List of physicists

A

• Jules Aarons — United States
• Ernst Karl Abbe — Germany
• Derek Abbott — Australia
• Hasan Abdullayev — Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Soviet Union, Azerbaijan
• Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov — Soviet Union, Russia Nobel laureate
• Robert Adler — United States
• Stephen L. Adler — United States
• Franz Aepinus — Rostock
• David Z Albert — United States
• Felicie Albert — France, United States
• Miguel Alcubierre — Mexico
• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov — Russia Nobel laureate
• Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén — Sweden Nobel laureate
• Alhazen — Basra, Iraq
• Artem Alikhanian — Armenia
• Abram Alikhanov — Russia
• William Allis — United States
• Samuel King Allison — United States
• Yakov Lvovich Alpert — Russia, United States
• Ralph Asher Alpher — United States
• Semen Altshuler — Vitebsk
• Luis Walter Alvarez — United States Nobel laureate
• Viktor Ambartsumian — Soviet Union, Armenia
• André-Marie Ampère — France
• Anja Cetti Andersen — Denmark
• Hans Henrik Andersen — Denmark
• Philip Warren Anderson — United States Nobel laureate
• Carl David Anderson — United States Nobel laureate
• Herbert L. Anderson — United States
• Elephter Andronikashvili — Georgia
• Anders Jonas Ångström — Sweden
• Alexander Animalu, Nigeria
• Edward Victor Appleton — U.K. Nobel laureate
• François Jean Dominique Arago — France
• Archimedes — Syracuse, Greece
• Manfred von Ardenne — Germany
• Aristarchus of Samos — Samos, Greece
• Aristotle — Athens, Greece
• Nima Arkani-Hamed — United States
• Lev Artsimovich — Moscow
• Aryabhata — Pataliputra, India
• Neil Ashby — United States
• Maha Ashour-Abdalla — Egypt, United States
• Gurgen Askaryan — Soviet Union
• Alain Aspect — France
• Avicenna — Persia
• Amedeo Avogadro — Italy
• David Awschalom — United States

  B

• Xiaoyi Bao — Canada
• Mani Lal Bhaumik — United States
• Tom Baehr-Jones — United States
• Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge — U.K. Wolfson Professor of Energy Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran — India
• V Balakrishnan — India
• Milla Baldo-Ceolin — Italy
• Johann Jakob Balmer — Switzerland
• Tom Banks — United States
• Riccardo Barbieri — Italy
• Marcia Barbosa — Brazil
• John Bardeen — United States double Nobel laureate
• William A. Bardeen — United States
• Charles Glover Barkla — U.K. Nobel laureate
• Amanda Barnard — Australia
• Boyd Bartlett — United States
• Asım Orhan Barut — Malatya, Turkey
• Heinz Barwich — Germany
• Nikolay Basov — Russia Nobel laureate
• Laura Maria Caterina Bassi — Italy
• Zoltán Lajos Bay — Hungary
• Karl Bechert — Germany
• Henri Becquerel — France Nobel laureate
• Johannes Georg Bednorz — Germany Nobel laureate
• Isaac Beeckman — Netherlands
• Alexander Graham Bell — Scotland, Canada, U.S.A.
• John Stewart Bell — U.K.
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell — Northern Ireland, U.K.
• Carl M. Bender — United States
• Abraham Bennet — England
• Daniel Bernoulli — Switzerland
• Hans Bethe — Germany, United States Nobel laureate
• Homi J. Bhabha — India
• James Binney — England
• Gerd Binnig — Germany Nobel laureate
• Jean-Baptiste Biot — France
• Raymond T. Birge — United States
• Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī — Persia
• Vilhelm Bjerknes — Norway
• James Bjorken — United States
• Patrick Blackett — U.K. Nobel laureate
• Felix Bloch — Switzerland Nobel laureate
• Nicolaas Bloembergen — Netherlands, United States Nobel laureate
• Walter Boas — Germany, Australia
• Céline Bœhm — working in Australia
• Nikolay Bogolyubov — Soviet Union, Russia
• David Bohm — United States
• Aage Bohr — Denmark Nobel laureate
• Niels Bohr — Denmark Nobel laureate
• Martin Bojowald — Germany
• Ludwig Boltzmann — Austria
• Eugene T. Booth — United States
• Max Born — Germany, U.K. Nobel laureate
• Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Croatia
• Jagadish Chandra Bose — India
• Margrete Heiberg Bose — Denmark
• Satyendra Nath Bose — India
• Johannes Bosscha — Netherlands
• Walther Bothe — Germany Nobel laureate
• Edward Bouchet — United States
• Robert Boyle — Ireland, England
• Willard S. Boyle — Canada, United States Nobel laureate
• William Henry Bragg — U.K. Nobel laureate
• William Lawrence Bragg — U.K., Australia Nobel laureate
• Tycho Brahe — Denmark
• Howard Brandt — United States
• Walter Houser Brattain — United States Nobel laureate
• Karl Ferdinand Braun — Germany Nobel laureate
• David Brewster — U.K.
• Percy Williams Bridgman — United States Nobel laureate
• Léon Nicolas Brillouin — France
• Marcel Brillouin — France
• Bertram Brockhouse — Canada Nobel laureate
• Louis-Victor de Broglie — France Nobel laureate
• William Fuller Brown, Jr. — United States
• Ernst Brüche — Germany
• Hermann Brück — Germany
• Ari Brynjolfsson — Iceland
• Hans Buchdahl — Germany, Australia
• Gersh Budker — Soviet Union
• Silke Bühler-Paschen — Austria
• Johannes Martinus Burgers — Netherlands
• Friedrich Burmeister — Germany
• Bimla Buti — India
• Christophorus Buys Ballot — Netherlands

