Ting, Samuel Chao Chung, 1936-, American physicist, b. Ann Arbor, Mich., Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan 1962. Ting was a professor at Columbia from 1965 to 1969, when he joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also does research at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Ting and Burton Richter were jointly awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery in 1974 of a new kind of heavy elementary particle, which Ting called the J particle (now known as the J/psi meson). Working independently, Ting at Brookhaven and Burton at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the two used different methods to make the finding at virtually the same time. The discovery led to the detection of many new subatomic particles.

Below is a list of famous physicists. Many of these from the 20th and 21st centuries are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.

A

• Ernst Karl Abbe — Germany (1840–1905)
• Derek Abbott — Australia (1960- )
• Marek Artur Abramowicz - Poland (1945- )
• Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov — Soviet Union/Russia (1928- )
• Robert Adler — USA (1913-2007)
• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov — Russia (1930- )
• Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén — Sweden (1908–1995)
• Jim Al-Khalili — UK (1962- )
• William Allis — USA (1901-1999)
• Samuel King Allison — USA (1900-1965)
• P.M. van Alphen — Netherlands (1906-1967)
• Ralph Asher Alpher — USA (1921–2007)
• Luis Walter Alvarez — USA (1911–1988)
• Herbert L. Anderson – USA (1914–1988)
• André-Marie Ampère — France (1775–1836)
• Anders Jonas Ångström — Sweden (1814–1874)
• Hans Henrik Andersen — Denmark (1937- )
• Carl David Anderson — USA (1905-1991)
• Philip Warren Anderson — USA (1923– )
• Edward Victor Appleton — UK (1892-1965)
• François Jean Dominique Arago - France (1786-1853)
• Archimedes — Syracuse (ca. 287–212 BC)
• Manfred von Ardenne — Germany (1907-1997)
• Aristarchus of Samos — Samos (310 – ca. 230 BC)
• Aristotle — Athens, Greece (384–322 BC)
• Nima Arkani-Hamed — USA (1972- )
• Amedeo Avogadro — Italy (1776-1856)

B

• Tom Baehr-Jones — USA (1980- )
• Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran — India (1938- )
• Johann Jakob Balmer — Switzerland (1825–1898)
• John Bardeen — USA (1908–1991)
• Charles Glover Barkla — UK (1877-1944)
• Boyd Bartlett — USA (1897- )
• Heinz Barwich — Germany (1911-1966)
• Laura Maria Caterina Bassi — Italy (1711-1778)
• Nikolay Basov — Russia (1922-2001)
• Zoltán Lajos Bay — Hungary (1900–1992)
• Karl Bechert — Germany (1901-1981)
• Karl Becker — Germany (1887-1955)
• Henri Becquerel — France (1852–1908)
• Johannes Georg Bednorz — Germany (1950- )
• Isaac Beeckman — Netherlands (1588-1637)
• John Stewart Bell — UK (1928–1990)
• Carl M. Bender — USA
• Abraham Bennet — England(1749-1799)
• Daniel Bernoulli — Switzerland (1700–1782)
• Hans Bethe — Germany, USA (1906–2005)
• Homi J. Bhabha — India (1909–1966)
• Gerd Binnig — Germany (1947- )
• Jean-Baptiste Biot — France (1774–1862)
• Raymond T. Birge — USA (1887–1980)
• Vilhelm Bjerknes — Norway (1862–1951)
• James Bjorken — USA (1934– )
• Patrick Blackett — UK (1897–1947)
• Felix Bloch — Switzerland (1905–1983)
• Nicolaas Bloembergen — Netherlands, USA (1920- )
• David Bohm — USA (1917-1992)
• Aage Niels Bohr — Denmark (1922– )
• Nikolay Bogolyubov — Soviet Union/Russia (1909–1992)
• Niels Bohr — Denmark (1885–1962)
• Ludwig Boltzmann — Austria (1844–1906)
• Eugene T. Booth – USA (1912–2004)
• Max Born — Germany, UK (1882–1970)
• Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik (1711–1787)
• Jagadish Chandra Bose — India (1858-1937)
• Satyendra Nath Bose — India (1894–1974)
• Johannes Bosscha — Netherlands (1831-1911)
• Walther Bothe — Germany (1891-1957)
• Robert Boyle — Ireland, England (1627–1691)
• William Henry Bragg — UK (1862-1942)
• William Lawrence Bragg — Australia (1890-1971)
• Walter Houser Brattain — USA (1902-1987)
• Karl Ferdinand Braun — Germany (1850-1918)
• David Brewster — UK (1781–1868)
• Percy Williams Bridgman — USA (1882-1961)
• Léon Nicolas Brillouin — France (1889-1969)
• Marcel Brillouin — France (1854—1948)
• Bertram Brockhouse — Canada (1918-2003)
• Louis-Victor de Broglie — France (1892–1987)
• Thomas Townsend Brown — USA (1905–1985)
• Ernst Brüche — Germany (1900-1985)
• Hermann Brück — Germany (1905-2000)
• Johannes Martinus Burgers — Netherlands (1895-1981)
• W.G. Burgers — Netherlands
• Friedrich Burmeister — Germany (1890-1969)
• Christophorus Buys Ballot — Netherlands (1817-1890)

