Germany (1900-1985)
• Hermann Brück
  Hermann Brück
  
  Hermann Alexander Br?ck was a German-born astronomer who spent the great portion of his career in the United Kingdom....
   — Germany (1905-2000)
• Johannes Martinus Burgers
  Johannes Martinus Burgers
  
  Johannes Martinus Burgers was a Dutch physicist and the brother of the physicist W. G. Burgers. Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1918....
   — Netherlands (1895-1981)
• W.G. Burgers — Netherlands
• Friedrich Burmeister
  Friedrich Burmeister
  
  Friedrich Burmeister was a Germany geophysicist. He was director of the Munich University?s Geomagnetic Observatory.Burmeister studied mathematics and physics at the University of Munich under Hugo von Seeliger and Arnold Sommerfeld, and he received his doctorate in 1919....
   — Germany (1890-1969)
• Christophorus Buys Ballot
  C.H.D. Buys Ballot
  
  Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot was a Netherlands chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys-Ballot's law and the Buys Ballot table are named....
   — Netherlands (1817-1890)

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• Nicolás Cabrera
  Nicolás Cabrera
  
  Nicol?s Cabrera , was a Spain physicist who did important work on the theories of crystal growth and the oxidisation of metals. He was the son of another famous Spanish physicist Blas Cabrera Felipe and the father of American Physicist Blas Cabrera....
   — Spain (1913–1989)
• Fritjof Capra
  Fritjof Capra
  
  Fritjof Capra is an Austrian-born United States physicist.Born in Vienna, Austria, Capra earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1966....
   — Austria, USA (1939– )
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
  Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
  
  Nicolas L?onard Sadi Carnot was a France physicist and military engineer who, in his 1824 Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the Carnot cycle, thereby laying the foundations of the second law of thermodynamics....
   — France (1796–1832)
• David Carroll
  David Carroll (physicist)
  
  David Carroll is a U.S. physicist and nanotechnology, Fellow of the Society of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials at Wake Forest University....
   - USA (1963-)
• Brandon Carter
  Brandon Carter
  
  Brandon Carter is an Australian theoretical physics, best known for his work on the properties of black holes and for being the first to name and employ the anthropic principle in its contemporary form....
   — Australia (1942- )
• Hendrik Casimir
  Hendrik Casimir
  
  Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir was a Netherlands physicist best known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors in 1934 and the Casimir effect in 1948....
   — Netherlands (1909-2000)
• Henry Cavendish
  Henry Cavendish
  
  Henry Cavendish, Fellow of the Royal Society was a British scientist noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper "On Factitious Airs"....
   — UK (1731–1810)
• Alejandro Corichi
  Alejandro Corichi
  
  Alejandro Corichi is a theoretical physicist working at the Quantum Gravity group of the National Autonomous University of Mexico . He obtained his bachelor degree at UNAM and his PhD at Pennsylvania State University ....
   — Mexico (1967– )
• James Chadwick
  James Chadwick
  
  Sir James Chadwick, Order of the Companions of Honour, Fellows of the Royal Society was an English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron....
   — UK (1891-1974)
• Owen Chamberlain
  Owen Chamberlain
  
  Owen Chamberlain was an United States physicist, and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery, with collaborator Emilio Segr?, of antiprotons, a sub atomic particle antiparticle....
   — USA (1920–2006)
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  
  Padma Vibhushan Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Fellow of the Royal Society , English ) was an Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin born United States astrophysicist....
   — India, USA (1910–1995)
• Georges Charpak
  Georges Charpak
  
  Georges Charpak is a Poland-France physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics winner....
   — France (1924- )
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
  Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
  
  Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov was a Soviet physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 for his scientific contributions....
   — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904–1990)
• Geoffrey Chew
  Geoffrey Chew
  
  Geoffrey Chew is an American theoretical physicist. Professor of Physics, UC Berkeley, since 1957, Emeritus since 1991. PhD in theoretical particle physics, 1944-1946, from University of Chicago....
   — USA (1924–)
• Ernst Chladni
  Ernst Chladni
  
  Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni was a Germany physics and music.Chladni was born in Wittenberg. His important works include research on oscillation plates and the calculation of the speed of sound for different gases....
   — Germany (1756–1827)
• Steven Chu
  Steven Chu
  
  Steven Chu, Ph.D , is an United States Experimental physics and currently the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. As a scientist, Chu is known for his research in laser cooling, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997....
   — USA (1948– )
• Giovanni Ciccotti
  Giovanni Ciccotti
  
  Giovanni Ciccotti is an Italy physicist.Ciccotti holds the position of Professor of the Structure of Matter at the University of Rome La Sapienza....
   — Italy (1943– )
• Benoît Clapeyron
  Benoit Paul Émile Clapeyron
  
  Beno?t Paul ?mile Clapeyron was a France engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics....
   — France (1799-1864)
• Rudolf Clausius
  Rudolf Clausius
  
  Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius , was a Germany physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics....
   — Germany (1822–1888)
• Jacob Clay — Netherlands (1882-1955)
• John Cockcroft
  John Cockcroft
  
  Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, Order of Merit, Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus, and was instrumental in the development of nuclear power....
   — UK (1897-1967)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
  
  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is a France physicist working at the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure in Paris....
   — France (1933- )
• Arthur Compton
  Arthur Compton
  
  Arthur Holly Compton was an American physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics in physics for his discovery of the Compton effect. He served as Chancellor of Washington University in St....
   — USA (1892-1962)
• Karl Compton — USA (1887-1954)
• Edward Condon
  Edward Condon
  
  Edward Uhler Condon was a distinguished United States nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons in World War II, research director of Corning Glass, director of the National Bureau of Standards, and president of the American Physical Society ....
   — USA (1902-1974)
• Leon Cooper
  Leon Cooper
  
  Leon N Cooper is an United States physicist and Nobel Prize for Physics, who with John Bardeen and John Robert Schrieffer, developed the BCS theory of superconductivity....
   — USA (1930- )
• Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
  Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
  
  Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis or Gustave Coriolis was a France mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the Coriolis Effect....
   — France (1792-1843)
• Allan McLeod Cormack
  Allan McLeod Cormack
  
  Allan MacLeod Cormack was a South African-born United States physicist who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on x-ray computed tomography ....
   — South Africa, USA (1924-1998)
• Eric Allin Cornell
  Eric Allin Cornell
  
  Eric Allin Cornell is a physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. For their efforts, Cornell, Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001....
    — USA (1961- )
• Marie Alfred Cornu
  Marie Alfred Cornu
  
  Marie Alfred Cornu was a France physicist.Cornu was born at Orl?ans, and after being educated at the ?cole polytechnique and the ?cole nationale sup?rieure des mines de Paris, in 1867 he became professor of experimental physics in the former institution, where he remained throughout his life....
   — France (1841–1902)
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — France (1736–1806)
• Ernest Courant
  Ernest Courant
  
  Ernest Courant has been called the "father of modern particle accelerators". A fundamental contributor to the field, he has also been mentor to several generations of students....
   — USA (1920– )
• Brian Cox
  Brian Cox (physicist)
  
  Brian Cox, also known as B. E. Cox , is a physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High energy physics group at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN near Geneva, Switzerland....
   — UK (1968- )
• James Cronin
  James Cronin
  
  James Watson Cronin is an United States nuclear physics.Cronin was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas....
   — USA (1931- )
• Sir William Crookes
• Marie Curie
  Marie Curie
  
  Marie Sklodowska Curie was a physicist and chemist of Poland upbringing and, subsequently, France citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes, and the first female professor at the University of Paris....
   — Poland, France (1867–1934)
• Pierre Curie
  Pierre Curie
  
  Pierre Curie was a French Physics, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Marie Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phe...
   — France (1859–1906)

D

• Jean le Rond d'Alembert
  Jean le Rond d'Alembert
  
  Jean le Rond d'Alembert was a France mathematician, mechanics, physicist and philosopher. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclop?die....
   — France (1717–1783)
• Gustaf Dalén
  Gustaf Dalén
  
  Nils Gustaf Dal?n was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, the founder of the AGA AB company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dal?n light....
   — Sweden (1869-1937)
• Richard Dalitz
  Richard Dalitz
  
  Richard Henry Dalitz was an Australian physicist known for his work in quantum mechanics.Born Dimboola, Victoria near Melbourne, Dalitz studied physics and mathematics at Melbourne University before moving to the United Kingdom in 1946, starting his PhD research at the University of Cambridge....
   — UK, USA (1925–2006)
• John Dalton
  John Dalton
  
  John Dalton Fellow of the Royal Society was an England chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into Color blindness ....
   — UK (1766–1844)
• Charles Galton Darwin
  Charles Galton Darwin
  
  File:Charles G. Darwin, Bain News Service photo portrait.jpgSir Charles Galton Darwin, Order of the British Empire, Military Cross, Fellow of the Royal Society was an England physicist, the grandson of Charles Darwin....
   — UK (1887–1962)
• Paul Davies
  Paul Davies
  
  Paul Charles William Davies Order of Australia is a British-born physicist, writer and Presenter, currently a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science....
   — Australia (1946– )
• Raymond Davis Jr.
  Raymond Davis Jr.
  