  C

• Nicola Cabibbo — Italy
• Nicolás Cabrera — Spain
• Curtis Callan — United States
• Annie Jump Cannon — United States
• Fritjof Capra — Austria, United States
• Marcela Carena — Argentina
• Ricardo Carezani — Argentina
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot — France
• David Carroll — United States
• Brandon Carter — Australia
• Hendrik Casimir — Netherlands
• Henry Cavendish — U.K.
• James Chadwick — U.K. Nobel laureate
• Owen Chamberlain — United States Nobel laureate
• Moses H. W. Chan — Hong Kong
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar — India, United States Nobel laureate
• Georges Charpak — France Nobel laureate
• Émilie du Châtelet — France
• Swapan Chattopadhyay — India
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union Nobel laureate
• Maxim Chernodub — Russia, France
• Geoffrey Chew — United States
• Boris Chirikov — Soviet Union, Russia
• Juansher Chkareuli — Georgia
• Ernst Chladni — Germany
• Steven Chu — United States Nobel laureate
• Giovanni Ciccotti — Italy
• Benoît Clapeyron — France
• George W. Clark — United States
• Rudolf Clausius — Germany
• Gerald B. Cleaver — United States
• Richard Clegg — United Kingdom
• John Cockcroft — United Kingdom Nobel laureate
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji — France Nobel laureate
• Arthur Compton — United States Nobel laureate
• Karl Compton — United States
• Edward Condon — United States
• Leon Cooper — United States Nobel laureate
• Alejandro Corichi — Mexico
• Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis — France
• Allan McLeod Cormack — South Africa, United States
• Eric Allin Cornell — United States Nobel laureate
• Marie Alfred Cornu — France
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — France
• Ernest Courant — United States
• Brian Cox — U.K.
• Charles Critchfield — United States
• James Cronin — United States Nobel laureate
• Sir William Crookes — U.K.
• Paul Crowell — United States
• Marie Curie — Poland, France twice Nobel laureate
• Pierre Curie — France Nobel laureate
• Predrag Cvitanović — Croatia

  D

• Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France
• Gustaf Dalén — Sweden Nobel laureate
• Jean Dalibard — France
• Richard Dalitz — U.K., United States
• John Dalton — U.K.
• Sanja Damjanović – Montenegro
• Ranjan Roy Daniel — India
• Charles Galton Darwin — U.K.
• Ashok Das — India, United States
• Paul Davies — Australia
• Raymond Davis, Jr. — United States Nobel laureate
• Clinton Davisson — United States Nobel laureate
• Peter Debije — Netherlands
• Hans Georg Dehmelt — Germany, United States Nobel laureate
• Max Delbrück — Germany, United States
• Democritus — Abdera
• David M. Dennison — United States
• Beryl May Dent — U.K.
• David Deutsch — Israel, U.K.
• James Dewar — U.K.
• Scott Diddams — United States
• Ulrike Diebold — Austria
• Robbert Dijkgraaf — Netherlands
• Viktor Dilman — Russia
• Savas Dimopoulos — United States
• Paul Dirac — Switzerland, U.K. Nobel laureate
• Revaz Dogonadze — Soviet Union, Georgia
• Amos Dolbear — United States
• Robert Döpel — Germany
• Christian Doppler — Austria
• Henk Dorgelo — Netherlands
• Friedrich Ernst Dorn — Germany
• Michael R. Douglas — United States
• Jonathan Dowling — United States
• Claudia Draxl — Germany
• Sidney Drell — United States
• Mildred Dresselhaus — United States
• Paul Drude — Germany
• F. J. Duarte — United States
• Émilie du Châtelet — France
• Pierre Louis Dulong — France
• Samuel T. Durrance — United States
• Freeman Dyson — U.K., United States Wolf laureate
• Arthur Jeffrey Dempster — Canada

  E

• Joseph H. Eberly — United States
• William Eccles — U.K.
• Carl Eckart — United States
• Arthur Stanley Eddington — U.K.
• Paul Ehrenfest — Austria-Hungary, Netherlands
• Felix Ehrenhaft — Austria-Hungary, United States
• Manfred Eigen — Germany
• Albert Einstein — Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United States Nobel laureate
• Laura Eisenstein — professor of physics at University of Illinois
• Terence James Elkins — Australia, United States
• John Ellis — U.K.
• Paul John Ellis — U.K., United States
• Richard Keith Ellis — U.K., United States
• Arpad Elo — Hungary
• François Englert — Belgium Nobel laureate
• David Enskog — Sweden
• Loránd Eötvös — Austria-Hungary
• Frederick J. Ernst — United States
• Leo Esaki — Japan Nobel laureate
• Ernest Esclangon — France
• Louis Essen — U.K.
• Leonhard Euler — Switzerland
• Denis Evans — Australia
• Paul Peter Ewald — Germany, United States
• James Alfred Ewing — U.K.
• Franz S. Exner — Austria

