The following is a partial list of notable theoretical physicists. Arranged by century of birth, then century of death, then year of birth, then year of death, then alphabetically by surname. For explanation of symbols, see Notes at end of this article.
Ancient times
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cov ...
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Thales
Thales of Miletus ( ; grc-gre, Θαλῆς; ) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regarded ...
(c. 624 – c. 546 BCE)
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos ( grc, Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος, Pythagóras ho Sámios, Pythagoras the Samian, or simply ; in Ionian Greek; ) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His poli ...
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Democritus
Democritus (; el, Δημόκριτος, ''Dēmókritos'', meaning "chosen of the people"; – ) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe. No ...
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Aristotle
Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of ...
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Archimedes
Archimedes of Syracuse (;; ) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientis ...
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Hypatia
Hypatia, Koine pronunciation (born 350–370; died 415 AD) was a neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where ...
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire ...
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Al Farabi
Abu Nasr Muhammad Al-Farabi ( fa, ابونصر محمد فارابی), ( ar, أبو نصر محمد الفارابي), known in the West as Alpharabius; (c. 872 – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951)PDF version was a renowned early Is ...
(c. 872 – c. 950)
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Ibn al-Haytham
Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham, Latinized as Alhazen (; full name ; ), was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq.For the description of his main fields, see e.g. ("He is one of the pr ...
(c. 965 – c. 1040)
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Al Beruni
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (973 – after 1050) commonly known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian in scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously the "founder of Indology", "Father of Co ...
(c. 973 – c. 1048)
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Omar Khayyám
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam ( fa, عمر خیّام), was a polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, an ...
Sigismondo Polcastro
Sigismondo Polcastro (1384–1473) was an Italian physician and natural philosopher. He was born to a jurist father, Girolamo, of the ancient de Porcastris family of Vicenza, and Maddalena Volpe of Padua. Perhaps born in Vicenza, he moved to ...
(1384–1473)
15th–16th century
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulat ...
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16th century and 16th–17th centuries
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Gerolamo Cardano
Gerolamo Cardano (; also Girolamo or Geronimo; french: link=no, Jérôme Cardan; la, Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501– 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath, whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, ...
(1501–1576)
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Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe ( ; born Tyge Ottesen Brahe; generally called Tycho (14 December 154624 October 1601) was a Danish astronomer, known for his comprehensive astronomical observations, generally considered to be the most accurate of his time. He was ...
(1546–1601)
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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno (; ; la, Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno, January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist. He is known for his cosmolog ...
(1548–1600)
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Commonly referred to as Galileo, his name was pronounced (, ). He ...
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (; ; 27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws ...
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Benedetto Castelli
Benedetto Castelli (1578 – 9 April 1643), born Antonio Castelli, was an Italian mathematician. Benedetto was his name in religion on entering the Benedictine Order in 1595.
Life
Born in Brescia, Castelli studied at the University of Padua and ...
(1578–1643)
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René Descartes
René Descartes ( or ; ; Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Ma ...
Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Fermat (; between 31 October and 6 December 1607 – 12 January 1665) was a French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality. In particular, he ...
(1607–1665)
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Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli ( , also , ; 15 October 160825 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, and a student of Galileo. He is best known for his invention of the barometer, but is also known for his advances in optics and wo ...
Francesco Maria Grimaldi
Francesco Maria Grimaldi, SJ (2 April 1618 – 28 December 1663) was an Italian Jesuit priest, mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna. He was born in Bologna to Paride Grimaldi and Anna Cattani.
Work
Between ...
(1618–1663)
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal ( , , ; ; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest ...
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Erhard Weigel
Erhard Weigel (16 December 1625 – 20 March 1699) was a German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher.
Biography
Weigel earned his M.A. (1650) and his habilitation (1652) from the University of Leipzig. From 1653 until his death he was pro ...
(1625–1699)
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Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, ( , , ; also spelled Huyghens; la, Hugenius; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor, who is regarded as one of the greatest scientists o ...
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, Theology, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosophy, natural philosopher"), widely ...
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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz . ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathem ...
Edmond Halley
Edmond (or Edmund) Halley (; – ) was an English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, succeeding John Flamsteed in 1720.
From an observatory he constructed on Saint Helena in 1676–77, H ...
Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan
Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (26 November 1678 – 20 February 1771) was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. De Mairan lost his father, François d'Ortou ...
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (; ; 1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science, at the ...
(1698–1759)
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Daniel Bernoulli
Daniel Bernoulli FRS (; – 27 March 1782) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family from Basel. He is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mecha ...
(1700–1782)
18th century
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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries ...
Johann Samuel König
Johann Samuel König (31 July 1712 – 21 August 1757) was a German mathematician.
Biography
Johann Bernoulli instructed both König and Pierre Louis Maupertuis as pupils during the same period. König is remembered largely for his disagreements ...
(1712–1757)
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Alexis Clairaut
Alexis Claude Clairaut (; 13 May 1713 – 17 May 1765) was a French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. He was a prominent Newtonian whose work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had ou ...
(1713–1765)
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Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (; ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the '' Encyclopéd ...
(1717–1783)
18th–19th centuries
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Franz Aepinus
Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus (13 December 172410 August 1802) was a German mathematician, scientist, and natural philosopher residing in the Russian Empire. Aepinus is best known for his researches, theoretical and experimental, in electricity ...
(1724–1802)
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Henry Cavendish
Henry Cavendish ( ; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English natural philosopher and scientist who was an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "infl ...
