List of physicists

Following is a list of physicists who are notable for their achievements.

A Jules Aarons – United States (1921–2016) Ernst Karl Abbe – Germany (1840–1905) Derek Abbott – Australia (born 1960) Hasan Abdullayev – Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Soviet Union, Azerbaijan (1918–1993) Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov – Soviet Union, Russia (1928–2017), Nobel laureate Robert Adler – United States (1913–2007) Stephen L. Adler – United States (born 1939) Franz Aepinus – Rostock (1724–1802) Mina Aganagic – Bosnia and Herzegovina, United States David Z Albert – United States (born 1954) Felicie Albert – France, United States Miguel Alcubierre – Mexico (born 1964) Zhores Ivanovich Alferov – Soviet Union, Russia (1930–2019), Nobel laureate Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén – Sweden (1908–1995), Nobel laureate Alhazen – Basra, Iraq (965–1040) Artem Alikhanian – Soviet Union, Armenia (1908–1978) Abram Alikhanov – Soviet Union, Russia (1904–1970) John E. Allen – U.K. (born 1928) William Allis – United States (1901–1999) Samuel King Allison – United States (1900–1965) Yakov Lvovich Alpert – Soviet Union, Russia, United States (1911–2010) Ralph Asher Alpher – United States (1921–2007) Semen Altshuler – Soviet Union (1911–1983) 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 (1937–2012) Carl David Anderson – United States (1905–1991), Nobel laureate Herbert L. Anderson – United States (1914–1988) Philip Warren Anderson – United States (1923–2020), Nobel laureate Elephter Andronikashvili – Soviet Union, Georgia (1910–1989) Anders Jonas Ångström – Sweden (1814–1874) Alexander Animalu – Nigeria (born 1938) Hideo Aoki - Japan (born 1950) Edward Victor Appleton – U.K. (1892–1965), Nobel laureate François 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 – Soviet Union (1909–1973) Aryabhata – Pataliputra, India (476–550) Neil Ashby – United States (born 1934) Maha Ashour-Abdalla – Egypt, United States (1943–2016) Gurgen Askaryan – Soviet Union (1928–1997) Alain Aspect – France (born 1947) Marcel Audiffren – France Pierre Victor Auger – France (1899–1993) Avicenna – Persia (980–1037) Amedeo Avogadro – Italy (1776–1856) David Awschalom – United States (born 1956)

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Tom Baehr-Jones – United States (born 1980) John Norris Bahcall – United States (1934–2005) Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge – U.K. (1925–2003) Cornelis Bakker – Netherlands (1904–1960) Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran – India (born 1938) V Balakrishnan – India (born 1943) Milla Baldo-Ceolin – Italy (1924–2011) Johann Jakob Balmer – Switzerland (1825–1898) Tom Banks – United States (born 1949) Xiaoyi Bao – Canada Riccardo Barbieri – Italy (born 1944) Marcia Barbosa – Brazil (born 1960) John Bardeen – United States (1908–1991), double Nobel laureate William A. Bardeen – United States (born 1941) Ronald Hugh Barker – Ireland (1915–2015) Charles Glover Barkla – U.K. (1877–1944), Nobel laureate Amanda Barnard – Australia (born 1971) Boyd Bartlett – United States (1897–1965) Asım Orhan Barut – Malatya, Turkey (1926–1994) Heinz Barwich – Germany (1911–1966) Nikolay Basov – Soviet Union, 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) Jacob Bekenstein – Israel (1947–2015) Alexander Graham Bell – Scotland, Canada, United States (1847–1922) John Stewart Bell – U.K. (1928–1990) Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Northern Ireland, U.K. (born 1943) Carl M. Bender – United States (born 1943) 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) Mani Lal Bhaumik – United States (born 1931) Lars Bildsten – United States (1964) 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 (1934–2024) Joseph Black – Scotland, U.K. (1728–1799) Patrick Blackett – U.K. (1897–1974), Nobel laureate Felix Bloch – Switzerland (1905–1983), Nobel laureate Nicolaas Bloembergen – Netherlands, United States (1920–2017), Nobel laureate Walter Boas – Germany, Australia (1904–1982) Céline Bœhm – France (born 1974) 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 Martin Bojowald – Germany (born 1973) Ludwig Boltzmann – Austria (1844–1906) Eugene T. Booth – United States (1912–2004) Max Born – Germany, U.K. (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) Mustapha Ishak Boushaki – Algeria (1967–) Mark Bowick – United States (born 1957) Robert Boyle – Ireland, England (1627–1691) Willard S. Boyle – Canada, United States (1924–2011), Nobel laureate William Henry Bragg – U.K. (1862–1942), Nobel laureate William Lawrence Bragg – U.K., Australia (1890–1971), Nobel laureate Tycho Brahe – Denmark (1546–1601) Howard Brandt – United States (1939–2014) Walter Houser Brattain – United States (1902–1987), Nobel laureate Karl Ferdinand Braun – Germany (1850–1918), Nobel laureate David Brewster – U.K. (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 William Fuller Brown, Jr. – United States (1904–1983) 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) Silke Bühler-Paschen – Austria (born 1967) Johannes Martinus Burgers – Netherlands (1895–1981) Friedrich Burmeister – Germany (1890–1969) Bimla Buti – India (1933–2024) Christophorus Buys Ballot – Netherlands (1817–1890)