  F

• Ludvig Faddeev — Russia
• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — Prussia
• Kazimierz Fajans — Poland, United States
• James E. Faller — United States
• Michael Faraday — U.K.
• Eugene Feenberg — United States
• Mitchell Feigenbaum — United States
• Gerald Feinberg — United States
• Enrico Fermi — Italy Nobel laureate
• Albert Fert — France Nobel laureate
• Herman Feshbach — United States
• Richard Feynman — United States Nobel laureate
• Wolfgang Finkelnburg — Germany
• David Finkelstein — United States
• Johannes Fischer — Germany
• Willy Fischler — Belgium
• Val Logsdon Fitch — United States Nobel laureate
• George Francis FitzGerald — Ireland
• Hippolyte Fizeau — France
• Georgy Flyorov — Rostov-on-Don
• Vladimir Fock — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union
• Adriaan Fokker — Netherlands
• James David Forbes — U.K.
• Jeff Forshaw — U.K.
• Léon Foucault — France
• Joseph Fourier — France
• Ralph H. Fowler — U.K.
• William Alfred Fowler — United States Nobel laureate
• James Franck — Germany, United States Nobel laureate
• Ilya Frank — Soviet Union Nobel laureate
• Benjamin Franklin — British America, United States
• Rosalind Franklin — U.K.
• Walter Franz — Germany
• Joseph von Fraunhofer — Germany
• Steven Frautschi — United States
• Joan Maie Freeman — Australia
• Phyllis S. Freier — United States )
• Yakov Frenkel — St. Petersburg
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France
• Peter Freund — United States
• Daniel Friedan — United States
• B. Roy Frieden — United States
• Alexander Friedman — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union
• Jerome Isaac Friedman — United States Nobel laureate
• Otto Frisch — Austria, U.K.
• Erwin Fues — Germany
• Harald Fuchs — Germany

  G

• Dennis Gabor — Hungary Nobel laureate
• Mary K. Gaillard — France, United States
• Galileo Galilei — Italy
• Luigi Galvani — Italy
• George Gamow — Russia, United States
• Sylvester James Gates — United States
• Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany
• Pamela L. Gay — United States
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — France
• Hans Geiger — Germany
• Andre Geim — Russian/British Nobel laureate
• Murray Gell-Mann — United States Nobel laureate
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes — France Nobel laureate
• Howard Georgi — United States
• Walter Gerlach — Germany
• Christian Gerthsen — Denmark, Germany
• Ezra Getzler — Australia
• Andrea M. Ghez — United States
• Riccardo Giacconi — Italy, United States Nobel laureate
• Ivar Giaever — Norway, United States Nobel laureate
• Josiah Willard Gibbs — United States
• Valerie Gibson — U.K.
• William Gilbert — England
• Piara Singh Gill — India
• Naomi Ginsberg — United States
• Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg — Soviet Union, Russia Nobel laureate
• Marvin D. Girardeau — United States
• Donald Arthur Glaser — United States Nobel laureate
• Sheldon Lee Glashow — United States Nobel laureate
• G. N. Glasoe — United States
• Roy Jay Glauber — United States Nobel laureate
• James Glimm — United States
• Karl Glitscher — Germany
• Peter Goddard — U.K.
• Maria Goeppert-Mayer — Germany, United States Nobel laureate
• Gerald Goertzel — United States
• Marvin Leonard Goldberger — United States
• Maurice Goldhaber — Austria, United States
• Jeffrey Goldstone — U.K., United States
• Sixto González — Puerto Rico, United States
• Ravi Gomatam — India
• Lev Gor'kov — United States
• Samuel Goudsmit — Netherlands, United States
• Leo Graetz — Germany
• Willem 's Gravesande — Netherlands
• Michael Green — Britain
• Daniel Greenberger — United States
• Brian Greene — United States
• John Gribbin — U.K.
• Vladimir Gribov — Russia
• David J. Griffiths — United States
• David Gross — United States Nobel laureate
• Frederick Grover — United States
• Peter Grünberg — Germany Nobel laureate
• Charles Édouard Guillaume — Switzerland Nobel laureate
• Ayyub Guliyev — Azerbaijan
• Feza Gürsey — Turkey
• Alan Guth — United States
• Martin Gutzwiller — Switzerland