C

• Nicolás Cabrera — Spain (1913–1989)
• Fritjof Capra — Austria, USA (1939– )
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot — France (1796–1832)
• David Carroll - USA (1963-)
• Hendrik Casimir — Netherlands (1909-2000)
• Henry Cavendish — UK (1731–1810)
• James Chadwick — UK (1891-1974)
• Owen Chamberlain — USA (1920–2006)
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar — India, USA (1910–1995)
• Georges Charpak — France (1924- )
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904–1990)
• Geoffrey Chew — USA (1924–)
• Ernst Chladni — Germany (1756–1827)
• Steven Chu — USA (1948– )
• Giovanni Ciccotti — Italy (1943– )
• Benoît Clapeyron — France (1799-1864)
• Rudolf Clausius — Germany (1822–1888)
• Jacob Clay — Netherlands (1882-1955)
• John Cockcroft — UK (1897-1967)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji — France (1933- )
• Arthur Compton — USA (1892-1962)
• Edward Condon — USA (1902-1974)
• Leon Cooper — USA (1930- )
• Allan McLeod Cormack — South Africa, USA (1924-1998)
• Eric Allin Cornell — USA (1961- )
• Marie Alfred Cornu — France (1841–1902)
• Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — France (1736–1806)
• Ernest Courant — USA (1920– )
• Brian Cox — UK (1968- )
• James Cronin — USA (1931- )
• Sir William Crookes
• Marie Curie — Poland, France (1867–1934)
• Pierre Curie — France (1859–1906)

D

• Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France (1717–1783)
• Gustaf Dalén — Sweden (1869-1937)
• Richard Dalitz — UK, USA (1925–2006)
• John Dalton — UK (1766–1844)
• Charles Galton Darwin — UK (1887–1962)
• Paul Davies — Australia (1946– )
• Raymond Davis Jr. — USA (1914-2006)
• Clinton Davisson — USA (1881-1958)
• Peter Debije — Netherlands (1884-1966)
• Hans Georg Dehmelt — Germany, USA (1922- )
• Max Delbrück — Germany, USA (1906-1981)
• Democritus — Abdera (circa 460–360 BC)
• David M. Dennison — USA (1900-1976)
• James Dewar — UK (1842–1923)
• Robbert Dijkgraaf — Netherlands (1960- )
• Savas Dimopoulos - USA
• Paul Dirac — UK (1902–1984)
• Revaz Dogonadze — Soviet Union, Georgia (1931–1985)
• Christian Doppler — Austria (1803–1853)
• Henk Dorgelo — Netherlands (1894-1961)
• Robert Döpel — Germany (1895-1982)
• Friedrich Ernst Dorn — Germany (1848-1916)
• Michael R. Douglas — USA (1961–)
• Sidney Drell — USA (1926–)
• Paul Drude — Germany (1863-1906)
• Freeman Dyson — UK, USA (1923– )

E

• Joseph H. Eberly — USA (1935 — )
• William Eccles — UK (1875–1966)
• Carl Eckart — USA (1902-1973)
• Sir Arthur Eddington — UK (1882–1944)
• Paul Ehrenfest — Austria-Hungary, Netherlands (1880–1933)
• Felix Ehrenhaft — Austria-Hungary, USA (1879–1952)
• Manfred Eigen — Germany (1927- )
• Albert Einstein — Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA (1879–1955)
• Arpad Elo — Hungary (1903-1992)
• David Enskog — Sweden (1884–1947)
• Loránd Eötvös — Austria-Hungary (1848–1919)
• Leo Esaki — Japan (1925- )
• Ernest Esclangon — France (1876–1954)
• Louis Essen — UK (1908–1997)
• Leonhard Euler — Switzerland (1707–1783)
• Denis Evans — Australia (1951– )
• Paul Peter Ewald — Germany, USA (1888-1985)
• James Alfred Ewing — UK (1855–1935)
• Franz S. Exner — Austria (1849-1926)

