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.

Nicholas Kemmer
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish theoretical physicist.

Vladimir Vexler
Russia
RussiaA talented Soviet physicist, creator of the synchrophasotron

Francis Bitter
USA
USAAmerican physicist

Archimedes
Greece
GreeceAncient Greek mathematician, physicist, mechanic and engineer from Syracuse

Viktor Gorshkov
Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Ayvar Giaever
USA
USAAmerican physicist

Andre-Louis Debierne
France
FranceFrench physicist and chemist

Charles Abbot
USA
USAAmerican astrophysicist

Brian Edward Cox
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physicist

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
France
FranceFrench chemist and physicist

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

Georg-Friedrich Parrot
Finland
FinlandRussian physicist

Giuseppe Okkialini
Italy
ItalyItalian physicist

Erik Edlund
Sweden
SwedenSwedish physicist, member of the Stockholm Academy of Sciences.

Bronislaw Malinowski
Poland
PolandPhysicist-mathematician, anthropologist

Adriaan Blaauw
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch physicist and astronomer

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

Mark Azbel
Israel
IsraelPhysicist, professor at Tel Aviv University

Edwin Hall
USA
USAAmerican physicist

Valter Bothe
Germany
GermanyPhysicist

Georg Hermann Quincke
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist.

Freeman Dyson
USA
USAAmerican theoretical physicist of English origin

Herbert York
USA
USAAmerican nuclear physicist

Markus Reiner
Israeli engineer and physicist

Semen Altshuler
Soviet physicist, professor

Vsevolod Frederiks
Russian physicist and geophysicist

Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein
Germany
GermanyGerman physician, mechanic and physicist.

Maksud Aliev
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani scientist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor

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

Heinz Barwich
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist

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

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

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

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

August Kundt
Germany
GermanyFamous German physicist

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

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

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

Niels Bohr
Denmark
DenmarkDanish theoretical physicist

Andrey Bogush
Belarus
BelarusSoviet and Belarusian theoretical physicist

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

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

Ludwig Ferdinand Wilhelmy
Germany
GermanyGerman physicist and chemist

Eugenie Cotton
France
FranceFrench social activist, physicist

Joseph Larmor
Great Britain
Great BritainIrish physicist and mathematician

Joseph Henry
USA
USAAmerican physicist