  Raymond Davis, Jr. was an American chemist, physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate....
   — USA (1914-2006)
• Clinton Davisson
  Clinton Davisson
  
  Clinton Joseph Davisson , was an American physics who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction. Davisson shared the Nobel Prize with George Paget Thomson, who independently discovered electron diffraction at about the same time as Davisson....
   — USA (1881-1958)
• Peter Debije
  Peter Debye
  
  Peter Joseph William Debye was a Netherlands physics and physical chemistry, and Nobel laureate....
   — Netherlands (1884-1966)
• Hans Georg Dehmelt
  Hans Georg Dehmelt
  
  Hans Georg Dehmelt is a Germany-born United States physicist, who co-developed the ion trap technique with Wolfgang Paul, for which they both received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989....
   — Germany, USA (1922- )
• Max Delbrück
  Max Delbrück
  
  Max Ludwig Henning Delbr?ck was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel prize....
   — Germany, USA (1906-1981)
• Democritus
  Democritus
  
  Democritus was an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Abdera in the north of Greece. He was the most prolific, and ultimately the most influential, of the pre-Socratic philosophers; his atomic theory may be regarded as the culmination of early Greek thought....
   — Abdera (circa 460–360 BC)
• David M. Dennison
  David M. Dennison
  
  David Mathias Dennison was an American physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, and the physics of molecular structure....
   — USA (1900-1976)
• David Deutsch
  David Deutsch
  
  David Elieser Deutsch Fellow of the Royal Society#Fellowship is a physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory....
   — Israel, UK (1953- )
• James Dewar
  James Dewar
  
  Sir James Dewar Fellow of the Royal Society was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is probably best-known today for his invention of the Dewar flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases....
   — UK (1842–1923)
• Robbert Dijkgraaf
  Robbert Dijkgraaf
  
  Robbert Dijkgraaf is a Netherlands mathematical physics and string theory.Dijkgraaf started his studies in physics at the Utrecht University in 1978....
   — Netherlands (1960- )
• Savas Dimopoulos
  Savas Dimopoulos
  
  Savas Dimopoulos is a Greeks particle physicist at Stanford University. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey and later moved to Athens due to ethnic tensions in Turkey during the 1950s and 1960s....
   - USA
• Paul Dirac
  Paul Dirac
  
  Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Order of Merit , Royal Society was a United Kingdom theoretical physicist. Dirac made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics....
   — UK (1902–1984)
• Revaz Dogonadze
  Revaz Dogonadze
  
  Revaz Dogonadze was a notable Georgia scientist, Corresponding Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences , Professor, one of the founders of quantum electrochemistry,...
   — Soviet Union, Georgia (1931–1985)
• Christian Doppler
  Christian Doppler
  
  Christian Andreas Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist. He is most famous for what is now called the Doppler effect, which is the apparent change in frequency and wavelength of a wave as perceived by an observer moving relative to the wave's source....
   — Austria (1803–1853)
• Henk Dorgelo — Netherlands (1894-1961)
• Robert Döpel
  Robert Döpel
  
  Georg Robert D?pel was a Germany experimental nuclear physicist. He was a participant in a group known as the ?first Uranverein,? which was spawned by a meeting conducted by the Reichserziehungsministerium, in April 1939, to discuss the potential of a sustained nuclear reaction....
   — Germany (1895-1982)
• Friedrich Ernst Dorn
  Friedrich Ernst Dorn
  
  Friedrich Ernst Dorn was a German physicist who was the first to discover that a radioactive substance, later named radon, is emitted from radium....
   — Germany (1848-1916)
• Michael R. Douglas
  Michael R. Douglas
  
  Michael R. Douglas is an United States theoretical physicist and professor currently at Stony Brook University.Michael R. Douglas was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Nancy and Ronald G....
   — USA (1961–)
• Sidney Drell
  Sidney Drell
  
  Sidney Drell is an United States theoretical physics and arms control expert.He is a professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and a fellow at the Hoover Institution....
   — USA (1926–)
• Paul Drude — Germany (1863-1906)
• Samuel T. Durrance
  Samuel T. Durrance
  
  Samuel Thornton Durrance is a NASA payload specialist....
   - USA (1943- )
• Freeman Dyson
  Freeman Dyson
  
  Freeman John Dyson Fellow of the Royal Society is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, and nuclear engineering....
   — UK, USA (1923– )

E

• Joseph H. Eberly
  Joseph H. Eberly
  
  Joseph H. Eberly is the Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics and Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester....
   — USA (1935 — )
• William Eccles
  William Eccles
  
  William Henry Eccles was a United Kingdom physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication.He was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England....
   — UK (1875–1966)
• Carl Eckart
  Carl Eckart
  
  Carl Henry Eckart was an United States physicist, physical oceanographer, geophysicist, and administrator. He co-developed the Wigner-Eckart theorem and is also known for the Eckart conditions in quantum mechanics....
   — USA (1902-1973)
• Sir Arthur Eddington
  Arthur Stanley Eddington
  
  Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Order of Merit was an English people astrophysicist of the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour....
   — UK (1882–1944)
• Paul Ehrenfest
  Paul Ehrenfest
  
  Paul Ehrenfest was an Austrian physicist and mathematician, who obtained Netherlands citizenship on March 24, 1922. He made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum physics, including the theory of phase transition and the Ehrenfest theorem....
   — Austria-Hungary, Netherlands (1880–1933)
• Felix Ehrenhaft
  Felix Ehrenhaft
  
  Felix Ehrenhaft was an Austriansn physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids....
   — Austria-Hungary, USA (1879–1952)
• Manfred Eigen
  Manfred Eigen
  
  Manfred Eigen is a Germany biophysicist who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on measuring fast chemical reactions....
    — Germany (1927- )
• Albert Einstein
  Albert Einstein
  
  Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
   — Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA (1879–1955)
• Arpad Elo
  Árpád Élo
  
  File:ArpadElo.jpgArpad Emrick Elo is the creator of the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess. Born in Hungary, he moved to the United States with his parents as a child in 1913....
   — Hungary (1903-1992)
• David Enskog
  David Enskog
  
  David Enskog was a Sweden mathematical physics. Enskog helped develop the kinetic theory of gases by extending the Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics....
   — Sweden (1884–1947)
• Loránd Eötvös
  Loránd Eötvös
  
  Baron Lor?nd von E?tv?s , more commonly called Baron Roland von E?tv?s in the English literature, was a Hungary physicist. Born in 1848, the year of the Hungarian revolution, he was the son of a well-known poet, writer, and liberal politician, who was cabinet minister at the time, and played an important part in 19th century Hungarian intelle...
   — Austria-Hungary (1848–1919)
• Leo Esaki
  Leo Esaki
  
  Leona Esaki also known as Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling....
   — Japan (1925- )
• Ernest Esclangon
  Ernest Esclangon
  
  Ernest Benjamin Esclangon was a France astronomer and mathematician.Born in Mison , France, in 1895 he started to study mathematics at the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure, graduating in 1898....
   — France (1876–1954)
• Louis Essen
  Louis Essen
  
  Louis Essen was an England physicist whose most notable achievements were in the accuracy and precision measurement of time and the determination of the speed of light....
   — UK (1908–1997)
• Leonhard Euler
  Leonhard Euler
  
  Leonhard Paul Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist who spent most of his life in Russia and Germany.Euler made important discoveries in fields as diverse as calculus and graph theory....
   — Switzerland (1707–1783)
• Denis Evans
  Denis Evans
  
  Denis James Evans, , is a Professor in the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University. He is widely recognised for his contributions to nonequilibrium thermodynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and the simulation of nonequilibrium fluids....
   — Australia (1951– )
• Paul Peter Ewald
  Paul Peter Ewald
  
  Paul Peter Ewald was a United States of America crystallography and physicist - a pioneer of X-ray diffraction methods....
   — Germany, USA (1888-1985)
• James Alfred Ewing
  James Alfred Ewing
  
  Sir James Alfred Ewing KCB was a Scotland physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetism properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis....
   — UK (1855–1935)
• Franz S. Exner
  Franz S. Exner
  
  Franz Serafin Exner was an Austrian physicist....
   — Austria (1849-1926)

F

• Ludvig Faddeev
  Ludvig Faddeev
  
  Ludvig Dmitrievich Faddeev , also Ludwig Dmitriyevich is a Russian theoretical physicist and mathematician. He is famous for the discovery of Faddeev-Popov ghosts and Faddeev equations....
   — Russia (1934– )
• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
  Gabriel Fahrenheit
  
  Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was an ethnic German physicist and engineer who was born in Danzig but lived most of his life in the Dutch Republic. The Fahrenheit temperature scale is named after him....
   — (1686–1736)
• Kazimierz Fajans
  Kazimierz Fajans
  
  Kazimierz Fajans was an American physical chemist of Polish origin and a pioneer in the science of radioactivity....
   — Poland, USA (1887-1975)
• Michael Faraday
  Michael Faraday
  
  Michael Faraday, Fellow of the Royal Society was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry....
   — UK (1791–1867)
• Eugene Feenberg
  Eugene Feenberg
  
  Eugene Feenberg was an American physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics and nuclear physics....
   — USA (1906–1977)
• Mitchell Feigenbaum
  Mitchell Feigenbaum
  
  Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum is a mathematical physics whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.Feigenbaum was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Poland and Ukraine Jewish immigrants....
   — USA (1944– )
• Gerald Feinberg
  Gerald Feinberg
  
  Gerald Feinberg was a Columbia University physicist and futurist.He coined the term tachyon for hypothetical faster-than-light particles and analysed their quantum field theory properties, predicted the existence of the muon neutrino and advocated cryonics as a public service....
   — USA (1933–192)
• Enrico Fermi
  Enrico Fermi
  
  Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of Quantum mechanics, nuclear physics and particle physics, and statistical mechanics....
   — Italy (1901–1954)
• Albert Fert
  Albert Fert
  
  Albert Fert is a France physics and one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks....
   — France (1938– )
• Herman Feshbach
  Herman Feshbach
  
  Herman Feshbach was an United States physicist. He was an Institute Professor Emeritus of physics at MIT. Feshbach is best known for Feshbach resonance and for writing, with Philip M....
   — USA (1917–2000)
• Richard Feynman
  Richard Feynman
  
  Richard Phillips Feynman was an United States physicist known for the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as work in particle physics ....
   — USA (1918–1988)
• Wolfgang Finkelnburg
  Wolfgang Finkelnburg
  
  Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg was a German physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges....
   — Germany (1905–1967)
• David Finkelstein
  David Finkelstein
  
  David Ritz Finkelstein is currently an emeritus professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Finkelstein obtained his Ph.D. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953....
   — USA (1929– )
• Johannes Fischer
  Johannes Fischer
  
  Johannes Fischer was a German physicist....
   — Germany (1887– )
• Val Logsdon Fitch
  Val Logsdon Fitch
  
  Val Logsdon Fitch is an United States nuclear physics. A native of Merriman, Nebraska, he attended Gordon High School and later graduated from McGill University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1948 and completed his Ph.D....
   — USA (1923– )
• George Francis FitzGerald — Ireland (1851–1901)
• Hippolyte Fizeau
  Hippolyte Fizeau
  
  Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau , France physics, was born in Paris. His earliest work was concerned with improvements in photographic processes. Later, in association with Dillon Beaulieu, he engaged in a series of investigations on the interference of light and heat....
   — France (1819–1896)
• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898–1974)
• Adriaan Fokker
  Adriaan Fokker
  
  Adriaan Dani?l Fokker , was a Netherlands physicist and musician.Fokker was born in Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies ; he was a cousin of the Aeronautics engineer Anthony Fokker....
   — Netherlands (1887–1972)
• James David Forbes
  James David Forbes
  
  James David Forbes Royal Society was a Scotland physicist who worked extensively on the heat conduction, seismology and glaciology. Forbes was a resident of Edinburgh for most of his life, educated at the University of Edinburgh and a professor there from 1833 until he became principal of the United College of St....
   — UK (1809–1868)
• Léon Foucault
  Léon Foucault
  
  Jean Bernard L?on Foucault was a France physics best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation....
   — France (1819–1868)
• Joseph Fourier
  Joseph Fourier
  
  Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier was a France mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their application to problems of heat flow....
   — France (1768–1830)
• Ralph H. Fowler
  Ralph H. Fowler
  
  Sir Ralph Howard Fowler Order of the British Empire Royal Society was a British physicist and astronomer....
   — UK (1889–1944)
• William Alfred Fowler
  William Alfred Fowler
  
  William Alfred "Willie" Fowler was an United States astrophysicist. He should not be confused with the British astronomer Alfred Fowler.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Fowler moved with his family to Lima, Ohio at the age of two....
   — USA (1911–1995)
• James Franck
  James Franck
  
  James Franck was a German physicist and Nobel Prize ....
   — Germany, USA (1882–1964)
• Ilya Frank
  Ilya Frank
  
  Ilya Mikhailovich Frank was a Soviet winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Tamm, also of the Soviet Union....
   — Soviet Union (1908–1990)
• Benjamin Franklin
  Benjamin Franklin
  
  Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and Printer , Satire, list of political philosophers, politician, scientist, inventor, activism, statesman, and diplomacy....
   — USA (1706–1790)
• Rosalind Franklin
  Rosalind Franklin
  
  Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English people biophysicist and X-ray crystallography who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, viruses, coal and graphite....
   — UK (1920–1958)
• Walter Franz
  Walter Franz
  
  Walter Franz was a theoretical physicist who independently discovered the Franz-Keldysh effect.Franz was a student of Arnold Sommerfeld at the University of Munich....
   — Germany (1911–1992)
• Joseph von Fraunhofer
  Joseph von Fraunhofer
  
  Joseph von Fraunhofer was a Germany optician. He is known for the discovery of the dark absorption lines known as Fraunhofer lines in the Sun's spectrum, and for making excellent optical glass and achromatic telescope objectives....
   — Germany (1787–1826)
• Steven Frautschi
  Steven Frautschi
  
  Steven Frautschi is an American theoretical physicist, Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for his contributions to the bootstrap model of the strong interactions....
   — USA (1933– )
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France (1788–1827)
• Peter Freund
  Peter Freund
  
  Peter G. O. Freund is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Chicago. He has made important contributions to Particle physics and string theory....
   — USA (1936– )
• Alexander Friedman — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1888–1925)
• Daniel Friedan
  Daniel Friedan
  
  Daniel Friedan is an American theoretical physicist and is one of two sons of the feminist author and activist Betty Friedan. He earned his Ph.D....
   — USA
• B. Roy Frieden
  B. Roy Frieden
  
  B. Roy Frieden is an American mathematical physicist.Frieden obtained a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Rochester. He is now an Emeritus Professor of optics at the University of Arizona....
   — USA (1936– )
• Jerome Isaac Friedman
  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  
  Jerome Isaac Friedman is an United States of America physicist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois to parents who emigrated to the US from Russia, and excelled particularly in art while growing up....
   — USA (1930– )
• Otto Frisch — Austria, UK (1904–1979)
• Erwin Fues
  Erwin Fues
  
  Erwin Richard Fues was a Germany theoretical physicist who made contributions to atomic physics and molecular physics, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics....
   — Germany (1893–1970)
• Harald Fuchs
  Harald Fuchs
  
  Harald Fuchs is a Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of M?nster, Germany, Scientific Director of the Center of Nanotechnology in M?nster, and co-director of the Institute of Nanotechnology in Karlsruhe....
   — Germany (1951– )

G

• Dennis Gabor
  Dennis Gabor
  
  Dennis Gabor , Fellow of the Royal Society, was a Hungarian people Electrical engineering and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the Nobel Prize in Physics....
   — Hungary (1900-1979)
• Galileo Galilei
  Galileo Galilei
  
  Galileo Galilei was a Grand Duchy of Tuscany physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution....
   — Italy (1564-1642)
• Luigi Galvani
  Luigi Galvani
  
  Luigi Galvani was an Italy physician and physicist who lived and died in Bologna. In 1771, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs twitched when struck by a spark....
   — Italy (1737–1798)
• George Gamow
  George Gamow
  
  George Gamow , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov , was a Russian Empire-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, stellar evolution, stellar nucleosynthesis, big bang nucleosynthesis, nucleocosmogenesis and genetics....
   — Russia, USA (1904-1968)
• Sylvester James Gates
  Sylvester James Gates
  
  Sylvester James Gates, Jr. is a noted United States theoretical physics. He received Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the latter in 1977....
   — USA (1950- )
• Carl Friedrich Gauss
  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  
  Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss. was a Germans mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, mathematical analysis, Differential geometry and topology, geodesy, electrostatics, astronomy and optics....
   — Germany (1777-1855)
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
  Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
  
  Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a France chemistry and physics. He is known mostly for Gay-Lussac's law related to gases, and for his work on alcohol-water mixtures, which led to the degrees Gay-Lussac used to measure alcoholic beverages in many countries....
   — France (1778-1850)
• Murray Gell-Mann
  Murray Gell-Mann
  
  Murray Gell-Mann is an United States physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of particle physicss.Among his many accomplishments, he formulated the quark model of hadronic resonances, and identified the SU flavor symmetry of the light quarks, extending isospin to include strange quark, which he als...
   — USA (1929- )
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
  
  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a France physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 1991....
   — France (1932-2007)
• Howard Georgi
  Howard Georgi
  
  Howard Mason Georgi III, born in 1947 in San Bernardino, California, is Harvard College Professor and Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University....
   — USA (1947- )
• Walter Gerlach
  Walter Gerlach
  
  Walter Gerlach was a Germany physicist who co-discovered space quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern?Gerlach experiment....
   — Germany (1889-1979)
• Christian Gerthsen
  Christian Gerthsen
  
  Christian Gerthsen was a Danish-German physicist who made contributions to atomic and nuclear physics, as well as writing numerous textbooks....
   — Denmark, Germany (1894-1956)
• Riccardo Giacconi
  Riccardo Giacconi
  
  Riccardo Giacconi is an Italy/ United States Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist....
   — Italy, USA (1931- )
• Ivar Giaever
  Ivar Giaever
  
  Ivar Giaever is a physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Leo Esaki and Brian David Josephson "for their discoveries regarding Quantum tunnelling in solid-state physics"....
   — Norway, USA (1929- )
• Gary Gibbons
  Gary Gibbons
  
  Gary William Gibbons , Fellow of the Royal Society, is a British theoretical physics. Gibbons studied in Cambridge University,where in 1969 he became a research student under the supervision of Dennis William Sciama....
   — UK (1946- )
• Josiah Willard Gibbs — USA (1839-1903)
• William Gilbert
  William Gilbert
  
  William Gilbert, also known as Gilbard, was an English physicist and a natural philosopher. He was an early Copernican principle, and passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching....
   — England (1544-1603)
• Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg
  Vitaly Ginzburg
  
  Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg is a Russian theoretical physics and astrophysics and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of the Academy's physics institute , and an outspoken atheism....
   — Soviet Union/Russia (1916- )
• Donald Arthur Glaser
  Donald A. Glaser
  
  Donald Arthur Glaser , is an United States physicist, neurobiologist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his invention of the bubble chamber....
   — USA (1926- )
• Sheldon Lee Glashow
  Sheldon Lee Glashow
  
  Sheldon Lee Glashow is an United States physics. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University....
   — USA (1932- )
• G. N. Glasoe
  G. N. Glasoe
  
  G. Norris Glasoe was an United States nuclear physicist. He was a member of the Columbia University team which was the first in the United States to verify the European discovery of the nuclear fission of uranium via neutron bombardment....
   – USA (1902– )
• Roy Jay Glauber
  Roy J. Glauber
  
  Roy Jay Glauber is an American theoretical physicist. He is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona....
   — USA (1925- )
• Karl Glitscher
  Karl Glitscher
  
  Karl Glitscher was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics....
   — Germany (1886-1945)
• Peter Goddard
  Peter Goddard
  
  Peter Goddard is a mathematical physics who works in string theory and conformal field theory. Among his manycontributions to these fields is the no-ghost theorem ....
   — UK (1945-)
• Marvin Leonard Goldberger
  Marvin Leonard Goldberger
  
  Marvin Leonard Goldberger is a theoretical physicist and former University President of the California Institute of Technology.Biography...
   — USA (1922–)
• Jeffrey Goldstone
  Jeffrey Goldstone
  
  Jeffrey Goldstone is a Great Britain-born theoretical physicist and an emeritus physics faculty at MIT MIT Center for Theoretical Physics.He and worked at the University of Cambridge until 1977....
   — UK, USA (1933-)
• Lev Gor'kov
  Lev Gor'kov
  
  Lev Gor'kov is an United States research physicist from Russia who is internationally known for his pioneering work in the field of superconductivity....
   — USA (1929- )
• Samuel Goudsmit — Netherlands, USA (1902-1978)
• Leo Graetz
  Leo Graetz
  
  Leo Graetz was a Germany physicist. He was born in Wroclaw, Poland as the son of the historian Heinrich Graetz.Graetz was one of the first to investigate the propagation of electromagnetic radiation....
   — Germany (1856-1941)
• Willem 's Gravesande
  Willem 's Gravesande
  
  Willem Jacob 's Gravesande was a Netherlands philosopher and mathematician. Born in 's-Hertogenbosch, he studied law in Leiden, and wrote a thesis on suicide....
   — Netherlands (1688-1742)
• Brian Greene
  Brian Greene
  
  Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist and one of the best-known Super-string theory. Since 1996 he has been a professor at Columbia University....
   — USA (1963- )
• John Gribbin
  John Gribbin
  
  John R. Gribbin is a United Kingdom science writer and a visiting Fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex....
   — UK (1946- )
• David Gross
  David Gross
  
  David Jonathan Gross is an United States particle physics and string theory. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of asymptotic freedom....
   — USA (1941- )
• Frederick Grover
  Frederick Grover
  
  Frederick W. Grover was an American physicist.Grover worked as a physicist at the National Bureau of Standards, and he went to study with Arnold Sommerfeld at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in 1907....
   — USA (1876-1973)
• Peter Grünberg
  Peter Grünberg
  
  Peter Andreas Gr?nberg is a Germany physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate for his discovery with Albert Fert of giant magnetoresistance which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disk drives....
   — Germany (1939- )
• Charles Édouard Guillaume
  Charles Edouard Guillaume
  
  Charles ?douard Guillaume was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys....
   — Switzerland (1861-1931)
• Feza Gürsey
  Feza Gürsey
  
  Feza G?rsey was a Turkey mathematician and physicist. His best known contribution to theoretical physics is his work on the Nonlinear Chirality Lagrangian....
   — Turkey (1921-1992)
• Alan Guth
  Alan Guth
  
  Alan Harvey Guth is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory .He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 in physics and stayed to receive a master's and a doctorate, also in physics....
   - USA (1947- )
• Martin Gutzwiller
  Martin Gutzwiller
  
  Martin C. Gutzwiller is a physicist. He is known for the invention of the variational wave-function describing electrons with strong localized interactions , for the first investigation of relations between classical and quantum mechanics in chaotic systems , as well as new solutions to mathematical problems in field theory , wave propagatio...
   — Switzerland (1925- )

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• Rudolf Haag
  Rudolf Haag
  
  Rudolf Haag is a German physicist. He is best known for his contributions to the algebraic formulation of axiomatic quantum field theory, namely the Haag-Kastler axioms, and a central no-go theorem in QFT, Haag's theorem, which demonstrates the nonexistence of a unitary time-evolution operator in the interaction picture....
   — Germany (1922– )
• Wander Johannes de Haas
  Wander Johannes de Haas
  
  Wander Johannes de Haas was a Dutch physicist and mathematician. He is best known for the Shubnikov-De Haas effect, the de Haas-van Alphen effect and the Einstein-de Haas effect....
   — Netherlands (1878-1960)
• Otto Hahn
  Otto Hahn
  
  Otto Hahn was a German chemist and Nobel laureate who pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry" and the "founder of the atomic age"....
   — Germany (1879-1968)
• Edwin Hall
  Edwin Hall
  
  Edwin Herbert Hall was an United States physicist who discovered the "Hall effect". Hall conducted thermoelectric research at Harvard and also wrote numerous physics textbooks and laboratory manuals....
   — USA (1855–1938)
• John Lewis Hall
  John L. Hall
  
  John Lewis ?Jan? Hall is an American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics. He shared one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics with Theodor W....
   — USA (1934- )
• Viktor Hambardzumyan
  Viktor Hambardzumyan
  
  Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian, was a Soviet Armenian scientist, one of the founders of the theoretical astrophysics. He worked in the field of physics of stars and nebulae, stellar astronomy, dynamics of stellar systems and cosmogony of stars and galaxies, contributed to Mathematical physics....
   — Armenia, Russia (1908-1996)
• William Rowan Hamilton
  William Rowan Hamilton
  
  Sir William Rowan Hamilton was an Ireland physicist, astronomer, and mathematician, who made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra....
   — Ireland (1805–1865)
• Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch
  Theodor W. Hänsch
  
  Theodor Wolfgang H?nsch is a Germany physics. He received one fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique", sharing the price with John L....
   — Germany (1941- )
• Peter Andreas Hansen
  Peter Andreas Hansen
  
  Peter Andreas Hansen was a Denmark astronomer, was born at T?nder, Schleswig.The son of a goldsmith, he learned the trade of a watchmaker at Flensburg, and exercised it at Berlin and T?nder, 1818?1820....
   — Denmark (1795–1874)
• W.W. Hansen — USA (1909–1949)
• Paul Harteck
  Paul Harteck
  
  Paul Karl Maria Harteck was a Germany physical chemist. He was arrested by the allied British and American Armed Forces and incarcerated at Farm Hall for six months in 1945 under Operation Epsilon....
   — Germany (1902-1985)
• Douglas Hartree
  Douglas Hartree
  
  Douglas Rayner Hartree PhD, Fellow of the Royal Society was an England mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to atomic physics....
   — UK (1897–1958)
• Friedrich Hasenöhrl
  Friedrich Hasenöhrl
  
  Friedrich Hasen?hrl , was an Austria-Hungary physicist.Friedrich Hasen?hrl was born in Vienna, Austria in 1874. His father was a lawyer and his mother belonged to a prominent aristocratic family....
   — Austria,Hungary (1874-1915)
• Stephen Hawking
  Stephen Hawking
  
  Stephen William Hawking Companion of Honour, Commander of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy is a British Theoretical physics....
   — UK (1942– )
• Ibn al-Haytham — Iraq (965-1039)
• Oliver Heaviside
  Oliver Heaviside
  
  Oliver Heaviside was a autodidact English electrical engineering, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques to the solution of differential equations , reformulated Maxwell's equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and flux, and independently co-f...
   — UK (1850–1925)
• Werner Karl Heisenberg
  Werner Heisenberg
  
  Werner Heisenberg was a German Theoretical physics who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory....
   — Germany (1901–1976)
• Walter Heitler
  Walter Heitler
  
  Walter Heinrich Heitler was a German physicist who made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory. He brought chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding....
   — Germany/Ireland (1904-1981)
• Hermann von Helmholtz
  Hermann von Helmholtz
  
  Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz was a Germany physician and physicist who made significant contributions to several widely varied areas of modern science....
   — Germany (1821–1894)
• Charles H. Henry
  Charles H. Henry
  
  Charles H. Henry was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 6, 1937. He received an Master of Science degree in physics in 1959 from the University of Chicago, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics in 1965 from the University of Illinois, under the direction of Charles Pence Slichter....
   — USA (1937- )
• Joseph Henry
  Joseph Henry
  
  Joseph Henry was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. During his lifetime, he was considered one of the greatest American scientists since Benjamin Franklin....
   — USA (1797–1878)
• John Herapath
  John Herapath
  
  John Herapath was an England physicist who gave a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases in 1820 though it was neglected by the scientific community at the time....
   — UK (1790–1868)
• Carl Hermann
  Carl Hermann
  
  Carl Hermann was a Germany professor of crystallography. With Charles-Victor Mauguin, he invented an international standard notation for crystallographic groups known as the Hermann-Mauguin notation or International notation....
   — Germany (1898–1961)
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
  Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
  
  Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by James Clerk Maxwell....
   — Germany (1857–1894)
• Karl Herzfeld
  Karl Herzfeld
  
  Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld was an Austrian-United States physicist....
   — Austria, USA (1892-1978)
• Victor Francis Hess
  Victor Francis Hess
  
  Victor Francis Hess was an Austrian-United States physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics, who with Carl David Anderson discovered cosmic rays....
   — Austria, USA (1883–1964)
• Mahmoud Hessaby
  Mahmoud Hessaby
  
  Mahmoud Hessaby was a prominent Iranian scientist, researcher and distinguished professor of University of Tehran.Hessaby was born in Tehran to Abbas and Goharshad Hessaby....
   — Iran (1903-1992)
• Antony Hewish
  Antony Hewish
  
  Antony Hewish is a United Kingdom radio astronomy who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars....
   — UK (1924- )
• Peter Higgs
  Peter Higgs
  
  Peter Ware Higgs, Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Society of Edinburgh, , is a United Kingdom Theoretical physics and an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh....
   — UK (1929- )
• George William Hill
  George William Hill
  
  George William Hill , was a United States astronomer and mathematician.Hill was born in New York City, New York, and moved to West Nyack, New York with his family when he was eight years old....
   — USA (1838–1914)
• Gustave-Adolphe Hirn
  Gustave-Adolphe Hirn
  
  Gustave-Adolphe Hirn was a France physicist, astronomer. mathematician and engineer who made important measurements of the mechanical equivalent of heat and contributions to the early development of thermodynamics....
   — France (1815-1890)
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
  Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
  
  Dorothy Hodgkin, born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Order of Merit , Fellow of the Royal Society was a British chemist, credited with the discovery of protein crystallography....
   — England (1910-1994)
• Robert Hofstadter
  Robert Hofstadter
  
  Robert Hofstadter was the winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons."...
   — USA (1915-1990)
• Gilles Holst — Netherlands (1886-1968)
• Helmut Hönl
  Helmut Hönl
  
  Helmut H?nl was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics and the understanding of atomic and molecular structure....
   — Germany (1903-1981)
• Gerardus 't Hooft
  Gerardus 't Hooft
  
  Gerardus 't Hooft is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with Martinus J....
   — Netherlands (1946– )
• Robert Hooke
  Robert Hooke
  
  Robert Hooke, Fellow of the Royal Society was an England natural philosopher and polymath who played an important role in the scientific revolution, through both experimental and theoretical work....
   — England (1635–1703)
• John Hopkinson
  John Hopkinson
  
  John Hopkinson, FRS, was a United Kingdom physicist, Electrical engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers twice in 1890 and 1896....
   — U.K. (1849-1898)
• Johann Baptiste Horvath
  Johann Baptiste Horvath
  
  Johann Baptiste Horvath was a Hungarian-born Jesuit Professor of Physics and Philosophy at the University of Trnava in modern-day Slovakia, which was then part of the Kingdom of Hungary ....
   - Slovakia (1732-1799)
• William V. Houston — USA (1900-1968)
• Charlotte (nee Riefenstahl) Houtermans
  Charlotte Riefenstahl
  
  Charlotte Riefenstahl was a German physicist. She has no relation to Leni Riefenstahl, the notable German filmmaker....
   — Germany (1899 - )
• Fritz Houtermans
  Fritz Houtermans
  
  Friedrich Georg "Fritz" Houtermans was a Dutch-Austrian-German atomic physics and nuclear physics physicist born in Zoppot near Danzig . Houtermans made important contributions to geochemistry and cosmochemistry....
   — Netherlands/Germany/Austria (1903-1996)
• Sir Fred Hoyle
  Fred Hoyle
  
  Sir Fred Hoyle Fellow of the Royal Society was an England astronomer primarily remembered today for his contribution to the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stance on other Cosmology and scientific matters, in particular his rejection of the Big Bang theory....
   — UK (1915–2001)
• John H. Hubbell
  John H. Hubbell
  
  John Howard Hubbell was an American radiation physicist born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan. He was on the staff of the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 1950 until 1988, when he retired....
   — USA (1925-2007)
• Russell Alan Hulse
  Russell Alan Hulse
  
  Russell Alan Hulse is an United States physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"....
   — USA (1950- )
• Friedrich Hund
  Friedrich Hund
  
  Friedrich Hund was a Germany physicist from Karlsruhe known for his work on atoms and molecules.Hund worked at the Universities of University of Rostock, University of Leipzig, University of Jena, University of Frankfurt am Main, and University of G?ttingen....
   — Germany (1896-1997)
• Andrew D. Huxley
  Andrew D. Huxley
  
  Andrew D. Huxley is the chair of the physics department of Edinburgh University. Of no relation to Sir Andrew Huxley , Prof. Andrew D. Huxley is of renown in the field of condensed matter physics....
   — U.K. (1966- )
• Christiaan Huygens
  Christiaan Huygens
  
  Christiaan Huygens was a prominent Netherlands mathematics, astronomer, physics, and horology. His work included early telescopic studies, investigations and inventions related to time keeping, and studies of both optics and centrifugal force....
   — Netherlands (1629–1695)

I

• Nathan Isgur
  Nathan Isgur
  
  Nathan Isgur was a Theoretical physics from the United States and Canada....
   — USA, Canada (1947-2001)
• Werner Israel
  Werner Israel
  
  Werner Israel, Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada, Royal Society is a Canada physicist.Born in Berlin, Germany and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, he received his B.Sc....
   — Canada (1931- )

J

• Roman Jackiw
  Roman Jackiw
  
  Roman W. Jackiw is a theoretical physicist and Dirac Medallist. Born in Poland, Jackiw received his PhD from Cornell University in 1966 under Hans Bethe and Kenneth Wilson....
   — Poland, USA (1939-)
• Ali Javan
  Ali Javan
  
  Ali Javan is an Iranian inventor and physicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-invented the gas laser in 1960, with William R....
   — Iran (1928– )
• Edwin Jaynes
  Edwin Thompson Jaynes
  
  Edwin Thompson Jaynes was Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He wrote extensively on statistical mechanics and on foundations of probability and statistical inference, initiating in 1957 the Maximum entropy thermodynamics of thermodynamics, as being a particular application of mor...
   — USA (1922–1998)
• Sir James Jeans
  James Hopwood Jeans
  
  Sir James Hopwood Jeans Order of Merit Royal Society MA DSc ScD LLD was an England physicist, astronomer and mathematician....
   — UK (1877–1946)
• Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen
  J. Hans D. Jensen
  
  Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen was a Germany nuclear physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club, in which he made contributions to the separation of uranium isotopes....
   — Germany (1907-1973)
• Irene Joliot-Curie
  Irène Joliot-Curie
  
  Ir?ne Joliot-Curie was a French people scientist, the daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Fr?d?ric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity....
   — France (1897-1956)
• Pascual Jordan
  Pascual Jordan
  
  Pascual Jordan was a theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. He contributed much to the mathematical form of matrix mechanics, and developed quantum field theory for fermions....
   - Germany (1902-1980)
• Brian David Josephson
  Brian David Josephson
  
  Brian David Josephson is a Welsh physics. He became a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973 at the age of 33 with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever, and he predicted the Josephson effect....
   — UK (1940– )
• James Prescott Joule
  James Prescott Joule
  
  James Prescott Joule Fellow of the Royal Society was an English physicist and brewing , born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work ....
   — UK (1818–1889)
• Adolfas Jucys — Lithuania (1904–1974)

K

• Michio Kaku
  Michio Kaku
  
  is a Japanese people-United States theoretical physics specializing in string field theory, and a futurist. He is a popular science, host of two Radio programmings, and a best-selling author....
   — USA (1947- )
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
  
  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Netherlands physicist. His scientific career was spent exploring extremely cold refrigeration techniques and the associated phenomena....
   — Netherlands (1853-1926)
• Theodor Kaluza
  Theodor Kaluza
  
  Theodor Franz Eduard Kaluza was a Germany mathematician and physicist known for the Kaluza-Klein theory involving field equations in five-dimensional space....
   — Germany (1885-1954)
• William R. Kanne
  William R. Kanne
  
  William R. Kanne worked on Chicago Pile-1 along with Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard. He invented the Kanne Chamber , a way of monitoring gas for radioactivity. The patent was filed on 12 October 1944....
   — USA
• Pyotr Kapitza — UK, Soviet Union (1894-1984)
• Theodore von Kármán
  Theodore von Karman
  
  Theodore von K?rm?n was a Hungarian people-United States engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics....
   — Hungary, USA (1881-1963)
• Alfred Kastler
  Alfred Kastler
  
  Alfred Kastler was a France physicist, and Nobel Prize for Physics.Kastler was born in Guebwiller and later attended the Lyc?e Bartholdi in Colmar, Alsace, and ?cole Normale Sup?rieure in Paris in 1921....
   — France (1902-1984)
• Heinrich Kayser
  Heinrich Kayser
  
  Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser was a Germany physicist. Kayser's early work was concerned with the characteristics of Acoustic wave equation. He discovered the occurrence of helium in the Earth's atmosphere....
   — Germany (1853-1940)
• Willem Hendrik Keesom
  Willem Hendrik Keesom
  