  H

• Rudolf Haag — Germany
• Wander Johannes de Haas — Netherlands
• Alain Haché — Canada
• Carl Richard Hagen — United States
• Otto Hahn — Germany
• Edwin Hall — United States
• John Lewis Hall — United States Nobel laureate
• Alexander Hamilton — UK, Australia
• William Rowan Hamilton — Ireland
• Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch — Germany Nobel laureate
• Peter Andreas Hansen — Denmark
• W.W. Hansen — United States
• Serge Haroche — France Nobel laureate
• Paul Harteck — Germany
• John G. Hartnett — Australia
• Douglas Hartree — U.K.
• Friedrich Hasenöhrl — Austria, Hungary
• Lene Vestergaard Hau — Vejle, Denmark
• Stephen Hawking — U.K. Wolf laureate
• Ibn al-Haytham — Iraq
• Evans Hayward — United States
• Oliver Heaviside — U.K.
• Werner Heisenberg — Germany Nobel laureate
• Walter Heitler — Germany, Ireland
• Hermann von Helmholtz — Germany
• Charles H. Henry — United States
• Joseph Henry — United States
• John Herapath — U.K.
• Carl Hermann — Germany
• Gustav Ludwig Hertz — Germany Nobel laureate
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz — Germany
• Karl Herzfeld — Austria, United States
• Victor Francis Hess — Austria, United States Nobel laureate
• Mahmoud Hessaby — Iran
• Antony Hewish — U.K. Nobel laureate
• Paul G. Hewitt — United States
• Peter Higgs — U.K. Nobel laureate
• George William Hill — United States
• Gustave-Adolphe Hirn — France
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — England
• Robert Hofstadter — United States Nobel laureate
• Helmut Hönl — Germany
• Pervez Hoodbhoy — Pakistan
• Gerardus 't Hooft — Netherlands Nobel laureate
• Robert Hooke — England
• John Hopkinson — United Kingdom
• Johann Baptiste Horvath — Slovakia
• William V. Houston — United States
• Charlotte Houtermans — Germany
• Fritz Houtermans — Netherlands, Germany, Austria
• Archibald Howie — U.K.
• Fred Hoyle — U.K.
• John Hubbard — U.K.
• John H. Hubbell — United States
• Edwin Powell Hubble — United States
• Russell Alan Hulse — United States Nobel laureate
• Friedrich Hund — Germany
• Tahir Hussain — Pakistan
• Andrew D. Huxley — U.K.
• Christiaan Huygens — Netherlands

  I

• Arthur Iberall – United States
• Sumio Iijima — Japan
• John Iliopoulos — Greece
• Ataç İmamoğlu — Turkey, United States
• Elmer Imes — United States
• Abram Ioffe — Russia
• Nathan Isgur — United States, Canada
• Ernst Ising — Germany
• Jamal Nazrul Islam — Bangladesh
• Werner Israel — Canada

  J

• Roman Jackiw — Poland, United States
• Shirley Ann Jackson — United States
• Boris Jacobi — Germany, Russia
• Gregory Jaczko — United States
• Chennupati Jagadish — India, Australia
• Jainendra Jain — India
• Ratko Janev — North Macedonia
• Andreas Jaszlinszky — Hungary
• Ali Javan — Iran
• Edwin Jaynes — United States
• Antal István Jákli — Hungary
• Sir James Jeans — UK
• Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen — Germany Nobel laureate
• Deborah S. Jin — United States
• Anthony M. Johnson — United States
• Irène Joliot-Curie — France
• Lorella Jones — United States
• Pascual Jordan — Germany
• Brian David Josephson — UK Nobel laureate
• James Prescott Joule — UK
• Adolfas Jucys — Lithuania

  K

• Menas Kafatos — Greece, United States
• Takaaki Kajita — Japan Nobel laureate
• Michio Kaku — United States
• Theodor Kaluza — Germany
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — Netherlands Nobel laureate
• William R. Kanne — United States
• Charles K. Kao — China, Hong Kong, U.K., United States Nobel laureate
• Pyotr Kapitsa — Russian Empire, Soviet Union Nobel laureate
• Theodore von Kármán — Hungary, United States aeronautical engineer
• Alfred Kastler — France Nobel laureate
• Amrom Harry Katz — United States
• Moshe Kaveh — Israel President of Bar-Ilan University
• Predhiman Krishan Kaw — India
• Heinrich Kayser — Germany
• Willem Hendrik Keesom — Netherlands
• Edwin C. Kemble — United States
• Henry Way Kendall — United States Nobel laureate
• Johannes Kepler — Germany
• John Kerr — Scotland
• Wolfgang Ketterle — Germany Nobel laureate
• Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov — Soviet Union
• Jim Al-Khalili — UK
• Abdul Qadeer Khan — Pakistan
• Yulii Borisovich Khariton — Soviet Union, Russia
• Erhard Kietz — Germany, United States
• Jack Kilby — United States electronics engineer, Nobel laureate
• Toichiro Kinoshita — Japan, United States
• Gustav Kirchhoff — Germany
• Oskar Klein — Sweden
• Hagen Kleinert — Germany
• Klaus von Klitzing — Germany Nobel laureate
• Jens Martin Knudsen — Denmark
• Martin Knudsen — Denmark
• Makoto Kobayashi — Japan Nobel laureate
• Arthur Korn — Germany
• Masatoshi Koshiba — Japan Nobel laureate
• Matthew Koss — United States
• Walther Kossel — Germany
• Ashutosh Kotwal — United States
• Lew Kowarski — France
• Hendrik Kramers — Netherlands
• Serguei Krasnikov — Russia
• Adolf Kratzer — Germany
• Lawrence M. Krauss — United States
• Herbert Kroemer — Germany Nobel laureate
• August Krönig — Germany
• Ralph Kronig — Germany, United States
• Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov — Soviet Union
• Ryogo Kubo — Japan
• Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha — India
• Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov — Soviet Union
• Behram Kursunoglu — Turkey
• Polykarp Kusch — Germany Nobel laureate