F

• Ludvig Faddeev — Russia (1934-)
• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — (1686–1736)
• Kazimierz Fajans — Poland, USA (1887-1975)
• Michael Faraday — UK (1791–1867)
• Eugene Feenberg — USA (1906–1977)
• Mitchell Feigenbaum — USA (1944– )
• Gerald Feinberg — USA (1933–192)
• Enrico Fermi — Italy (1901–1954)
• Albert Fert — France (1938– )
• Herman Feshbach — USA (1917-2000)
• Richard Feynman — USA (1918–1988)
• Wolfgang Finkelnburg — Germany (1905-1967)
• David Finkelstein — USA (1929- )
• Johannes Fischer — Germany (1987- )
• Val Logsdon Fitch — USA (1923- )
• George Francis FitzGerald — Ireland (1851–1901)
• Hippolyte Fizeau — France (1819–1896)
• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898–1974)
• Adriaan Fokker — Netherlands (1887–1972)
• James David Forbes — UK (1809–1868)
• Léon Foucault — France (1819–1868)
• Joseph Fourier — France (1768–1830)
• Ralph H. Fowler — UK (1889–1944)
• William Alfred Fowler — USA (1911-1995)
• James Franck — Germany, USA (1882-1964)
• Ilya Frank — Soviet Union (1908-1990)
• Benjamin Franklin — USA (1706–1790)
• Rosalind Franklin — UK (1920-1958)
• Walter Franz — Germany (1911-1992)
• Joseph von Fraunhofer — Germany (1787–1826)
• Steven Frautschi — USA (1933– )
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel — France (1788–1827)
• Alexander Friedman — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1888–1925)
• Daniel Friedan — USA
• B. Roy Frieden — USA (1936– )
• Jerome Isaac Friedman — USA (1930- )
• Otto Frisch — Austria, UK (1904-1979)
• Erwin Fues — Germany (1893-1970)
• Harald Fuchs — Germany (1951-)

G

• Dennis Gabor — Hungary (1900-1979)
• Galileo Galilei — Italy (1564-1642)
• Luigi Galvani — Italy (1737–1798)
• George Gamow — Russia, USA (1904-1968)
• Sylvester James Gates — USA (1950- )
• Carl Friedrich Gauss — Germany (1777-1855)
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac — France (1778-1850)
• Murray Gell-Mann — USA (1929- )
• Pierre-Gilles de Gennes — France (1932-2007)
• Howard Georgi — USA (1947- )
• Walter Gerlach — Germany (1889-1979)
• Christian Gerthsen — Denmark, Germany (1894-1956)
• Riccardo Giacconi — Italy, USA (1931- )
• Ivar Giaever — Norway, USA (1929- )
• Josiah Willard Gibbs — USA (1839-1903)
• William Gilbert — England (1544-1603)
• Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg — Soviet Union/Russia (1916- )
• Donald Arthur Glaser — USA (1926- )
• Sheldon Lee Glashow — USA (1932- )
• G. N. Glasoe – USA (1902– )
• Roy Jay Glauber — USA (1925- )
• Ferdinando Gliozzi
• Karl Glitscher — Germany (1886-1945)
• Marvin Leonard Goldberger — USA (1922–)
• Lev Gor'kov — USA (1929- )
• Samuel Goudsmit — Netherlands, USA (1902-1978)
• Leo Graetz — Germany (1856-1941)
• Willem 's Gravesande — Netherlands (1688-1742)
• Brian Greene — USA (1963- )
• John Gribbin — UK (1946- )
• David Gross — USA (1941- )
• Frederick Grover — USA (1876-1973)
• Peter Grünberg — Germany (1939- )
• Charles Édouard Guillaume — Switzerland (1861-1931)
• Feza Gürsey — Turkey (1921-1992)
• Alan Guth - USA (1947- )
• Martin Gutzwiller — Switzerland (1925- )