C Nicola Cabibbo – Italy (1935–2010) Nicolás Cabrera – Spain (1913–1989) Curtis Callan – United States (born 1942) Annie Jump Cannon – United States (1863–1941) Fritjof Capra – Austria, United States (born 1939) Marcela Carena – Argentina (born 1962) Ricardo Carezani – Argentina, United States (1921–2016) 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 – U.K. (1731–1810) James Chadwick – U.K. (1891–1974), Nobel laureate Owen Chamberlain – United States (1920–2006), Nobel laureate Moses H. W. Chan – Hong Kong (born 1946) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – India, United States (1910–1995), Nobel laureate Tsao Chang – China (born 1942) Georges Charpak – France (1924–2010), Nobel laureate Émilie du Châtelet – France (1706–1749) Swapan Chattopadhyay – India (born 1951) Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904–1990), Nobel laureate Maxim Chernodub – Soviet Union, Russia, France (born 1973) Geoffrey Chew – United States (1924–2019) Boris Chirikov – Soviet Union, Russia (1928–2008) Juansher Chkareuli – Soviet Union, Georgia (born 1940) Ernst Chladni – Germany (1756–1827) Nicholas Christofilos – Greece (1916–1972) Steven Chu – United States (born 1948), Nobel laureate Giovanni Ciccotti – Italy (born 1943) Orion Ciftja – United States Benoît Clapeyron – France (1799–1864) George W. Clark – United States John Clauser – United States (born 1942), Nobel laureate Rudolf Clausius – Germany (1822–1888) Richard Clegg – U.K. Gari Clifford – British-American physicist, biomedical engineer, academic, researcher John Cockcroft – U.K. (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 (1930–2024), Nobel laureate Nicolaus Copernicus – Poland (1473–1543) 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 (1920–2020) Brian Cox – U.K. (born 1968) Thomas E. Cravens – United States, cometary x-rays Charles Critchfield – United States (1910–1994) James Cronin – United States (1931–2016), Nobel laureate Sir William Crookes – U.K. (1832–1919) Paul Crowell – United States Marie Curie – Russian Empire, France (1867–1934), twice Nobel laureate Pierre Curie – France (1859–1906), Nobel laureate Predrag Cvitanović – Croatia (born 1946)

D Jean le Rond d'Alembert – France (1717–1783) Gustaf Dalén – Sweden (1869–1937), Nobel laureate Jean Dalibard – France (born 1958) Richard Dalitz – U.K., United States (1925–2006) John Dalton – U.K. (1766–1844) Sanja Damjanović – Yugoslavia, Montenegro (born 1972) Ranjan Roy Daniel – India (1923–2005) Charles Galton Darwin – U.K. (1887–1962) Ashok Das – India, United States (born 1953) James C. Davenport – United States (born 1938) 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) Arthur Jeffrey Dempster – Canada (1886–1950) David M. Dennison – United States (1900–1976) Beryl May Dent – U.K. (1900–1977) René Descartes – France (1596–1650) David Deutsch – Israel, U.K. (born 1953) James Dewar – U.K. (1842–1923) Scott Diddams – United States Ulrike Diebold – Austria (born 1961) Robbert Dijkgraaf – Netherlands (born 1960) Viktor Dilman – Soviet Union, Russia (born 1926) Savas Dimopoulos – United States (born 1952) Paul Dirac – Switzerland, U.K. (1902–1984), Nobel laureate Revaz Dogonadze – Soviet Union, Georgia (1931–1985) Louise Dolan – United States (born 1950) 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) Geneva Smith Douglas – United States (1932–1993) Michael R. Douglas – United States (born 1961) Jonathan Dowling – United States (1955–2020) Claudia Draxl – Germany (born 1959) Sidney Drell – United States (1926–2016) Mildred Dresselhaus – United States (1930–2017) Paul Drude – Germany (1863–1906) Émilie du Châtelet – France (1706–1749) F. J. Duarte – United States (born 1954) Pierre Louis Dulong – France (1785–1838) Janette Dunlop – Scotland (1891–1971) Samuel T. Durrance – United States (born 1943) Freeman Dyson – U.K., United States (1923–2020), Wolf laureate

E Joseph H. Eberly – United States (1935–2025) William Eccles – U.K. (1875–1966) Carl Eckart – United States (1902–1973) Arthur Stanley Eddington – U.K. (1882–1944)