List of theoretical physicists
The following is a partial list of notable physics theorists, those who are recognized in theoretical physics. Arranged by century of birth, then century of death, then year of birth. For explanation of symbols, see Notes at end of this article.
[Ancient times]
- Thales
- Pythagoras^*
- Democritus°
- Aristotle
- Archimedesº*
- Hypatia^ªº
[Middle Ages]
- Ibn al-Haytham
- Al Beruni
- Omar Khayyám
- Al Farabi
- Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Sigismondo Polcastro
15th–16th century
- Nicolaus Copernicusº
16th century and 16th–17th centuries
- Gerolamo Cardano
- Tycho Brahe
- Giordano Bruno
- Galileo Galileiº*
- Johannes Keplerº
- Benedetto Castelli
- René Descartes‡^
- Bonaventura Cavalieri
17th century
- Pierre de Fermat
- Evangelista Torricelli
- Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
- Blaise Pascal^
- Erhard Weigel
- Christiaan Huygens^
17th–18th centuries
- Vincenzo Viviani
- Isaac Newton^*º
- Gottfried Leibniz^
- Jacob Bernoulli
- Edmond Halley
- Luigi Guido Grandi
- Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis
- Daniel Bernoulli
18th century
- Leonhard Euler^
- Vincenzo Riccati
- Mikhail Lomonosov
- Laura Bassiª*
- Roger Joseph Boscovich
- Alexis Clairaut
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert
18th–19th centuries
- Franz Aepinus
- Henry Cavendish
- Joseph Lagrange^º
- Charles Coulomb
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Jurij Vega
- John Dalton^
- Joseph Fourier^
- Thomas Young‡*
- Jean-Baptiste Biot
- Étienne-Louis Malus
- André-Marie Ampère
- Carl Friedrich Gauss^
- Siméon Denis Poisson
- Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
- Claude-Louis Navier
- François Arago
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel
- Georg Ohm
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Félix Savart
- Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti
- Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
- George Green^
- Michel Chasles
- Gabrio Piola
- Gabriel Lamé
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
- Nikolai Brashman
- Andreas von Ettingshausen
- Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille
- Franz Ernst Neumann
- Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron
19th century
- Mikhail Ostrogradsky
- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
- Viktor Bunyakovsky
- William Hamilton^º
- Samuel Earnshaw
- Julius Weisbach
- Joseph Liouville
- Auguste Bravais
- Osip Ivanovich Somov
- Charles-Eugène Delaunay
- William John Macquorn Rankine
- Hermann von Helmholtz‡†
- Pafnuty Chebyshev
- August Krönig
- Rudolf Clausius
- August Davidov
- Gustav Kirchhoff
- Bernhard Riemann
- Ludvig Lorenz
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Johann Bauschinger
- Josef Stefan
- Sofia Kovalevskaya
- Pierre Henri Hugoniot
- Heinrich Hertz*
19th–20th centuries
- Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin*
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- George William Hill
- Ernst Mach
- Viktor von Lang
- J. Willard Gibbs†^
- Ernst Abbe
- Osborne Reynolds
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- Joseph Valentin Boussinesq
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Nikolay Umov
- Nikolay Zhukovsky
