List of physicists

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Jules Aarons — United States (1921–2008)

Ernst Karl Abbe — Germany (1840–1905)

Derek Abbott — Australia (born 1960)

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov — Soviet Union, Russia (born 1928) Nobel laureate

Robert Adler — United States (1913–2007)

Stephen L. Adler — United States (born 1939)

Franz Aepinus — Rostock

Ronald Ernest Aitchison — Australia (1921–1996)

David Z Albert, United States

Miguel Alcubierre — Mexico (born 1964)

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov — Russia (born 1930) Nobel laureate

Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén — Sweden (1908–1995) Nobel laureate

Alhazen — Basra, Iraq (965–1040)

Artem Alikhanian — Moscow

Abraham Alikhanov — Ganja

William Allis — United States (1901–1999)

Samuel King Allison — United States (1900–1965)

Yakov Lvovich Alpert — Russia, United States (1911–2010)

Ralph Asher Alpher — United States (1921–2007)

Semen Altshuler — Vitebsk

Luis Walter Alvarez — United States (1911–1988) Nobel laureate

Viktor Ambartsumian — Soviet Union, Armenia (1908–1996)

André-Marie Ampère — France (1775–1836)

Anja Cetti Andersen — Denmark (born 1965)

Hans Henrik Andersen — Denmark (born 1937)

Philip Warren Anderson — United States (born 1923) Nobel laureate

Carl David Anderson — United States (1905–1991) Nobel laureate

Herbert L. Anderson — United States (1914–1988)

Anders Jonas Ångström — Sweden (1814–1874)

Alexander Animalu, Nigeria (born 1938)

Edward Victor Appleton — UK (1892–1965) Nobel laureate

François Jean Dominique Arago — France (1786–1853)

Archimedes — Syracuse, Greece (ca. 287–212 BC)

Manfred von Ardenne — Germany (1907–1997)

Aristarchus of Samos — Samos, Greece (310–ca. 230 BC)

Aristotle — Athens, Greece (384–322 BC)

Nima Arkani-Hamed — United States (born 1972)

Lev Artsimovich — Moscow

Aryabhata — Pataliputra, India (476–550)

Neil Ashby — United States (born 1934)

Gurgen Askaryan — Soviet Union (1928–1997)

Alain Aspect - France (born 1947)

Avicenna — Persia (980–1037)

Amedeo Avogadro — Italy (1776–1856)

David Awschalom — United States

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Mani Lal Bhaumik - United States (born 1931)

Tom Baehr-Jones — United States (born 1980)

Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge — UK (1925–2003) Wolfson Professor of Energy Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran — India (born 1938)

V Balakrishnan — India (born 1943)

Milla Baldo-Ceolin — Italy (born 1924)

Johann Jakob Balmer — Switzerland (1825–1898)

Tom Banks — United States (born 1949)

Riccardo Barbieri — Italy (born 1944)

Marcia Barbosa — Brazil

John Bardeen — United States (1908–1991) double Nobel laureate

William A. Bardeen — United States (born 1941)

Charles Glover Barkla — UK (1877–1944) Nobel laureate

Boyd Bartlett — United States (1897–1965)

Asım Orhan Barut — Malatya, Turkey (6 June 1926-5 December 1994)

Heinz Barwich — Germany (1911–1966)

Nikolay Basov — Russia (1922–2001) Nobel laureate

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi — Italy (1711–1778)

Zoltán Lajos Bay — Hungary (1900–1992)

Karl Bechert — Germany (1901–1981)

Henri Becquerel — France (1852–1908) Nobel laureate

Johannes Georg Bednorz — Germany (born 1950) Nobel laureate

Isaac Beeckman — Netherlands (1588–1637)

Alexander Graham Bell — UK (1847–1922)

John Stewart Bell — UK (1928–1990)

Jocelyn Bell Burnell — Northern Ireland (born 1943)

Carl M. Bender — United States

Abraham Bennet — England (1749–1799)

Daniel Bernoulli — Switzerland (1700–1782)

Hans Bethe — Germany, United States (1906–2005) Nobel laureate

Homi J. Bhabha — India (1909–1966)

James Binney — England (born 1950)

Gerd Binnig — Germany (born 1947) Nobel laureate

Jean-Baptiste Biot — France (1774–1862)

Raymond T. Birge — United States (1887–1980)

Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī — Persia (973–1048)

Vilhelm Bjerknes — Norway (1862–1951)

James Bjorken — United States (born 1934)

Patrick Blackett — UK (1897–1974) Nobel laureate

Felix Bloch — Switzerland (1905–1983) Nobel laureate

Nicolaas Bloembergen — Netherlands, United States (born 1920) Nobel laureate

Nikolay Bogolyubov — Soviet Union, Russia (1909–1992)

David Bohm — United States (1917–1992)

Aage Bohr — Denmark (1922–2009) Nobel laureate

Niels Bohr — Denmark (1885–1962) Nobel laureate

Ludwig Boltzmann — Austria (1844–1906)

Eugene T. Booth – United States (1912–2004)

Max Born — Germany, UK (1882–1970) Nobel laureate

Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Croatia (1711–1787)

Jagadish Chandra Bose — India (1858–1937)

Margrete Heiberg Bose — Denmark (1866–1952)

Satyendra Nath Bose — India (1894–1974)

Johannes Bosscha — Netherlands (1831–1911)

Walther Bothe — Germany (1891–1957) Nobel laureate

Edward Bouchet — United States (1852–1918)

Robert Boyle — Ireland, England (1627–1691)

Willard S. Boyle — Canada, United States (1924–2011) Nobel laureate

William Henry Bragg — UK (1862–1942) Nobel laureate

William Lawrence Bragg — Australia (1890–1971) Nobel laureate

Tycho Brahe — Denmark (1546–1601)

Walter Houser Brattain — United States (1902–1987) Nobel laureate

Karl Ferdinand Braun — Germany (1850–1918) Nobel laureate

David Brewster — UK (1781–1868)

Percy Williams Bridgman — United States (1882–1961) Nobel laureate

Léon Nicolas Brillouin — France (1889–1969)

Marcel Brillouin — France (1854–1948)

Bertram Brockhouse — Canada (1918–2003) Nobel laureate

Louis-Victor de Broglie — France (1892–1987) Nobel laureate

Ernst Brüche — Germany (1900–1985)