Joseph Lagrange
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi LagrangiaPierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (; ; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarize ...
John Dalton
John Dalton (; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He is best known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry, and for his research into Color blindness, colour blindness, which ...
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Joseph Fourier
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (; ; 21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist born in Auxerre and best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series, which eventually developed into Fourier analysis and ha ...
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère (, ; ; 20 January 177510 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". He is also the inventor of nu ...
(1775–1836)
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (; german: Gauß ; la, Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 177723 February 1855) was a German mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to many fields in mathematics and science. Sometimes refer ...
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Siméon Denis Poisson
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson FRS FRSE (; 21 June 1781 – 25 April 1840) was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electri ...
François Arago
Dominique François Jean Arago ( ca, Domènec Francesc Joan Aragó), known simply as François Arago (; Catalan: ''Francesc Aragó'', ; 26 February 17862 October 1853), was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of t ...
(1786–1853)
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular th ...
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (, ; ; 21 August 178923 May 1857) was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who made pioneering contributions to several branches of mathematics, including mathematical analysis and continuum mechanics. H ...
(1789–1857)
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Félix Savart
Félix Savart (; ; 30 June 1791, Mézières – 16 March 1841, Paris) was a French physicist and mathematician who is primarily known for the Biot–Savart law of electromagnetism, which he discovered together with his colleague Jean-Bapti ...
(1791–1841)
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Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti
Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti (18 April 1791 – 20 March 1863) was an Italian physicist who was exiled from Italy for his liberal ideas. During the First Italian War of Independence he led a "battalion of students," part of a delegation from th ...
Gabrio Piola
Gabrio Piola (15 July 1794 – 9 November 1850) was an Italian mathematician and physicist,
Danilo Capecchi and Giuseppe C. Ruta"Piola's contribution to continuum mechanics"
''Archive for History of Exact Sciences'', Vol. 61, No. 4 (July 2007), pp ...
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
''Sous-lieutenant'' Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (; 1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832) was a French mechanical engineer in the French Army, military scientist and physicist, and often described as the "father of thermodynamics". He published o ...
Andreas von Ettingshausen
Andreas Freiherr von Ettingshausen (25 November 1796 – 25 May 1878) was an Austrian mathematician and physicist.
Biography
Ettingshausen studied philosophy and jurisprudence at the University of Vienna. In 1817, he joined the University of Vi ...
(1796–1878)
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Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (; 22 April 1797 – 26 December 1869) was a French physicist and physiologist.
Poiseuille was born in Paris, France, and he died there on 26 December 1869.
Fluid flow
From 1815 to 1816 he studied at the École ...
(1797–1869)
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Franz Ernst Neumann
Franz Ernst Neumann (11 September 1798 – 23 May 1895) was a German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician.
Biography
Neumann was born in Joachimsthal, Margraviate of Brandenburg, near Berlin. In 1815 he interrupted his studies at Berlin ...
(1798–1895)
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Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron
Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (; 26 January 1799 – 28 January 1864) was a French engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics.
Life
Born in Paris, Clapeyron studied at the École polytechnique, graduating in 1818.Milton Kerker ...
Samuel Earnshaw
Samuel Earnshaw (1 February 1805, Sheffield, Yorkshire – 6 December 1888, Sheffield, Yorkshire) was an English clergyman and mathematician and physicist, noted for his contributions to theoretical physics, especially " Earnshaw's theorem". ...
(1805–1888)
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Julius Weisbach
Julius Ludwig Weisbach (born 10 August 1806 in Mittelschmiedeberg (now Mildenau Municipality), Erzgebirge, died 24 February 1871, Freiberg) was a German mathematician and engineer.
Life and work
Weisbach studied at the '' Bergakademie'' in Fre ...
Osip Ivanovich Somov
Osip Ivanovich Somov (russian: Ио́сиф (О́сип) Ива́нович Со́мов; 13 June 1815, Moscow Governorate – 8 May 1876, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowled ...
Jonathan Homer Lane
Jonathan Homer Lane (August 9, 1819 – May 3, 1880) was an American astrophysicist and inventor.
Biography
Lane's parents were Mark and Henrietta (née Tenny) Lane and his education was at the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshi ...
(1819–1880)
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William John Macquorn Rankine
William John Macquorn Rankine (; 5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish mechanical engineer who also contributed to civil engineering, physics and mathematics. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson ( ...
(1820–1872)
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Pafnuty Chebyshev
Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev ( rus, Пафну́тий Льво́вич Чебышёв, p=pɐfˈnutʲɪj ˈlʲvovʲɪtɕ tɕɪbɨˈʂof) ( – ) was a Russian mathematician and considered to be the founding father of Russian mathematics.
Chebysh ...
(1821–1894)
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Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894) was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability. The Helmholtz Associat ...
Rudolf Clausius
Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (; 2 January 1822 – 24 August 1888) was a German physicist and mathematician and is considered one of the central founding fathers of the science of thermodynamics. By his restatement of Sadi Carnot's princip ...
(1822–1888)
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August Davidov
August Yulevich Davidov (russian: Август Юльевич Давидов) (December 15, 1823 – December 22, 1885) was a Russian mathematician and engineer, professor at Moscow University, and author of works on differential equations with pa ...
Bernhard Riemann
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (; 17 September 1826 – 20 July 1866) was a German mathematician who made contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry. In the field of real analysis, he is mostly known for the first ...