- Diederik Korteweg
- Horace Lamb
- Woldemar Voigt
- Oliver Heaviside
- Jacobus Kapteyn
- Arthur Schuster
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
- John Henry Poynting
- Orest Khvolson
- Hendrik Lorentz
- Henri Poincaré
- Alfred Barnard Basset
- Emil Cohn
- Max Margules
- Carl Runge
- Aleksandr Lyapunov
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
- Joseph Larmor
- Max Planck
- Karl Heun
- Pierre Duhem
- Emil Wiechert
- Paul Drude
- Arthur Gordon Webster
- Vladimir Steklov
- Hermann Minkowski
- Wilhelm Wien
- Walther Nernst
- Pierre Weiss
- Pieter Zeeman
- Jacques Hadamard
- Gustav de Vries
- Martin Kutta
- Arnold Sommerfeld
- Gustav Mie
- Sergey Chaplygin
- Alfred-Marie Liénard
- Louis Bachelier
- Ernest Rutherford
- Émile Jouguet
- Boris Galerkin
- Martin Knudsen
- Émile Borel
- Marian Smoluchowski
- Paul Langevin
- Ludwik Silberstein
- Théophile de Donder
- Karl Schwarzschild
- Alfred Robb
- E. T. Whittaker
- Friedrich Hasenöhrl
- Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- Gilbert N. Lewis
- Ludwig Prandtl
- Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanaseva
- James Jeans°
- Eduard Grüneisen
- Walther Ritz
- Marcel Grossmann
- Stephen Timoshenko
- Leonid Mandelstam
- Carl Wilhelm Oseen
- Albert Einsteinº
- Nikolay Krylov
- Max von Laue
- Otto Sackur
- Paul Ehrenfest
- Leonard Ornstein
- Abram Ioffe
- Gunnar Nordström
- Jun Ishiwara
- Walter Rogowski
- Richard Tolman°
- Gustav Herglotz
- Irving Langmuir
- Theodore von Kármán
- Erwin Madelung
- Arthur Eddington
- Emmy Noether^ª
- Max Born
- Paul Sophus Epstein
- Francis Dominic Murnaghan
- Ludwig Hopf
- Arthur Erich Haas
- George David Birkhoff
- David Enskog
- Peter Debye
- Vsevolod Frederiks
- Naum Idelson
- Theodor Kaluza
- Hermann Weyl
- Niels Bohr
- Victor Robertovich Bursian
- Rudolf Seeliger
- Paul Lévy
- Geoffrey Taylor
- Richard Becker
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Charles Galton Darwin
- Adriaan Fokker
- Erich Kretschmann
- Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen
- Alexander Weinstein
- Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff
- Alexander Friedmann
- Viktor Trkal
- Walther Kossel
- Wilhelm Lenz
- Frits Zernike
- Sydney Chapman
- Joseph Proudman
- Alfred Landé
- Hans Thirring
- Paul Peter Ewald
- Ralph H. Fowler
- Léon Brillouin
- Wojciech Rubinowicz
- Harry Nyquist
- Edwin C. Kemble
- Yoshio Nishina
- Arthur March
- Michael Polanyi
- Harold Jeffreys
- Arthur Holly Compton
- Karl Herzfeld
- Louis de Broglie
- Walter Gordon
- Meghnad Saha
- Erwin Fues
- Cornelius Lanczos
- Adolf Kratzer
- Aleksandr Khinchin
- Georges Lemaître
- John Lennard-Jones
- Hans Kramers
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Yakov Frenkel
- Norbert Wiener
- Oskar Klein
- Hugo Tetrode
- Karel Niessen
- Igor Tamm
- Vasily Vladimirovich Shuleikin
- Jan Burgers
- Aldo Pontremoli
- Boris Podolsky
- Erich Hückel
- Nikolay Semyonov
- Friedrich Hund
- Douglas Hartree
- Ivan Stranski
- Ali Moustafa Mosharafa
- Ronald Wilfred Gurney
- Leó Szilárd
- Leopold Infeld
- Vladimir Fock
- Gregor Wentzel
- Isidor Isaac Rabi
- Ivar Waller
- Edmund Clifton Stoner
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
- Gregory Breit
- Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim
- Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina
- Fritz London
- Wolfgang Pauli
- William V. Houston
- John C. Slater
- Mikhail Lavrentyev
- George Eugene Uhlenbeck
- Ernst Ising
20th century
- Nikolai Kochin
- Aleksandr Andronov
- Enrico Fermi*
- Werner Heisenberg
- Werner Braunbeck
- Anatoliy Lure
- Karl Bechert
- Henry Eyring
- Grete Hermann
- Yuri Rumer
- Edwin Albrecht Uehling
- Linus Pauling
- William Allis
- Otto Laporte
- Carl Eckart
- Edward Condon
- Samuel Abraham Goudsmit
- Pascual Jordan
- Paul Dirac
- Alfred Kastler
- Eugene Wigner
- Hans Hellmann
- John von Neumann
- Howard P. Robertson
- Lars Onsager
- Helmut Hönl
- Mikhail Leontovich
- Philip M. Morse
- Andrey Kolmogorov
- Guido Beck
- Sydney Goldstein
- Llewellyn Thomas
- Bartel Leendert van der Waerden
- Bertha Swirles
- Meredith Gwynne Evans
- Robert Oppenheimer*
- George Gamow‡°
- Léon Rosenfeld
- Otto Robert Frisch
- Christian Møller
- Walter Heitler
- Joseph Edward Mayer
- Dmitri Ivanenko
- Ralph Kronig
- Yulii Khariton
- Louis Néel
- George Placzek
- Felix Bloch
- Ernst Stueckelberg
- Herbert Fröhlich
- Clarence Zener
- Nevill Francis Mott
- Matvei Bronstein
- Ettore Majorana
- Maria Goeppert-Mayerª
- Eugene Feenberg
- Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
- William Houlder Zachariasen
- Fritz Sauter
- Alan Herries Wilson
- John Gamble Kirkwood
- J. Hans D. Jensen
- Hermann Arthur Jahn
- Hideki Yukawa
- Rudolf Peierls
- Leonid I. Sedov
- Wu Ta-You
- Felix Gantmacher
- Lev Landau
- Anatoly Vlasov
- Lyubomir Krastanov
- Șerban Țițeica
- Valentine Bargmann
- Ilya Frank
- John Bardeen
- Milton S. Plesset
- Moisey Markov
- Josef Meixner
- Hannes Alfvén
- Viktor Ambartsumian
- Hans Euler
- Stanislaw Ulam
- Friedrich Bopp
- William Penney, Baron Penney
- Nikolay Bogolyubov
- Gian Carlo Wick
- Nathan Rosen
- Richard Duffin
- Robert Serber
- Hendrik Casimir
- David A. Frank-Kamenetskii
- Aleksei Zinovyevich Petrov
- Charles Coulson
- Tjalling Koopmans
- Arseny Sokolov
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- José Enrique Moyal
- Sergei Vonsovsky
- Mstislav Keldysh
- Gregory Hugh Wannier
- Klaus Fuchs
- Paul Weiss
- Arkady Migdal
- Walter Franz
- Nicholas Kemmer
- Aleksander Akhiezer
- William Alfred Fowler
- Heinrich Welker
- Mikhail Volkenshtein
- Konrad Bleuler
- Alexander Davydov
- Siegfried Flügge
- Aleksandr Aleksandrov
- Sidney Dancoff
- Isaak Pomeranchuk
- Frederik Belinfante
- Bruno Pontecorvo
- Henry Primakoff
- Mark Kac
- Yakov Zeldovich
- Bernard Lippmann
- Lyman Spitzer
- George Michael Volkoff
- Leonard I. Schiff
- Ely Eugene Bell
- Theodore Holstein
- Evgeny Lifshitz
- Oleg Firsov
- Leonid Biberman
- Nicholas Metropolis
- John D. Eshelby
- Elliott Waters Montroll
- Iosif Shklovsky
- Robert Marshak
- Kirill Tolpygo
- Robert Dicke
- Robert G. Sachs
- Per-Olov Löwdin
- Imre Fényes
- Ilya Lifshitz
- Yevgeny Zababakhin
- Solomon Pekar
- James Rainwater
- Veniamin Levich
- David Bohm
- Dmitry Zubarev
- Herman Feshbach
- Richard Feynman
- Res Jost
- Julian Schwinger
- Kirill Gurov
- Harold Hopkins
- Irving Segal
- James Hamilton
- Abraham Pais
- Herbert Callen
- Julius Ashkin
- Ryogo Kubo
- Herbert S. Green
- Andrei Sakharov
- Igor Ternov
- Feza Gürsey
- Sergei Tyablikov