Hermann Brück — Germany (1905–2000)

Ari Brynjolfsson — Iceland (1927–2013)

Hans Buchdahl — Germany, Australia (1918–2010)

Gersh Budker — Soviet Union (1918–1977)

Johannes Martinus Burgers — Netherlands (1895–1981)

Friedrich Burmeister — Germany (1890–1969)

Bimla Buti — India (born 1933)

Christophorus Buys Ballot — Netherlands (1817–1890)

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Nicola Cabibbo — Italy (1935–2010)

Nicolás Cabrera — Spain (1913–1989)

Curtis Callan — (born 1942)

Fritjof Capra — Austria, United States (born 1939)

Marcela Carena — Argentina (born 1962)

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot — France (1796–1832)

David Carroll — United States (born 1963)

Brandon Carter — Australia (born 1942)

Hendrik Casimir — Netherlands (1909–2000)

Henry Cavendish — UK (1731–1810)

James Chadwick — UK (1891–1974) Nobel laureate

Owen Chamberlain — United States (1920–2006) Nobel laureate

Moses H. W. Chan — Hong Kong

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar — India, United States (1910–1995) Nobel laureate

Georges Charpak — France (1924–2010) Nobel laureate

Swapan Chattopadhyay — India (born 1951)

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904–1990) Nobel laureate

Maxim Chernodub — Russia, France (born 1973)

Geoffrey Chew — United States (born 1924)

Boris Chirikov — Soviet Union, Russia (1928–2008)

Ernst Chladni — Germany (1756–1827)

Steven Chu — United States (born 1948) Nobel laureate

Giovanni Ciccotti — Italy (born 1943)

Benoît Clapeyron — France (1799–1864)

George W. Clark

Rudolf Clausius — Germany (1822–1888)

Gerald B. Cleaver — United States

John Cockcroft — UK (1897–1967) Nobel laureate

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji — France (born 1933) Nobel laureate

Arthur Compton — United States (1892–1962) Nobel laureate

Karl Compton — United States (1887–1954)

Edward Condon — United States (1902–1974)

Leon Cooper — United States (born 1930) Nobel laureate

Alejandro Corichi — Mexico (born 1967)

Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis — France (1792–1843)

Allan McLeod Cormack — South Africa, United States (1924–1998)

Eric Allin Cornell — United States (born 1961) Nobel laureate

Marie Alfred Cornu — France (1841–1902)

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — France (1736–1806)

Ernest Courant — United States (born 1920)

Brian Cox — UK (born 1968)

Charles Critchfield — United States (1910–1994)

James Cronin — United States (born 1931) Nobel laureate

Sir William Crookes — UK (1832–1919)

Marie Curie — Poland, France (1867–1934) Nobel laureate

Pierre Curie — France (1859–1906) Nobel laureate

Predrag Cvitanović — Croatia (born 1946)

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Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France (1717–1783)

Gustaf Dalén — Sweden (1869–1937) Nobel laureate

Jean Dalibard — France (born 1958)

Richard Dalitz — UK, United States (1925–2006)

John Dalton — UK (1766–1844)

Sanja Damjanović - Montenegro (born 1972)

Ranjan Roy Daniel — India (1923–2005)

Charles Galton Darwin — UK (1887–1962)

Ashok Das — India, USA (born 1953)

Paul Davies — Australia (born 1946)

Raymond Davis, Jr. — United States (1914–2006) Nobel laureate

Clinton Davisson — United States (1881–1958) Nobel laureate

Peter Debije — Netherlands (1884–1966)

Hans Georg Dehmelt — Germany, United States (1922-2017) Nobel laureate

Max Delbrück — Germany, United States (1906–1981)

Democritus — Abdera (ca. 460–360 BC)

David M. Dennison — United States (1900–1976)

David Deutsch — Israel, UK (born 1953)

James Dewar — UK (1842–1923)

Robbert Dijkgraaf — Netherlands (born 1960)

Savas Dimopoulos — United States (born 1952)

Paul Dirac — UK (1902–1984) Nobel laureate

Revaz Dogonadze — Soviet Union, Georgia (1931–1985)

Amos Dolbear - United States (1837-1910)

Robert Döpel — Germany (1895–1982)

Christian Doppler — Austria (1803–1853)

Henk Dorgelo — Netherlands (1894–1961)

Friedrich Ernst Dorn — Germany (1848–1916)

Michael R. Douglas — United States (born 1961)

Sidney Drell — United States (born 1926)

Paul Drude — Germany (1863–1906)

F. J. Duarte — United States

Pierre Louis Dulong — France (1785–1838)

Samuel T. Durrance — United States (born 1943)

Freeman Dyson — UK, United States (born 1923) Wolf laureate

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Joseph H. Eberly — United States (born 1935)

William Eccles — UK (1875–1966)

Carl Eckart — United States (1902–1973)

Sir Arthur Eddington — UK (1882–1944)

Thomas Edison — United States (1847–1931)

Paul Ehrenfest — Austria-Hungary, Netherlands (1880–1933)

Felix Ehrenhaft — Austria-Hungary, United States (1879–1952)

Manfred Eigen — Germany (born 1927)

Albert Einstein — Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United States (1879–1955) Nobel laureate

Terence James Elkins — Australia, United States (born 1936)

John Ellis — UK (born 1946)

R. Keith Ellis — UK, United States (born 1949)

Arpad Elo — Hungary (1903–1992)

François Englert — Belgium (born 1932) Nobel laureate

David Enskog — Sweden (1884–1947)

Loránd Eötvös — Austria-Hungary (1848–1919)

Frederick J. Ernst — United States (born 1934)

Leo Esaki — Japan (born 1925) Nobel laureate

Ernest Esclangon — France (1876–1954)

Louis Essen — UK (1908–1997)

Leonhard Euler — Switzerland (1707–1783)

Denis Evans — Australia (born 1951)

Paul Peter Ewald — Germany, United States (1888–1985)

James Alfred Ewing — UK (1855–1935)

Franz S. Exner — Austria (1849–1926)

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Ludvig Faddeev — Russia (born 1934)

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — Prussia (1686–1736)

Kazimierz Fajans — Poland, United States (1887–1975)

Michael Faraday — UK (1791–1867)

Eugene Feenberg — United States (1906–1977)