H

• Rudolf Haag — Germany (1922– )
• Wander Johannes de Haas — Netherlands (1878-1960)
• Otto Hahn — Germany (1879-1968)
• Edwin Hall — USA (1855–1938)
• John Lewis Hall — USA (1934- )
• Viktor Hambardzumyan — Armenia, Russia (1908-1996)
• William Rowan Hamilton — Ireland (1805–1865)
• Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch — Germany (1941- )
• Peter Andreas Hansen — Denmark (1795–1874)
• W.W. Hansen — USA (1909–1949)
• Paul Harteck — Germany (1902-1985)
• Douglas Hartree — UK (1897–1958)
• Friedrich Hasenöhrl — Austria,Hungary (1874-1915)
• Stephen Hawking — UK (1942– )
• Ibn al-Haytham — Iraq (965-1039)
• Oliver Heaviside — UK (1850–1925)
• Werner Karl Heisenberg — Germany (1901–1976)
• Walter Heitler — Germany/Ireland (1904-1981)
• Hermann von Helmholtz — Germany (1821–1894)
• Charles H. Henry — USA (1937- )
• Joseph Henry — USA (1797–1878)
• John Herapath — UK (1790–1868)
• Carl Hermann — Germany (1898–1961)
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz — Germany (1857–1894)
• Karl Herzfeld — Austria, USA (1892-1978)
• Victor Francis Hess — Austria, USA (1883–1964)
• Mahmoud Hessaby — Iran (1903-1992)
• Antony Hewish — UK (1924- )
• Peter Higgs — UK (1929- )
• George William Hill — USA (1838–1914)
• Gustave-Adolphe Hirn — France (1815-1890)
• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — England (1910-1994)
• Robert Hofstadter — USA (1915-1990)
• Gilles Holst — Netherlands (1886-1968)
• Helmut Hönl — Germany (1903-1981)
• Gerardus 't Hooft — Netherlands (1946– )
• Robert Hooke — England (1635–1703)
• John Hopkinson — U.K. (1849-1898)
• William V. Houston — USA (1900-1968)
• Charlotte (nee Riefenstahl) Houtermans — Germany (1899 - )
• Fritz Houtermans — Netherlands/Germany/Austria (1903-1996)
• Sir Fred Hoyle — UK (1915–2001)
• John H. Hubbell — USA (1925-2007)
• Russell Alan Hulse — USA (1950- )
• Friedrich Hund — Germany (1896-1997)
• Andrew D. Huxley — U.K. (1966- )
• Christiaan Huygens — Netherlands (1629–1695)

I

• Nathan Isgur — USA, Canada (1947-2001)

J

• Ali Javan — Iran (1928– )
• Edwin Jaynes — USA (1922–1998)
• Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen — Germany (1907-1973)
• Irene Joliot-Curie — France (1897-1956)
• Pascual Jordan - Germany (1902-1980)
• Brian David Josephson — UK (1940– )
• James Prescott Joule — UK (1818–1889)

K

• Michio Kaku — USA (1947- )
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — Netherlands (1853-1926)
• William R. Kanne — USA
• Pyotr Kapitza — UK, Soviet Union (1894-1984)
• Theodore von Kármán — Hungary, USA (1881-1963)
• Alfred Kastler — France (1902-1984)
• Heinrich Kayser — Germany (1853-1940)
• Willem Hendrik Keesom — Netherlands (1876-1956)
• Edwin C. Kemble — USA (1889-1984)
• Henry Way Kendall — USA (1926-1999)
• Johannes Kepler — Germany (1571–1630)
• John Kerr — UK (1824–1907)
• Wolfgang Ketterle — Germany (1957- )
• Abdul Qadeer Khan — Pakistan (1936- )
• Julii Khariton — Soviet Union (1904-1996)
• Jack St. Clair Kilby — USA (1923-2005)
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff — Germany (1824–1887)
• Jacob Kistemaker — Netherlands (1917- )
• Bruce G. Klappauf — USA (1961- )
• Oskar Klein — Sweden (1894-1977)
• Hagen Kleinert — Germany (1941- )
• Klaus von Klitzing — Germany (1943- )
• Jens Martin Knudsen — Denmark (1930–2005)
• Martin Knudsen — Denmark (1871-1949)
• Arthur Korn — Germany (1870-1945)
• Masatoshi Koshiba — Japan (1926- )
• Matthew Koss — USA (1961- )
• Walther Kossel — Germany (1888-1956)
• Gabriel Kotliar — USA (1950- )
• Lew Kowarski — France (1907-1979)
• Hendrik Kramers — Netherlands (1894-1952)
• Adolf Kratzer — Germany (1893- )
• Lawrence Krauss — USA (1954- )
• Herbert Kroemer — Germany (1928– )
• August Krönig — Germany (1822–1879)
• Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov — Soviet Union (1917–1947)
• Ryogo Kubo — Japan (1920–1995)
• Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov — Soviet Union (1903–1960)
• Behram Kurşunoğlu — Turkey (1922-2003)
• Polykarp Kusch Germany (1911-1993)

