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Ernst Karl Abbe — Germany ( 1840 – 1905 )

Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén — Sweden ( 1908 – 1995 )

Luis Walter Alvarez — USA ( 1911 – 1988 )

André-Marie Ampère — France ( 1775 – 1836 )

Anders Jonas Ångström — Sweden ( 1814 – 1874 )

Philip Warren Anderson – USA ( 1923 – )

Archimedes — Syracuse (''circa'' 287 – 212 BC )

Aristarchus Of Samos — Samos ( 310 – ca. 230 BC )

Aristotle — Athens, Greece ( 384 – 322 BC )

Amedeo Avogadro — Italy ( 1776 – 1856 )

B

Johann Jakob Balmer — Switzerland ( 1825 – 1898 )

John Bardeen — USA ( 1908 – 1991 )

Zoltán Lajos Bay — Hungary ( 1900 – 1992 )

John Stewart Bell — United Kingdom ( 1928 – 1990 )

Henri Becquerel — France ( 1852 – 1908 )

Daniel Bernoulli — Switzerland ( 1700 – 1782 )

Hans Bethe — USA ( 1906 – 2005 )

Jean-Baptist Biot — France ( 1774 – 1862 )

Raymond T. Birge — USA ( 1887 – 1980 )

Vilhelm Bjerknes — Norway ( 1862 – 1951 )

Felix Bloch — Switzerland ( 1905 – 1983 )

René-Prosper Blondlot — France ( 1849 – 1930 )

Niels Bohr — Denmark ( 1885 – 1962 )

Aage Niels Bohr — Denmark ( 1922 – )

Ludwig Boltzmann — Austria ( 1844 – 1906 )

Max Born — Germany, UK ( 1882 – 1970 )

Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik ( 1711 – 1787 )

Satyendra Nath Bose — India ( 1894 – 1974 )

Robert Boyle — Ireland, England ( 1627 – 1691 )

David Brewster — UK ( 1781 – 1868 )

Louis-Victor De Broglie — France ( 1892 – 1987 )

Thomas Townsend Brown — USA ( 1905 – 1985 )

C

Nicolás Cabrera — Spain ( 1913 – 1989 )

Fritjof Capra — Austria, USA ( 1939 – )

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot — France ( 1796 – 1832 )

Henry Cavendish — UK ( 1731 – 1810 )

Owen Chamberlain — USA ( 1920 – )

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar India, USA ( 1910 – 1995 )

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union ( 1904 – 1990 )

Ernst Chladni — Germany ( 1756 – 1827 )

Steven Chu — USA ( 1948 – )

Giovanni Ciccotti — Italy ( 1943 – )

Rudolf Clausius — Germany ( 1822 – 1888 )

Marie Alfred Cornu — France ( 1841 – 1902 )

Charles-Augustin De Coulomb — France ( 1736 – 1806 )

Pierre Curie — France ( 1859 – 1906 )

Marie Curie — Poland, France ( 1867 – 1934 )

D

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert — France ( 1717 – 1783 )

John Dalton — UK ( 1766 – 1844 )

Charles Galton Darwin — UK ( 1887 – 1962 )

Paul Davies — Australia ( 1946 – )

Democritus — Abdera (''circa'' 460 – 360 BC )

René Descartes — France ( 1596 – 1650 )

Henri-Alexandre Deslandres — France ( 1853 – 1948 )

James Dewar — UK ( 1842 – 1923 )

Paul Dirac — UK ( 1902 – 1984 )

Revaz Dogonadze — Former Soviet Union, Georgia ( 1931 – 1985 )

Christian Doppler — Austria ( 1803 – 1853 )

Mildred Dresselhaus — United States ( 1930 - )

Freeman Dyson — UK, USA ( 1923 – )

E

William Eccles — UK ( 1875 – 1966 )

Paul Ehrenfest — Austria ( 1880 – 1933 )

Felix Ehrenhaft — Austria, USA ( 1879 – 1952 )

