Physics

Discover the list of renowned scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of Physics. From Albert Einstein to Marie Curie, explore the lives and achievements of these influential figures.

Arno Penzias
Arno Penzias
Germany
Physicist
Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Denmark
Danish theoretical physicist
Satyendra Bose
Satyendra Bose
India
Indian physicist
Charles Francois Fay
Charles Francois Fay
France
French scientist, physicist, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences.
Andre Blondel
Andre Blondel
France
French engineer and physicist
Boris Boyko
Boris Boyko
Belarus
Soviet and Belarusian physicist
Heyke Kamerlingh Onnes
Heyke Kamerlingh Onnes
Netherlands
Dutch physicist, one of the founders of low temperature physics, organizer and first director of the cryogenic laboratory in Leiden
Friedrich Paschen
Friedrich Paschen
Germany
German physicist, foreign honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Jac Curie
Jac Curie
France
French physicist
William Crookes
William Crookes
Great Britain
British scientist, chemist and physicist.
Glenn Theodore Seaborg
Glenn Theodore Seaborg
USA
American physicist, awarded the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Antoine Cesar Becquerel
Antoine Cesar Becquerel
France
French physicist.
Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside
Great Britain
English physicist
Josip Boskovic
Josip Boskovic
Serbia
Serbian scientist, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, Jesuit priest
Narinder Kapani
Narinder Kapani
India
Physicist, one of the founders of fiber optics.
Joseph John Thomson
Joseph John Thomson
Great Britain
Lord KELVIN, English physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics.
Antonius Van den Broek
Antonius Van den Broek
Netherlands
Dutch lawyer and physicist
Ernest Lourens
Ernest Lourens
USA
Physicist
Armand Fizea
Armand Fizea
France
French physicist.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
USA
Scientist physicist
Hagen Kleinert
Hagen Kleinert
Germany
Theoretical physicist, professor
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italy
Italian and American physicist, brilliant scientist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1938, one of the 'fathers of the atomic bomb' and the man who built the first nuclear reactor.
Charles K. Kao
Charles K. Kao
China
Chinese, British and American physical engineer
Emile Amagat
Emile Amagat
France
French physicist, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences
Ernst Mach
Ernst Mach
Austria
Austrian physicist, idealistic philosopher
Pierre Auger
Pierre Auger
France
French physicist, specialist in nuclear physics and cosmic radiation.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather
USA
Engineer, inventor, creator of laser printer
Robert Millikan
Robert Millikan
USA
Physicist
Georges Sharpak
Georges Sharpak
Poland
Polish-French physicist
Mark Oliphant
Mark Oliphant
Australia
Australian experimental physicist, discoverer of tritium.
Eugene Wigner
Eugene Wigner
Hungary
Physicist
Aleksandr Prohorov
Aleksandr Prohorov
Australia
Physicist
Uras Pozhela
Uras Pozhela
Lithuania
Soviet and Lithuanian physicist.
Anatole Abragam
Anatole Abragam
France
French physicist, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences
Willis Lamb
Willis Lamb
USA
Physicist who discovered the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum
Artur Shavlov
Artur Shavlov
USA
Physicist
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Germany
German physicist, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
Pierre Duhem
Pierre Duhem
France
French physicist, mathematician, philosopher and historian of science
Hans Hellman
Hans Hellman
Germany
German theoretical physicist.
Ferenc Krausz
Ferenc Krausz
Austria
Austrian physicist
Wu Chien-Shiung
Wu Chien-Shiung
USA
American physicist
Verner Heisenberg
Verner Heisenberg
Germany
English physicist, President of the Royal Society of London (1935-40), founder of X-ray diffraction analysis
Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
Great Britain
English physicist, Nobel laureate in physics 1933 (together with E. Schrödinger)
Martin Lewis Perl
Martin Lewis Perl
USA
American physicist, professor
Ludwig Prandtl
Ludwig Prandtl
Germany
German scientist one of the founders of aerodynamics, creator of the scientific school of applied hydro-aeromechanics
Heinz von Foerster
Heinz von Foerster
Austria
Austrian physicist, mathematician
Markus Reiner
Markus Reiner
Israeli engineer and physicist
Ernst Abbe
Ernst Abbe
Germany
German optical physicist
Paul Ehrenfest
Paul Ehrenfest
Germany
Theoretical physicist, foreign corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Lee Tsung-Dao
Lee Tsung-Dao
China
Chinese and American physicist