List of physicists

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:

   * Democritus - Abdera (circa 460 BC - 360 BC)
   * Archimedes - Syracuse (circa 287 BC - 212 BC)
   * Lucretius - Rome (98?-55 BC)
   * William Gilbert - England (1544-1603)
   * Galileo Galilei - Italy (1564-1642)
   * Willebrord Snell - Netherlands (1580-1626)
   * RenŽ Descartes - France (1596-1650)
   * Evangelista Torricelli - Italy (1608-1647)
   * Blaise Pascal - France (1623-1662)
   * Robert Boyle - England (1627-1691)
   * Christian Huygens, (1629-1695)
   * Robert Hooke - England (1635-1703)
   * Isaac Newton - England (1642-1727)

Famous physicists of the 18th century:

   * Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, (1686-1736)
   * Daniel Bernoulli - Switzerland (1700-1782)
   * Benjamin Franklin, USA (1706-1790)
   * Leonard Euler, (1707-1783)
   * Rudjer Josip Boscovich - Dubrovnik (1711-1787)
   * Jean Le Rond d'Alembert - France (1717-1783)
   * Henry Cavendish - Britain (1731-1810)
   * Charles Augustin de Coulomb, (1736-1806)
   * Joseph-Louis Lagrange, (1736-1813)
   * James Watt Scotland (1736-1819)

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 ¯rsted - Denmark (1777-1851)
   * Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
   * David Brewster - Scotland (1781-1868)
   * William Prout - England (1785-1850)
   * 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 LŽonard Sadi Carnot - France (1796-1832)
   * Joseph Henry - USA (1797-1878)
   * Christian Doppler - Austria (1803-1853)
   * Wilhelm Weber, (1804-1891)
   * William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
   * Anders Jonas �ngstršm, - Sweden(1814-1874)
   * James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)
   * Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
   * LŽon 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 Jakob Balmer - Switzerland (1825-1898)
   * William Thomson - (Lord Kelvin) England (1824-1907)
   * Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)
   * James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
   * Jo?ef 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 Eštvšs - Hungary (1848-1919)
   * Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
   * George Francis FitzGerald - Ireland (1851-1901)
   * John Henry Poynting - Britain (1852-1914)
   * Henri PoincarŽ, (1854-1912)
   * Janne Rydberg, Sweden (1854-1919)
   * Edwin Hall - USA (1855-1938)
   * Joseph John Thomson, England (1856-1940)
   * Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Germany (1857-1894)
   * Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov - Imperial Russia (1857-1918)

Famous physicists of the 20th century:

   * Hannes Alfven - Sweden (1908-1995)
   * Henri Becquerel - France (1852-1908)
   * John Stewart Bell - Britain (1928-1990)
   * Felix Bloch - Switzerland (1905-1983)
   * Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962)
   * Max Born - Germany, Britain (1882-1970)
   * Satyendra Nath Bose - India (1894-1974)
   * Louis-Victor de Broglie - France (1892-1987)
   * Thomas Townsend Brown - American (1905 - 1985)
   * Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)
   * Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
   * Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov - Imperial Russia, Soviet union
     (1904-1990)
   * Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Britain (1902-1984)
   * Freeman Dyson - Britain, USA (1923- )
   * Paul Ehrenfest - Austria (1880-1933)
   * Albert Einstein - Germany, USA (1879-1955)
   * Enrico Fermi - Italy (1901-1954)
   * Richard Feynman - USA (1918-1988)
   * Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock - Imperial Russia, Soviet union
     (1898-1974)
   * Murray Gell-Mann - USA (1929- )
   * Werner Karl Heisenberg - Germany (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)
   * Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam - Imperial Russia, Soviet union
     (1879-1944)
   * 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 Ršntgen - Germany (1845-1923)
   * Ernest Rutherford - New Zealand, England (1871-1937)
   * Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Soviet Union (1929-1989)
   * Erwin Schršdinger, (1887-1961)
   * Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895-1971)
   * Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary, USA (1856-1943)
   * Steven Weinberg - USA (1933- )
   * Arthur Wightman - Britain
   * Eugene Wigner - Austria-Hungary, USA (1902-1993)
   * Victor Frederick Weisskopf - Austria, USA (1908-2002)