  L

• James W. LaBelle — United States
• Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France
• Willis Lamb — United States Nobel laureate
• Lev Davidovich Landau — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union Nobel laureate
• Rolf Landauer — United States
• Grigory Landsberg — Vologda
• Kenneth Lane — United States
• Paul Langevin — France
• Irving Langmuir — United States
• Pierre-Simon Laplace — France
• Joseph Larmor — U.K.
• Cesar Lattes — Brazil
• Max von Laue — Germany Nobel laureate
• Robert Betts Laughlin — United States Nobel laureate
• Mikhail Lavrentyev — Kazan
• Melvin Lax — United States
• Ernest Lawrence — United States Nobel laureate
• TH Laby — Australia
• Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev — Imperial Russia
• Leon Max Lederman — United States Nobel laureate
• Benjamin Lee — Korea, United States
• David Lee — United States Nobel laureate
• Tsung-Dao Lee — China, United States Nobel laureate
• Anthony James Leggett — U.K., United States Nobel laureate
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany
• Robert B. Leighton — United States
• Georges Lemaître — Belgium
• Philipp Lenard — Hungary, Germany Nobel laureate
• John Lennard-Jones — U.K.
• John Leslie — U.K.
• Walter Lewin — Netherlands, United States
• Martin Lewis Perl — United States
• Robert von Lieben — Austria-Hungary
• Alfred-Marie Liénard — France
• Evgeny Lifshitz — Soviet Union
• David Lindley — United States
• John Linsley — United States
• Chris Lintott — U.K.
• Gabriel Jonas Lippmann — France, Luxemburg Nobel laureate
• Antony Garrett Lisi — United States
• Karl L. Littrow — Austria
• Seth Lloyd — United States
• Oliver Lodge — U.K.
• Maurice Loewy — Austria, France
• Robert K. Logan — United States
• Mikhail Lomonosov — Denisovka
• Alfred Lee Loomis — United States
• Ramón E. López — United States
• Hendrik Lorentz — Netherlands Nobel laureate
• Ludvig Lorenz — Denmark
• Johann Josef Loschmidt — Austria
• Oleg Losev — Tver
• Archibald Low — U.K.
• Per-Olov Löwdin — Sweden
• Lucretius — Rome
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia
• Joseph Lykken — United States

  M

• Arthur B. McDonald — Canada Nobel laureate
• Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry — Netherlands
• Ernst Mach — Austria-Hungary
• Ray Mackintosh — U.K.
• Luciano Maiani — Italy, San Marino
• Theodore Maiman — United States
• Arthur Maitland — U.K.
• Ettore Majorana — Italy
• Sudhansu Datta Majumdar — India
• Richard Makinson — Australia
• Juan Martín Maldacena — Argentina
• Étienne-Louis Malus — France
• Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union
• Franz Mandl – U.K.
• Charles Lambert Manneback — Belgium
• Peter Mansfield — U.K.
• Carlo Marangoni — Italy
• Guglielmo Marconi — Italy Nobel laureate
• Henry Margenau — Germany, United States
• Nina Marković — Croatia, United States
• William Markowitz — United States
• Robert Marshak — United States
• Walter Marshall — U.K.
• Toshihide Maskawa — Japan Nobel laureate
• Harrie Massey — Australia
• John Cromwell Mather — United States Nobel laureate
• James Clerk Maxwell — U.K.
• Brian May — U.K.
• Maria Goeppert Mayer — Germany, United States
• Ronald E. McNair — United States
• Simon van der Meer — Netherlands Nobel laureate
• Lise Meitner — Austria
• Fulvio Melia — United States
• Macedonio Melloni — Italy
• Adrian Melott — United States
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall — United States
• M. G. K. Menon — India
• David Merritt — United States
• Albert Abraham Michelson — United States Nobel laureate
• Stanislav Mikheyev — Russia
• Robert Andrews Millikan — United States Nobel laureate
• Arthur Milne — U.K.
• Shiraz Minwalla — India
• Rabindra N. Mohapatra-India,United States
• Kathryn Moler — United States
• Merritt Moore — United States
• Tanya Monro — Australia
• John J. Montgomery — United States
• Jagadeesh Moodera — India, United States
• Henry Moseley — U.K.
• Rudolf Mössbauer — Germany Nobel laureate
• Nevill Mott — U.K. Nobel laureate
• Ben Roy Mottelson — Denmark, United States Nobel laureate
• Amédée Mouchez — Spain, France
• Ali Moustafa — Egypt
• José Enrique Moyal — Palestine, France, U.K., United States, Australia
• Karl Alexander Müller — Switzerland Nobel laureate
• Richard A. Muller — United States
• Robert S. Mulliken — United States
• Pieter van Musschenbroek — Netherlands

  N

• Yoichiro Nambu — Japan, United States Nobel laureate
• Jayant Narlikar — India
• Seth Neddermeyer — United States
• Louis Néel — France Nobel laureate
• Yuval Ne'eman — Israel
• Ann Nelson — United States
• John von Neumann — Austria-Hungary, United States
• Simon Newcomb — United States
• Sir Isaac Newton — England
• Edward P. Ney — United States
• Kendal Nezan — France, Kurdistan
• Holger Bech Nielsen — Denmark
• Leopoldo Nobili — Italy
• Emmy Noether — Germany
• Lothar Nordheim — Germany
• Gunnar Nordström — Finland
• Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg — Germany
• Konstantin Novoselov — Soviet Union, U.K. Nobel laureate
• H. Pierre Noyes — United States
• John Nye — U.K.