  Willem Hendrik Keesom was a Netherlands physicist who, in 1926, invented a method to freeze liquid helium.He also developed the first mathematical description of Intermolecular force#Dipole-dipole interactions in 1921....
   — Netherlands (1876-1956)
• Edwin C. Kemble
  Edwin C. Kemble
  
  Edwin Crawford Kemble was an United States physicist who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics and molecular structure and spectroscopy....
   — USA (1889-1984)
• Henry Way Kendall
  Henry Way Kendall
  
  Henry Way Kendall was an American physicist.He was born in Boston and attended Deerfield Academy and later Amherst College. He taught for much of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
   — USA (1926-1999)
• Johannes Kepler
  Johannes Kepler
  
  Johannes Kepler was a Germans mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century Scientific revolution. He is best known for his eponymous Kepler's laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astrononomy....
   — Germany (1571–1630)
• John Kerr
  John Kerr (physicist)
  
  Rev. John Kerr was a Scotland physicist who inaugurated the field of electro-optics....
   — UK (1824–1907)
• Wolfgang Ketterle
  Wolfgang Ketterle
  
  Wolfgang Ketterle is a German physicist and professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . His research has focused on experiments that trap and Laser cooling atoms to temperatures close to absolute zero, and he led one of the first groups to realize Bose Einstein condensate in these systems in 1995....
   — Germany (1957- )
• Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
  Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov
  
  Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov is a leading Soviet physicist, well known for his role in developing the BKL singularity in general relativity.Khalatnikov was born in Dnipropetrovsk and graduated from Dnipropetrovsk State University with a degree in Physics in 1941....
   — Soviet Union (1919- )
• Abdul Qadeer Khan
  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  
  Abdul Qadeer Khan is a Pakistani nuclear scientist and Metallurgy, widely regarded as the founder of Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction. His middle name is occasionally rendered as Quadeer, Qadir or Qadeer, and his given names are usually abbreviated to A.Q.....
   — Pakistan (1936- )
• Julii Khariton — Soviet Union (1904-1996)
• Jack St. Clair Kilby
  Jack Kilby
  
  Jack St. Clair Kilby was a Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 2000 for his invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at Texas Instruments ....
   — USA (1923-2005)
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
  Gustav Kirchhoff
  
  Gustav Robert Kirchhoff was a Germany physicist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects....
   — Germany (1824–1887)
• Jacob Kistemaker — Netherlands (1917- )
• Bruce G. Klappauf — USA (1961- )
• Oskar Klein
  Oskar Klein
  
  Oskar Benjamin Klein was a Sweden theoretical physicist.Klein was born in Danderyd Municipality outside Stockholm, son of the chief rabbi of Stockholm, Dr....
   — Sweden (1894-1977)
• Hagen Kleinert
  Hagen Kleinert
  
  Hagen Kleinert is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Free University of Berlin, Germany , Honorary Professor at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, and Honorary Member of the ....
   — Germany (1941- )
• Klaus von Klitzing
  Klaus von Klitzing
  
  Klaus von Klitzing, born June 28, 1943 in Sroda Wielkopolska is a Germany physicist. For his discovery of the Quantum Hall Effect he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics....
   — Germany (1943- )
• Jens Martin Knudsen
  Jens Martin Knudsen
  
  Jens Martin Knudsen was an internationally renowned Denmark astrophysicist, particularly well known in his home country.Born in Haurum near Aarhus, he was author or Co-authoring of more than 100 scientific articles, and a long time advisor to NASA....
   — Denmark (1930–2005)
• Martin Knudsen
  Martin Knudsen
  
  This article is about the Danish physicist Martin Knudsen. For the Norwegian footballer, see Martin Knudsen .Martin Hans Christian Knudsen was a Denmark physicist who taught and conducted research at the Technical University of Denmark...
   — Denmark (1871-1949)
• Arthur Korn
  Arthur Korn
  
  Arthur Korn was a German people-born physicist, mathematician and inventor, who was of Jewish ancestry. He developed an early forerunner of the fax, which tied into early attempts at developing a practical mechanical television system....
   — Germany (1870-1945)
• Masatoshi Koshiba
  Masatoshi Koshiba
  
  Masatoshi Koshiba is a Japanese person physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.He graduated from the University of Tokyo, School of Science in 1951 and received a Ph.D....
   — Japan (1926- )
• Matthew Koss
  Matthew Koss
  
  Matthew B. Koss is a widely published solid state physicist.He received his AB degree from Vassar College in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics from Tufts University in 1989....
   — USA (1961- )
• Walther Kossel
  Walther Kossel
  
  Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel was a German physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond , Sommerfeld-Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect....
   — Germany (1888-1956)
• Gabriel Kotliar — USA (1950- )
• Lew Kowarski
  Lew Kowarski
  
  Lew Kowarski was a naturalized France physicist, of Russian-Polish descent. He was a lesser known, but important contributor to nuclear science....
   — France (1907-1979)
• Hendrik Kramers — Netherlands (1894-1952)
• Adolf Kratzer
  Adolf Kratzer
  
  B. Adolf Kratzer was a Germany theoretical physicist who made contributions to atomic physics and molecular physics, and was an authority on molecular band spectroscopy....
   — Germany (1893- )
• Lawrence Krauss — USA (1954- )
• Herbert Kroemer
  Herbert Kroemer
  
  Herbert Kroemer , a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1952 from the University of G?ttingen, Germany, with a dissertation on hot electron effects in the then-new transistor, setting the stage for a career in research on the physics of s...
   — Germany (1928– )
• August Krönig — Germany (1822–1879)
• Ralph Kronig
  Ralph Kronig
  
  Ralph Kronig was a German-American physicist . He is noted for the discovery of particle spin and for his theory of X-ray absorption fine structure....
    Germany, USA (1904–1995)
• Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov — Soviet Union (1917–1947)
• Ryogo Kubo
  Ryogo Kubo
  
  Ryogo Kubo was a Japanese mathematical physicist, best known for his works in statistical physics and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.In the early 1950s, Kubo transformed research into the response properties of near-equilibrium condensed-matter systems, in particular the understanding of electron transport and conductivity, through...
   — Japan (1920–1995)
• Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov — Soviet Union (1903–1960)
• Behram Kursunoglu
  Behram Kursunoglu
  
  Behram Kursunoglu was a Turkey physicist and one of the founders of the University of Miami's Center for Theoretical Studies. He was best known for his works on unified field theory, energy and global issues....
   — Turkey (1922-2003)
• Polykarp Kusch
  Polykarp Kusch
  
  Polykarp Kusch was a German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and innovations in—quantum electrodynamics....
   Germany (1911-1993)

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• Joseph-Louis Lagrange
  Joseph Louis Lagrange
  
  Joseph-Louis Lagrange, born Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia was an Italy mathematician and astronomer, who lived most of his life in Prussia and France, making significant contributions to all fields of mathematical analysis, to number theory, and to classical mechanics and celestial mechanics....
   — France (1736–1813)
• Willis Lamb
  Willis Lamb
  
  Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"....
   - USA (1913-)
• Lev Davidovich Landau — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1908–1968)
• Rolf Landauer
  Rolf Landauer
  
  Rolf William Landauer was an IBM physicist who in 1961 demonstrated that when information is lost in an irreversible circuit, the information becomes entropy and an associated amount of energy is dissipated as heat....
   — USA (1927-1999)
• Kenneth Lane — USA
• Paul Langevin
  Paul Langevin
  
  Paul Langevin was a prominent France physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the Comit? de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an antifascist organization created in the wake of the February 6, 1934 far right riots....
   — France (1872-1946)
• Irving Langmuir
  Irving Langmuir
  
  Irving Langmuir was an United States chemistry and physics. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N....
   — USA (1881-1957)
• Max von Laue
  Max von Laue
  
  Max Theodor Felix von Laue was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals....
   — Germany (1879–1960)
• Robert Betts Laughlin
  Robert B. Laughlin
  
  Robert Betts Laughlin is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. St?rmer of Columbia University and Daniel C....
   — USA (1950– )
• Ernest Lawrence
  Ernest Lawrence
  
  Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an United States physicist and Nobel Laureate, known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron beginning in 1929, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation in the Manhattan Project....
   — USA (1901–1958)
• Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev
  Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev
  
  Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev was a prominent Russian physicist.He made his doctoral degree in Strasbourg under the supervision of August Kundt in 1887–1891....
   — Imperial Russia (1866–1912)
• Leon Max Lederman
  Leon M. Lederman
  
  Leon Max Lederman is an United States experimental physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics List of Nobel laureates for his work with neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois....
   — USA (1922– )
• Benjamin Lee — Korea, USA (1935-1977)
• David Lee
  David Lee (physicist)
  
  David Morris Lee is a physics whose work on low-temperature helium-3 won him the Nobel Prize in 1996....
   — USA (1931- )
• Tsung-Dao Lee
  Tsung-Dao Lee
  
  Tsung-Dao Lee is a China-born United States physicist, well known for his work on Parity #Parity violation, Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars....
   — China, USA (1926– )
• Anthony James Leggett
  Anthony James Leggett
  
  Sir Anthony James Leggett, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society, , is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
   — UK, USA (1938– )
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany (1646–1716)
• Robert B. Leighton — USA (1919-1997)
• Georges Lemaître
  Georges Lemaître
  
  Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph ?douard Lema?tre was a Belgium Roman Catholic priest, Monsignor, professor of physics and astronomy at the Catholic University of Leuven....
   — Belgium (1894–1966)
• Philipp Lenard
  Philipp Lenard
  
