List of physicists

Many famous physicists of the 20th and 21st century are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.

Famous early physicists:

• Lucretius - Greece (98?-55 BC)
• William Gilbert - England (1544-1603)
• Galileo Galilei - Italy (1564-1642)
• Willebrord Snell - Netherlands (1580-1626)
• René Descartes - France (1596-1650)
• Evangelista Torricelli - Italy (1608-1647)
• Christiaan Huygens - Netherlands (1629-1695)
• Blaise Pascal - France (1623-1662)
• Robert Boyle - England (1627-1691)
• Christian Huygens, (1629-1695)
• Robert Hooke - England (1635-1703)
• Isaac Newton - England (1642-1727)

Famous physicists of the 18th century:

• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, (1686-1736)
• Daniel Bernoulli - Switzerland (1700-1782)
• Benjamin Franklin USA (1706-1790)
• Leonard Euler, (1707-1783)
• Rudjer Josip Boscovich - Dubrovnik (1711-1787)
• Jean Le Rond d'Alembert - France (1717-1783)
• Henry Cavendish - Britain (1731-1810)
• Charles Augustin de Coulomb, (1736-1806)
• Joseph-Louis Lagrange, (1736-1813)
• James Watt Scotland (1736-1819)

Famous physicists of the 19th century:

• Alessandro Volta - Italy (1745-1827)
• Ernst Chladni - Germany (1756-1827)
• John Dalton - England (1766-1844)
• Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
• Thomas Young - England (1773-1829)
• Jean-Baptist Biot, (1774-1862)
• Andre Marie Ampere, (1775-1836)
• Amedeo Avogadro - Italy (1776-1856)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss - Germany (1777-1855)
• Hans Christian Ørsted - Denmark (1777-1851)
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
• David Brewster - Scotland (1781-1868)
• William Prout - England (1785-1850)
• Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
• Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany (1787-1826)
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel - France (1788-1827)
• Georg Ohm - Germany (1789-1854)
• Michael Faraday - Britain (1791-1867)
• Felix Savart[?] - France (1791-1841)
• Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot - France (1796-1832)
• Joseph Henry - US (1797-1878)
• Christian Doppler - Austria (1803-1853)
• Wilhelm Weber, (1804-1891)
• William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
• Anders Jonas Ångström, (1814-1874)
• James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)
• Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
• Léon Focault - France (1819-1868)
• George Gabriel Stokes - Britain (1819-1903)
• Hermann von Helmholtz - Germany (1821-1894)
• Rudolf Clausius - Germany (1822-1888)
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, (1824 - 1887)
• Johann Balmer[?] - Switzerland (1825-1898)
• William Thomson - (Lord Kelvin) England (1824-1907)
• Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)
• James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
• Jožef Stefan - Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
• Ernst Mach - Austria (1838-1916)
• Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
• Ernst Abbe[?] - Germany (1840-1905)
• Marie Alfred Cornu, (1841-1902)
• James Dewar - Britain (1842-1923)
• Osborne Reynolds[?] - Britain (1842-1912)
• Ludwig Boltzmann - Austria (1844-1906)
• Roland Eötvös[?] - Hungary (1848-1919)
• Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
• George Francis FitzGerald[?] - Ireland (1851-1901)
• John Henry Poynting[?] - Britain (1852-1914)
• Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912)
• Janne Rydberg, (1854-1919)
• Edwin Hall[?] - US (1855-1938)
• J.J. Thomson, (1856-1940)
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Germany (1857-1894)

Famous physicists of the 20th century:

• Henri Becquerel - France (1852-1908)
• Felix Bloch - Switzerland (1905-1983)
• Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962)
• Satyendra Nath Bose - India (1894-1974)
• Louis-Victor de Broglie - France (1892-1987)
• Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)
• Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
• Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Britain (1902-1984)
• Freeman Dyson - Britain, USA (1923- )
• Paul Ehrenfest - Austria (1880-1933)
• Albert Einstein - Switzerland, USA (1879-1955)
• Enrico Fermi - Italy (1901-1954)
• Richard Feynman - USA (1918-1988)
• Murray Gell-Mann - USA (1929- )
• Werner Karl Heisenberg, (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)
• John von Neumann - Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
• Robert Oppenheimer - USA (1904-1967)
• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli - Austria (1900-1958)
• Max Planck Germany (1858-1947)
• John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, (1845-1923)
• Ernest Rutherford - England (1871-1937)
• Erwin Schrödinger, (1887-1961)
• Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary, USA (1856-1943)
• Arthur Wightman - Britain
• Eugene Wigner - Austria-Hungary, USA (1902-1993)

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External link

• Pictures of famous physicists are collected in the Emilio Segre Visual Archives: http://www.aip.org/history/esva/