  O

• Yuri Oganessian — Russia
• Georg Ohm — Germany
• Hideo Ohno — Japan
• Susumu Okubo — Japan, United States
• Sir Mark Oliphant — Australia
• David Olive — U.K.
• Gerard K. O'Neill — United States
• Lars Onsager — Norway
• Robert Oppenheimer — United States
• Nicole Oresme — France
• Yuri Orlov — Soviet Union, United States
• Leonard Salomon Ornstein — Netherlands
• Egon Orowan — Austria-Hungary, United States
• Hans Christian Ørsted — Denmark
• Douglas Dean Osheroff — United States Nobel laureate
• Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky — Russia

  P

• Thanu Padmanabhan — India
• Heinz Pagels — United States
• Abraham Pais — Netherlands, United States
• Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky — Germany, United States
• Blaise Pascal — France
• John Pasta — United States
• Jogesh Pati — United States
• Petr Paucek — United States
• Stephen Paul — United States
• Wolfgang Paul — Germany Nobel laureate
• Wolfgang Pauli — Austria-Hungary Nobel laureate
• Ruby Payne-Scott — Australia
• George B. Pegram — United States
• Rudolf Peierls — Germany, U.K.
• Jean Peltier — France
• Roger Penrose, mathematician — U.K. Wolf laureate
• Arno Allan Penzias, electrical engineer — U.S.A. Nobel laureate
• Martin Lewis Perl — United States Nobel laureate
• Saul Perlmutter — United States Nobel laureate
• Jean Baptiste Perrin — France Nobel laureate
• Konstantin Petrzhak — Soviet Union, Russia
• Bernhard Philberth — Germany
• William Daniel Phillips — United States Nobel laureate
• Max Planck — Germany Nobel laureate
• Joseph Plateau — Belgium
• Milton S. Plesset — United States
• Ward Plummer — United States
• Boris Podolsky — Taganrog
• Henri Poincaré, mathematician — France
• Eric Poisson — Canada
• Siméon Denis Poisson, mathematician — France
• Balthasar van der Pol, electrical engineer — Netherlands
• Joseph Polchinski — United States
• Hugh David Politzer — United States Nobel laureate
• John Polkinghorne — U.K.
• Alexander M. Polyakov — Russia, United States
• Bruno Pontecorvo — Italy, Soviet Union
• Heraclides Ponticus — Greece
• Heinz Pose — Germany
• Cecil Frank Powell — U.K. Nobel laureate
• John Henry Poynting — U.K.
• Ludwig Prandtl — Germany
• Willibald Peter Prasthofer — Austria
• Ilya Prigogine — Belgium
• Alexander Prokhorov — Soviet, Russian Nobel laureate
• William Prout — U.K.
• Luigi Puccianti — Italy
• Ivan Pulyuy — Ukraine
• Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin — Serbia, United States
• Edward Mills Purcell — United States Nobel laureate

  Q

• Helen Quinn — Australia, United States

  R

• Raúl Rabadán — United States
• Gabriele Rabel — Austria, United Kingdom
• Isidor Isaac Rabi — Austria, United States Nobel laureate
• Giulio Racah — Italian-Israeli
• James Rainwater — United States Nobel laureate
• Mark G. Raizen — New York City United States
• Alladi Ramakrishnan — India
• Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — India Nobel laureate
• Edward Ramberg — United States
• Carl Ramsauer — Germany
• Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. — United States Nobel laureate
• Lisa Randall — United States
• Riccardo Rattazzi — Italy
• Lord Rayleigh — U.K. Nobel laureate
• René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur — France
• Sidney Redner — Canada, United States
• Martin John Rees — U.K.
• Hubert Reeves — Canada
• Tullio Regge — Italy
• Frederick Reines — United States Nobel laureate
• Louis Rendu — France
• Osborne Reynolds — U.K.
• Owen Willans Richardson — U.K. Nobel laureate
• Robert Coleman Richardson — United States Nobel laureate
• Burton Richter — United States Nobel laureate
• Floyd K. Richtmyer — United States
• Robert D. Richtmyer —
• Charlotte Riefenstahl — Germany
• Nikolaus Riehl — Germany
• Adam Riess — United States Nobel laureate
• Karl-Heinrich Riewe — Germany
• Walther Ritz — Switzerland
• Étienne-Gaspard Robert — Belgium
• Heinrich Rohrer — Switzerland Nobel laureate
• Joseph Romm — United States
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen — Germany Nobel laureate
• Clemens C. J. Roothaan — Netherlands
• Nathan Rosen — United States, Israel
• Marshall Rosenbluth — United States
• Yasha Rosenfeld — Israel
• Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby — Sweden, United States
• Bruno Rossi — Italy, United States
• Joseph Rotblat — Poland, U.K.
• Carlo Rovelli — Italy
• Subrata Roy — India, United States
• Carlo Rubbia — Italy Nobel laureate
• Vera Rubin — United States
• Serge Rudaz — Canada, United States
• David Ruelle — Belgium, France
• Ernst August Friedrich Ruska — Germany Nobel laureate
• Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand, U.K.
• Janne Rydberg — Sweden
• Martin Ryle — U.K. Nobel laureate