(1826–1866)
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Ludvig Lorenz
Ludvig Valentin Lorenz (; 18 January 1829 – 9 June 1891) was a Danish physicist and mathematician. He developed mathematical formulae to describe phenomena such as the relation between the refraction of light and the density of a pure transp ...
(1829–1891)
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James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and scientist responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity, magnetism and ligh ...
(1831–1879)
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Johann Bauschinger
Johann Bauschinger (11 June 1834, in Nuremberg – 25 November 1893, in Munich) was a mathematician, builder, and professor of Engineering Mechanics at Munich Polytechnic from 1868 until his death. The Bauschinger effect in materials science ...
Eugen von Lommel
Eugen Cornelius Joseph von Lommel (19 March 1837, Edenkoben – 19 June 1899, Munich) was a German physicist. He is notable for the Lommel polynomial, the Lommel function, the Lommel–Weber function, and the Lommel differential equation. ...
(1837–1899)
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Carlo Alberto Castigliano
Carlo Alberto Castigliano (9 November 1847, in Asti – 25 October 1884, in Milan) was an Italian mathematician and physicist known for Castigliano's method for determining displacements in a linear-elastic system based on the partial deriva ...
Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz ( ; ; 22 February 1857 – 1 January 1894) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. The uni ...
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19th–20th centuries
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Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, (; 13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903) was an Irish English physicist and mathematician. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at the University of Cambridge, where he was the Luc ...
(1819–1903)
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, (26 June 182417 December 1907) was a British mathematician, Mathematical physics, mathematical physicist and engineer born in Belfast. Professor of Natural Philosophy (Glasgow), Professor of Natural Philoso ...
George William Hill
George William Hill (March 3, 1838 – April 16, 1914) was an American astronomer and mathematician. Working independently and largely in isolation from the wider scientific community, he made major contributions to celestial mechanics and t ...
(1838–1914)
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Ernst Mach
Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach ( , ; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was a Moravian-born Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves. The ratio of one's speed to that of sound is named the Mach n ...
(1838–1916)
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Viktor von Lang
Viktor von Lang (2 March 1838 – 3 July 1921) was an Austrian chemist. He is counted among the pioneers and founders of crystal physics.
Career
Lang earned his doctorate from the University of Giessen in 1859 with a thesis titled "Physikalisc ...
Ernst Abbe
Ernst Karl Abbe HonFRMS (23 January 1840 – 14 January 1905) was a German physicist, optical scientist, entrepreneur, and social reformer. Together with Otto Schott and Carl Zeiss, he developed numerous optical instruments. He was also a c ...
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, (; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was an English mathematician and physicist who made extensive contributions to science. He spent all of his academic career at the University of Cambridge. A ...
Nikolay Umov
Nikolay Alekseevich Umov (russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич У́мов; January 23, 1846 – January 15, 1915) was a Russian physicist and mathematician known for discovering the concept of Umov-Poynting vector and Umov effect.
B ...
Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside FRS (; 18 May 1850 – 3 February 1925) was an English self-taught mathematician and physicist who invented a new technique for solving differential equations (equivalent to the Laplace transform), independently develope ...
(1850–1925)
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Jacobus Kapteyn
Prof Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn FRS FRSE LLD (19 January 1851 – 18 June 1922) was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way and was the discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation. Kapteyn was also among the f ...
Orest Khvolson
Orest Danilovich Khvolson or Chwolson (russian: Орест Данилович Хвольсон) (November 22 (New Style, N.S. December 4), 1852 – May 11, 1934) was a Russian physicist and honorary member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences ( ...
(1852–1934)
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Hendrik Lorentz
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (; 18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He also derived the Lorent ...
(1853–1928)
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Henri Poincaré
Jules Henri Poincaré ( S: stress final syllable ; 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "Th ...
Marcel Brillouin
Louis Marcel Brillouin (; 19 December 1854 – 16 June 1948) was a French physicist and mathematician.
Born in Saint-Martin-lès-Melle, Deux-Sèvres, France, his father was a painter who moved to Paris when Marcel was a boy. There he attend ...
(1854–1948)
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Max Margules
Max Margules (1856-1920) was a mathematician, physicist, and chemist. In 1877 he joined the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) in Vienna as a volunteer.Carl Runge (1856–1927)
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Aleksandr Lyapunov
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ляпуно́в, ; – 3 November 1918) was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. His surname is variously romanized as Ljapunov, Liapunov, Lia ...
(1857–1918)
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Samuel Oppenheim
Samuel Oppenheim (19 November 1857 in Braunsberg – 15 August 1928 in Vienna) was an Austrian astronomer.
In 1875 Oppenheim began to study mathematics, physics and astronomy in Vienna. He took his Staatsexamen in 1880. From 1881–1887 he wo ...
Joseph Larmor
Sir Joseph Larmor (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish and British physicist and mathematician who made breakthroughs in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. His most influen ...
(1857–1942)
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Maurice Couette
Maurice Marie Alfred Couette (9 January 1858, Tours – 18 August 1943, Angers) was a French physicist known for his studies of fluidity.
Couette is best known for his contributions to rheology and the theory of fluid flow. He designed a concent ...
(1858–1943)
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Max Planck
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (, ; 23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical p ...
Karl Heun
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Karl Heun (; born 3 April 1859, Wiesbaden; died 10 January 1929, Karlsruhe) was a German mathematician who introduced Heun's equation, Heun functions, and Heun's method.