Mitchell Feigenbaum — United States (born 1944)

Gerald Feinberg — United States (1933–1992)

Enrico Fermi — Italy (1901–1954) Nobel laureate

Albert Fert — France (born 1938) Nobel laureate

Herman Feshbach — United States (1917–2000)

Richard Feynman — United States (1918–1988) Nobel laureate

Wolfgang Finkelnburg — Germany (1905–1967)

David Finkelstein — United States (born 1929)

Johannes Fischer — Germany (born 1887)

Willy Fischler — Belgium (born 1949)

Val Logsdon Fitch — United States (born 1923) Nobel laureate

George Francis FitzGerald — Ireland (1851–1901)

Hippolyte Fizeau — France (1819–1896)

Georgy Flyorov — Rostov-on-Don

Vladimir Fock — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898–1974)

Adriaan Fokker — Netherlands (1887–1972)

James David Forbes — UK (1809–1868)

Jeff Forshaw — UK (born 1968)

Léon Foucault — France (1819–1868)

Joseph Fourier — France (1768–1830)

Ralph H. Fowler — UK (1889–1944)

William Alfred Fowler — United States (1911–1995) Nobel laureate

James Franck — Germany, United States (1882–1964) Nobel laureate

Ilya Frank — Soviet Union (1908–1990) Nobel laureate

Benjamin Franklin — United States (1706–1790)

Rosalind Franklin — UK (1920–1958)

Walter Franz — Germany (1911–1992)

Joseph von Fraunhofer — Germany (1787–1826)

Steven Frautschi — United States (born 1933)

Joan Maie Freeman – Australia (1918–1998)

Phyllis S. Freier — United States (1921–1992))

Yakov Frenkel — St. Petersburg

Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France (1788–1827)

Peter Freund — United States (born 1936)

Daniel Friedan — United States

B. Roy Frieden — United States (born 1936)

Alexander Friedman — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1888–1925)

Jerome Isaac Friedman — United States (born 1930) Nobel laureate

Otto Frisch — Austria, UK (1904–1979)

Erwin Fues — Germany (1893–1970)

Harald Fuchs — Germany (born 1951)

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Dennis Gabor — Hungary (1900–1979) Nobel laureate

Mary K. Gaillard — France, United States (born 1939)

Galileo Galilei — Italy (1564–1642)

Luigi Galvani — Italy (1737–1798)

George Gamow — Russia, United States (1904–1968)

Sylvester James Gates — United States (born 1950)

Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany (1777–1855)

Pamela L. Gay — United States

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — France (1778–1850)

Hans Geiger — Germany (1882–1945)

Andre Geim — Russian/British (born 1958) Nobel laureate

Murray Gell-Mann — United States (born 1929) Nobel laureate

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes — France (1932–2007) Nobel laureate

Howard Georgi — United States (born 1947)

Walter Gerlach — Germany (1889–1979)

Christian Gerthsen — Denmark, Germany (1894–1956)

Andrea M. Ghez — United States (born 1955)

Riccardo Giacconi — Italy, United States (born 1931) Nobel laureate

Ivar Giaever

Josiah Willard Gibbs — United States (1839–1903)

William Gilbert — England (1544–1603)

Piara Singh Gill — India (1911–2002)

Naomi Ginsberg — United States (born 1979)

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg — Soviet Union, Russia (1916–2009) Nobel laureate

Marvin D. Girardeau — United States

Donald Arthur Glaser — United States (born 1926) Nobel laureate

Sheldon Lee Glashow — United States (born 1932) Nobel laureate

G. N. Glasoe – United States (1902–1987)

Roy Jay Glauber — United States (born 1925) Nobel laureate

James Glimm — United States (born 1934)

Karl Glitscher — Germany (1886–1945)

Peter Goddard — UK (born 1945)

Maria Goeppert-Mayer — Germany, United States (1906–1972) Nobel laureate

Gerald Goertzel — United States (1920–2002)

Marvin Leonard Goldberger — United States (born 1922)

Maurice Goldhaber — Austria, United States (1911–2011)

Jeffrey Goldstone — UK, United States (born 1933)

Sixto González — Puerto Rico, United States (born 1965)

Ravi Gomatam — India (born 1950)

Lev Gor'kov — United States (born 1929)

Samuel Goudsmit — Netherlands, United States (1902–1978)

Leo Graetz — Germany (1856–1941)

Willem 's Gravesande — Netherlands (1688–1742)

Michael Green (physicist) - Britain (born 1946)

Brian Greene — United States (born 1963)

John Gribbin — UK (born 1946)

Vladimir Gribov — Russia (1930–1997)

David J. Griffiths — United States (born 1942)

David Gross — United States (born 1941) Nobel laureate

Frederick Grover — United States (1876–1973)

Peter Grünberg — Germany (born 1939) Nobel laureate

Charles Édouard Guillaume — Switzerland (1861–1931) Nobel laureate

Ayyub Guliyev — Azerbaijan (born 1954)

Feza Gürsey — Turkey (1921–1992)

Alan Guth — United States (born 1947)

Martin Gutzwiller — Switzerland (born 1925)

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Rudolf Haag — Germany (1922-2016)

Wander Johannes de Haas — Netherlands (1878–1960)

Alain Haché — Canada (born 1970)

Carl Richard Hagen — United States (born 1937)

Otto Hahn — Germany (1879–1968)

Edwin Hall — United States (1855–1938)

John Lewis Hall — United States (born 1934) Nobel laureate

Viktor Hambardzumyan — Armenia, Russia (1908–1996)

William Rowan Hamilton — Ireland (1805–1865)

Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch — Germany (born 1941) Nobel laureate

Peter Andreas Hansen — Denmark (1795–1874)

W.W. Hansen — United States (1909–1949)

Serge Haroche — France (born 1944) Nobel laureate

Paul Harteck — Germany (1902–1985)

John G. Hartnett — Australia (born 1952)

Douglas Hartree — UK (1897–1958)

Friedrich Hasenöhrl — Austria, Hungary (1874–1915)

Lene Vestergaard Hau Vejle, Denmark (born 1959)

Stephen Hawking — UK (born 1942) Wolf laureate

Ibn al-Haytham — Iraq (965–1039)

Evans Hayward — United States

Oliver Heaviside — UK (1850–1925)