Albert Einstein — Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA ( 1879 – 1955 )

Vagn Walfrid Ekman — Sweden ( 1874 – 1954 )

Loránd Eötvös — Hungary ( 1848 – 1919 )

Ernest Esclangon — France ( 1876 – 1954 )

Louis Essen — UK ( 1908 – 1997 )

Leonhard Euler — Switzerland ( 1707 – 1783 )

James Alfred Ewing — UK ( 1855 – 1935 )

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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — Poland , UK , Netherlands ( 1686 – 1736 )

Michael Faraday — UK ( 1791 – 1867 )

Enrico Fermi — Italy ( 1901 – 1954 )

Herman Feshbach - USA ( 1917 - 2000 )

Richard Feynman — USA ( 1918 – 1988 )

David Finkelstein - USA ( 1929 - )

George Francis FitzGerald — UK ( 1851 – 1901 )

Hippolyte Fizeau — France ( 1819 – 1896 )

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union ( 1898 – 1974 )

James David Forbes — UK ( 1809 – 1868 )

Léon Foucault — France ( 1819 – 1868 )

Joseph Fourier — France 1768 – 1830 )

Benjamin Franklin — USA ( 1706 – 1790 )

Joseph Von Fraunhofer — Germany ( 1787 – 1826 )

Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France ( 1788 – 1827 )

Daniel Friedan - USA

B. Roy Frieden — USA ( 1936 – )

Harald Fuchs - Germany ( 1951 -)

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Dennis Gabor — Hungary ( 1900 — 1979 )

Galileo Galilei — Italy ( 1564 — 1642 )

Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany ( 1777 – 1855 )

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — France ( 1778 – 1850 )

Murray Gell-Mann — USA ( 1929 – )

Josiah Willard Gibbs — USA ( 1839 – 1903 )

William Gilbert — England ( 1544 – 1603 )

Brian Greene — USA ( 1963 — )

John Gribbin — UK ( 1946 — )

David Gross — USA ( 1941 — )

Alessio Guarino — Italy ( 1970 –)

Feza Gürsey — Turkey ( 1921 – 1992 )

Martin Gutzwiller — Switzerland ( 1925 – )

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Rudolf Haag — Germany ( 1922 – )

Edwin Hall — USA ( 1855 – 1938 )

William Rowan Hamilton — UK ( 1805 – 1865 )

Peter Andreas Hansen — Denmark ( 1795 – 1874 )

W.W. Hansen — USA ( 1909 – 1949 )

Douglas Hartree — UK ( 1897 – 1958 )

Stephen Hawking — UK ( 1942 – )

Oliver Heaviside — UK ( 1850 – 1925 )

Werner Karl Heisenberg — Germany ( 1901 – 1976 )

Hermann Von Helmholtz — Germany ( 1821 – 1894 )

Joseph Henry — USA ( 1797 – 1878 )

John Herapath — UK ( 1790 – 1868 )

Carl Hermann — Germany ( 1898 – 1961 )

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz — Germany ( 1857 – 1894 )

Peter Higgs - UK ( 1929 -)

George William Hill — USA ( 1838 – 1914 )

Gustave-Adolphe Hirn — France ( 1815 - 1890 )

Gerardus 't Hooft — The Netherlands ( 1946 – )

Robert Hooke — England ( 1635 – 1703 )

John H. Hubbell — USA (born 1925 )

Christian Huygens — The Netherlands ( 1629 – 1695 )

J

Ali Javan — Iran ( 1928 – )

Edwin Jaynes — USA ( 1922 – 1998 )

Brian David Josephson — UK ( 1940 – )

James Prescott Joule — UK ( 1818 – 1889 )

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William R. Kanne - USA ( ____ - 1985 )

Pyotr Kapitza — UK, Soviet Union ( 1894 - 1984 )

Alfred Kastler — France ( 1902 - 1984 )

Johannes Kepler — Germany ( 1571 – 1630 )

