The following is a list of parent-child pairs who were both notable for their contribution in physics. The list is in alphabetical order by the parent's last name.

Four parent-child pairs have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics: J. J. and George Paget Thomson (1906, 1937), William H. and Lawrence Bragg (1915), Niels and Aage Bohr (1922,1975), Manne and Kai Siegbahn (1924,1981). Marie and Pierre Curie won together the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, Marie also won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and their daughter Irène and her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie won together the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.

List Parent Notable for Child Notable forJohn BardeenBCS theory TransistorWilliam A. BardeenTop quark condensateAntoine César BecquerelPhotovoltaicsEdmond BecquerelThermionic emission PhotovoltaicsEdmond BecquerelThermionic emission PhotovoltaicsHenri BecquerelRadioactivityHenri BecquerelRadioactivityJean BecquerelJan BeenakkerSenftleben–Beenakker effectCarlo Beenakker Johann Bernoulli Catenarybrachistochrone curve Daniel Bernoulli Bernoulli's principleClaude BlochBloch–Messiah decompositionJacqueline BlochPolariton condensate Niels Bohr Bohr model Complementarity

Correspondence principle Aage Bohr Liquid drop modelClaude BouchiatVincent BouchiatMarie-Anne BouchiatHélène BouchiatGeorges BruhatYvonne Choquet-BruhatEinstein field equations as a well-posed initial-value problem William Henry Bragg Bragg's law Lawrence BraggBragg's lawMarcel BrillouinLéon BrillouinBrillouin zone WKB approximationBlas CabreraNicolás CabreraBCF theory for crystal growthNicolás CabreraBCF theoryBlas Cabrera NavarroLord Charles CavendishHenry CavendishMeasuring the gravitational constantJacques CuriePiezoelectricity Curie–von Schweidler lawMaurice Curie Marie Curie Radioactivity Irène Joliot-CurieInduced radioactivityPierre CurieCurie's law Radioactivity

PiezoelectricityIrène Joliot-CurieInduced radioactivityHélène Langevin-JoliotFrédéric Joliot-CurieJan Kazimierz DanyszMarian DanyszDiscovery of hypernucleiGeorge DarwinDarwin symbolsCharles Galton DarwinDarwin drift Darwin termSidney DrellDrell–Yan processPersis DrellPaul ErmanGeorg Adolf ErmanLeonhard EulerList of topics named after Leonhard EulerJohann EulerWilliam GarnettMaxwell GarnettMaxwell Garnett equationEduard Hagenbach-BischoffAugust HagenbachWerner HeisenbergUncertainty principle Matrix mechanicsJochen HeisenbergWilliam HerschelDiscovery of UranusJohn HerschelActinometer, CyanotypeJohn HerschelActinometer, CyanotypeAlexander Stewart HerschelHerschel graphRobert HofstadterHofstadter experimentsDouglas HofstadterHofstadter's butterflyJohn J. Hopfield Hopfield bands in oxygenJohn HopfieldHopfield network Hopfield dielectricHelen HopfieldHopfield model of the troposphereRyszard HorodeckiPeres–Horodecki criterionMichał HorodeckiPeres–Horodecki criterionPaweł HorodeckiRobert KarplusBeverly Karplus HartlineMargaret G. KivelsonSteven KivelsonHendrik LorentzLorentz transformation Lorentz ether theoryGeertruida de Haas-LorentzBrownian noiseReimar LüstDieter LüstS-dualityErnst MachMach numberLudwig MachMach–Zehnder interferometerArkady MigdalLandau–Pomeranchuk–Migdal effectAlexander MigdalFranz Ernst NeumannNeumann's law Magnetic vector potentialCarl NeumannNeumann boundary conditionJean Baptiste PerrinConfirming Brownian motion Avogadro constantFrancis PerrinRobert Wichard PohlF-centersRobert Otto Pohl3ω-methodEvry SchatzmanWave heating theoryMichelle SchatzmanChapman–Rubinstein–Schatzman modelKarl SchwarzschildSchwarzschild metricMartin SchwarzschildSchwarzschild criterionManne SiegbahnSiegbahn notationKai SiegbahnPhotoemission spectroscopyHans ThirringWalter ThirringThirring model J. J. Thomson Discovery of the electron George Paget Thomson Electron diffractionHarold UreyDiscovery of deuteriumElizabeth BarangerGregor WentzelWKB approximationDonat WentzelGustav Heinrich WiedemannWiedemann effect Wiedemann–Franz lawEilhard WiedemannLuminescence Louis Witten Electrovacuum solution Edward WittenM-theory

See also

List of second-generation mathematicians Langevin family Curie family Bernoulli family Herschel family

References