Werner Karl Heisenberg — Germany (1901–1976) Nobel laureate

Walter Heitler — Germany, Ireland (1904–1981)

Hermann von Helmholtz — Germany (1821–1894)

Charles H. Henry — United States (born 1937)

Joseph Henry — United States (1797–1878)

John Herapath — UK (1790–1868)

Carl Hermann — Germany (1898–1961)

Gustav Ludwig Hertz — Germany (1887-1975) Nobel laureate

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz — Germany (1857–1894)

Karl Herzfeld — Austria, United States (1892–1978)

Victor Francis Hess — Austria, United States (1883–1964) Nobel laureate

Mahmoud Hessaby — Iran (1903–1992)

Antony Hewish — UK (born 1924) Nobel laureate

Paul G. Hewitt — US (born 1931)

Peter Higgs — UK (born 1929) Nobel laureate

George William Hill — United States (1838–1914)

Gustave-Adolphe Hirn — France (1815–1890)

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — England (1910–1994)

Robert Hofstadter — United States (1915–1990) Nobel laureate

Helmut Hönl — Germany (1903–1981)

Pervez Hoodbhoy — Pakistan (born 1950)

Gerardus 't Hooft — Netherlands (born 1946) Nobel laureate

Robert Hooke — England (1635–1703)

John Hopkinson — United Kingdom (1849–1898)

Johann Baptiste Horvath — Slovakia (1732–1799)

William V. Houston — United States (1900–1968)

Charlotte (née Riefenstahl) Houtermans — Germany (1899-1993)

Fritz Houtermans — Netherlands, Germany, Austria (1903–1966)

Archibald Howie — UK (born 1934)

Sir Fred Hoyle — UK (1915–2001)

John Hubbard — UK (1931–1980)

John H. Hubbell — United States (1925–2007)

Edwin Powell Hubble — United States (1889–1953)

Russell Alan Hulse — United States (born 1950) Nobel laureate

Friedrich Hund — Germany (1896–1997)

Tahir Hussain — Pakistan (1923–2010)

Andrew D. Huxley — United Kingdom (born 1966)

Christiaan Huygens — Netherlands (1629–1695)

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Arthur Iberall - United States (1918-2002)

Sumio Iijima — Japan (born 1939)

John Iliopoulos — Greece (born 1940)

Ataç İmamoğlu — United States, Turkey (born 1962)

Elmer Imes — United States (1883–1941)

Abram Ioffe — Russia

Nathan Isgur — United States, Canada (1947–2001)

Ernst Ising — Germany (1900–1998)

Jamal Nazrul Islam — Bangladesh (born 1939)

Werner Israel — Canada (born 1931)

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Roman Jackiw — Poland, United States (born 1939)

Shirley Ann Jackson — United States (born 1946)

Boris Jacobi — Potsdam

Gregory Jaczko — United States (born 1970)

Jainendra Jain — India

Ratko Janev — Republic of Macedonia

Andreas Jaszlinszky — Hungary (1715–1783)

Ali Javan — Iran (1928- 2016)

Edwin Jaynes — United States (1922–1998)

Sir James Jeans — UK (1877–1946)

Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen — Germany (1907–1973) Nobel laureate

Deborah S. Jin — United States (born 1968)

Anthony M. Johnson — United States (born 1954)

Irène Joliot-Curie — France (1897–1956)

Lorella Jones — United States (1943–1995)

Pascual Jordan — Germany (1902–1980)

Brian David Josephson — UK (born 1940) Nobel laureate

James Prescott Joule — UK (1818–1889)

Adolfas Jucys — Lithuania (1904–1974)

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Menas Kafatos — Greece, United States (born 1945)

Takaaki Kajita — Japan (born 1959) Nobel laureate

Michio Kaku — United States (born 1947)

Theodor Kaluza — Germany (1885–1954)

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — Netherlands (1853–1926) Nobel laureate

William R. Kanne — United States

Charles K. Kao — China, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, United States (born 1933) Nobel laureate

Pyotr Kapitsa — Russian Empire, Soviet Union (1894-1984) Nobel laureate

Theodore von Kármán — Hungary, United States (1881–1963)

Alfred Kastler — France (1902–1984) Nobel laureate

Amrom Harry Katz — United States (1915–1997)

Predhiman K. Kaw — India (born 1948)

Heinrich Kayser — Germany (1853–1940)

Willem Hendrik Keesom — Netherlands (1876–1956)

Edwin C. Kemble — United States (1889–1984)

Henry Way Kendall — United States (1926–1999) Nobel laureate

Johannes Kepler — Germany (1571–1630)

John Kerr — UK (1824–1907)

Wolfgang Ketterle — Germany (born 1957) Nobel laureate

Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov — Soviet Union (born 1919)

Jim Al-Khalili — UK (born 1962)

Abdul Qadeer Khan — Pakistan (born 1936)

Yulii Borisovich Khariton — Soviet Union, Russia (1904–1996)

Erhard Kietz — Germany and United States (1909–1982)

Jack St. Clair Kilby — United States (1923–2005) Nobel laureate

Toichiro Kinoshita — Japan, United States (born 1925)

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff — Germany (1824–1887)

Oskar Klein — Sweden (1894–1977)

Hagen Kleinert — Germany (born 1941)

Klaus von Klitzing — Germany (born 1943) Nobel laureate

Jens Martin Knudsen — Denmark (1930–2005)

Martin Knudsen — Denmark (1871–1949)

Makoto Kobayashi — Japan (born 1944) Nobel laureate

Arthur Korn — Germany (1870–1945)

Masatoshi Koshiba — Japan (born 1926) Nobel laureate

Matthew Koss — United States (born 1961)

Walther Kossel — Germany (1888–1956)

Ashutosh Kotwal — United States (born 1965)

Lew Kowarski — France (1907–1979)

Hendrik Kramers — Netherlands (1894–1952)

Adolf Kratzer — Germany (1893–1983)

Lawrence Krauss — United States (born 1954)

Herbert Kroemer — Germany (born 1928) Nobel laureate

August Krönig — Germany (1822–1879)

Ralph Kronig — Germany, United States (1904–1995)

Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov — Soviet Union (1917–1947)

Ryogo Kubo — Japan (1920–1995)

Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha - India (born 1951)

Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov — Soviet Union (1903–1960)