L

• Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736–1813)
• Willis Lamb - USA (1913-)
• Lev Davidovich Landau — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1908–1968)
• Rolf Landauer — USA (1927-1999)
• Kenneth Lane — USA
• Paul Langevin — France (1872-1946)
• Irving Langmuir — USA (1881-1957)
• Max von Laue — Germany (1879–1960)
• Robert Betts Laughlin — USA (1950– )
• Ernest Lawrence — USA (1901–1958)
• Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev — Imperial Russia (1866–1912)
• Leon Max Lederman — USA (1922– )
• Benjamin Lee — Korea, USA (1935-1977)
• David Lee — USA (1931- )
• Tsung-Dao Lee — China, USA (1926– )
• Anthony James Leggett — UK, USA (1938– )
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Germany (1646–1716)
• Robert B. Leighton — USA (1919-1997)
• Georges Lemaître — Belgium (1894–1966)
• Philipp Lenard — Hungary, Germany (1862-1947)
• John Lennard-Jones — UK (1894–1954)
• John Leslie — UK (1766–1832)
• Walter Lewin — Netherlands, USA
• Martin Lewis Perl — USA (1927- )
• Robert von Lieben — Austria-Hungary (1878-1913)
• Alfred-Marie Liénard — France (1869-1958)
• Evgeny Lifshitz — Soviet Union (1915-1985)
• David Lindley — USA (1956– )
• Gabriel Jonas Lippmann — France, Luxemburg (1845–1921)
• Karl L. Littrow — Austria (1811–1877)
• Oliver Lodge — UK (1851-1940)
• Maurice Loewy — Austria/France (1833–1907)
• Robert K. Logan — USA (1939– )
• Alfred Lee Loomis — USA (1887–1975)
• Hendrik Lorentz — Netherlands (1853–1928)
• Johann Loschmidt — Germany (1821–1895)
• Archibald Low — UK (1888–1956)
• Per-Olov Löwdin — Sweden (1916–2000)
• Lucretius — Rome (98?–55 BC)
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov — Imperial Russia (1857–1918)

M

• Mozi — China (Around 450BC)
• Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry — Netherlands (1904–1993)
• Ernst Mach — Austria-Hungary (1838–1916)
• Theodore Maiman — USA (1927–2007)
• Ettore Majorana — Italy (1906-1938 presumed dead)
• Juan Martín Maldacena — Argentina (1968– )
• Etienne-Louis Malus — France (1775–1812)
• Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1879–1944)
• Peter Mansfield — UK (1933– )
• Guglielmo Marconi — Italy (1874–1937)
• Henry Margenau — Germany, USA (1901–1977)
• William Markowitz — USA (1907–1998)
• Robert Marshak — USA (1916–1992)
• Harrie Massey — Australia (1908-1983)
• John Cromwell Mather — USA (1946– )
• James Clerk Maxwell — UK (1831–1879)
• Brian May — UK (1947– )
• Maria Goeppert Mayer — Germany, USA (1906-1972)
• Ronald E. McNair — USA (1950–1986)
• Simon van der Meer — Netherlands (1925- )
• Fulvio Melia — USA (1956- )
• Macedonio Melloni — Italy (1798–1854)
• Lise Meitner — Austria (1878-1968)
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall — USA (1841–1924)
• Albert Abraham Michelson — USA (1852–1931)
• Stanislav Mikheyev — Russia
• Robert Andrews Millikan — USA (1868–1953)
• Arthur Milne — UK (1896-1950)
• John J. Montgomery — USA (1858-1911)
• Jagadeesh Moodera — India, USA (1950– )
• Rudolf Mössbauer — Germany (1929– )
• Henry Moseley — UK (1887–1915)
• Nevill Mott — UK (1905–1996)
• Ben Roy Mottelson — Denmark, USA (1926- )
• Amédée Mouchez — Spain, France (1821–1892)
• José Enrique Moyal — Palestine, France, UK, USA, Australia (1910-1998)
• Karl Alexander Müller — Switzerland (1927– )
• Richard A. Muller — USA (1944– )
• Robert S. Mulliken — USA (1896–1986)
• Pieter van Musschenbroek — Netherlands (1692-1762)

N

• Yoichiro Nambu — Japan, USA (1921– )
• Jayant Narlikar — India (1938– )
• Seth Neddermeyer — USA (1907–1988)
• Louis Eugène Félix Néel — France (1904–2000)
• Yuval Ne'eman — Israel (1925-2006)
• Ann Nelson — USA (1958– )
• John von Neumann — Austria-Hungary, USA (1903–1957)
• Simon Newcomb — USA (1835–1909)
• Sir Isaac Newton — England (1642–1727)
• Holger Bech Nielsen — Denmark (1941– )
• Leopoldo Nobili — Italy (1784–1835)
• Emmy Noether — Germany (1882–1935)
• Lothar Nordheim — Germany (1899–1985)
• Johann Gottlieb Nörremberg — Germany (1787–1862)