  Philipp Eduard Anton von L?n?rd or F?l?p L?n?rd was a Hungarian people-German people Physics and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties....
   — Hungary, Germany (1862-1947)
• John Lennard-Jones
  John Lennard-Jones
  
  Sir John Edward Lennard-Jones KBE, FRS was a mathematician who held a chair of theoretical physics at Bristol University, and then a chair of theoretical chemistry at University of Cambridge....
   — UK (1894–1954)
• John Leslie
  John Leslie (physicist)
  
  Sir John Leslie was a Scotland mathematician and physicist best remembered for his research into heat.Leslie gave the first modern account of capillary action in 1802 and froze water using an air-pump in 1810, the first artificial production of ice....
   — UK (1766–1832)
• Walter Lewin
  Walter Lewin
  
  Walter H. G. Lewin is currently a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ....
   — Netherlands, USA
• Martin Lewis Perl
  Martin Lewis Perl
  
  Martin Lewis Perl is an United States physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.His parents were Jewish Emigration to the US from the poles area of Russia....
   — USA (1927- )
• Robert von Lieben
  Robert von Lieben
  
  Robert von Lieben was a notable Austrian physicist.Robert von Lieben was born to Leopold von Lieben and Anna von Lieben....
   — Austria-Hungary (1878-1913)
• Alfred-Marie Liénard
  Alfred-Marie Liénard
  
  Alfred-Marie Li?nard , was a France physicist and engineer. He is most well known for his invention of the Li?nard-Wiechert Potentials.From 1887-1889 Li?nard was a student at the ?cole Polytechnique and from 1889-1892 at the ?cole nationale sup?rieure des mines de Paris....
   — France (1869-1958)
• Evgeny Lifshitz
  Evgeny Lifshitz
  
  Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz was a leading Soviet physicist from a Jewish origin and the brotherof Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz.Lifshitz is well known in general relativity for coauthoring the BKL singularity concerning the nature of a generic curvature singularity....
   — Soviet Union (1915-1985)
• David Lindley
  David Lindley (physicist)
  
  David Lindley is a theoretical physicist and author. He has worked at University of Cambridge and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and been an editor at Nature , Science , and Science News....
   — USA (1956– )
• Gabriel Jonas Lippmann — France, Luxemburg (1845–1921)
• Karl L. Littrow
  Karl L. Littrow
  
  Karl Ludwig von Littrow was an Austrian astronomer.Born in Kazan, Russian Empire, son of Joseph Johann Littrow. He succeeded his father as director of the Vienna Observatory....
   — Austria (1811–1877)
• Oliver Lodge — UK (1851-1940)
• Maurice Loewy
  Maurice Loewy
  
  Maurice Loewy was a France astronomer.Born in Mari?nsk? L?zne, in what is now the Czech Republic, Loewy's Jewish parents moved to Vienna in 1841 to escape the antisemitism of their home town....
   — Austria/France (1833–1907)
• Robert K. Logan
  Robert K. Logan
  
  Robert K. Logan , originally trained as a physicist, is a media ecologist. He received a BS and PhD from MIT in 1961 and 1965. After two post-doctoral appointments at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Toronto he became a physics professor in 1968 at the U of Toronto until his retirement in 2005....
   — USA (1939– )
• Alfred Lee Loomis
  Alfred Lee Loomis
  
  Alfred Lee Loomis was an American Lawyer, investment banker, physicist, philanthropist and patron of scientific research. He established the Loomis Laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, and his role in the development of History of radar is considered instrumental in the Allies of World War II victory in World War II....
   — USA (1887–1975)
• Hendrik Lorentz
  Hendrik Lorentz
  
  Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Netherlands physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect....
   — Netherlands (1853–1928)
• Johann Loschmidt — Germany (1821–1895)
• Archibald Low
  Archibald Low
  
  Archibald Montgomery Low was an England consulting engineer, research physicist and inventor, and author of more than 40 books.Low has been called the "father of radio guidance systems" due to his pioneering work on guided rockets, planes and torpedoes....
   — UK (1888–1956)
• Per-Olov Löwdin
  Per-Olov Löwdin
  
  Per-Olov L?wdin was a Sweden physicist, professor at the University of Uppsala from 1960 to 1983, and in parallel at the University of Florida until 1993....
   — Sweden (1916–2000)
• Lucretius
  Lucretius
  
  Titus Lucretius Carus was a Roman Republic poet and philosopher. His only known work is the epic philosophical poem on Epicureanism De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things....
   — Rome (98?–55 BC)
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia (1857–1918)

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• Mozi
  Mozi
  
  Mozi , was a philosopher who lived in China during the Hundred Schools of Thought period . He founded the school of Mohism and argued strongly against Confucianism and Daoism....
   — China (Around 450BC)
• Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry
  Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry
  
  Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry was a Netherlands chemist and crystallography. She is known for her discoveries on the use of diffraction in crystallography....
   — Netherlands (1904–1993)
• Ernst Mach
  Ernst Mach
  
  Ernst Mach was an Austrians physicist and philosopher and is the namesake for the Mach number and the optical illusion known as Mach bands....
   — Austria-Hungary (1838–1916)
• Theodore Maiman — USA (1927–2007)
• Ettore Majorana
  Ettore Majorana
  
  Ettore Majorana was an Italy theoretical physicist who began promising work on neutrino masses. He Missing person suddenly in mysterious circumstances....
   — Italy (1906-1938 presumed dead)
• Juan Martín Maldacena
  Juan Martín Maldacena
  
  Juan Mart?n Maldacena is a theoretical physicist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among his many discoveries, the most famous one is the most reliable realization of the holographic principle - namely the AdS/CFT correspondence, the no tested conjecture about the equivalence of string theory or supergravity on Anti de Sitter space, and a con...
   — Argentina (1968– )
• Etienne-Louis Malus
  Étienne-Louis Malus
  
  Etienne-Louis Malus was a France Officer , engineer, physicist, and mathematician.Malus was born in Paris, France, France. He participated in Napoleon I of France Napoleon I of France#Invasion of Egypt, rise to dictatorship and was a member of the mathematics section of the Institut d'?gypte....
   — France
  France
  
  France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
   (1775–1812)
• Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1879–1944)
• Peter Mansfield
  Peter Mansfield
  
  Sir Peter Mansfield, Royal Society, , is a United Kingdom physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging ....
   — UK (1933– )
• Carlo Marangoni
  Carlo Marangoni
  
  Carlo Giuseppe Matteo Marangoni was an Italian physicist.Marangoni graduated in 1865 from the University of Pavia, under the supervision of Professor Cantoni, with a dissertation entitled "Sull' espansione delle goccie liquide"....
   — Italy (1840–1925)
• Guglielmo Marconi
  Guglielmo Marconi
  
  Marchese Guglielmo Marconi was an Italy inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of numerous affiliated companies worldwide....
   — Italy (1874–1937)
• Henry Margenau
  Henry Margenau
  
  Henry Margenau was a Germany-U.S. physicist, and philosopher of science....
   — Germany, USA (1901–1977)
• William Markowitz
  William Markowitz
  
  William Markowitz was an United States astronomer, principally known for his work on the standardization of time.His mother was visiting Meltsch ?ber Troppau in Austrian Silesia when William was born....
   — USA (1907–1998)
• Robert Marshak
  Robert Marshak
  
  Robert Eugene Marshak was an American physicist dedicated to learning, research, and education.Marshak was born in the Bronx, New York City. His parents, Harry Marshak and Rose Marshak, were immigrants to New York from Minsk....
   — USA (1916–1992)
• Walter Marshall — UK (1932–1996)
• Harrie Massey
  Harrie Massey
  
  Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey was an influential Australian mathematical physicist. He worked primarily in the fields of atomic physics and atmospheric physics....
   — Australia (1908-1983)
• John Cromwell Mather
  John C. Mather
  
  John Cromwell Mather is an United States astrophysics, cosmology and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on COBE with George Smoot. COBE was the first experiment to measure "......
   — USA (1946– )
• James Clerk Maxwell
  James Clerk Maxwell
  
  James Clerk Maxwell was a Scotland Mathematical physics. His most significant achievement was the development of the classical electromagnetic theory, synthesizing all previous unrelated observations, experiments and equations of electricity, magnetism and even optics into a consistent theory....
   — UK (1831–1879)
• Brian May — UK (1947– )
• Maria Goeppert Mayer — Germany, USA (1906-1972)
• Ronald E. McNair — USA (1950–1986)
• Simon van der Meer
  Simon van der Meer
  
  Simon van der Meer is a Netherlands Particle accelerator physicist who invented the concept of stochastic cooling in colliders, making possible the discovery of the W particle and the Z particle at the CERN 500 gigaelectronvolt proton-antiproton collider by the UA-1 experimental collaboration led by Carlo Rubbia....
   — Netherlands (1925- )
• Fulvio Melia
  Fulvio Melia
  
  Fulvio Melia is an Italy-United States physicist/astrophysicist and author. He is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at theUniversity of Arizona and Associate Editor of the Astrophysical Journal Letters....
   — USA
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   (1956- )
• Macedonio Melloni
  Macedonio Melloni
  
  Macedonio Melloni was an Italy physicist, notable for demonstrating that radiant heat has similar physical properties to those of light....
   — Italy (1798–1854)
• Lise Meitner
  Lise Meitner
  
  Lise Meitner was an Austrian-born, later Sweden physics who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics....
   — Austria (1878-1968)
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
  Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
  