Behram Kurşunoğlu — Turkey (1922–2003)

Polykarp Kusch — Germany (1911–1993) Nobel laureate

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James W. LaBelle — United States

Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736–1813)

Willis Lamb — United States (1913–2008) Nobel laureate

Lev Davidovich Landau — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1908–1968) Nobel laureate

Rolf Landauer — United States (1927–1999)

Grigory Landsberg — Vologda

Kenneth Lane — United States

Paul Langevin — France (1872–1946)

Irving Langmuir — United States (1881–1957)

Pierre-Simon Laplace - France (1749-1827)

Joseph Larmor — United Kingdom (1857–1942)

Cesar Lattes — Brazil (1924–2005)

Max von Laue — Germany (1879–1960) Nobel laureate

Robert Betts Laughlin — United States (born 1950) Nobel laureate

Mikhail Lavrentyev — Kazan

Ernest Lawrence — United States (1901–1958) Nobel laureate

Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev — Imperial Russia (1866–1912)

Leon Max Lederman — United States (born 1922) Nobel laureate

Benjamin Lee — Korea, United States (1935–1977)

David Lee — United States (born 1931) Nobel laureate

Tsung-Dao Lee — China, United States (born 1926) Nobel laureate

Anthony James Leggett — UK, United States (born 1938) Nobel laureate

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany (1646–1716)

Robert B. Leighton — United States (1919–1997)

Georges Lemaître — Belgium (1894–1966)

Philipp Lenard — Hungary, Germany (1862–1947) Nobel laureate

John Lennard-Jones — UK (1894–1954)

John Leslie — UK (1766–1832)

Walter Lewin — Netherlands, United States

Martin Lewis Perl — United States (born 1927)

Robert von Lieben — Austria-Hungary (1878–1913)

Alfred-Marie Liénard — France (1869–1958)

Evgeny Lifshitz — Soviet Union (1915–1985)

David Lindley — United States (born 1956)

John Linsley — United States (1925–2002)

Chris Lintott — UK (born 1980)

Gabriel Jonas Lippmann — France, Luxemburg (1845–1921) Nobel laureate

Antony Garrett Lisi — United States (born 1968)

Karl L. Littrow — Austria (1811–1877)

Oliver Lodge — UK (1851–1940)

Maurice Loewy — Austria, France (1833–1907)

Robert K. Logan — United States (born 1939)

Mikhail Lomonosov — Denisovka

Alfred Lee Loomis — United States (1887–1975)

Ramón E. López — United States (born 1959)

Hendrik Lorentz — Netherlands (1853–1928) Nobel laureate

Ludvig Lorenz — Denmark (1829–1891)

Johann Josef Loschmidt — Austria (1821–1895)

Oleg Losev — Tver

Archibald Low — UK (1888–1956)

Per-Olov Löwdin — Sweden (1916–2000)

Lucretius — Rome (98?–55 BC)

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia (1857–1918)

Joseph Lykken — United States (born 1957)

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Arthur B. McDonald — Canada (born 1943) Nobel laureate

Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry — Netherlands (1904–1993)

Ernst Mach — Austria-Hungary (1838–1916)

Luciano Maiani — Italy, San Marino (born 1941)

Theodore Maiman — United States (1927–2007)

Ettore Majorana — Italy (1906–1938 presumed dead)

Sudhansu Datta Majumdar — India (1915–1997)

Richard Makinson — Australia (1913–1979)

Juan Martín Maldacena — Argentina (born 1968)

Étienne-Louis Malus — France (1775–1812)

Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1879–1944)

Peter Mansfield — UK (born 1933)

Carlo Marangoni — Italy (1840–1925)

Guglielmo Marconi — Italy (1874–1937) Nobel laureate

Henry Margenau — Germany, United States (1901–1977)

William Markowitz — United States (1907–1998)

Robert Marshak — United States (1916–1992)

Walter Marshall — UK (1932–1996)

Toshihide Maskawa — Japan (born 1940) Nobel laureate

Harrie Massey — Australia (1908–1983)

John Cromwell Mather — United States (born 1946) Nobel laureate

James Clerk Maxwell — UK (1831–1879)

Brian May — UK (born 1947)

Maria Goeppert Mayer — Germany, United States (1906–1972)

Ronald E. McNair — United States (1950–1986)

Simon van der Meer — Netherlands (1925–2011) Nobel laureate

Lise Meitner — Austria (1878–1968)

Fulvio Melia — United States (born 1956)

Macedonio Melloni — Italy (1798–1854)

Adrian Melott — United States (born 1947)

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall — United States (1841–1924)

M. G. K. Menon — India (born 1928)

David Merritt — United States

Albert Abraham Michelson — United States (1852–1931) Nobel laureate

Stanislav Mikheyev — Russia (1940–2011)

Robert Andrews Millikan — United States (1868–1953) Nobel laureate

Arthur Milne — UK (1896–1950)

Shiraz Minwalla — India

Abhas Mitra — India (born 1955)

Kathryn Moler — United States

John J. Montgomery — United States (1858–1911)

Jagadeesh Moodera — India, United States (born 1950)

Henry Moseley — UK (1887–1915)

Rudolf Mössbauer — Germany (1929–2011) Nobel laureate

Nevill Mott — UK (1905–1996) Nobel laureate

Ben Roy Mottelson — Denmark, United States (born 1926) Nobel laureate

Amédée Mouchez — Spain, France (1821–1892)

Ali Moustafa — Egypt (1898–1950)

José Enrique Moyal — Palestine, France, UK, United States, Australia (1910–1998)

Karl Alexander Müller — Switzerland (born 1927) Nobel laureate

Richard A. Muller — United States (born 1944)

Robert S. Mulliken — United States (1896–1986)

Pieter van Musschenbroek — Netherlands (1692–1762)

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Yoichiro Nambu — Japan, United States (1921-2015) Nobel laureate

Jayant Narlikar — India (born 1938)

Seth Neddermeyer — United States (1907–1988)

Louis Néel — France (1904–2000) Nobel laureate

Yuval Ne'eman — Israel (1925–2006)

Ann Nelson — United States (born 1958)

John von Neumann — Austria-Hungary, United States (1903–1957)

Simon Newcomb — United States (1835–1909)

Sir Isaac Newton — England (1642–1727)

