List of physicists

Table of contents

1 Famous early physicists 2 Famous physicists of the 18th century 3 Famous physicists of the 19th century 4 Famous physicists of the 20th century 5 See also

Famous early physicists

• Archimedes - Syracuse (circa 287 - 212 BCE)
• Aristarchus of Samos (310 - circa 230 BCE)
• Aristotle - Athens, Greece (384-322 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)
• Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
• Lucretius - Rome (98? - 55 BCE)
• Isaac Newton - England (1642-1727)
• Nicolas Oresme - France (1325-1382)
• 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 - France (1736-1813)
• Etienne-Louis Malus - France (1775-1812)
• 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)
• 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)
• Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
• Owen Chamberlain - USA (1920-)
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1904-1990)
• Giovanni Ciccotti - Italy (1943- )
• Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)
• Sir Charles Galton Darwin, England (1887-1962)
• Paul Davies - Australia (1946- )
• 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)
• G. B. Pegram - USA (1876-1958)
• Max Planck - Germany (1858-1947)
• John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
• Hubert Reeves - Canada (1932- )
• 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)
• Robert R. Wilson - USA (1914-2000)
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf - Austria, USA (1908-2002)
• Robert W. Wood - USA (1868 - 1955)

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