  Thomas Corwin Mendenhall was an autodidact United States physicist and meteorologist....
   — USA (1841–1924)
• M. G. K. Menon — India (1928– )
• David Merritt
  David Merritt
  
  David Merritt is an American astrophysicist and professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester,_New_York, New York. He received his PhD in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University and held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toron...
   — USA
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  
• Albert Abraham Michelson
  Albert Abraham Michelson
  
  Albert Abraham Michelson was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson-Morley experiment....
   — USA (1852–1931)
• Stanislav Mikheyev
  Stanislav Mikheyev
  
  Stanislav Pavlovich Mikeyev is a Russian physicist known for a co-discovering of the Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein effect....
   — Russia
• Robert Andrews Millikan
  Robert Millikan
  
  Robert Andrews Millikan was an United States experimental physics, and Nobel Prize for Physics in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect....
   — USA (1868–1953)
• Arthur Milne
  Arthur Milne
  
  Edward Arthur Milne Royal Society was a British astrophysicist and mathematician.Milne was born in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England. He attended Hymers College and from there he won an open scholarship in mathematics and natural science to study at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1914, gaining the largest number of marks which had ever...
   — UK (1896-1950)
• Shiraz Minwalla
  Shiraz Minwalla
  
  Shiraz Minwalla is a young Indian string theory. He has been a Harvard Junior Fellow and after that he was an assistant professor at Harvard University....
   — India ( - )
• John J. Montgomery
  John J. Montgomery
  
  John Joseph Montgomery was an aviation pioneer, inventor, professor at Santa Clara University.On August 28, 1883 he made the first manned, controlled, heavier-than-air flights of the United States, in the Otay Mesa area of San Diego, California ....
   — USA (1858-1911)
• Jagadeesh Moodera
  Jagadeesh Moodera
  
  Jagadeesh Subbaiah Moodera is an United States physics of Indian origin and is senior research scientist at MIT's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory....
   — India, USA (1950– )
• Rudolf Mössbauer — Germany (1929– )
• Henry Moseley
  Henry Moseley
  
  Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was an England physics. His main contributions to science were the quantitative justification of the previously empirical concept of atomic number, and Moseley's law....
   — UK (1887–1915)
• Nevill Mott — UK (1905–1996)
• Ben Roy Mottelson
  Ben Roy Mottelson
  
  Ben Roy Mottelson is an United States-born Denmark Nuclear physics. He won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the non-spherical geometry of Atomic nucleus....
   — Denmark, USA (1926- )
• Amédée Mouchez
  Amédée Mouchez
  
  Am?d?e Ernest Barth?lemy Mouchez was a France naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887....
   — Spain, France (1821–1892)
• José Enrique Moyal
  José Enrique Moyal
  
  Jos? Enrique Moyal was a mathematical physicist, who also contributed to aeronautical engineering, electrical engineering and statistics, established the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics in 1949, by bringing together previous ideas of Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, and Hilbrand Groenewold....
   — Palestine, France, UK, USA, Australia (1910-1998)
• Karl Alexander Müller
  Karl Alexander Müller
  
  Karl Alexander M?ller is a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Johannes Georg Bednorz for their work in High-temperature superconductivity....
   — Switzerland (1927– )
• Richard A. Muller
  Richard A. Muller
  
  Richard A. Muller of San Francisco, California, United States, is a physicist who works at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory....
   — USA (1944– )
• Robert S. Mulliken
  Robert S. Mulliken
  
  Robert Sanderson Mulliken was an United States physics and chemistry, primarily responsible for the early development of molecular orbital theory, i.e....
   — USA (1896–1986)
• Pieter van Musschenbroek
  Pieter van Musschenbroek
  
  Pieter van Musschenbroek was a Netherlands scientist. He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht , and Leiden, where he held positions in mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and astrology....
   — Netherlands (1692-1762)

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• Yoichiro Nambu
  Yoichiro Nambu
  
  is a Japan-born United States physicist, currently a professor at the University of Chicago. Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of Spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic physics....
   — Japan, USA (1921– )
• Jayant Narlikar
  Jayant Narlikar
  
  Professor Jayant Vishnu Narlikar is an Indian astrophysics. Narlikar is a defender of the Steady state theory. His work on conformal gravity theory with Fred Hoyle, called Hoyle-Narlikar theory, demonstrated a synthesis can be achieved between Albert Einstein?s theory of relativity and Mach's principle....
   — India (1938– )
• Seth Neddermeyer
  Seth Neddermeyer
  
  Seth Henry Neddermeyer was an United States physicist who worked in the Manhattan Project. He had been Carl D. Anderson's student at Caltech....
   — USA (1907–1988)
• Louis Eugène Félix Néel
  Louis Eugène Félix Néel
  
  Louis Eug?ne F?lix N?el was a France physicist born in Lyon. He studied at the Lyc?e du Parc in Lyon and was accepted at the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure in Paris....
   — France (1904–2000)
• Yuval Ne'eman
  Yuval Ne'eman
  
  Yuval Ne'eman , was an Israeli soldier, Physics and politician, serving as a Minister during the 1980s and early 1990s. He was a self-declared atheist....
   — Israel (1925-2006)
• Ann Nelson
  Ann Nelson
  
  This article is for Ann Elizabeth Nelson the physicist, not actress Ann Nelson who played Mrs. Berg on Fame . Ann Nelson is a particle physicist at the University of Washington....
   — USA (1958– )
• John von Neumann
  John von Neumann
  
  John von Neumann was a Hungarian American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous geometry, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics , and statistics, as well as many other mathematical...
   — Austria-Hungary, USA (1903–1957)
• Simon Newcomb
  Simon Newcomb
  
  Simon Newcomb was a Canadaian-U.S. astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics, statistics and authoring a science fiction novel....
   — USA (1835–1909)
• Sir Isaac Newton — England (1642–1727)
• Holger Bech Nielsen
  Holger Bech Nielsen
  
  Holger Bech Nielsen is a Denmark theoretical physics, professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, at the University of Copenhagen, where he started studying physics in 1961....
   — Denmark (1941– )
• Leopoldo Nobili
  Leopoldo Nobili
  
  Leopoldo Nobili was an Italy physicist who invented a number of instruments critical to investigating thermodynamics and electrochemistry.Born Trassilico, Garfagnana, after attending the military academy at Modena he became an artillery officer....
   — Italy (1784–1835)
• Emmy Noether
  Emmy Noether
  
  Amalie Emmy Noether, , was a German mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. Described by Albert Einstein and others as the most important woman in the history of mathematics, she revolutionized the theories of ring , field , and algebra over a field....
   — Germany (1882–1935)
• Lothar Nordheim — Germany (1899–1985)
• Gunnar Nordström
  Gunnar Nordström
  
  Gunnar Nordstr?m was a Finland theoretical physicist who is best remembered for his theory of gravitation, which was an early competitor of general relativity....
   — Finland (1881–1923)
• Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg
  Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg
  
  Johann Gottlieb N?rremberg was a Germany physicist who worked on the polarisation of light.In 1833, he became professor of mathematics, physics and astronomy at the University of T?bingen where he worked on surveying and the development of optical instruments....
   — Germany (1787–1862)

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• Georg Ohm
  Georg Ohm
  
  Georg Simon Ohm was a German physicist. As a high school teacher, Ohm began his research with the recently invented electrochemical cell, invented by Italian Count Alessandro Volta....
   — Germany (1789–1854)
• David Olive
  David Olive
  
  David Olive Royal Society, is a United Kingdom theoretical physicist. Olive made fundamental contributions to the string theory and Duality . He was Professor of physics at Imperial College London, London....
  
• Gerard K. O'Neill — USA (1927–1992)
• Lars Onsager
  Lars Onsager
  
  Lars Onsager was a Norway?United States physical chemistry and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize/Chemistry.He had the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University....
   — Norway (1903–1976)
• Robert Oppenheimer
  Robert Oppenheimer
  
  Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physics and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project: the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons at the secret Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico....
   — USA (1904–1967)
• Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh
  Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh
  
  Lochlainn O?Raifeartaigh was an Irish people physicist of world-wide repute in the field of theoretical particle physics. He is best known for the O'Raifeartaigh Theorem, an important result in unification theory, and the O'Raifeartaigh Model of supersymmetry breaking....
   — Ireland (1933–2000)
• Nicole Oresme — France (1325–1382)
• Leonard Salomon Ornstein — Netherlands (1880–1941)
• Egon Orowan
  Egon Orowan
  
  Egon Orowan was a Hungary/United Kingdom/United States physicist and metallurgist....
   — Austria-Hungary, USA (1901–1989)
• Yuri Orlov — Soviet Union, USA (1924– )
• Douglas Dean Osheroff
  Douglas D. Osheroff
  
  Douglas Dean Osheroff is an United States physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 with David Lee and Robert Coleman Richardson for discovering the superfluidity phase of Helium-3....
   — USA (1945– )
• Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky
  Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky
  
  Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky was a Ukrainian people mathematician, mechanics and physicist. Ostrogradsky is considered to be Leonhard Euler's disciple and one of the leading mathematicians of imperial Russia....
   — Russia (1801–1862)
• Hans Christian Ørsted
  Hans Christian Ørsted
  
  Hans Christian ?rsted was a Denmark physicist and chemist. He shaped Kantianism and advances in science throughout the late nineteenth century....
   — Denmark (1777–1851)

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