Edward P. Ney — United States (1920–1996)

Kendal Nezan — France, Kurdistan

Holger Bech Nielsen — Denmark (born 1941)

Leopoldo Nobili — Italy (1784–1835)

Emmy Noether — Germany (1882–1935)

Lothar Nordheim — Germany (1899–1985)

Gunnar Nordström — Finland (1881–1923)

Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg — Germany (1787–1862)

Konstantin Novoselov — Soviet Union, United Kingdom (born 1974) Nobel laureate

H. Pierre Noyes — United States (born 1923)

John Nye — UK

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Georg Ohm — Germany (1789–1854)

Hideo Ohno — Japan (born 1954)

Susumu Okubo — Japan, United States

Sir Mark Oliphant — Australia (1901–2000)

David Olive — UK (1937-2012)

Gerard K. O'Neill — United States (1927–1992)

Lars Onsager — Norway (1903–1976)

Robert Oppenheimer — United States (1904–1967)

Nicole Oresme — France (1325–1382)

Yuri Orlov — Soviet Union, United States (born 1924)

Leonard Salomon Ornstein — Netherlands (1880–1941)

Egon Orowan — Austria-Hungary, United States (1901–1989)

Hans Christian Ørsted — Denmark (1777–1851)

Douglas Dean Osheroff — United States (born 1945) Nobel laureate

Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky — Russia (1801–1862)

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Thanu Padmanabhan — India (born 1957)

Heinz Pagels — United States (1939–1988)

Abraham Pais — Netherlands, United States (1918–2000)

Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky — Germany, United States (1919–2007)

Blaise Pascal — France (1623–1662)

John Pasta — United States (1918–1984)

Jogesh Pati — United States (born 1937)

Stephen Paul — United States (1953-2012)

Wolfgang Paul — Germany (1913–1993) Nobel laureate

Wolfgang Pauli — Austria-Hungary (1900–1958) Nobel laureate

George B. Pegram — United States (1876–1958)

Rudolf Peierls — Germany, UK (1907–1995)

Jean Peltier — France (1785–1845)

Roger Penrose — UK (born 1931) Wolf laureate

Arno Allan Penzias — United States (born 1933) Nobel laureate

Martin Lewis Perl — United States (born 1927) Nobel laureate

Saul Perlmutter — United States (born 1959) Nobel laureate

Jean Baptiste Perrin — France (1870–1942) Nobel laureate

Konstantin Petrzhak — Soviet Union, Russia (1907-1998)

Bernhard Philberth — Germany (1927–2010)

William Daniel Phillips — United States (born 1948) Nobel laureate

Max Planck — Germany (1858–1947) Nobel laureate

Joseph Plateau — Belgium (1801–1883)

Milton S. Plesset — United States (1908–1991)

Ward Plummer — United States (born 1940)

Boris Podolsky — Taganrog (1896-1966)

Henri Poincaré — France (1854–1912)

Eric Poisson — Canada

Siméon Denis Poisson — France (1781–1840)

Balthasar van der Pol — Netherlands (1889–1959)

Joseph Polchinski — UK (born 1954)

Hugh David Politzer — United States (born 1949) Nobel laureate

John Polkinghorne — UK (born 1930)

Alexander M. Polyakov — Russia, United States (born 1945)

Bruno Pontecorvo — Italy, Soviet Union (1913–1993)

Heraclides Ponticus — Greece (387–312 BC)

Heinz Pose — Germany (1905–1975)

Cecil Frank Powell — UK (1903–1969) Nobel laureate

John Henry Poynting — UK (1852–1914)

Ludwig Prandtl — Germany (1875–1953)

Ilya Prigogine — Belgium (1917–2003)

Aleksandr M. Prokhorov — Soviet, Russian (1916–2002) Nobel laureate

William Prout — UK (1785–1850)

Luigi Puccianti — Italy (1875–1952)

Ivan Pulyuy — Ukraine (1845–1918)

Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin — Serbia, United States (1858–1935)

Edward Mills Purcell — United States (1912–1997) Nobel laureate

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Helen Quinn — Australia, United States (born 1943)

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Gabriele Rabel — Austria, United Kingdom (1880–1963)

Isidor Isaac Rabi — Austria, United States (1898–1988) Nobel laureate

James Rainwater — United States (1917–1986) Nobel laureate

Mark G. Raizen — New York City United States (born 1955)

Alladi Ramakrishnan — India (1923–2008)

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — India (1888–1970) Nobel laureate

Edward Ramberg — United States (1907–1995)

Carl Ramsauer — Germany (1879–1955)

Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. — United States (1915–2011) Nobel laureate

Lisa Randall — United States (born 1962)

Riccardo Rattazzi — Italy (born 1964)

Lord Rayleigh — UK (1842–1919) Nobel laureate

René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur — France (1683–1757)

Sidney Redner — Canada, United States (born 1951)

Martin John Rees — UK (born 1942)

Hubert Reeves — Canada (born 1932)

Tullio Regge — Italy (1931-2014)

Frederick Reines — United States (1918–1998) Nobel laureate

Louis Rendu — France (1789–1859)

Osborne Reynolds — UK (1842–1912)

Owen Willans Richardson — UK (1879–1959) Nobel laureate

Robert Coleman Richardson — United States (born 1937) Nobel laureate

Burton Richter — United States (born 1931) Nobel laureate

Floyd K. Richtmyer — United States (1881–1939)

Robert D. Richtmyer (1910–2003)

Charlotte Riefenstahl — Germany (1899–1993)

Nikolaus Riehl — Germany (1901–1990)

Adam Riess — United States (born 1969) Nobel laureate

Karl-Heinrich Riewe — Germany

Walther Ritz — Switzerland (1878–1909)

Étienne-Gaspard Robert — Belgium (1763–1837)

Heinrich Rohrer — Switzerland (born 1933) Nobel laureate

Joseph Romm — United States (born 1960)

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen — Germany (1845–1923) Nobel laureate

Clemens C. J. Roothaan — Netherlands (born 1918)

Nathan Rosen — United States, Israel (1909—1995)

Marshall Rosenbluth — United States (1927–2003)

Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby — Sweden, United States (1898–1957)

Bruno Rossi — Italy, United States (1905–1993)

Joseph Rotblat — Poland, UK (1908–2005)

Carlo Rovelli — Italy (born 1956)

