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.
Edward Kolb
USA
USAAmerican physicist
Sergey Kilin
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian physicist
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
Denes Gabor
Hungary
HungaryHungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 1971
Omar Omarov
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor
Charles Cagniard de Latour
France
FranceFrench physicist, chemist and mechanic.
Varfolomey Savchuk
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian historian of science, physicist
Jean-Baptiste Biot
France
FranceFrench scientist, physicist, surveyor and astronomer
Arno Penzias
Germany
GermanyPhysicist
Philip Abelson
USA
USAAmerican physicist and geochemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Yakov Zeldovich
Academician, theoretical physicist
Francis Bitter
USA
USAAmerican physicist
Edwin Hall
USA
USAAmerican physicist
Victor Gribkovsky
Belarus
BelarusSoviet and Belarusian physicist
Amedeo Avogadro
Italy
ItalyItalian scientist, chemist and physicist.
Viktor Gorshkov
Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Andre Geim
Great Britain
Great BritainDutch-British physicist of Russian origin, Nobel Prize laureate.
Bertram Neville Brockhouse
Canada
CanadaCanadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 1994.
Sally Ride
USA
USAAmerican physicist and former NASA astronaut
Max Jammer
Israel
IsraelIsraeli physicist and historian of science.
Vilgelm Vin
Germany
GermanyPhysicist
Habibulla Amirhanov
Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR
Bronislaw Malinowski
Poland
PolandPhysicist-mathematician, anthropologist
Andre-Louis Debierne
France
FranceFrench physicist and chemist
John Shriffer
USA
USAAmerican physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1972 (shared with John Bardeen and Leon N. Cooper)
Max Plank
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, founder of quantum theory
Lui Neel
France
FrancePhysicist
Gak-Arsen Arsonval
France
FranceFrench physiologist and physicist, member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Katharine Burr Blodgett
USA
USAAmerican inventor and physicist
Boris Boyko
Belarus
BelarusSoviet and Belarusian physicist
Oliver Heaviside
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist
Alexandr Ahizer
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet and Ukrainian theoretical physicist
Siril Henshelvood
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physical chemist, one of the creators of the theory of chain reactions, President of the Royal Society of London, Nobel Prize laureate
Riccardo Giacconi
Italy
ItalyAmerican physicist of Italian origin, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.
Ivars Lacis
Latvia
LatviaSoviet and Latvian scientist
Pier Curie
France
FrancePhysicist
Ludwig Prandtl
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist one of the founders of aerodynamics, creator of the scientific school of applied hydro-aeromechanics
Ira Sprague Bowen
USA
USAAmerican physicist and astronomer
Edward Victor Appleton
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist, Nobel laureate 1947
Robert Rines
USA
USAAmerican lawyer, composer, inventor and physicist, whose discoveries made it possible to improve the resolution of radar, sonar and ultrasonic devices
Samson Gvozdover
Soviet physicist, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences
Mark Azbel
Israel
IsraelPhysicist, professor at Tel Aviv University
Athanasius Kircher
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist, Jesuit, who studied physics.
Giuseppe Zamboni
Italy
ItalyItalian priest and physicist
Erik Verlinde
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch theoretical physicist in the fields of string theory, gravity, black holes and cosmology.
Samuel Ting
USA
USAPhysicist
Oleg Efimenko
Physicist, professor at West Virginia University
Eugeny Fortov
Russia
RussiaPhysicist, academician
Gotfrid Leybnits
Germany
GermanyGerman philosopher, mathematician, logician, mechanic, physicist, lawyer, historian, linguist and inventor.
Sergey Vernov
Outstanding Soviet physicist