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.
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A
- Ernst Abbe - Germany (1840-1905)
- Hannes Alfvén - Sweden (1908-1995)
- Luis Alvarez - USA (1911 - 1988)
- Andre Marie Ampere,- France (1775-1836)
- Anders Jonas Ångström, - Sweden (1814-1874)
- Archimedes - Syracuse (circa 287 - 212 BC)
- Aristarchus of Samos (310 - circa 230 BC)
- Aristotle - Athens, Greece (384-322 BC)
- Amedeo Avogadro - Italy (1776-1856)
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B
- Johann Jakob Balmer - Switzerland (1825-1898)
- John Bardeen - USA (1908-1991)
- Zoltán Lajos Bay - Hungary (1900-1992)
- John Stewart Bell - Britain (1928-1990)
- Henri Becquerel - France (1852-1908)
- Daniel Bernoulli - Switzerland (1700 – 1782)
- Jean-Baptist Biot, (1774-1862)
- Raymond T. Birge - USA (1887 - 1980)
- Vilhelm Bjerknes - Norway (1862 - 1951)
- Felix Bloch - Switzerland (1905-1983)
- René-Prosper Blondlot - France (1849-1930)
- Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962)
- Aage Niels Bohr - Denmark (1922- )
- Ludwig Boltzmann - Austria (1844-1906)
- Max Born - Germany, Britain (1882-1970)
- Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik (1711 – 1787)
- Satyendra Nath Bose - India (1894-1974)
- Robert Boyle - Ireland, England (1627-1691)
- David Brewster - Scotland (1781-1868)
- Louis-Victor de Broglie - France (1892-1987)
- Thomas Townsend Brown - USA (1905 - 1985)
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C
- Nicolás Cabrera - Spain (1913-1989)
- Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot - France (1796-1832)
- Henry Cavendish — Britain (1731 – 1810)
- Owen Chamberlain - USA (1920-)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1904-1990)
- Ernst Chladni - Germany (1756-1827)
- Hans Christian Ørsted - Denmark (1777-1851)
- Giovanni Ciccotti - Italy (1943- )
- Rudolf Clausius - Germany (1822-1888)
- Alfred Cornu - France (1841-1902)
- Charles Augustin de Coulomb - France (1736-1806)
- Pierre Curie - France (1859-1906)
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D
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France (1717 – 1783)
- John Dalton - England (1766-1844)
- Sir Charles Galton Darwin, England (1887-1962)
- Paul Davies - Australia (1946- )
- Democritus - Abdera (circa 460 - 360 BC)
- René Descartes - France (1596-1650)
- Henri-Alexandre Deslandres - France (1853-1948)
- James Dewar - Britain (1842-1923)
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Britain (1902-1984)
- Revaz Dogonadze - Former Soviet Union, Georgia (1931-1985)
- Christian Doppler - Austria (1803-1853)
- Freeman Dyson - Britain, USA (1923- )
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E
- William Eccles - Britain, (1875-1966)
- Paul Ehrenfest - Austria, (1880-1933)
- Felix Ehrenhaft - Austria, USA (1879-1952)
- Albert Einstein - Germany, Switzerland, USA (1879-1955)
- V. Walfrid Ekman - Sweden, (1874-1954)
- Roland Eötvös - Hungary (1848-1919)
- Ernest Esclangon - France, (1876-1954)
- Louis Essen - England, (1908-1997)
- Leonard Euler -Switzerland (1707-1783)
- James Alfred Ewing - Scotland (1855-1935)
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F
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — Poland, England, Netherlands (1686 – 1736)
- Michael Faraday - Britain (1791-1867)
- Enrico Fermi - Italy, (1901-1954)
- Richard Feynman - USA, (1918-1988)
- George Francis FitzGerald - Ireland (1851-1901)
- Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock - Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898-1974)
- James David Forbes - Scotland (1809-1868)
- Léon Focault - France (1819-1868)
- Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
- Benjamin Franklin — USA (1706 – 1790)
- Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany (1787-1826)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel - France (1788-1827)
- B. Roy Frieden -- USA, (1936-)
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G
- Galileo Galilei - Italy (1564-1642)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss - Germany (1777-1855)
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
- Murray Gell-Mann - USA (1929- )
- Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
- William Gilbert - England (1544-1603)
- Feza Gürsey - Turkey (April 7, 1921 - April 13, 1992)
- Martin Gutzwiller - Switzerland (1925- )
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H
- Rudolf Haag - Germany (1922- )
- Edwin Hall - USA (1855-1938)
- William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
- Peter Andreas Hansen - Denmark (1795 - 1874)
- W.W. Hansen - USA (1909-1949)
- Douglas Hartree - England (1897-1958)
- Stephen Hawking - England (1942- )
- Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
- Werner Karl Heisenberg - Germany (1901-1976)
- Hermann von Helmholtz - Germany (1821-1894)
- Joseph Henry - USA (1797-1878)
- John Herapath - England (1790-1868)
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Germany (1857-1894)
- George William Hill - USA (1838 - 1914)
- Gerardus 't Hooft - The Netherlands, (1946- )
- Robert Hooke - England (1635-1703)
- Christian Huygens- The Netherlands, (1629-1695)
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J
- Ali Javan - Iran (1928-)
- Edwin Jaynes - USA (1922-1998)
- Song Jin-joo - Korea/USA
- Brian David Josephson - Britain (1940- )
- James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)
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K