Carlo Rubbia — Italy (born 1934) Nobel laureate

Vera Rubin — United States (born 1928)

Serge Rudaz — Canada, United States (born 1954)

David Ruelle — Belgium, France (born 1935)

Ernst August Friedrich Ruska — Germany (1906–1988) Nobel laureate

Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand, UK (1871–1937)

Janne Rydberg — Sweden (1854–1919)

Martin Ryle — UK (1918–1984) Nobel laureate

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Mendel Sachs — United States (born 1927)

Robert G. Sachs — United States (1916–1999)

Carl Sagan — United States (1934–1996)

Georges-Louis le Sage — Switzerland (1724–1803)

Georges Sagnac — France (1869–1926)

Megh Nad Saha — Bengali India (1893–1956)

Shoichi Sakata — Japan (1911–1970)

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — Soviet Union (1929–1989)

Oscar Sala — Brazil (1922–2010)

Abdus Salam — Pakistan, UK (1926–1996) Nobel laureate

Edwin Ernest Salpeter — Austria, Australia, United States (1924–2008)

Anthony Ichiro Sanda — Japan, United States (born 1944)

Matthew Sanders — UK (born 1996)

Vikram Sarabhai — India (1919–1971)

Isidor Sauers — Austria (born 1948)

Félix Savart — France (1791–1841)

Brendan Scaife — Ireland (1928– )

Martin Schadt — Switzerland (born 1938)

Arthur Leonard Schawlow — United States (1921–1999) Nobel laureate

Craige Schensted — United States

Joël Scherk — France (1946–1979)

Otto Scherzer — Germany (1909–1982)

Brian Schmidt — Australia, United States (born 1967) Nobel laureate

Walter H. Schottky — Germany (1886–1976)

Kees A. Schouhamer Immink — Netherlands (born 1946)

John Robert Schrieffer — United States (born 1931) Nobel laureate

Erwin Schrödinger — Austria-Hungary (1887–1961) Nobel laureate

John Henry Schwarz — United States (born 1941)

Melvin Schwartz — United States (1932–2006) Nobel laureate

Karl Schwarzschild — Germany (1876–1916)

Julian Schwinger — United States (1918–1994) Nobel laureate

Dennis William Sciama — UK (1926–1999)

Bice Sechi-Zorn — Italy, United States (1928–1984)

Thomas Johann Seebeck — Estonia (1770–1831)

Raymond Seeger — United States (1906–1992)

Emilio G. Segrè — United States, Italy (1905–1989) Nobel laureate

Nathan Seiberg — United States (born 1956)

Frederick Seitz — United States (1911–2008)

Nikolay Semyonov — Russia (1896–1986)

Ashoke Sen — India (born 1956)

Hiranmay Sen Gupta — Bangladesh (born 1934)

Robert Serber — United States (1909–1997)

Roman U. Sexl — Austria (1939–1986)

Shen Kuo — China (1031–1095)

Mikhail Shifman — Russia, United States (born 1949)

Dmitry Shirkov — Russia (born 1928)

William Bradford Shockley — United States (1910–1989) Nobel laureate

Lev Shubnikov — Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine (1901–1937)

Clifford Shull — United States (1915–2001) Nobel laureate

Kai Siegbahn — Sweden (1918–2007) Nobel laureate

Manne Siegbahn — Sweden (1886–1978) Nobel laureate

Ludwik Silberstein — Poland, Germany, Italy, United States, Canada (1872–1948)

Eva Silverstein — United States (born 1970)

John Alexander Simpson — United States (1916–2000)

Willem de Sitter — Netherlands (1872–1934)

Francis G. Slack — United States (1897–1985)

John C. Slater — United States (1900–1976)

Louis Slotin — United States (1910–1946)

Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov — Russia, Italy (born 1951)

George E. Smith — United States (born 1930) Nobel laureate

Lee Smolin — United States (born 1955)

Marian Smoluchowski — Poland (1872–1917)

George Smoot — United States (born 1945) Nobel laureate

Willebrord Snel van Royen (Snellius) — Netherlands (1580–1626)

Arsenij Sokolov — Russia (1910–1986)

Arnold Sommerfeld — Germany (1868–1951)

Bent Sørensen — Denmark (born 1941)

Rafael Sorkin — United States (born 1945)

Maria Spiropulu — West Macedonia, Greece (born 1970)

Henry Stapp — United States (1928–)

Johannes Stark — Germany (1874–1957) Nobel laureate

Max Steenbeck — (1901–1981)

Jožef Stefan — Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835–1893)

Jack Steinberger — Germany, United States (born 1921) Nobel laureate

Paul J. Steinhardt — United States (born 1952)

Karl August von Steinheil — Germany (1801–1870)

George Sterman — United States (born 1946)

Otto Stern — Germany (1888–1969) Nobel laureate

Simon Stevin — Belgium, Netherlands (1548–1620)

Thomas H. Stix — United States (1924–2001)

George Gabriel Stokes — Ireland, UK (1819–1903)

Aleksandr Stoletov — Russia (1839–1896)

Horst Ludwig Störmer — Germany (born 1949) Nobel laureate

Andrew Strominger — United States (born 1955)

Ernst Stueckelberg — Switzerland (1905–1984)

George Sudarshan — India, United States (born 1931)

Rashid Sunyaev — Uzbek SSR (born 1943)

Oleg Sushkov — Australia-Russia (born 1950)

Leonard Susskind — United States (born 1940)

Joseph Wilson Swan — UK (1828–1914)

Jean Henri van Swinden — Netherlands (1746–1823)

Bertha Swirles — UK (1903–1999)

Leó Szilárd — Austria-Hungary, United States (1898–1964)

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Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1895–1971) Nobel laureate

Abraham H. Taub — United States (1911–1999)

Geoffrey Ingram Taylor — UK (1886–1975)

Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. — United States (born 1941) Nobel laureate

Richard Edward Taylor — United States (born 1929) Nobel laureate

Max Tegmark — Sweden, United States (born 1967)

Valentine Telegdi — Hungary, United States (1922–2006) Wolf laureate

Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary, United States (1908–2003)

Igor Ternov — Russia (1921–1996)

Nikola Tesla — Serbia (1856–1943)