Karl Heun studied mathematics and philosophy in Göttinge ...
(1859–1929)
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Vito Volterra
Vito Volterra (, ; 3 May 1860 – 11 October 1940) was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations, being one of the founders of functional analysis.
Biography
Born in An ...
(1860–1940)
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Pierre Duhem
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (; 9 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French theoretical physicist who worked on thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and the theory of elasticity. Duhem was also a historian of science, noted for his work on the Eu ...
(1861–1916)
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Emil Wiechert
Emil Johann Wiechert (26 December 1861 – 19 March 1928) was a German physicist and geophysicist who made many contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth and being among the ...
Paul Drude
Paul Karl Ludwig Drude (; 12 July 1863 – 5 July 1906) was a German physicist specializing in optics. He wrote a fundamental textbook integrating optics with Maxwell's theories of electromagnetism.
Education
Born into an ethnic German family, D ...
Hermann Minkowski
Hermann Minkowski (; ; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a German mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number t ...
Wilhelm Wien
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (; 13 January 1864 – 30 August 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbod ...
(1864–1928)
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Walther Nernst
Walther Hermann Nernst (; 25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the w ...
(1864–1941)
* Pierre Weiss (1865–1940)
* Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943)
* Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963)
* Gustav de Vries (1866–1934)
* Martin Kutta (1867–1944)
* Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951)
* Gustav Mie (1868–1957)
* Sergey Chaplygin (1869–1942)
* Nikolai Kasterin (1869–1947)
* Alfred-Marie Liénard (1869–1958)
* Louis Bachelier (1870–1946)
* Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937)
* Émile Jouguet (1871–1943)
* Boris Galerkin (1871–1945)
* Martin Knudsen (1871–1949)
* Émile Borel (1871–1956)
* Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917)
* Paul Langevin (1872–1946)
* Ludwik Silberstein (1872–1948)
* Théophile de Donder (1872–1957)
* Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916)
* Alfred Robb (1873–1936)
* Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941)
* Constantin Carathéodory (1873–1950)
* E. T. Whittaker (1873–1956)
* Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874–1915)
* Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874–1954)
* Hans Reissner (1874–1967)
* Max Abraham (1875–1922)
* Louis Napoleon George Filon (1875–1937)
* Gilbert N. Lewis (1875–1946)
* Ludwig Prandtl (1875–1953)
* Tatyana Afanasyeva, Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanasevaª (1876–1964)
* James Hopwood Jeans, James Jeans° (1877–1946)
* Eduard Grüneisen (1877–1949)
* Georg Hamel (1877–1954)
* Walther Ritz (1878–1909)
* Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936)
* Lise Meitner (1878–1968)
* Stephen Timoshenko (1878–1972)
* Leonid Mandelstam (1879–1944)
* Carl Wilhelm Oseen (1879–1944)
* Albert Einsteinº (1879–1955)
* Nikolay Mitrofanovich Krylov, Nikolay Krylov (1879–1955)
* Max von Laue (1879–1960)
* Otto Sackur (1880–1914)
* Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933)
* Leonard Ornstein (1880–1941)
* Nikolai Papaleksi (1880–1947)
* Alfred J. Lotka (1880–1949)
* Abram Ioffe (1880–1960)
* Gunnar Nordström (1881–1923)
* Jun Ishiwara (1881–1947)
* Walter Rogowski (1881–1947)
* Richard C. Tolman, Richard Tolman° (1881–1948)
* Gustav Herglotz (1881–1953)
* Irving Langmuir (1881–1957)
* Theodore von Kármán (1881–1963)
* Erwin Madelung (1881–1972)
* Emmy Noether^ª (1882–1935)
* Arthur Eddington (1882–1944)
* Max Born (1882–1970)
* Richard von Mises (1883–1953)
* Paul Sophus Epstein (1883–1966)
* Ludwig Hopf (1884–1939)
* Arthur Erich Haas (1884–1941)
* George David Birkhoff (1884–1944)
* David Enskog (1884–1947)
* Peter Debye (1884–1966)
* Philipp Frank (1884–1966)
* Vsevolod Frederiks (1885–1944)
* Naum Idelson (1885–1951)
* Theodor Kaluza (1885–1954)
* Hermann Weyl (1885–1955)
* Niels Bohr (1885–1962)
