List of physicists

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Many famous physicists of the 20th and 21st century are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.

Contents

1 Famous early physicists

2 Famous physicists of the 18th century

3 Famous physicists of the 19th century

4 Famous physicists of the 20th and 21st centuries

5 See also

Famous early physicists

Archimedes - Syracuse (circa 287 - 212 BC)
Aristarchus of Samos (310 - circa 230 BC)
Aristotle - Athens, Greece (384-322 BC)
Robert Boyle - England (1627-1691)
Democritus - Abdera (circa 460 - 360 BC)
René Descartes - France (1596-1650)
Galileo Galilei - Italy (1564-1642)
William Gilbert - England (1544-1603)
Heraclides Ponticus - Greece (387 - 312 BC)
Robert Hooke - England (1635-1703)
Christian Huygens, (1629-1695)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Lucretius - Rome (98? - 55 BC)
Isaac Newton - England (1642-1727)
Nicolas Oresme - France (1325-1382)
Blaise Pascal - France (1623-1662)
Willebrord Snell - Netherlands (1580-1626)
Evangelista Torricelli - Italy (1608-1647)

Famous physicists of the 18th century

Jean le Rond d'Alembert - France (1717-1783)
Daniel Bernoulli - Switzerland (1700-1782)
Rudjer Josip Boscovich - Dubrovnik (1711-1787)
Henry Cavendish - Britain (1731-1810)
Charles Augustin de Coulomb, (1736-1806)
Leonard Euler, (1707-1783)
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Poland, England, Netherlands(1686-1736)
Benjamin Franklin, USA (1706-1790)
Joseph-Louis Lagrange - France (1736-1813)
Georges-Louis LeSage - Switzerland (1724-1803)
Etienne-Louis Malus - France (1775-1812)
Giovanni Battista Venturi - Italy (1746-1822)
James Watt Scotland (1736-1819)

Famous physicists of the 19th century

Ernst Abbe - Germany (1840-1905)
Andre Marie Ampere, (1775-1836)
Anders Jonas Ångström, - Sweden(1814-1874)
Amedeo Avogadro - Italy (1776-1856)
Johann Jakob Balmer - Switzerland (1825-1898)
Jean-Baptist Biot, (1774-1862)
René-Prosper Blondlot - France (1849-1930)
Ludwig Boltzmann - Austria (1844-1906)
David Brewster - Scotland (1781-1868)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot - France (1796-1832)
Ernst Chladni - Germany (1756-1827)
Rudolf Clausius - Germany (1822-1888)
Alfred Cornu, (1841-1902)
John Dalton - England (1766-1844)
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres - France (1853-1948)
James Dewar - Britain (1842-1923)
Christian Doppler - Austria (1803-1853)
Roland Eötvös - Hungary (1848-1919)
James Alfred Ewing - Scotland (1855-1935)
Michael Faraday - Britain (1791-1867)
James David Forbes - Scotland (1809–1868)
George Francis FitzGerald - Ireland (1851-1901)
Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
Léon Focault - France (1819-1868)
Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany (1787-1826)
Augustin-Jean Fresnel - France (1788-1827)
Carl Friedrich Gauss - Germany (1777-1855)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
Edwin Hall - USA (1855-1938)
William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
Peter Andreas Hansen - Denmark (1795 - 1874)
Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
Hermann von Helmholtz - Germany (1821-1894)
Joseph Henry - USA (1797-1878)
John Herapath - England (1790-1868)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Germany (1857-1894)
George William Hill - USA (1838 - 1914)
James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)
John Kerr - Britain (1824-1907)
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, (1824 - 1887)
August Krönig - Germany (1822-1879)
John Leslie - Scotland (1766-1832)
Karl L. Littrow - Austria (1811 - 1877)
Maurice Loewy - Austria/France (1833 - 1907)
Johann Loschmidt - Germany (1821-1895)
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov - Imperial Russia (1857-1918)
Ernst Mach - Austria (1838-1916)
James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
Macedonio Melloni - Italy (1798–1854)
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall - US (1841-1924)
Amédée Mouchez - Spain, France (1821-1892)
Simon Newcomb - USA (1835 - 1909)
Leopoldo Nobili - Italy (1784-1835)
Georg Ohm - Germany (1789-1854)
Hans Christian Ørsted - Denmark (1777-1851)
Joseph Plateau - Belgium (1801 - 1883)
Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912)
John Henry Poynting - Britain (1852-1914)
William Prout - England (1785-1850)
Osborne Reynolds - Britain (1842-1912)
Janne Rydberg, Sweden (1854-1919)
Felix Savart - France (1791-1841)
Jožef Stefan - Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
George Gabriel Stokes - Britain (1819-1903)
Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)
Joseph John Thomson, England (1856-1940)
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) - England (1824-1907)
Alessandro Volta - Italy (1745-1827)
John James Waterston - Scotland (1811-1883)
Wilhelm Weber, (1804-1891)
Thomas Young - England (1773-1829)