George Paget Thomson — UK (1892–1975) Nobel laureate

J. J. Thomson — UK (1856–1940) Nobel laureate

William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) — UK (1824–1907)

Charles Thorn — United States

Kip Stephen Thorne — United States (born 1940)

Peter Adolf Thiessen — Germany (1899–1990)

Samuel Chao Chung Ting — United States (born 1936) Nobel laureate

Frank J. Tipler — United States (born 1947)

Ernest William Titterton — UK, Australia (1916–1990)

Yoshinori Tokura — Japan (born 1954)

Samuel Tolansky — UK (1907–1973)

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga — Japan (1906–1979) Nobel laureate

Lewi Tonks — United States (1897–1971)

Akira Tonomura — Japan (1942–2012)

Evangelista Torricelli — Italy (1608–1647)

Yoji Totsuka — Japan (1942–2008)

Bruno Touschek — Italy (1921–1978)

Charles Townes — United States (born 1915) Nobel laureate

John Townsend — UK (1868–1957)

Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763–1822)

Sam Treiman — United States (1925–1999)

Daniel Chee Tsui — China, United States (born 1939) Nobel laureate

John J. Turin — United States (1913–1973)

Neil Turok — South Africa (born 1958)

Victor Twersky (USA, 1923–1998)

Sergei Tyablikov — Russia (1921–1968)

John Tyndall — UK (1820–1893)

Neil deGrasse Tyson — United States (born 1958)

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George Eugene Uhlenbeck — Netherlands, United States (1900–1988)

Stanislaw Ulam — Poland (1909–1984)

Nikolay Umov — Russia (1846–1915)

Juris Upatnieks — Latvia, United States (born 1936)

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Cumrun Vafa — Iran, United States

Léon Van Hove — Belgium (1924–1990)

Sergei Vavilov — Soviet Union (1891–1951)

Evgeny Velikhov — Russia (born 1935)

Martinus J. G. Veltman — Netherlands, United States (born 1931) Nobel laureate

Gabriele Veneziano — Italy (born 1942)

Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746–1822)

Émile Verdet — France (1824–1866)

Jean-Pierre Vigier — France (1920–2004)

Anatoly Vlasov — Russia (1908–1975)

John Hasbrouck van Vleck — United States (1899–1980) Nobel laureate

Woldemar Voigt — Germany (1850–1919)

Burchard de Volder — Netherlands (1643–1709)

Max Volmer — Germany (1885–1965)

Alessandro Volta — Italy (1745–1827)

Wernher Von Braun — Germany (1912–1977)

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Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands (1837–1923) Nobel laureate

James Wait — Canada (1924–1998)

Ludwig Waldmann — Germany (1913–1980)

Ernest Walton — Ireland (1903–1995) Nobel laureate

Kan-Chang Wang — China (1907–1998)

Aaldert Wapstra — Netherlands (1923–2006)

John Clive Ward — England, Australia (1924–2000)

Gleb Wataghin — Ukraine, Italy, Brazil (1896–1986)

John James Waterston — UK (1811–1883)

Alan Andrew Watson — UK (born 1938)

James Watt — UK (1736–1819)

Denis Weaire — Ireland (194?–)

Colin Webb — UK (born 1937)

Wilhelm Weber — Germany (1804–1891)

Alvin Weinberg — United States (1915–2006)

Steven Weinberg — United States (born 1933) Nobel laureate

Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, United States (1908–2002)

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker — Germany (1912–2007)

Heinrich Welker — Germany (1912–1981)

Gregor Wentzel — Germany (1898–1978)

Peter Westervelt — United States (1919-2015)

Hermann Weyl - Germany (1885-1955)

Christof Wetterich - Germany (born 1952)

John Archibald Wheeler — United States (1911–2008)

Gian-Carlo Wick — Italy (1909–1992)

Emil Wiechert — Prussia (1861–1928)

Carl Wieman — United States (born 1951) Nobel laureate

Wilhelm Wien — Germany (1864–1928) Nobel laureate

Arthur Wightman — United States (1922-2013)

Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary, United States (1902–1993) Nobel laureate

Frank Wilczek — United States (born 1951) Nobel laureate

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson — UK (1869–1959) Nobel laureate

Kenneth Geddes Wilson — United States (born 1936) Nobel laureate

Robert R. Wilson — United States (1914–2000) Nobel laureate

Robert Woodrow Wilson — United States (born 1936)

John R. Winckler — United States (1918–2001)

David J. Wineland — United States (born 1944) Nobel laureate

Karl Wirtz — Germany (1910–1994)

Mark B. Wise — Canada, United States (born 1953)

Edward Witten — United States (born 1951)

Emil Wolf — Czechoslovakia, United States (born 1922)

Fred Alan Wolf — United States (born 1934)

Lincoln Wolfenstein — United States (1923-2015)

Stephen Wolfram — UK (born 1959)

Robert W. Wood — United States (1868–1955)

Michael Woolfson — UK (born 1927)

Chien-Shiung Wu — United States (1912–1997)

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Basilis C. Xanthopoulos — Greece (1951–1990)

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Rosalyn Yalow — United States (1921–2011)

Chen Ning Yang — China (born 1922) Nobel laureate

Félix Ynduráin — Spain (born 1946)

Francisco Jose Yndurain — Spain (1940–2008)

Kenneth Young — United States – China (born 1947)

Thomas Young — UK (1773–1829)

Hideki Yukawa — Japan (1907–1981) Nobel laureate

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Jan Zaanen — Netherlands (born 1957)

Anthony Zee — United States

Pieter Zeeman — Netherlands (1865–1943) Nobel laureate

Ludwig Zehnder — Switzerland (1854–1949)

Anton Zeilinger — Austria (born 1945)

Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich — Russia (1914–1987)

John Zeleny — United States (1872–1951)

Frits Zernike — Netherlands (1888–1960) Nobel laureate

Antonino Zichichi — Italy (born 1929)

Hans Ziegler — Switzerland – United States (1910–1985)

Karl Zimmer — Germany (1911–1988)

Peter Zoller — Austria (born 1952)

Dmitry Zubarev — Russia (1917–1992)

Bruno Zumino — Italy (1923–2014)

Wojciech H. Zurek — Poland – United States (born 1951)

Robert Zwanzig — United States (1928–2014)

George Zweig — United States (born 1937)

Barton Zwiebach — United States (born 1954)