* Victor Robertovich Bursian (1886–1945)
* Rudolf Seeliger (1886–1965)
* Paul Lévy (mathematician), Paul Lévy (1886–1971)
* G. I. Taylor, Geoffrey Taylor (1886–1975)
* Walter H. Schottky (1886–1976)
* Richard Becker (physicist), Richard Becker (1887–1955)
* Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961)
* Charles Galton Darwin (1887–1962)
* Adriaan Fokker (1887–1972)
* Erich Kretschmann (1887–1973)
* Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen (1887–1974)
* Waloddi Weibull (1887–1979)
* Alexander Weinstein (1887–1979)
* Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff (1887–1994)
* Alexander Friedmann (1888–1925)
* Walther Kossel (1888–1956)
* Viktor Trkal (1888–1956)
* Wilhelm Lenz (1888–1957)
* Antonio Signorini (physicist), Antonio Signorini (1888–1963)
* Frits Zernike (1888–1966)
* Sydney Chapman (mathematician), Sydney Chapman (1888–1970)
* Joseph Proudman (1888–1975)
* Alfred Landé (1888–1976)
* Hans Thirring (1888–1976)
* Paul Peter Ewald (1888–1985)
* Ralph H. Fowler (1889–1944)
* Léon Brillouin (1889–1969)
* Wojciech Rubinowicz (1889–1974)
* Harry Nyquist (1889–1976)
* Edwin C. Kemble (1889–1984)
* Yoshio Nishina (1890–1951)
* Yurii Aleksandrovich Krutkov (1890–1952)
* Josef Lense (1890–1985)
* Arthur March (1891–1957)
* George Barker Jeffery (1891–1957)
* Michael Polanyi (1891–1976)
* Nikoloz Muskhelishvili (1891–1976)
* Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989)
* Arthur Holly Compton (1892–1962)
* Karl Herzfeld (1892–1978)
* Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)
* Walter Gordon (physicist), Walter Gordon (1893–1939)
* Meghnad Saha (1893–1956)
* Erwin Fues (1893–1970)
* Cornelius Lanczos (1893–1974)
* Francis Dominic Murnaghan (mathematician), Francis Murnaghan (1893–1976)
* Adolf Kratzer (1893–1983)
* Yakov Frenkel (1894–1952)
* Hans Kramers (1894–1952)
* John Lennard-Jones (1894–1954)
* Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959)
* Norbert Wiener (1894–1964)
* Georges Lemaître (1894–1966)
* Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974)
* Oskar Klein (1894–1977)
* Hugo Tetrode (1895–1931)
* Karel Niessen (1895–1967)
* Igor Tamm (1895–1971)
* Hans Falkenhagen (1895–1971)
* Vasily Vladimirovich Shuleikin (1895–1979)
* Jan Burgers (1895–1981)
* Aldo Pontremoli (1896–1928)
* William Reginald Dean (1896–1973)
* Boris Podolsky (1896–1966)
* Erich Hückel (1896–1980)
* Robert S. Mulliken (1896–1986)
* Nikolay Semyonov (1896–1986)
* Friedrich Hund (1896–1997)
* Myron Mathisson (1897–1940)
* Douglas Hartree (1897–1958)
* Lewi Tonks (1897–1971)
* Ivan Stranski (1897–1979)
* John Lighton Synge (1897–1995)
* Ali Moustafa Mosharafa (1898–1950)
* Ronald Wilfred Gurney (1898–1953)
* Leó Szilárd (1898–1964)
* Leopold Infeld (1898–1968)
* (1898–1974)
* Vladimir Fock (1898–1974)
* Gregor Wentzel (1898–1978)
* Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988)
* Ivar Waller (1898–1991)
* (1899–1967)
* Edmund Clifton Stoner (1899–1968)
* John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899–1980)
* Gregory Breit (1899–1981)
* (1899–1982)
* Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (1899–1985)
* Gleb Wataghin (1899–1986)
* Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899–1999)
* Wilhelm Cauer (1900–1945)
* Fritz London (1900–1954)
* Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
* Walter Tollmien (1900–1968)
* William V. Houston (1900–1968)
* John C. Slater (1900–1976)
* Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900–1980)
* Vladimir Rojansky (1900–1981)
* George Eugene Uhlenbeck (1900–1988)
* (1900–1991)
* Ernst Ising (1900–1998)
20th century
* Nikolai Kochin (1901–1944)
* Aleksandr Andronov (1901–1952)
* Enrico Fermi* (1901–1954)
* Werner Karl Heisenberg, Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)
* Werner Braunbeck (1901–1977)
* Carl Wagner (1901–1977)
* Anatoliy Lure (1901–1980)
* Karl Bechert (1901–1981)
* Henry Eyring (chemist), Henry Eyring (1901–1981)
* Grete Hermann (1901–1984)
* Yuri Rumer (1901–1985)
* Edwin Albrecht Uehling (1901–1985)
* Linus Pauling (1901–1994)
* William Allis (1901–1999)
* (1902–1938)
* Michael Sadowsky (1902–1967)
* Otto Laporte (1902–1971)
* Carl Eckart (1902–1973)
* Edward Condon (1902–1974)
* Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (1902–1978)
* Pascual Jordan (1902–1980)
* Paul Dirac (1902–1984)
* Alfred Kastler (1902–1984)
* Eugene Wigner (1902–1995)
* Katharine Way (1902–1995)
* Hans Hellmann (1903–1938)