O

• Georg Ohm — Germany (1789–1854)
• David Olive
• Gerard K. O'Neill — USA (1927–1992)
• Lars Onsager — Norway (1903–1976)
• Robert Oppenheimer — USA (1904–1967)
• Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh — Ireland (1933–2000)
• Nicole Oresme — France (1325–1382)
• Leonard Salomon Ornstein — Netherlands (1880–1941)
• Egon Orowan — Austria-Hungary, USA (1901–1989)
• Yuri Orlov — Soviet Union, USA (1924– )
• Douglas Dean Osheroff — USA (1945– )
• Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky — Russia (1801–1862)
• Hans Christian Ørsted — Denmark (1777–1851)

P

• Thanu Padmanabhan — India (1957- )
• Abraham Pais — Netherlands, USA (1918-2000)
• Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky — Germany/USA (1919- )
• Blaise Pascal — France (1623–1662)
• John Pasta — USA (1918-1984)
• Jogesh Pati — USA (1937- )
• Wolfgang Paul — Germany (1913–1993)
• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli — Austria-Hungary (1900–1958)
• G. B. Pegram — USA (1876–1958)
• Rudolf Peierls — Germany/UK (1907-1995)
• Jean Peltier — France (1785–1845)
• Roger Penrose — UK (1931– )
• Arno Allan Penzias — USA (1933– )
• Saul Perlmutter — USA (1959- )
• Jean Baptiste Perrin — France (1870-1942)
• Bernhard Philberth — Germany (1927– )
• William Daniel Phillips — USA (1948– )
• Max Planck — Germany (1858–1947)
• Joseph Plateau — Belgium (1801–1883)
• Ward Plummer - USA (1940-)
• Henri Poincaré — France (1854–1912)
• Balthasar van der Pol — Netherlands (1889-1959)
• Joseph Polchinski — UK (1954–)
• Hugh David Politzer — USA (1949– )
• John Polkinghorne — UK (1930– )
• Alexander M. Polyakov - Russia-USA (1945-)
• Heraclides Ponticus — Greece (387–312 BC)
• Heinz Pose — Germany (1905-1975)
• Cecil Frank Powell — UK (1903–1969)
• John Henry Poynting — UK (1852–1914)
• Ludwig Prandtl — Germany (1875-1953)
• Ilya Prigogine — Belgium (1917-2003)
• Aleksandr Prokhorov — Soviet/Russian (1916-2002)
• William Prout — UK (1785–1850)
• Luigi Puccianti — Italy (1875–1952)
• Ivan Pulyuy — Ukraine (1845-1918)
• Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin — Serbia/USA (1858-1935)
• Edward Mills Purcell — USA (1912-1997)

Q

• Helen Quinn — USA (1943- )

R

• Isidor Isaac Rabi — Austria, USA (1898-1988)
• Mark G. Raizen -New York City USA (1955-)
• James Rainwater-USA (1917-1986)
• Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — India (1888–1970)
• Edward Ramberg — USA (1907-1995)
• Carl Ramsauer — Germany (1879-1955)
• Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. — USA (1915- )
• Lisa Randall — USA (1962– )
• Lord Rayleigh — UK (1842–1919)
• René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur — France (1683–1757)
• Sidney Redner — Canada, USA (1951- )
• Martin John Rees — UK (1942- )
• Hubert Reeves — Canada (1932– )
• Tullio Regge — Italy (1931–)
• Frederick Reines — USA (1918–1998)
• Louis Rendu — France (1789–1859)
• Osborne Reynolds — UK (1842–1912)
• Owen Willans Richardson — UK (1879-1959)
• Robert Coleman Richardson — USA (1937- )
• Burton Richter — USA (1931- )
• Charlotte Riefenstahl — Germany (1899- )
• Nikolaus Riehl — Germany (1901-1990)
• Karl-Heinrich Riewe — Germany
• Walter Ritz — Switzerland (1878-1909)
• Étienne-Gaspard Robert — Belgium (1763-1837)
• Heinrich Rohrer — Switzerland (1933- )
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen — Germany (1845–1923)
• Clemens C. J. Roothaan — Netherlands (1918–)
• Marshall Rosenbluth — USA (1927–2003)
• Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby — Sweden, USA (1898–1957)
• Joseph Rotblat — Poland, UK (1908-2005)
• Carlo Rubbia — Italy (1934– )
• Serge Rudaz — Canada, USA (1954– )
• David Ruelle — Belgium, France (1935– )
• Ernst August Friedrich Ruska — Germany (1906–1988)
• Ernest Rutherford — New Zealand, UK (1871–1937)
• Janne Rydberg — Sweden (1854–1919)
• Martin Ryle — UK (1918–1984)