  S

• Mendel Sachs — United States
• Robert G. Sachs — United States
• Carl Sagan — United States
• Georges-Louis le Sage — Switzerland
• Georges Sagnac — France
• Megh Nad Saha — Bengali India
• Shoichi Sakata — Japan
• Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — Soviet Union
• Oscar Sala — Brazil
• Abdus Salam — Pakistan Nobel laureate
• Edwin Ernest Salpeter — Austria, Australia, United States
• Anthony Ichiro Sanda — Japan, United States
• Matthew Sanders — U.K.
• Vikram Sarabhai — India
• Isidor Sauers — Austria
• Félix Savart — France
• Brendan Scaife — Ireland
• Martin Schadt — Switzerland
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow — United States Nobel laureate
• Craige Schensted — United States
• Joël Scherk — France
• Otto Scherzer — Germany
• Brian Schmidt — Australia, United States Nobel laureate
• Alan Schoen — United States
• Walter H. Schottky — Germany
• Kees A. Schouhamer Immink — Netherlands
• John Robert Schrieffer — United States Nobel laureate
• Erwin Schrödinger — Austria-Hungary Nobel laureate
• John Henry Schwarz — United States
• Melvin Schwartz — United States Nobel laureate
• Karl Schwarzschild — German Empire
• Julian Schwinger — United States Nobel laureate
• Dennis William Sciama — U.K.
• Bice Sechi-Zorn — Italy, United States
• Thomas Johann Seebeck — Estonia
• Raymond Seeger — United States
• Emilio G. Segre — Italy, United States Nobel laureate
• Nathan Seiberg — United States
• Frederick Seitz — United States
• Nikolay Semyonov — Russia
• Ashoke Sen — India
• Hiranmay Sen Gupta — Bangladesh
• Robert Serber — United States
• Roman U. Sexl — Austria
• Shen Kuo — China
• Mikhail Shifman — Russia, United States
• Dmitry Shirkov — Russia
• William Shockley — United States Nobel laureate
• Lev Shubnikov — Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine
• Clifford Shull — United States Nobel laureate
• Kai Siegbahn — Sweden Nobel laureate
• Manne Siegbahn — Sweden Nobel laureate
• Ludwik Silberstein — Poland, Germany, Italy, United States, Canada
• Eva Silverstein — United States
• John Alexander Simpson — United States
• Willem de Sitter — Netherlands
• Uri Sivan — Israel
• G. V. Skrotskii — Russia
• Francis G. Slack — United States
• John C. Slater — United States
• Louis Slotin — United States
• Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov — Russia, Italy
• George E. Smith — United States Nobel laureate
• Lee Smolin — United States
• Marian Smoluchowski — Poland
• George Smoot — United States Nobel laureate
• Willebrord Snell — Netherlands
• Arsenij Sokolov — Russia
• Arnold Sommerfeld — Germany
• Bent Sørensen — Denmark
• Rafael Sorkin — United States
• Nicola Spaldin — United Kingdom
• Maria Spiropulu — Greece
• Henry Stapp — United States
• Johannes Stark — Germany Nobel laureate
• Max Steenbeck —
• Joseph Stefan — Austria-Hungary, Slovenia
• Jack Steinberger — Germany, United States Nobel laureate
• Paul J. Steinhardt — United States
• Carl August Steinheil — Germany
• George Sterman — United States
• Otto Stern — Germany Nobel laureate
• Simon Stevin — Belgium, Netherlands
• Thomas H. Stix — United States
• George Gabriel Stokes — Ireland, U.K.
• Aleksandr Stoletov — Russia
• Donna Strickland — Canada Nobel laureate
• Horst Ludwig Störmer — Germany Nobel laureate
• Andrew Strominger — United States
• Ernst Stueckelberg — Switzerland
• George Sudarshan — India, United States
• Rashid Sunyaev — USSR
• Oleg Sushkov — USSR, Australia
• Leonard Susskind — United States
• Joseph Swan — U.K.
• Jean Henri van Swinden — Netherlands
• Bertha Swirles — U.K.
• Leo Szilard — Austria-Hungary, United States
• Sai Srujan Palateru — Visakhapatnam-Andhra Pradesh, India

