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.

Frantisek Behounek
Czech
CzechRadiologist, physicist, member of the Academy of Sciences of the Czechoslovak SSR

Sergey Vernov
Outstanding Soviet physicist

Lawrence Krauss
USA
USAAmerican physicist

Antoine Henri Becquerel
France
FrancePhysicist

Niels Bohr
Denmark
DenmarkDanish theoretical physicist

Edwin McMillan
USA
USAAmerican physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1951, shared with Glenn T. Seaborg

Norman Kroll
USA
USAAmerican theoretical physicist, member of the US National Academy of Sciences

Mahmud Kerimov
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani physicist

Godfrey Hounsfield
Great Britain
Great BritainNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1979, jointly with Alan Cormack

Leo Szilard
USA
USAAmerican physicist

Oliver Heaviside
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist

Yakir Aharonov
Israel
IsraelIsraeli theoretical physicist

Eugene Wigner
Hungary
HungaryPhysicist

Victor Gribkovsky
Belarus
BelarusSoviet and Belarusian physicist

George Stokes
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist, member of the Royal Society of London (1851).

Leonid Borisoglebsky
Belarus
BelarusSoviet and Belarusian theoretical physicist

Pierre Auger
France
FranceFrench physicist, specialist in nuclear physics and cosmic radiation.

Frederik Joliot-Curie
France
FranceFrench physicist, Nobel laureate 1935

Herbert Green
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish physicist

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

Masatosi Kosiba
Japan
JapanJapanese physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2002 (half of the prize together with Raymond Davis “for the creation of neutrino astronomy”).

Robert Goddard
USA
USAAmerican engineer, scientist and inventor. He is considered the creator of the world's first liquid fuel rocket.

Frank Wilczek
USA
USAAmerican physicist, Nobel Prize winner in physics.

Felix Auerbach
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist

Samuel Abraham Goudsmit
USA
USAAmerican theoretical physicist

Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein
Germany
GermanyGerman physician, mechanic and physicist.

Alexey Abrikosov
Russia
RussiaPhysicist

Marchello Malpighi
Italy
ItalyItalian doctor and biologist

Gustav Mee
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist.

Philip Abelson
USA
USAAmerican physicist and geochemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Gustav Karsten
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist

Andrey Goncharenko
Belarus
BelarusSoviet and Belarusian physicist

Robert Wood
USA
USAAmerican physicist, "experimental genius", specialist in physical optics, honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Ulius Mayer
Germany
GermanyGerman physician and physicist.

Boris Tsukerblat
Israel
IsraelMoldovan and Israeli physicist, chemist, mathematician

Giuseppe Okkialini
Italy
ItalyItalian physicist

Thomas Young
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist, doctor, Egyptologist

Sesil Pauell
Great Britain
Great BritainPhysicist

Georg Kraft
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist.

Leonid Litvinenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian radiophysicist and radio astronomer

Leon Max
USA
USAAmerican physicist, professor, winner of the Wolf Prize in Physics (1982).

Petr Lebedev
Russia
RussiaThe first Russian world-class physicist

Yozef Fraungofer
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

Alexandr Potupa
Belarus
BelarusPhysicist, philosopher, writer, popularizer of science.

Ali Javan
USA
USAAmerican physicist of Azerbaijani origin

Vilgelm Rontgen
Germany
GermanyPhysicist

Friedrich Paschen
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, foreign honorary member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

John William Rayleigh
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist

Edward C. Stone
USA
USAAmerican physicist, specialist in the field of astronautics

Blaise Pascal
France
FranceFrench religious thinker, mathematician and physicist, one of the greatest minds of the 17th century