- Johannes Kepler - Germany (1571-1630)
- John Kerr - Britain (1824-1907)
- Bernard Bruno Kinsey - Britain, USA (1910-1995)
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff - Germany (1824 - 1887)
- August Krönig - Germany (1822-1879)
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L
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736 – 1813)
- Lev Davidovich Landau - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908-1968)
- Irving Langmuir - USA (1851-1957)
- Max von Laue- Germany (1879-1960)
- Ernest Lawrence - USA (1901-1958)
- Georges-Louis LeSage — Switzerland (1724 – 1803)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz- Germany (1646–1716)
- John Leslie - Scotland (1766-1832)
- Karl L. Littrow - Austria (1811 - 1877)
- Maurice Loewy - Austria/France (1833 - 1907)
- Johann Loschmidt - Germany (1821-1895)
- Lucretius - Rome (98? - 55 BC)
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M
- Ernst Mach - Austria (1838-1916)
- Theodore Maiman - USA (1927- )
- Etienne-Louis Malus — France (1775 – 1812)
- Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1879-1944)
- Thomas Corwin Mendenhall - USA (1841-1924)
- Guglielmo Marconi - Italy (1874-1937)
- William Markowitz - USA (1907-1998)
- James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
- Ronald E. McNair - USA (1950-1986)
- Macedonio Melloni - Italy (1798–1854)
- Albert Abraham Michelson - USA (1852-1931)
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov - Imperial Russia (1857-1918)
- Robert Andrews Millikan - USA (1868- 1953)
- Amédée Mouchez - Spain, France (1821-1892)
- Richard A. Muller - USA (1944- )
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N
- John von Neumann - Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
- Simon Newcomb - USA (1835 - 1909)
- Isaac Newton - England (1642-1727)
- Leopoldo Nobili - Italy (1784-1835)
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O
- Georg Ohm - Germany (1789-1854)
- Lars Onsager - Norway (1903-1976)
- Robert Oppenheimer - USA (1904-1967)
- Nicolas Oresme - France (1325-1382)
- Egon Orowan - Hungary/ USA (1901-1989)
- Yuri Orlov - Soviet Union, USA (1924- )
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P
- Blaise Pascal - France (1623-1662)
- Wolfgang Ernst Pauli - Austria (1900-1958)
- G. B. Pegram - USA (1876-1958)
- Max Planck - Germany (1858-1947)
- Joseph Plateau - Belgium (1801 - 1883)
- John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
- Henri Poincaré - France (1854-1912)
- Heraclides Ponticus - Greece (387 - 312 BC)
- John Henry Poynting - Britain (1852-1914)
- William Prout - England (1785-1850)
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R
- Lord Rayleigh - Britain (1842-1919)
- Hubert Reeves - Canada (1932- )
- Osborne Reynolds - Britain (1842-1912)
- 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)
- Janne Rydberg, Sweden (1854-1919)
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S
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Soviet Union (1929-1989)
- Oscar Sala - Brazil (1922-)
- Jack Sarfatti, (1939- )
- Felix Savart - France (1791-1841)
- Erwin Schrödinger - Austria (1887-1961)
- Emilio G. Segrè - USA/Italy (1905-1989)
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie - Poland (1867-1934)
- Willebrord Snell - Netherlands (1580-1626)
- Javier Solana, - Spain, (1942-)
- Jožef Stefan - Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
- Karl August von Steinheil - Germany, (1801-1870)
- George Gabriel Stokes - Britain (1819-1903)
- Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)
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T
- Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895-1971)
- Edward Teller - Austria-Hungary/USA (1908-2003)
- Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary/USA (1856-1943)
- Joseph John Thomson, England (1856-1940)
- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) - Ireland (1824-1907)
- Kip Stephen Thorne - USA (1940-)
- Evangelista Torricelli - Italy (1608-1647)
- Charles Townes - USA (1915-)
- Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763 – 1822)
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U
- Zurab Urushadze - Georgia (1930-)
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V
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals - Netherlands (1837-1923)
- Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746 – 1822)
- Alessandro Volta - Italy (1745-1827)
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W
- John James Waterston - Scotland (1811–1883)
- James Watt - Scotland (1736–1819)
- Gleb Wataghin - Ukraine/Italy/Brazil (1896-1986)
- Wilhelm Weber, (1804–1891)
- Steven Weinberg - USA (1933– )
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf - Austria, USA (1908–2002)
- Eugene Wigner - Austria-Hungary/USA (1902–1993)
- Robert R. Wilson - USA (1914–2000)
- Edward Witten - USA (1951– )
- Robert W. Wood - USA (1868–1955)
- Arthur Wightman - USA
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Y
- Thomas Young - England (1773–1829)
- Hideki Yukawa - Japan (1907–1981)
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See also
- List of theoretical physicists
- List of plasma physicists
- List of mathematicians
- Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th century American) are collected in the Emilio Segre Visual Archives (http://www.aip.org/history/esva/)bn:পদার্থবিদ তালিকা
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