S

• Georges-Louis le Sage — Switzerland (1724–1803)
• Georges Sagnac — France (1869-1926)
• Megh Nad Saha — Bengali India (1893-1956)
• Gilles Saint-Hilaire — Canada (1948– )
• Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — Soviet Union (1929–1989)
• Oscar Sala — Brazil (1922– )
• Abdus Salam — Pakistan, UK (1926–1996)
• Vikram Sarabhai — India (1919-1971)
• Jack Sarfatti — USA (1939– )
• Isidor Sauers — Austria (1948- )
• Felix Savart — France (1791–1841)
• Martin Schadt — Switzerland (1938- )
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow — USA (1921-1999)
• Joël Scherk — USA (1946-1979)
• Otto Scherzer — Germany (1909-1982)
• Walter H. Schottky — Germany (1886-1976)
• Kees A. Schouhamer Immink — Netherlands (1946- )
• John Robert Schrieffer — USA (1931- )
• Erwin Schrödinger — Austria-Hungary (1887–1961)
• Melvin Schwartz — USA (1932-2006)
• John Henry Schwarz — USA (1941–)
• Julian Schwinger — USA (1918-1994)
• Dennis William Sciama — UK (1926-1999)
• Thomas Johann Seebeck — Estonia (1770–1831)
• Emilio G. Segrè — USA/Italy (1905–1989)
• Frederick Seitz — USA (1911- )
• Nikolay Semyonov — Russia (1896-1986)
• Robert Serber — USA (1909-1997)
• Roman U. Sexl — Austria (1939-1986)
• William Bradford Shockley — USA (1910-1989)
• Lev Shubnikov — Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine (1901-1937)
• Clifford Shull — USA (1915-2001)
• Manne Siegbahn — Sweden (1886-1978)
• Kai Siegbahn — Sweden (1918-2007)
• Ludwik Silberstein — Poland, Germany, Italy, USA, Canada (1872-1948)
• Willem de Sitter — Netherlands (1872-1934)
• Francis G. Slack – USA (1897–1985)
• John C. Slater — USA (1900-1976)
• Louis Slotin — USA (1910-1946)
• Alexei Smirnov — Russia, Italy
• Marian Smoluchowski — Poland (1872-1917)
• George Smoot — USA (1945- )
• Willebrord Snel van Royen (Snellius) — Netherlands (1580–1626)
• Arnold Sommerfeld — Germany (1868-1951)
• Johannes Stark — Germany (1874-1957)
• Max Steenbeck — (1901-1981)
• Jožef Stefan — Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835–1893)
• Jack Steinberger — Germany, USA (1921- )
• Karl August von Steinheil — Germany (1801–1870)
• Otto Stern — Germany (1888–1969)
• Simon Stevin — Belgium, Netherlands (1548–1620)
• George Gabriel Stokes — Ireland / UK (1819–1903)
• Horst Ludwig Störmer — Germany (1949– )
• Ernst Stueckelberg — Switzerland (1905–1984)
• George Sudarshan — India, USA (1931– )
• Oleg Sushkov — Australia-Russia (1950- )
• Leonard Susskind — USA (1940- )
• Joseph Wilson Swan — UK (1828–1914)
• Jean Henri van Swinden — Netherlands (1746-1823)
• Bertha Swirles — UK (1903–1999)
• Leó Szilárd — Austria-Hungary, USA (1898–1964)
• Shen Kuo — China (1031 - 1095)

T

• Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1895–1971)
• Abraham Haskel Taub — USA (1911–1999)
• Geoffrey Ingram Taylor — UK (1886–1975)
• Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. — USA (1941– )
• Richard Edward Taylor — USA (1929– )
• Max Tegmark — Sweden, USA (1967– )
• Edward Teller — Austria-Hungary, USA (1908–2003)
• Nikola Tesla — Serbia/Croatia, USA (1856–1943)
• George Paget Thomson — UK (1892–1975)
• J. J. Thomson — UK (1856–1940)
• William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) — UK (1824–1907)
• Kip Stephen Thorne — USA (1940– )
• Peter Adolf Thiessen — Germany (1899–1990)
• Samuel Chao Chung Ting — USA (1936– )
• Frank J. Tipler — USA (1947– )
• Ernest William Titterton — UK/Australia (1916–1990)
• Samuel Tolansky — UK (1907–1973)
• Sin-Itiro Tomonaga — Japan (1906–1979)
• Evangelista Torricelli — Italy (1608–1647)
• Bruno Touschek — Italy (1921–1978)
• Charles Townes — USA (1915– )
• John Townsend — UK (1868–1957)
• Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763–1822)
• Sam Treiman — USA (1925–1999)
• Paolo Tripodi — Italy (1963– )
• Daniel Chee Tsui — China, USA (1939– )
• John J. Turin — USA (1913–1973)
• John Tyndall — UK (1820–1893)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson — USA (1958– )

