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.
Aleksandr Prohorov
Australia
AustraliaPhysicist
Nils Gustav Dalen
Sweden
SwedenSwedish industrialist, entrepreneur, physicist
Emile Amagat
France
FranceFrench physicist, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences
Allan Cormack
USA
USAAmerican physicist
Val Fitch
USA
USAAmerican physicist, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics
Edvard Griuneyzen
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, one of the founders of solid state theory
Athanasius Kircher
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist, Jesuit, who studied physics.
Abdul Qadeer Kan
India
IndiaPakistani nuclear scientist, founder and director of the Pakistani nuclear program.
Ronert Hovstedter
USA
USAAmerican experimental physicist
Giovanni Borelli
Italy
ItalyItalian physiologist and physicist. For the first time he described muscle movement according to the laws of statics and dynamics, thus opening a new direction of science - biomechanics.
Varfolomey Savchuk
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian historian of science, physicist
Aron Byhovsky
Ukraine
UkraineOutstanding Soviet physicist, teacher, doctor of sciences
Alexander Zaborovsky
Soviet scientist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Czundao Lee
China
ChinaPhysicist
Vladimir Beluy
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian scientist in the field of mechanics of metal-polymer systems
Katharine Burr Blodgett
USA
USAAmerican inventor and physicist
Heinrich Barkhausen
Germany
GermanyGerman scientist in the field of electron physics and electrical engineering.
Verner Heisenberg
Germany
GermanyEnglish physicist, President of the Royal Society of London (1935-40), founder of X-ray diffraction analysis
Dominik Fransua Arago
France
FranceFrench scientist and politician, foreign honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1829)
Armand Fizea
France
FranceFrench physicist.
Hans Wilhelm Geiger
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist who created a radioactive particle counter (Geiger counter)
Makoto Kobayashi
Japan
JapanJapanese physicist, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Stephen Wolfram
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish physicist, mathematician, programmer, writer
Adilet Imambekov
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanKazakh theorist in the field of condensed matter physics.
Otto Kratky
Austria
AustriaAustrian physical chemist, specialist in polymer science and X-ray scattering.
Alexander Bekkerel
France
FranceFrench physicist, son of Antoine Cesar Becquerel.
Jagadish Bose
India
IndiaBengali physicist, archaeologist, biologist, biophysicist and science fiction writer
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.
Ketterle Wolfgang
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics in 2001, jointly with Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman.
Dirk Coster
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch physicist
Walter Kaufmann
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist
Max Jammer
Israel
IsraelIsraeli physicist and historian of science.
Venkata Raman
India
IndiaPhysicist
Ernst Abbe
Germany
GermanyGerman optical physicist
Joseph Henry
USA
USAAmerican physicist
Louis Harold Gray
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist
Jiri Bicak
Czech physicist
William Pikering
USA
USAAmerican physicist, engineer who led the creation of the first American artificial Earth satellite.
Hermann Gunther Grassmann
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist, mathematician and philologist
Erik Edlund
Sweden
SwedenSwedish physicist, member of the Stockholm Academy of Sciences.
William Grove
Great Britain
Great BritainWelsh judge and physicist
Nevill Mott
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1977.
Ernest Rutherford
Great Britain
Great BritainPhysicist
Wu Chien-Shiung
USA
USAAmerican physicist
Evangelista Torricelli
Italy
ItalyItalian physicist and mathematician
Philipp Jolly
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist and mathematician
Martin Rail
Great Britain
Great BritainPhysicist
Valter Ignatchenko
Ukraine
UkraineHead of the Theoretical Department of the L.V. Kirensky Institute of Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Georg-Friedrich Parrot
Finland
FinlandRussian physicist