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.

Michael Burry
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish scientist, specialist in the field of mathematical physics

William Shockley
USA
USAAmerican physicist and inventor originally from England

William Grove
Great Britain
Great BritainWelsh judge and physicist

James Jeans
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish mathematician, physicist and astronomer.

Alessandro Volta
Italy
ItalyItalian scientist and inventor of electric batteries

David Deutsch
Great Britain
Great BritainPhysics theorist working at Oxford University

Nadir Kagramanov
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani scientist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Venkata Raman
India
IndiaPhysicist

Omar Omarov
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor

Jacov Geronimus
Ukrainian scientist in the field of theoretical and applied mechanics

Heinrich Barkhausen
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist in the field of electron physics and electrical engineering.

Anders Jonas Angstrom
Sweden
SwedenSwedish physicist

Al-Biruni
Afghanistan
AfghanistanAsian scholar of the Middle Ages

Denis Papin
France
FranceFrench physicist, one of the inventors of the heat engine

Adriaan Fokker
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch physicist

Alan Lightman
USA
USAAmerican physicist, essayist and writer

Max Born
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist

Thomas Young
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist, doctor, Egyptologist

Gotfrid Leybnits
Germany
GermanyGerman philosopher, mathematician, logician, mechanic, physicist, lawyer, historian, linguist and inventor.

Heinz Barwich
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist

William R. Bennett
USA
USAAmerican physicist

Abdul Qadeer Kan
India
IndiaPakistani nuclear scientist, founder and director of the Pakistani nuclear program.

Eduard Persell
USA
USAAmerican physicist, Nobel Prize winner in physics in 1952

Irving Lengmiur
USA
USAPhysicist and physical chemist

Genrih Kayser
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist who discovered the presence of helium in the earth's atmosphere

Andrey Goncharenko
Belarus
BelarusSoviet and Belarusian physicist

David Joseph Bohm
USA
USAScientist who contributed to quantum physics, philosophy and neuropsychology

George Ohm
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Established the fundamental law of the electric circuit (Ohm's law).

Max Jammer
Israel
IsraelIsraeli physicist and historian of science.

Gustav Herts
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, nephew of Heinrich Hertz. Together with Frank, he measured the energy of a quantum and discovered the law of collision of an electron with an atom. Nobel Prize Laureate

Emile Amagat
France
FranceFrench physicist, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences

Yury Osipov
Russia
RussiaAcademician, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Emile Duclaux
France
FranceFrench physicist, chemist and biologist

Frederick Seitz
USA
USAAmerican physicist

Peiyuan Zhou
China
ChinaChinese theoretical physicist and educator

Vilgelm Rontgen
Germany
GermanyPhysicist

Pavel Apanasevich
Belarus
BelarusSoviet and Belarusian physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR

Edward Kolb
USA
USAAmerican physicist

Jeyms Chadvik
Great Britain
Great BritainPhysicist

David Brewster
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer, historian and university chancellor

Djulius Schwinger
USA
USAAmerican theoretical physicist, one of the founders of quantum electrodynamics

John William Rayleigh
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist

Philipp Jolly
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist and mathematician

Sinitiro Tomonaga
Japan
JapanPhysicist

John Bardeen
USA
USAAmerican physicist and electrical engineer

Duglas Hartree
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish theoretical physicist and mathematician

William Barrett
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish physicist

Lize Mejtner
Austria
AustriaPhysicist and radiochemist

Verner Heisenberg
Germany
GermanyEnglish physicist, President of the Royal Society of London (1935-40), founder of X-ray diffraction analysis

John Frank Allen
Canada
CanadaCanadian and British experimental physicist