Physicists

Physicists - Definition and Overview

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

Contents:	Top - 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Ernst Abbe - Germany (1840-1905)
Hannes Alfven - Sweden (1908-1995)
Luis Alvarez - USA (1911 - 1988)
Andre Marie Ampere, (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)

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)

C

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, (1841-1902)
Charles Augustin de Coulomb — (1736 – 1806)
Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)

D

Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France (1717 – 1783)
John Dalton - England (1766-1844)
Sir Charles Galton Darwin, England (1887-1962)
Paul Davies - Australia (1946- )
Democritus - Abdera (circa 460 - 360 BC)
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- )

E

William Eccles - Britain, (1875-1966)
Paul Ehrenfest - Austria, (1880-1933)
Felix Ehrenhaft - Austria, USA (1879-1952)
Albert Einstein - Germany, USA (1879-1955)
V. Walfrid Ekman - Sweden, (1874-1954)
Roland Eötvös - Hungary (1848-1919)
Ernest Esclangon - France, (1876-1954)
Louis Essen - England, (1908-1997)
Leonard Euler — (1707 – 1783)
James Alfred Ewing - Scotland (1855-1935)

F

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — Poland, England, Netherlands (1686 – 1736)
Michael Faraday - Britain (1791-1867)
Enrico Fermi - Italy, (1901-1954)
Richard Feynman - USA, (1918-1988)
George Francis FitzGerald - Ireland (1851-1901)
Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock - Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898-1974)
James David Forbes - Scotland (1809-1868)
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, ()

G

Galileo Galilei - Italy (1564-1642)
Carl Friedrich Gauss - Germany (1777-1855)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
Murray Gell-Mann - USA (1929- )
Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
William Gilbert - England (1544-1603)
Martin Gutzwiller - Switzerland (1925- )

H

Edwin Hall - USA (1855-1938)
William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
Peter Andreas Hansen - Denmark (1795 - 1874)
W.W. Hansen - USA (1909-1949)
Douglas Hartree - England (1897-1958)
Stephen Hawking - England (1942- )
Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
Werner Karl Heisenberg - Germany (1901-1976)
Hermann von Helmholtz - Germany (1821-1894)
Joseph Henry - USA (1797-1878)
John Herapath - England (1790-1868)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Germany (1857-1894)
George William Hill - USA (1838 - 1914)
Robert Hooke - England (1635-1703)
Christian Huygens, (1629-1695)

J

Ali Javan - Iran (1928-)
Edwin Jaynes - USA (1922-1998)
Song Jin-joo - Korea/USA
Brian David Josephson - Britain (1940- )
James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)

K

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
John Kerr - Britain (1824-1907)
Bernard Bruno Kinsey - Britain, USA (1910-1995)
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, (1824 - 1887)
August Krönig - Germany (1822-1879)

L

Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736 – 1813)
Lev Davidovich Landau - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908-1968)
Irving Langmuir - USA (1851-1957)
Ernest Lawrence - USA (1901-1958)
Georges-Louis LeSage — Switzerland (1724 – 1803)
John Leslie - Scotland (1766-1832)
Karl L. Littrow - Austria (1811 - 1877)
Maurice Loewy - Austria/France (1833 - 1907)
Johann Loschmidt - Germany (1821-1895)
Lucretius - Rome (98? - 55 BC)

M

Ernst Mach - Austria (1838-1916)
Etienne-Louis Malus — France (1775 – 1812)
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1879-1944)
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall - US (1841-1924)
William Markowitz - USA (1907-1998)
James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
Ronald E. McNair - USA (1950-1986)
Macedonio Melloni - Italy (1798–1854)
Albert Abraham Michelson - USA (1852-1931)
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov - Imperial Russia (1857-1918)
Robert Andrews Millikan - USA (1868- 1953)
Amédée Mouchez - Spain, France (1821-1892)

N

John von Neumann - Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
Simon Newcomb - USA (1835 - 1909)
Isaac Newton - England (1642-1727)
Leopoldo Nobili - Italy (1784-1835)

O

Georg Ohm - Germany (1789-1854)
Robert Oppenheimer - USA (1904-1967)
Nicolas Oresme - France (1325-1382)
Egon Orowan - Hungary/ USA (1901-1989)
Yuri Orlov - Soviet Union, USA (1924- )

P

Blaise Pascal - France (1623-1662)
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli - Austria (1900-1958)
G. B. Pegram - USA (1876-1958)
Max Planck - Germany (1858-1947)
Joseph Plateau - Belgium (1801 - 1883)
John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912)
Heraclides Ponticus - Greece (387 - 312 BC)
John Henry Poynting - Britain (1852-1914)
William Prout - England (1785-1850)

R

Hubert Reeves - Canada (1932- )
Osborne Reynolds - Britain (1842-1912)
Wilhelm Conrad 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])

S

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Soviet Union (1929-1989)
Felix Savart - France ([1791]]-1841)
Erwin Schrödinger, (1887-1961)
Emilio G. Segrè - USA/Italy (1905-1989)
Willebrord Snell - Netherlands (1580-1626)
Jožef Stefan - Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
Karl August von Steinheil - Germany, (1801-1870)
George Gabriel Stokes - Britain (1819-1903)
Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)

T

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895-1971)
Edward Teller - Austria-Hungary/USA (1908-2003)
Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary/USA (1856-1943)
Joseph John Thomson, England (1856-1940)
William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) - Ireland (1824-1907)
Evangelista Torricelli - Italy (1608-1647)
Charles Townes - USA (1915-)
Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763 – 1822)

V

Johannes Diderik van der Waals - Netherlands (1837-1923)
Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746 – 1822)
Alessandro Volta - Italy (1745-1827)

W

John James Waterston - Scotland (1811-1883)
James Watt — Scotland (1736 – 1819)
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)
Robert W. Wood - USA (1868 - 1955)
Arthur Wightman - USA

Y

Thomas Young - England (1773-1829)
Hideki Yukawa - Japan (1907-1981)

See also

List of theoretical physicists
List of mathematicians
Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th century American) are collected in the Emilio Segre Visual Archives (http://www.aip.org/history/esva/)

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