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.

Victor Gribkovsky
Belarus
BelarusSoviet and Belarusian physicist

Georgiy Greenberg
Russian physicist, professor (1930), Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946), laureate of the second degree Stalin Prize (1949).

Felix Auerbach
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist

Alexandr Ahizer
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet and Ukrainian theoretical physicist

Emilio Segre
Italy
ItalyItalian physicist

Anders Jonas Angstrom
Sweden
SwedenSwedish physicist

Fedor Shvedov
Russia
RussiaRussian physicist.

Riccardo Giacconi
Italy
ItalyAmerican physicist of Italian origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.

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

Heinz Barwich
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist

Kurt Lehovec
Czech, later American, physicist and inventor, semiconductor researcher.

Athanasius Kircher
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist, Jesuit, who studied physics.

Gustav Kirchhoff
Germany
GermanyOne of the great physicists of the 19th century.

Michael Creutz
USA
USAAmerican physicist.

William John Macquorn Rankine
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish engineer and physicist

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

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

Edward Victor Appleton
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist, Nobel laureate 1947

Alexander Zaborovsky
Soviet scientist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Antoine Henri Becquerel
France
FrancePhysicist

John Tyndall
Great Britain
Great BritainThe English Physicist Who Explained Why the Sky Is Blue

Sergey Vernov
Outstanding Soviet physicist

August Kundt
Germany
GermanyFamous German physicist

Robert Kirchhoff
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences

Kristian Doppler
Austria
AustriaAustrian physicist

Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian physicist. Invented the strobe light.

Gabriel Lipman
Luxembourg
LuxembourgPhysicist

Leonid Litvinenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian radiophysicist and radio astronomer

George Michael Volkoff
Canada
CanadaCanadian physicist of Russian origin

Edoardo Amaldi
Italy
ItalyItalian experimental physicist

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

Thomas Young
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist, doctor, Egyptologist

Lui Neel
France
FrancePhysicist

Victor Frederick Weisskopf
USA
USAAmerican physicist

Rem Hlebopros
Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

John Van Flek
USA
USAPhysicist

Louis Essen
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish experimental physicist, creator of quartz and atomic clocks

Philip Nitschke
Australia
AustraliaAustralian humanitarian, author, euthanasia advocate and comedian

Gak-Arsen Arsonval
France
FranceFrench physiologist and physicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Gerbert Kremer
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, Nobel Prize winner in physics. Half of the prize for 2000, together with Zhores Alferov.

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

Eliyahu Goldratt
Israel
IsraelIsraeli physicist, manager

Niels Bohr
Denmark
DenmarkDanish theoretical physicist

Andrey Bogush
Belarus
BelarusSoviet and Belarusian theoretical physicist

Gulielmo Markoni
Italy
ItalyPhysicist, radio engineer and entrepreneur

Henry Pointing
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist, member of the Royal Society of London (1888).

Walter Kohn
USA
USAAmerican theoretical physicist

Mildred Dresselhaus
USA
USAProfessor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at MIT

Alexander Graham Bell
USA
USACreated a telephone set with a metal handle

Viktor Ambartsumian
Russia
RussiaRussian astrophysicist, academician (1943) and president (1947-93) of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953), twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1968, 1978).