John Kerr — UK ( 1824 – 1907 )

Ken Kiers - Canada, USA ( 1968 - )

Bernard Bruno Kinsey — UK, USA ( 1910 – 1995 )

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff — Germany ( 1824 – 1887 )

August Krönig — Germany ( 1822 – 1879 )

Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov — Soviet Union ( 1903 – 1960 )

Behram Kurşunoğlu — Turkey ( 1922 - 2003 )

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Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France ( 1736 – 1813 )

Lev Davidovich Landau — Imperial Russia, Soviet union ( 1908 – 1968 )

Irving Langmuir — USA ( 1851 – 1957 )

Max Von Laue — Germany ( 1879 – 1960 )

Ernest Lawrence — USA ( 1901 – 1958 )

Tsung-Dao Lee — China ( 1926 – )

Georges-Louis Le Sage — Switzerland ( 1724 – 1803 )

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany ( 1646 – 1716 )

John Leslie — UK ( 1766 – 1832 )

Robert Von Lieben Austria — ( 1878 - 1913 )

David Lindley — USA (?– )

Karl L. Littrow — Austria ( 1811 – 1877 )

Maurice Loewy — Austria/France ( 1833 – 1907 )

Johann Loschmidt — Germany ( 1821 – 1895 )

Lucretius — Rome ( 98 ?– 55 BC )

Markus Luty — USA

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia ( 1857 – 1918 )

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Ernst Mach — Austria ( 1838 – 1916 )

Theodore Maiman — USA ( 1927 – )

Juan Maldacena — Argentina ( 1968 – )

Etienne-Louis Malus — France ( 1775 – 1812 )

Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam — Imperial Russia, Soviet union ( 1879 – 1944 )

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall — USA ( 1841 – 1924 )

Guglielmo Marconi — Italy ( 1874 – 1937 )

William Markowitz — USA ( 1907 – 1998 )

James Clerk Maxwell — UK ( 1831 – 1879 )

Ronald E. McNair — USA ( 1950 – 1986 )

Macedonio Melloni — Italy ( 1798 – 1854 )

Albert Abraham Michelson — USA ( 1852 – 1931 )

Henry Moseley — UK ( 1887 – 1915 )

Robert Andrews Millikan — USA ( 1868 – 1953 )

Jagadeesh Moodera — India, USA ( 1950 — )

Amédée Mouchez — Spain, France ( 1821 – 1892 )

Richard A. Muller — USA ( 1944 – )

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John Von Neumann — Austria-Hungary, USA ( 1903 – 1957 )

Simon Newcomb — USA ( 1835 – 1909 )

Isaac Newton — England ( 1642 – 1727 )

Leopoldo Nobili — Italy ( 1784 – 1835 )

O

Georg Ohm — Germany ( 1789 – 1854 )

Lars Onsager — Norway ( 1903 – 1976 )

Robert Oppenheimer — USA ( 1904 – 1967 )

Nicolas Oresme — France ( 1325 – 1382 )

Egon Orowan — Hungary/ USA ( 1901 – 1989 )

Yuri Orlov — Soviet Union, USA ( 1924 – )

Hans Christian Ørsted — Denmark ( 1777 – 1851 )

P

Blaise Pascal — France ( 1623 – 1662 )

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli — Austria ( 1900 – 1958 )

G. B. Pegram — USA ( 1876 – 1958 )

Max Planck — Germany ( 1858 – 1947 )

Roger Penrose — UK ( 1931 – )

Bernhard Philberth — Germany ( 1927 – )

Joseph Plateau — Belgium ( 1801 – 1883 )

John Polkinghorne — UK ( 1930 – )

Henri Poincaré — France ( 1854 – 1912 )

Heraclides Ponticus — Greece ( 387 – 312 BC )

John Henry Poynting — UK ( 1852 – 1914 )

William Prout — UK ( 1785 – 1850 )

Ivan Pulyuy - Ukraine ( 1845 - 1918 )