U

• George Eugene Uhlenbeck — Netherlands, USA (1900-1988)
• Stanislaw Ulam - Poland (1909-1984)
• Juris Upatnieks - Latvia, USA (1936- )

V

• Léon Van Hove — Belgium (1924–1990)
• Sergei Vavilov — Soviet Union (1891–1951)
• Evgeny Velikhov — Russia (1935–)
• Martinus J. G. Veltman — Netherlands, USA (1931- )
• Gabriele Veneziano — Italy (1942- )
• Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746–1822)
• Émile Verdet — France (1824-1866)
• Jenny Darja Vinko — Slovenija (1963- )
• Anatoly Vlasov — Russia (1908–1975)
• John Hasbrouck van Vleck — USA (1899–1980)
• Woldemar Voigt — Germany (1850-1919)
• Burchard de Volder — Netherlands (1643-1709)
• Max Volmer — Germany (1885-1965)
• Alessandro Volta — Italy (1745–1827)

W

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands (1837–1923)
• Ludwig Waldmann — Germany (1913–1980)
• Ernest Walton — Ireland (1903–1995)
• Kan-Chang Wang — China (1907–1998)
• Aaldert Wapstra — Netherlands (1923–2006)
• Gleb Wataghin — Ukraine/Italy/Brazil (1896–1986)
• John James Waterston — UK (1811–1883)
• James Watt — UK (1736–1819)
• Denis Weaire — Ireland (194?- )
• Wilhelm Weber — Germany (1804–1891)
• Alvin Weinberg — USA (1915-2006)
• Steven Weinberg — USA (1933– )
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, USA (1908–2002)
• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker — Germany (1912-2007)
• Heinrich Welker — Germany (1912-1981)
• Peter Westervelt — USA (1919-)
• Gregor Wentzel — Germany (1898-1978)
• John Archibald Wheeler — USA (1911-)
• Gian-Carlo Wick — Italy (1909-1992)
• Emil Wiechert — Prussia (1861-1928)
• Carl Wieman — USA (1951- )
• Wilhelm Wien — Germany (1864-1928)
• Arthur Wightman — USA (1922– )
• Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary/USA (1902–1993)
• Frank Wilczek — USA (1951– )
• Charles Thomson Rees Wilson — UK (1869–1959)
• Kenneth Geddes Wilson — USA (1936– )
• Robert R. Wilson — USA (1914–2000)
• Karl Wirtz — Germany (1910-1994)
• Robert Woodrow Wilson — USA (1936– )
• Mark B. Wise — Canada/USA (1953– )
• Edward Witten — USA (1951– )
• Emil Wolf — Czechoslovakia, USA (1922– )
• Lincoln Wolfenstein — USA (1923– )
• Stephen Wolfram — UK (1959– )
• Robert W. Wood — USA (1868–1955)
• Chien-Shiung Wu — USA (1912-1997)

X

• Basilis C. Xanthopoulos — Greece (1951–1990)

Y

• Rosalyn Yalow — USA (1921- )
• Chen Ning Yang — China (1922– )
• Thomas Young — UK (1773–1829)
• Francisco Jose Yndurain — Spain (1940–2008)
• Hideki Yukawa — Japan (1907–1981)

Z

• Jan Zaanen — Netherlands (1957- )
• Anthony Zee — USA
• Pieter Zeeman — Netherlands (1865-1943)
• Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich — Russia (1914-1987)
• John Zeleny — USA (1872-1951)
• Frits Zernike — Netherlands (1888-1960)
• Antonino Zichichi — Italy (1929- )
• Karl Zimmer — Germany (1911-1988)
• Barton Zwiebach — USA (1954- )

See also

• List of theoretical physicists
• Genealogy of theoretical physicists
• List of plasma physicists
• List of mathematicians
• List of women scientists

External links

• Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th century American) are collected in the Emilio Segre Visual Archives
• 20th century women in physics in the Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics archive