- Melville S. Green
- Lawrence Biedenharn
- Claude Bloch
- Kurt Symanzik
- Harold Grad
- Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger
- Gregory Pikus
- Louis Michel
- Léon Van Hove
- Gregory Garibian
- Juan José Giambiagi
- Harry Lehmann
- Efim Fradkin
- John Clive Ward
- Sam Treiman
- Gunnar Källén
- Eugene P. Gross
- Abdus Salam
- Dennis Sciama
- Aneesur Rahman
- Yuri Yappa
- Rolf Landauer
- Robert Mills
- John Stewart Bell
- Richard E. Cutkosky
- Gurgen Askaryan
- David Klyshko
- Hugh Everett
- Ruslan Stratonovich
- Vladimir Gribov
- John Hubbard
- Felix Berezin
- Revaz Dogonadze
- Luciano Fonda
- J. J. Sakurai
- Leopoldo Máximo Falicov
- Alexey Andreevich Anselm
- Vadim Berezinskii
- Peter A. Carruthers
- Victor Popov
- Claude Itzykson
- Roger Dashen
- Arkady Aronov
- Herbert H. Chen
- Dan Walls
- Elizabeth Gardner
20th–21st century
- Hans Bethe°
- Melba Phillips
- László Tisza
- Victor Weisskopf
- Edward Teller
- Werner Romberg
- Leslie Howarth
- John Wheeler
- Frederick Seitz
- Ugo Fano
- Evgenii Feinberg
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- Harald Keres
- Maurice Pryce
- Willis Lamb
- Conyers Herring
- Anatole Abragam
- David Turnbull
- Ivan Supek
- Charles H. Townes
- Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley
- Frank Nabarro
- Vitaly Ginzburg
- Charles Kittel
- Ilya Prigogine
- Morikazu Toda
- Arthur Iberall
- Theodore A. Welton
- Clemens C. J. Roothaan
- Dirk ter Haar
- Huang Kun
- Hermann Bondi
- Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
- Peter Westervelt
- Isaak Khalatnikov
- Brian Pippard
- Cyril Domb
- James Bruce French
- Felix Villars
- Akiva Yaglom
- Francis E. Low
- Andrew M. Gleason
- Albert Messiah
- Nico van Kampen
- Eugen Merzbacher
- Takeo Matsubara
- Jacques Friedel
- Yoichiro Nambu
- Peter Mazur
- Melvin Lax
- Behram Kurşunoğlu
- William Cochran
- Karen Ter-Martirosian
- Herbert Goldstein
- Aage Bohr
- Arthur Wightman
- Marvin Leonard Goldberger
- Rudolf Haag
- Emil Wolf
- Yang Chen-Ning
- Bryce DeWitt
- Bruno Zumino
- Walter Kohn
- Spartak Belyaev
- Freeman Dyson
- Philip Warren Anderson
- Laurie Brown
- Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
- Evan O'Neill Kane
- Edwin Ernest Salpeter
- Benoit Mandelbrot
- Yasushi Takahashi
- Keith Brueckner
- David Pines
- Geoffrey Chew
- Yuri Orlov
- Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz
- Suraj N. Gupta
- John Pople
- Ted Taylor
- John Ziman
- Renfrey Potts
- Martin David Kruskal
- Yuval Ne'eman
- Albert Overhauser
- Martin Gutzwiller
- John David Jackson
- Roy J. Glauber
- George G. Hall
- Toichiro Kinoshita
- Nándor Balázs
- Erdal İnönü
- Karl Rebane
- Nikolai Borisovich Delone
- Anatoly Logunov
- Sidney Drell
- Tsung-Dao Lee
- Ben Roy Mottelson
- Kenneth W. Ford
- Walter Thirring
- Michel Baranger
- Elihu Abrahams
- Michael Woolfson
- Murray Gerstenhaber
- Emmanuel Rashba
- Yuri Raizer
- Hermann Haken
- Arnold Kosevich
- Boris Chirikov
- Robert Kraichnan
- Reinhard Oehme
- Robert Brout
- Richard Arnowitt
- Samuel Edwards
- Abner Shimony
- Kerson Huang
- John W. Cahn
- Stephen Gasiorowicz
- Stanley Mandelstam
- Dmitry Shirkov
- Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
- Roger Elliott
- Louis A. Girifalco
- Tatiana Birshtein
- Jürgen Ehlers