Michael Pupin - Austria-Hungary/USA ( 1858 - 1935 )

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Lord Rayleigh — UK ( 1842 – 1919 )

Hubert Reeves — Canada ( 1932 – )

Osborne Reynolds — UK ( 1842 – 1912 )

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen — Germany ( 1845 – 1923 )

Marshall Rosenbluth — USA ( 1927 - 2003 )

Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby — Sweden, USA ( 1898 – 1957 )

Carlo Rubbia -- Italy ( 1934 - )

David Ruelle — Belgium, France ( 1935 – )

Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand, UK ( 1871 – 1937 )

Janne Rydberg — Sweden ( 1854 – 1919 )

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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — Soviet Union ( 1929 – 1989 )

Oscar Sala — Brazil ( 1922 – )

Abdus Salam — Pakistan-UK ( 1926 – 1996 )

Jack Sarfatti — USA ( 1939 – )

Isidor Sauers - Austria ( 1948 - )

Felix Savart — France ( 1791 – 1841 )

Erwin Schrödinger — Austria ( 1887 – 1961 )

Emilio G. Segrè — USA/Italy ( 1905 – 1989 )

Willebrord Snell — Netherlands ( 1580 – 1626 )

Javier Solana — Spain ( 1942 – )

Jožef Stefan — Austria-Hungary, Slovenia ( 1835 – 1893 )

Karl August Von Steinheil — Germany ( 1801 – 1870 )

George Gabriel Stokes — UK ( 1819 – 1903 )

Joseph Wilson Swan — UK ( 1828 – 1914 )

Leó Szilárd — Hungary, USA ( 1898 – 1964 )

Mendel Sachs - USA ( 1927 - )

T

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm — Imperial Russia, Soviet union ( 1895 – 1971 )

Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary/USA ( 1908 – 2003 )

Max Tegmark — Sweden, USA ( 1967 – )

Nikola Tesla — Austria-Hungary/USA ( 1856 – 1943 )

Joseph John Thomson — UK ( 1856 – 1940 )

William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) — UK ( 1824 – {Link without Title} ])

Kip Stephen Thorne — USA ( 1940 – )

Evangelista Torricelli — Italy ( 1608 – 1647 )

Charles Townes — USA ( 1915 – )

Johann Georg Tralles — Germany ( 1763 – 1822 )

Sam Treiman - USA ( 1926 - )

Bruno Touschek - Italy ( 1921-[[1978 )

V

Johannes Diderik Van Der Waals — Netherlands ( 1837 – 1923 )

Sergei Vavilov — Soviet Union ( 1891 – 1951 )

Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy ( 1746 – 1822 )

Alessandro Volta — Italy ( 1745 – 1827 )

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Gleb Wataghin — Ukraine / Italy / Brazil ( 1896 – 1986 )

John James Waterston — UK ( 1811 – 1883 )

James Watt — UK ( 1736 – 1819 )

Denis Weaire — Republic Of Ireland (194?- )

Wilhelm Weber — Germany ( 1804 – 1891 )

Steven Weinberg — USA ( 1933 – )

Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, USA ( 1908 – 2002 )

John Archibald Wheeler - USA ( 1911 -)

Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary/USA ( 1902 – 1993 )

Frank Wilczek — USA ( 1951 – )

Robert R. Wilson — USA ( 1914 – 2000 )

Edward Witten — USA ( 1951 – )

Lincoln Wolfenstein - USA ( 1923 -)

Robert W. Wood — USA ( 1868 – 1955 )

Arthur Wightman — USA (?– )

Alfred Wagner

Y

Chen Ning Yang — China ( 1922 – )

Thomas Young — UK ( 1773 – 1829 )

Hideki Yukawa — Japan ( 1907 – 1981 )

SEE ALSO

List Of Theoretical Physicists

Genealogy Of Theoretical Physicists

List Of Plasma Physicists

List Of Mathematicians

Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th century American) are collected in the Emilio Segre Visual Archives