List of physicists
Many famous physicists of the 20th and 21st century are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.
Famous early physicists
- Archimedes - Syracuse (circa 287 - 212 BCE)
- Aristarchus of Samos (310 - circa 230 BCE)
- Robert Boyle - England (1627-1691)
- Democritus - Abdera (circa 460 - 360 BCE)
- René Descartes - France (1596-1650)
- Galileo Galilei - Italy (1564-1642)
- William Gilbert - England (1544-1603)
- Heraclides Ponticus - Greece (387 - 312 BCE)
- Robert Hooke - England (1635-1703)
- Christian Huygens, (1629-1695)
- Lucretius - Rome (98? - 55 BCE)
- Isaac Newton - England (1642-1727)
- Blaise Pascal - France (1623-1662)
- Willebrord Snell - Netherlands (1580-1626)
- Evangelista Torricelli - Italy (1608-1647)
Famous physicists of the 18th century
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert - France (1717-1783)
- Daniel Bernoulli - Switzerland (1700-1782)
- Rudjer Josip Boscovich - Dubrovnik (1711-1787)
- Henry Cavendish - Britain (1731-1810)
- Charles Augustin de Coulomb, (1736-1806)
- Leonard Euler, (1707-1783)
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Poland, England, Netherlands(1686-1736)
- Benjamin Franklin, USA (1706-1790)
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange, (1736-1813)
- James Watt Scotland (1736-1819)
Famous physicists of the 19th century
- Ernst Abbe - Germany (1840-1905)
- Andre Marie Ampere, (1775-1836)
- Anders Jonas Ångström, - Sweden(1814-1874)
- Amedeo Avogadro - Italy (1776-1856)
- Johann Jakob Balmer - Switzerland (1825-1898)
- Jean-Baptist Biot, (1774-1862)
- René-Prosper Blondlot - France (1849-1930)
- Ludwig Boltzmann - Austria (1844-1906)
- David Brewster - Scotland (1781-1868)
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot - France (1796-1832)
- Ernst Chladni - Germany (1756-1827)
- Rudolf Clausius - Germany (1822-1888)
- Marie Alfred Cornu, (1841-1902)
- John Dalton - England (1766-1844)
- Henri-Alexandre Deslandres - France (1853-1948)
- James Dewar - Britain (1842-1923)
- Christian Doppler - Austria (1803-1853)
- Roland Eötvös - Hungary (1848-1919)
- Michael Faraday - Britain (1791-1867)
- George Francis FitzGerald - Ireland (1851-1901)
- Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
- Léon Focault - France (1819-1868)
- Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
- Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany (1787-1826)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel - France (1788-1827)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss - Germany (1777-1855)
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
- Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
- Edwin Hall - USA (1855-1938)
- William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
- Peter Andreas Hansen - Denmark (1795 - 1874)
- Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
- Hermann von Helmholtz - Germany (1821-1894)
- Joseph Henry - USA (1797-1878)
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Germany (1857-1894)
- George William Hill - USA (1838 - 1914)
- James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)
- John Kerr - Britain (1824-1907)
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, (1824 - 1887)
- Karl L. Littrow - Austria (1811 - 1877)
- Maurice Loewy - Austria/France (1833 - 1907)
- Johann Loschmidt - Germany (1821-1895)
- Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov - Imperial Russia (1857-1918)
- Ernst Mach - Austria (1838-1916)
- James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
- Amédée Mouchez - Spain, France (1821-1892)
- Simon Newcomb - USA (1835 - 1909)
- Georg Ohm - Germany (1789-1854)
- Hans Christian Ørsted - Denmark (1777-1851)
- Joseph Plateau - Belgium (1801 - 1883)
- Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912)
- John Henry Poynting - Britain (1852-1914)
- William Prout - England (1785-1850)
- Osborne Reynolds - Britain (1842-1912)
- Janne Rydberg, Sweden (1854-1919)
- Felix Savart - France (1791-1841)
- Jožef Stefan - Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
- George Gabriel Stokes - Britain (1819-1903)
- Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)
- Joseph John Thomson, England (1856-1940)
- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) - England (1824-1907)
- Alessandro Volta - Italy (1745-1827)
- Wilhelm Weber, (1804-1891)
- Thomas Young - England (1773-1829)
Famous physicists of the 20th century
- Hannes Alfven - Sweden (1908-1995)
- Luis Alvarez - USA (1911 - 1988)
- Henri Becquerel - France (1852-1908)
- John Stewart Bell - Britain (1928-1990)
- Raymond T. Birge - USA (1887 - 1980)
- Vilhelm Bjerknes - Norway (1862 - 1951)
- Felix Bloch - Switzerland (1905-1983)
- Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962)
- Max Born - Germany, Britain (1882-1970)
- Satyendra Nath Bose - India (1894-1974)
- Louis-Victor de Broglie - France (1892-1987)
- Thomas Townsend Brown - USA (1905 - 1985)
- Owen Chamberlain - USA (1920-)
- Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)
- Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1904-1990)
- Sir Charles Galton Darwin, England (1887-1962)
- Paul Davies - Australia ( - )
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Britain (1902-1984)
- Freeman Dyson - Britain, USA (1923- )
- Paul Ehrenfest - Austria (1880-1933)
- Felix Ehrenhaft - Austria USA (1879-1952)
- Albert Einstein - Germany, USA (1879-1955)
- V. Walfrid Ekman - Sweden (1874-1954)
- Ernest Esclangon - France (1876-1954)
- Louis Essen - England (1908-1997)
- Enrico Fermi - Italy (1901-1954)
- Richard Feynman - USA (1918-1988)
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1898-1974)
- Murray Gell-Mann - USA (1929- )
- W.W. Hansen - USA (1909-1949)
- Werner Karl Heisenberg - Germany (1901-1976)
- Stephen Hawking - England (1942- )
- Edwin Jaynes - USA (1922-1998)
- Lev Davidovich Landau - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908-1968)
- Irving Langmuir - USA (1851-1957)
- Ernest Lawrence - USA (1901-1958)
- Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1879-1944)
- William Markowitz - USA (1907-1998)
- Albert Abraham Michelson - USA (1852-1931)
- Robert Andrews Millikan - USA (1868- 1953)
- John von Neumann - Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
- Robert Oppenheimer - USA (1904-1967)
- Wolfgang Ernst Pauli - Austria (1900-1958)
- Max Planck - Germany (1858-1947)
- John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
- 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)
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Soviet Union (1929-1989)
- Erwin Schrödinger, (1887-1961)
- Emilio G. Segrè - USA/Italy (1905-1989)
- Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895-1971)
- Edward Teller - Austria-Hungary/USA (1908-2003)
- Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary/USA (1856-1943)
- Charles Townes - USA (1915-)
- Steven Weinberg - USA (1933- )
- Arthur Wightman - USA
- Eugene Wigner - Austria-Hungary/USA (1902-1993)
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf - Austria, USA (1908-2002)
- Robert W. Wood - USA (1868 - 1955)
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