- Franco Bassani
- Vitaly Shafranov
- Lev Okun
- Lev Gor'kov
- David Finkelstein
- Norman Zabusky
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Peter Higgs
- Friedwardt Winterberg
- Asoke Nath Mitra
- Kurt Gottfried
- Semyon Gershtein
- Antonino Zichichi
- George B. Field
- Ezra T. Newman
- Albert Tavkhelidze
- Riazuddin
- Raymond Stora
- Mildred Dresselhaus
- George Herbert Weiss
- Leon Cooper
- Lawrence Paul Horwitz
- Viktor Maslov
- Volker Heine
- Aleksandr Gurevich
- Jun Kondo
- Richard M. Weiner
- John Clayton Taylor
- Martin Karplus
- Joel Lebowitz
- Richard Liboff
- Tullio Regge
- Leonid Keldysh
- Vladimir Braginsky*
- George Sudarshan
- John Robert Schrieffer
- Loup Verlet
- Martinus Veltman
- Roger Penrose
- Stanley Deser
- Valery Pokrovsky
- Alexei A. Maradudin
- Michael Fisher
- Mark Nelkin
- Anatoly Larkin
- Radu Bălescu
- H. Dieter Zeh
- Mark Azbel
- François Englert
- John R. Klauder
- Sheldon Glashow
- Yakir Aharonov
- Roald Sagdeev
- Philippe Nozières
- Charles W. Misner
- Stuart A. Rice
- Moshe Carmeli
- Tom Kibble
- Jeffrey Goldstone
- Steven Weinberg
- Andrzej Trautman
- Lev Pitaevskii
- John Hopfield
- Gerald Harris Rosen
- Steven Frautschi
- Roger Balian
- Julius Wess
- Manuel Cardona
- Ludvig Faddeev
- Pierre Hohenberg
- David J. Thouless
- Michael Nauenberg
- Hiranmay Sen Gupta
- Albert Schwarz
- John G. Cramer
- Rodney Loudon
- Jacques Villain
- Lowell Brown
- James Bjorken
- Fred Alan Wolf
- George Zaslavsky
- Nicola Cabibbo
- Oktay Sinanoğlu
- Giancarlo Ghirardi
- Francesco Calogero
- Gordon Baym
- Yakov Sinai
- Marvin L. Cohen
- David Ruelle
- Herbert Wagner
- Harald J.W. Mueller-Kirsten
- N. David Mermin
- Carl H. Brans
- Hanoch Gutfreund
- Evgeny Velikhov
- Richard M. Friedberg
- Kenneth G. Wilson
- Gerald Guralnik
- Peter Freund
- Rudolf Muradyan
- Abdul Qadeer Khan
- Harold Puthoff
- Sidney Coleman
- Vladimir Arnold
- Leo Kadanoff
- C. R. Hagen
- Iosif Khriplovich
- Leonid Pastur
- Tung-Mow Yan
- A. P. Balachandran
- Anthony James Leggett
- Jayant Narlikar
- Alexander Animalu
- Boris Arbuzov
- Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
- Neil Ashcroft
- Lu Jeu Sham
- Vladimir P. Krainov
- Vitaly Efimov
- Alexei L. Efros
- Leonard Parker
- Boris Struminsky
- Roger Cowley
- Yoseph Imry
- Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini
- Ratko Janev
- Daniel Z. Freedman
- Stephen L. Adler
- Andrei Slavnov
- Pran Nath
- Vladimir E. Zakharov
- Alexander F. Andreev
- James Hartle
- Roman Jackiw
- Carlo Becchi
- Ramamurti Rajaraman
- Francisco José Ynduráin
- Alexei Fridman
- Marshall Stoneham
- Lev Lipatov
- Juansher Chkareuli
- Haim Harari
- Igor Tyutin
- Mikhail Dyakonov
- John Iliopoulos
- Brian David Josephson
- Toshihide Maskawa
- Stanislav Mikheyev
- Leonard Susskind
- Kip Thorne
- Dmitri Ryutov
- Uriel Frisch
- Miguel Ángel Virasoro
- Brian Josephson
- Brosl Hasslacher
- Guido Altarelli
- David Gross
- Vladimir Belinski
- Michael Berry
- Luciano Maiani
- Holger Bech Nielsen
- John Henry Schwarz
- Bertrand Halperin
- T. V. Ramakrishnan
- Thomas Appelquist
- Jeffrey Mandula
- Stephen Hawking
- Arkady Vainshtein
- Victor Sergeevich Fadin
- Alexander Belavin
- Curtis Callan
- David J. Griffiths
- Robert Geroch
- Gabriele Veneziano
- Yves Pomeau