Famous physicists of the 20th and 21st centuries

Ali Javan - Iran (1928-)
Hannes Alfven - Sweden (1908-1995)
Luis Alvarez - USA (1911 - 1988)
John Bardeen - USA (1908-1991)
Henri Becquerel - France (1852-1908)
John Stewart Bell - Britain (1928-1990)
Raymond T. Birge - USA (1887 - 1980)
Vilhelm Bjerknes - Norway (1862 - 1951)
Felix Bloch - Switzerland (1905-1983)
Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962)
Max Born - Germany, Britain (1882-1970)
Satyendra Nath Bose - India (1894-1974)
Louis-Victor de Broglie - France (1892-1987)
Thomas Townsend Brown - USA (1905 - 1985)
Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
Owen Chamberlain - USA (1920-)
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1904-1990)
Giovanni Ciccotti - Italy (1943- )
Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)
Sir Charles Galton Darwin, England (1887-1962)
Paul Davies - Australia (1946- )
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Britain (1902-1984)
Revaz Dogonadze - Former Soviet Union, Georgia (1931-1985)
Freeman Dyson - Britain, USA (1923- )
William Eccles - Britain, (1875-1966)
Paul Ehrenfest - Austria, (1880-1933)
Felix Ehrenhaft - Austria, USA (1879-1952)
Albert Einstein - Germany, USA (1879-1955)
V. Walfrid Ekman - Sweden, (1874-1954)
Ernest Esclangon - France, (1876-1954)
Louis Essen - England, (1908-1997)
Enrico Fermi - Italy, (1901-1954)
Richard Feynman - USA, (1918-1988)
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock - Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898-1974)
B. Roy Frieden -- USA, ()
Murray Gell-Mann - USA, (1929- )
W.W. Hansen - USA (1909-1949)
Werner Karl Heisenberg - Germany (1901-1976)
Stephen Hawking - England (1942- )
Edwin Jaynes - USA (1922-1998)
Bernard Bruno Kinsey - Britain, USA (1910-1995)
Lev Davidovich Landau - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908-1968)
Irving Langmuir - USA (1851-1957)
Ernest Lawrence - USA (1901-1958)
Ronald E. McNair - USA (1950-1986)
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1879-1944)
William Markowitz - USA (1907-1998)
Albert Abraham Michelson - USA (1852-1931)
Robert Andrews Millikan - USA (1868- 1953)
John von Neumann - Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
Robert Oppenheimer - USA (1904-1967)
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli - Austria (1900-1958)
G. B. Pegram - USA (1876-1958)
Max Planck - Germany (1858-1947)
John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
Hubert Reeves - Canada (1932- )
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - Germany (1845-1923)
Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby - Sweden, USA (1898-1957)
David Ruelle - Belgium, France (1935- )
Ernest Rutherford - New Zealand, England (1871-1937)
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Soviet Union (1929-1989)
Erwin Schrödinger, (1887-1961)
Emilio G. Segrè - USA/Italy (1905-1989)
Song Jin-joo - Korea/USA
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895-1971)
Edward Teller - Austria-Hungary/USA (1908-2003)
Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary/USA (1856-1943)
Charles Townes - USA (1915-)
Steven Weinberg - USA (1933- )
Arthur Wightman - USA
Eugene Wigner - Austria-Hungary/USA (1902-1993)
Robert R. Wilson - USA (1914-2000)
Victor Frederick Weisskopf - Austria, USA (1908-2002)
Robert W. Wood - USA (1868 - 1955)