  T

• Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union Nobel laureate
• Abraham H. Taub — United States
• Martin Tajmar — Austria
• Geoffrey Ingram Taylor — U.K.
• Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. — United States Nobel laureate
• Richard Edward Taylor — United States Nobel laureate
• Max Tegmark — Sweden, United States
• Valentine Telegdi — Hungary, United States Wolf laureate
• Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary, United States
• Igor Ternov — Russia
• George Paget Thomson — U.K. Nobel laureate
• J. J. Thomson — U.K. Nobel laureate
• William Thomson — U.K.
• Charles Thorn — United States
• Kip Stephen Thorne — United States
• Peter Adolf Thiessen — Germany
• Samuel Chao Chung Ting — United States Nobel laureate
• Frank J. Tipler — United States
• Ernest William Titterton — U.K., Australia
• Yoshinori Tokura — Japan
• Samuel Tolansky — U.K.
• Baien Tomlin — U.K.
• Sin-Itiro Tomonaga — Japan Nobel laureate
• Lewi Tonks — United States
• Akira Tonomura — Japan
• Evangelista Torricelli — Italy
• Yoji Totsuka — Japan
• Bruno Touschek — Italy
• Charles Townes — United States Nobel laureate
• John Townsend — U.K.
• Johann Georg Tralles — Germany
• Sam Treiman — United States
• Daniel Chee Tsui — China, United States Nobel laureate
• John J. Turin — United States
• Neil Turok — South Africa
• Victor Twersky — United States
• Sergei Tyablikov — Russia
• John Tyndall — U.K.
• Neil deGrasse Tyson — United States

  U

• George Eugene Uhlenbeck — Netherlands, United States
• Stanislaw Ulam — Poland, United States
• Nikolay Umov — Russia
• Juris Upatnieks — Latvia, United States

  V

• Vipin Kumar Tripathi - India.
• Cumrun Vafa — Iran, United States
• Léon Van Hove — Belgium
• Sergei Vavilov — Soviet Union
• Vlatko Vedral — United Kingdom, Serbia
• Evgeny Velikhov — Russia
• Martinus J. G. Veltman — Netherlands, United States Nobel laureate
• Gabriele Veneziano — Italy
• Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy
• Émile Verdet — France
• Jean-Pierre Vigier — France
• Gaetano Vignola — Italy
• Anatoly Vlasov — Russia
• John Hasbrouck van Vleck — United States Nobel laureate
• Woldemar Voigt — Germany
• Burchard de Volder — Netherlands
• Max Volmer — Germany
• Alessandro Volta — Italy
• Wernher Von Braun, aerospace engineer — Germany

  W

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands Nobel laureate
• James Watt — Canada
• Ludwig Waldmann — Germany
• Alan Walsh — U.K., Australia
• Ernest Walton — Ireland Nobel laureate
• Dezhao Wang — China
• Enge Wang — China
• Huanyu Wang — China
• Kan-Chang Wang — China
• Pu Wang — China
• Zhuxi Wang — China
• Aaldert Wapstra — Netherlands
• John Clive Ward — England, Australia
• Gleb Wataghin — Ukraine, Italy, Brazil
• John James Waterston — U.K.
• Alan Andrew Watson — U.K.
• James Watt — U.K.
• Denis Weaire — Ireland
• Colin Webb — U.K.
• Wilhelm Weber — Germany
• Katherine Weimer — United States
• Alvin Weinberg — United States
• Steven Weinberg — United States Nobel laureate
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, United States
• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker — Germany
• Heinrich Welker — Germany
• Gregor Wentzel — Germany
• Paul Werbos — United States
• Peter Westervelt — United States
• Hermann Weyl – Germany
• Christof Wetterich – Germany
• John Archibald Wheeler — United States
• Gian-Carlo Wick — Italy
• Emil Wiechert — Prussia
• Carl Wieman — United States Nobel laureate
• Wilhelm Wien — Germany Nobel laureate
• Arthur Wightman — United States
• Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary, United States Nobel laureate
• Frank Wilczek — United States Nobel laureate
• Charles Thomson Rees Wilson — U.K. Nobel laureate
• Kenneth Geddes Wilson — United States Nobel laureate
• Robert R. Wilson — United States Nobel laureate
• Robert Woodrow Wilson — United States
• John R. Winckler — United States
• David J. Wineland — United States Nobel laureate
• Karl Wirtz — Germany
• Mark B. Wise — Canada, United States
• Edward Witten — United States
• Emil Wolf — Czechoslovakia, United States
• Fred Alan Wolf — United States
• Lincoln Wolfenstein — United States
• Stephen Wolfram — U.K.
• Ewald Wollny — Germany
• Robert W. Wood — United States
• Michael Woolfson — U.K.
• Chien-Shiung Wu — United States

  X

• Basilis C. Xanthopoulos — Greece

  Y

• Rosalyn Yalow — United States
• Chen Ning Yang — China Nobel laureate
• Félix Ynduráin — Spain
• Francisco José Ynduráin — Spain
• Kenneth Young — United States, China
• Thomas Young — UK
• Hideki Yukawa — Japan Nobel laureate

  Z

• Jan Zaanen — Netherlands
• Daniel Zajfman — Israel
• Anthony Zee — United States
• Pieter Zeeman — Netherlands Nobel laureate
• Ludwig Zehnder — Switzerland
• Anton Zeilinger — Austria
• Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich — Russia
• John Zeleny — United States
• Frits Zernike — Netherlands Nobel laureate
• Antonino Zichichi — Italy
• Hans Ziegler — Switzerland – United States
• Karl Zimmer — Germany
• Peter Zoller — Austria
• Dmitry Zubarev — Russia
• Bruno Zumino — Italy
• Wojciech H. Zurek — Poland – United States
• Robert Zwanzig — United States
• George Zweig — United States
• Barton Zwiebach — United States