- Crispin Gardiner
- Michael Shur
- V. Balakrishnan
- Carl M. Bender
- Paul Frampton
- Richard H. Price
- Pierre Ramond
- Jean Zinn-Justin
- J. Michael Kosterlitz
- Rashid Sunyaev
- Kurt Binder
- Makoto Kobayashi
- Rabindra Mohapatra
- Boris Shklovskii
- Michael Thorpe
- Anthony Ichiro Sanda
- Sergio Ferrara
- Alexander Markovich Polyakov
- Michele Parrinello
- Bernard de Wit
- Anthony Zee
- Rod Crewther
- Peter Goddard
- Alexander Migdal
- W. G. Unruh
- André Neveu
- Michael Green
- Gerardus 't Hooft
- İsmail Hakkı Duru
- Charles Thorn
- Vladimir Fortov
- William E. Caswell
- Jacob Bekenstein
- John Joannopoulos
- Jürg Fröhlich
- Howard Georgi
- Alan Guth
- Michio Kaku
- Roberto Car
- John Cardy
- Walter Selke
- Erick Weinberg
- Claudio Bunster
- Anna N. Żytkow
- Robert Wald
- Michael F. Shlesinger
- Thomas Curtright
- Eugene Levich
- Alexei Starobinsky
- Dimitri Nanopoulos
- Andrei Linde
- Giorgio Parisi
- Bennie Ward
- Gabor Forgacs
- Hugh David Politzer
- Alexander Vilenkin
- Nihat Berker
- Tekin Dereli
- Ayşe Erzan
- Mikhail Shifman
- Richard G. Palmer
- Itamar Procaccia
- Sylvester James Gates
- Robert B. Laughlin
- Stephen Parke
- Goran Senjanovic
- Kyriakos Tamvakis
- Carlton M. Caves
- Shuichi Nosé
- Christopher T. Hill
- Alexei Smirnov
- Frank Wilczek
- Edward Witten
- Cosmas Zachos
- F. Duncan Haldane
- Wojciech H. Zurek
- Thibault Damour
- Demetrios Christodoulou
- Ignazio Ciufolini
- Alexei Zamolodchikov
- Alexander Zamolodchikov
- Paul J. Steinhardt
- Ian Affleck
- Bernard Derrida
- Mikhail Voloshin
- Peter Guy Wolynes
- Boris Feigin
- Ali Chamseddine
- Sankar Das Sarma
- Stephan W. Koch
- David Deutsch
- John Preskill
- José W. F. Valle
- Mark B. Wise
- Daniel L. Stein
- Joseph Polchinski
- Julia Yeomans
- David Vanderbilt
- Lawrence M. Krauss
- Mikhail Feigelman
- Barton Zwiebach
- Alexandre Bouzdine
- Lee Smolin
- Valery Rubakov
- Boris Altshuler
- Augusto Sagnotti
- Fulvio Melia
- David Lindley
- Viatcheslav Mukhanov
- Carlo Rovelli
- Nathan Seiberg
- Ashoke Sen
- Joseph Lykken
- Mikhail Katsnelson
- Thanu Padmanabhan
- Mehran Kardar
- Peter Woit
- David Tannor
- Neil Turok
- Piers Coleman
- Stephen Wolfram
- Cumrun Vafa
- Carlo Beenakker
- Xiao-Gang Wen
- Michael R. Douglas
- Gian F. Giudice
- Erik Verlinde
- Subir Sachdev
- Jacques Distler
- Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
- Marcela Carena
- Igor Klebanov
- Lisa Randallª
- Carlos E.M. Wagner
- Brian Greene
- Gerald B. Cleaver
- Alexei Kitaev
- Miguel Alcubierre
- Raman Sundrum
- Stephen Hsu
- Sean M. Carroll
- Durmus A. Demir
- João Magueijo
- Antony Garrett Lisi
- Juan Maldacena
- Laura Mersini-Houghtonª
- Dam Thanh Son
- Vijay Balasubramanian
- Vlatko Vedral
- Shiraz Minwalla
- Nima Arkani-Hamed
- Steven Gubser
- Maxim Chernodub
- Luboš Motl
- Cédric Villani
- Yasunori Nomura
- K. S. Babu
- Bianca Dittrichª
- Davide Gaiotto
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- Gordon Freeman
- Eli Vance
- Isaac Kleiner
- Rodney McKay
- Samantha Carterª
- Larry Fleinhardt
- Leonardo Vetra
- Quinn Mallory
- Maximillian Arturo
- Nicholas Rush
- Daniel Faraday
- Catherine Elizabeth Halsey
- Milo Rambaldi
- Reed Richards
- Victor Von Doom
- Radek Zelenka
- Sheldon Cooper
- Rosalind and Robert Lutece
- Rick Sanchez