Many famous
physicists of the
20th and
21st century are found on the list of recipients of the
Nobel Prize in physics.
Famous early physicists:
Famous physicists of the 18th century:
Famous physicists of the 19th century:
- Alessandro Volta - Italy (1745-1827)
- Ernst Chladni - Germany (1756-1827)
- John Dalton - England (1766-1844)
- Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
- Thomas Young - England (1773-1829)
- Jean-Baptist Biot, (1774-1862)
- Andre Marie Ampere, (1775-1836)
- Amedeo Avogadro - Italy (1776-1856)
- Carl Friedrich Gauss - Germany (1777-1855)
- Hans Christian Ørsted - Denmark (1777-1851)
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
- David Brewster - Scotland (1781-1868)
- William Prout - England (1785-1850)
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
- Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany (1787-1826)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel - France (1788-1827)
- Georg Ohm - Germany (1789-1854)
- Michael Faraday - Britain (1791-1867)
- Felix Savart[?] - France (1791-1841)
- Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot - France (1796-1832)
- Joseph Henry - US (1797-1878)
- Christian Doppler - Austria (1803-1853)
- Wilhelm Weber, (1804-1891)
- William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
- Anders Jonas Ångström, (1814-1874)
- James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)
- Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
- Léon Focault - France (1819-1868)
- George Gabriel Stokes - Britain (1819-1903)
- Hermann von Helmholtz - Germany (1821-1894)
- Rudolf Clausius - Germany (1822-1888)
- Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, (1824 - 1887)
- Johann Balmer[?] - Switzerland (1825-1898)
- William Thomson - (Lord Kelvin) England (1824-1907)
- Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)
- James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
- Jožef Stefan - Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
- Ernst Mach - Austria (1838-1916)
- Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
- Ernst Abbe[?] - Germany (1840-1905)
- Marie Alfred Cornu, (1841-1902)
- James Dewar - Britain (1842-1923)
- Osborne Reynolds[?] - Britain (1842-1912)
- Ludwig Boltzmann - Austria (1844-1906)
- Roland Eötvös[?] - Hungary (1848-1919)
- Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
- George Francis FitzGerald[?] - Ireland (1851-1901)
- John Henry Poynting[?] - Britain (1852-1914)
- Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912)
- Janne Rydberg, (1854-1919)
- Edwin Hall[?] - US (1855-1938)
- J.J. Thomson, (1856-1940)
- Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Germany (1857-1894)
Famous physicists of the 20th century:
- Henri Becquerel - France (1852-1908)
- Felix Bloch - Switzerland (1905-1983)
- Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962)
- Satyendra Nath Bose - India (1894-1974)
- Louis-Victor de Broglie - France (1892-1987)
- Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)
- Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
- Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Britain (1902-1984)
- Freeman Dyson - Britain, USA (1923- )
- Paul Ehrenfest - Austria (1880-1933)
- Albert Einstein - Switzerland, USA (1879-1955)
- Enrico Fermi - Italy (1901-1954)
- Richard Feynman - USA (1918-1988)
- Murray Gell-Mann - USA (1929- )
- Werner Karl Heisenberg, (1901-1976)
- Stephen Hawking - England (1942- )
- Edwin Jaynes - USA (1922-1998)
- Lev Davidovich Landau - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908-1968)
- Irving Langmuir - USA (1851-1957)
- John von Neumann - Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
- Robert Oppenheimer - USA (1904-1967)
- Wolfgang Ernst Pauli - Austria (1900-1958)
- Max Planck Germany (1858-1947)
- John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, (1845-1923)
- Ernest Rutherford - England (1871-1937)
- Erwin Schrödinger, (1887-1961)
- Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary, USA (1856-1943)
- Arthur Wightman - Britain
- Eugene Wigner - Austria-Hungary, USA (1902-1993)