* John von Neumann (1903–1957)
* Howard P. Robertson (1903–1961)
* Lars Onsager (1903–1976)
* (1903–1979)
* Helmut Hönl (1903–1981)
* Mikhail Leontovich (1903–1981)
* Philip M. Morse (1903–1985)
* Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987)
* Guido Beck (1903–1988)
* Sydney Goldstein (1903–1989)
* Llewellyn Thomas (1903–1992)
* Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903–1996)
* Bertha Swirles (1903–1999)
* Meredith Gwynne Evans (1904–1952)
* Robert Oppenheimer* (1904–1967)
* George Gamow‡° (1904–1968)
* (1904–1970)
* Léon Rosenfeld (1904–1974)
* Otto Robert Frisch (1904–1979)
* Christian Møller (1904–1980)
* Walter Heitler (1904–1981)
* Joseph Edward Mayer (1904–1983)
* (1904–1990)
* Walter M. Elsasser (1904–1991)
* Dmitri Ivanenko (1904–1994)
* Ralph Kronig (1904–1995)
* Yulii Khariton (1904–1996)
* Louis Néel (1904–2000)
* George Placzek (1905–1955)
* Felix Bloch (1905–1983)
* Ernst Stueckelberg (1905–1984)
* Herbert Fröhlich (1905–1991)
* Clarence Zener (1905–1993)
* Nevill Francis Mott (1905–1996)
* (1905–1996)
* Matvei Petrovich Bronstein, Matvei Bronstein (1906–1938)
* Ettore Majorana (1906–1938)
* Maria Goeppert-Mayerª (1906–1972)
* Eugene Feenberg (1906–1977)
* Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (1906–1979)
* William Houlder Zachariasen (1906–1979)
* Fritz Sauter (1906–1983)
* Louis Rosenhead (1906–1984)
* Banesh Hoffmann (1906–1986)
* Alan Herries Wilson (1906–1995)
* John Gamble Kirkwood (1907–1959)
* J. Hans D. Jensen (1907–1973)
* (1907–1979)
* Hermann Arthur Jahn (1907–1979)
* Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981)
* Herbert Jehle (1907–1983)
* Wendell H. Furry (1907–1984)
* Rudolf Peierls (1907–1995)
* Achilles Papapetrou (1907–1997)
* George Rankine Irwin (1907–1998)
* William Rarita (1907–1999)
* Leonid I. Sedov (1907–1999)
* Wu Ta-You (1907–2000)
* (1908–1938)
* Felix Gantmacher (1908–1964)
* Lev Landau (1908–1968)
* Anatoly Vlasov (1908–1975)
* Lyubomir Krastanov (1908–1977)
* Harrie Massey (1908–1983)
* Șerban Țițeica (1908–1985)
* Valentine Bargmann (1908–1989)
* Ilya Frank (1908–1990)
* John Bardeen (1908–1991)
* Milton S. Plesset (1908–1991)
* Moisey Markov (1908–1994)
* Josef Meixner (1908–1994)
* Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995)
* Viktor Ambartsumian (1908–1996)
* (1908–1996)
* Sergei Mikhailovich Rytov (1908–1996)
* Sergey Khristianovich (1908–2000)
* Hans Heinrich Euler, Hans Euler (1909–1941)
* Homi J. Bhabha (1909–1966)
* Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984)
* Friedrich Bopp (1909–1987)
* William Penney, Baron Penney (1909–1991)
* Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909–1992)
* Gian Carlo Wick (1909–1992)
* Nathan Rosen (1909–1995)
* Richard Duffin (1909–1996)
* (1909–1997)
* Robert Serber (1909–1997)
* Hendrik Casimir (1909–2000)
* David A. Frank-Kamenetskii (1910–1970)
* Aleksei Zinovyevich Petrov (1910–1972)
* Charles Coulson (1910–1974)
* Tjalling Koopmans (1910–1985)
* Arseny Sokolov (1910–1986)
* Anatoly Dorodnitsyn (1910–1994)
* Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)
* (1910–1998)
* José Enrique Moyal (1910–1998)
* Sergei Vonsovsky (1910–1998)
* Arnold Nordsieck (1911–1971)
* ª (1911–1977)
* Mstislav Keldysh (1911–1978)
* Carlo Cattaneo (mathematician), Carlo Cattaneo (1911–1979)
* Gregory Hugh Wannier (1911–1983)
* Klaus Fuchs (1911–1988)
* Arkady Migdal (1911–1991)
* Paul Weiss (mathematician), Paul Weiss (1911–1991)
* Walter Franz (1911–1992)
* Richard Buckingham (1911–1994)
* William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995)
* Raymond Lyttleton (1911–1995)
* Menahem Max Schiffer (1911–1997)
* Nicholas Kemmer (1911–1998)
* Aleksander Akhiezer (1911–2000)
* R. E. Siday (1912–1956)
* Heinrich Welker (1912–1981)
* (1912–1990)
* Konrad Bleuler (1912–1992)
* Mikhail Volkenshtein (1912–1992)
* Alexander Davydov (1912–1993)
* Siegfried Flügge (1912–1997)
* Martin Schwarzschild (1912–1997)
* Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Aleksandrov (1912–1999)
* Sidney Dancoff (1913–1951)
* Hartland Snyder (1913–1962)
* Isaak Pomeranchuk (1913–1966)
* (1913–1977)
* Ludwig Waldmann (1913–1980)
* (1913–1987)
* Frederik Belinfante (1913–1991)
* Bruno Pontecorvo (1913–1993)
* Józef Lubański (1914–1946)
* (1914–1974)
* Henry Primakoff (1914–1983)
* Mark Kac (1914–1984)
* Yakov Zeldovich (1914–1987)
* Bernard Lippmann (1914–1988)
* Mário Schenberg (1914–1990)
* Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997)
* George Michael Volkoff (1914–2000)
* Robert R. Wilson (1914–2000)
* Leonard I. Schiff (1915–1971)
* Ely Eugene Bell (1915–1973)
* (1915–1977)
* Theodore Holstein (1915–1985)
* Evgeny Lifshitz (1915–1985)
* Sudhansu Datta Majumdar (1915–1997)
* Leonid Biberman (1915–1998)
* Oleg Firsov (1915–1998)
* André Lichnerowicz (1915–1998)
* Nicholas Metropolis (1915–1999)
* John D. Eshelby (1916–1981)
* Elliott Waters Montroll (1916–1983)
* Iosif Shklovsky (1916–1985)
* (1916–1989)
* Robert Marshak (1916–1992)
* Kirill Tolpygo (1916–1994)
* Robert Dicke (1916–1997)
* Robert G. Sachs (1916–1999)
* Per-Olov Löwdin (1916–2000)
* Theodore H. Berlin (1917–1962)
* Imre Fényes (1917–1977)
* Ilya Lifshitz (1917–1982)
* Yevgeny Zababakhin (1917–1984)
* Solomon Isaakovich Pekar, Solomon Pekar (1917–1985)
* James Rainwater (1917–1986)
* Veniamin Levich (1917–1987)
* Eli Sternberg (1917–1988)
* (1917–1990)
* David Bohm (1917–1992)
* (1917–1992)
* Dmitry Zubarev (1917–1992)
* Herman Feshbach (1917–2000)
* Richard Feynman (1918–1988)
* Res Jost (1918–1990)
* Harold Hopkins (physicist), Harold Hopkins (1918–1994)
* Kirill Gurov (1918–1994)
* Julian Schwinger (1918–1994)
* Max Dresden (1918–1997)
* Irving Segal (1918–1998)
* James Hamilton (physicist), James Hamilton (1918–2000)
* Abraham Pais (1918–2000)
* Paul Taunton Matthews (1919–1987)
* Herbert Callen (1919–1993)
* Clifford Truesdell (1919–2000)
* Julius Ashkin (1920–1982)
* Ryogo Kubo (1920–1995)
* Gerhart Lüders (1920–1995)
* Herbert S. Green (1920–1999)
* George Batchelor (1920–2000)
* Sergei Tyablikov (1921–1968)
* Sigurd Zienau (1921–1976)
* Alfred Schild (1921–1977)
* Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989)
* John M. Blatt (1921–1990)
* Feza Gürsey (1921–1992)
* Igor Ternov (1921–1996)
* Melville S. Green (1922–1979)
* Ernst G. Straus (1922–1983)
* (1922–1988)
* (1922–1991)
* Lawrence Biedenharn (1922–1996)
* Jens Lindhard (1922–1997)
* Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998)
* Claude Bloch (1923–1971)
* Kurt Symanzik (1923–1983)
* Harold Grad (1923–1986)
* Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger (1923–1997)
* Gregory Pikus (1923–1998)
* Louis Michel (physicist), Louis Michel (1923–1999)
* (1924–1981)
* Léon Van Hove (1924–1990)
* Gregory Garibian (1924–1991)
* Juan José Giambiagi (1924–1996)
* Harry Lehmann (1924–1998)
* Efim Fradkin (1924–1999)
* John Clive Ward (1924–2000)
* Sam Treiman (1925–1999)
* (1925–2000)
* Gunnar Källén (1926–1968)
* Rem Khokhlov (1926–1977)
* Stuart Thomas Butler (1926–1982)
* (1926–1986)
* Eugene P. Gross (1926–1991)
* Abdus Salam (1926–1996)
* (1926–1998)
* Dennis Sciama (1926–1999)
* Rudolph Max Sternheimer (1926–2000)
* Aneesur Rahman (1927–1987)
* Yuri Yappa (1927–1998)
* Rolf Landauer (1927–1999)
* Robert Mills (physicist), Robert Mills (1927–1999)
* John Stewart Bell (1928–1990)
* Richard E. Cutkosky (1928–1993)
* Gurgen Askaryan (1928–1997)
* (1929–1988)
* David Klyshko (1929–2000)
* (1929–2000)
* Hugh Everett III, Hugh Everett (1930–1982)
* Vladimir Gribov (1930–1997)
* Ruslan Stratonovich (1930–1997)
* Felix Berezin (1931–1980)
* John Hubbard (physicist), John Hubbard (1931–1980)
* Revaz Dogonadze (1931–1985)
* (1931–1986)
* Luciano Fonda (1931–1998)
* (1932–1991)
* Walter Marshall, Baron Marshall of Goring, Walter Marshall (1932–1996)
* J. J. Sakurai (1933–1982)
* Leopoldo Máximo Falicov (1933–1995)
* S. Pancharatnam, Shivaramakrishnan Pancharatnam (1934–1969)
* Alexey Andreevich Anselm (1934–1998)
* Vadim Berezinskii (1935–1980)
* Peter A. Carruthers (1935–1997)
* Victor Popov (1937–1994)
* Roger Dashen (1938–1995)
* Claude Itzykson (1938–1995)
* (1938–1998)
* Arkady Aronov (1939–1994)
* (1939–2000)
* Herbert H. Chen (1942–1987)
* Dan Walls (1942–1999)
* Giuliano Preparata (1942–2000)
* Elizabeth Gardner (physicist), Elizabeth Gardnerª (1957–1988)
* Vadim Knizhnik (1962–1987)
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* Hans Bethe° (1906–2005)
* Melba Phillips (1907–2004)
* László Tisza (1907–2009)
* Victor Weisskopf (1908–2002)
* Edward Teller (1908–2003)
* Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909–2001)
* Werner Romberg (1909–2003)
* (1911–2001)
* Leslie Howarth (1911–2001)
* Frederick Seitz (1911–2008)
* John Archibald Wheeler, John Wheeler (1911–2008)
* Ugo Fano (1912–2001)
* Naum Meiman (1912–2001)
* Evgenii Feinberg (1912–2005)
* Markus Fierz (1912–2006)
* Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007)
* Harald Keres (1912–2010)
* Maurice Pryce (1913–2003)
* Willis Lamb (1913–2008)
* James Stark Koehler (1914–2006)
* Conyers Herring (1914–2009)
* Anatole Abragam (1914–2011)
* Fred Hoyle (1915–2001)
* Peter Bergmann (1915–2002)
* (1915–2003)
* Philip Morrison (1915–2005)
* P. R. Wallace (1915–2006)
* Ivan Supek (1915–2007)
* David Turnbull (materials scientist), David Turnbull (1915–2007)
* Jan Korringa (1915–2015)
* Charles H. Townes (1915–2015)
* Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley (1915–2017)
* (1916–2006)
* Frank Nabarro (1916–2006)
* Vitaly Ginzburg (1916–2009)
* Robert F. Christy (1916–2012)
* Paolo Budinich (1916–2013)
* Charles Kittel (1916–2019)
* Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003)
* Leonid Brekhovskikh (1917–2005)
* Yurii Mitropolskiy (1917–2008)
* Morikazu Toda (1917–2010)
* Arthur Iberall (1918–2002)
* David George Kendall (1918–2007)
* Theodore A. Welton (1918–2010)
* Clemens C. J. Roothaan (1918–2019)
* Dirk ter Haar (1919–2002)
* Rolf Hagedorn (1919–2003)
* Hermann Bondi (1919–2005)
* Huang Kun (1919–2005)
* Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky (1919–2007)
* Peter Westervelt (1919–2015)
* Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Isaak Khalatnikov (1919–2021)
* Brian Pippard (1920–2008)
* Kenneth Le Couteur (1920–2011)
* Cyril Domb (1920–2012)
* James Bruce French (1921–2002)
* Felix Villars (1921–2002)
* Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz (1921–2003)
* Francis E. Low (1921–2007)
* (1921–2007)
* Akiva Yaglom (1921–2007)
* Andrew M. Gleason (1921–2008)
* Nico van Kampen (1921–2013)
* Eugen Merzbacher (1921–2013)
* Albert Messiah (1921–2013)
* Jacques Friedel (1921–2014)
* (1921–2014)
* Takeo Matsubara (1921–2014)
* Yoichiro Nambu (1921–2015)
* Louis Witten (born 1921)
* Peter Mazur (1922–2001)
* Melvin Lax (1922–2002)
* William Cochran (physicist), William Cochran (1922–2003)
* Behram Kurşunoğlu (1922–2003)
* Herbert Goldstein (1922–2005)
* Karen Ter-Martirosian (1922–2005)
* Aage Bohr (1922–2009)
* Arthur Wightman (1922–2013)
* Marvin Leonard Goldberger (1922–2014)
* Rudolf Haag (1922–2016)
* (1922–2017)
* Emil Wolf (1922–2018)
* Richard J. Eden (1922–2021)
* Yang Chen-Ning, Chen-Ning Yang (born 1922)
* Bryce DeWitt (1923–2004)
* Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923–2004)
* Alladi Ramakrishnan (1923–2008)
* Harold Lewis (1923–2011)
* Peter A. Wolff (1923–2013)
* Bruno Zumino (1923–2014)
* Walter Kohn (1923–2016)
* H. Pierre Noyes (1923–2016)
* Ivor Robinson (physicist), Ivor Robinson (1923–2016)
* Henri Cabannes (1923–2016)
* Spartak Belyaev (1923–2017)
* Philip Warren Anderson (1923–2020)
* Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)
* Laurie Brown (physicist), Laurie Brown (born 1923)
* Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (born 1923)
* Pierre Aigrain (1924–2002)
* (1924–2002)
* Albert Hibbs (1924–2003)
* Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (1924–2005)
* Evan O'Neill Kane (physicist), Evan O'Neill Kane (1924–2006)
* Edwin Ernest Salpeter (1924–2008)
* (1924–2009)
* Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010)
* Yasushi Takahashi (1924–2013)
* Keith Brueckner (1924–2014)
* David Pines (1924–2018)
* Geoffrey Chew (1924–2019)
* Yuri Orlov (1924–2020)
* Jerald L. Ericksen (1924–2021)
* Suraj N. Gupta (born 1924)
* Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz (born 1924)
* John Pople (1925–2004)
* Ted Taylor (physicist), Ted Taylor (1925–2004)
* Renfrey Potts (1925–2005)
* John Ziman (1925–2005)
* Richard Dalitz (1925–2006)
* Martin David Kruskal (1925–2006)
* Yuval Ne'eman (1925–2006)
* Albert Overhauser (1925–2011)
* Martin Gutzwiller (1925–2014)
* Norman Rostoker (1925–2014)
* John David Jackson (physicist), John David Jackson (1925–2016)
* Walter Noll (1925–2017)
* Roy J. Glauber (1925–2018)
* George G. Hall (1925–2018)
* Joshua N. Goldberg (1925–2020)
* Toichiro Kinoshita (born 1925)
* Nándor Balázs (1926–2003)
* Richard Allan Ferrell (1926–2005)
* Erdal İnönü (1926–2007)
* Karl Rebane (1926–2007)
* Nikolai Borisovich Delone (1926–2008)
* George Klaus Horton (1926–2009)
* (1926–2009)
* (1926–2010)
* Gerald E. Brown (1926–2013)
* Anatoly Logunov (1926–2015)
* Engelbert Schücking (1926–2015)
* Sidney Drell (1926–2016)
* (1926–2019)
* Jerome K. Percus (1926–2021)
* (1926–2022)
* Ben Roy Mottelson (1926–2022)
* Kenneth W. Ford (born 1926)
* Peter Lax (born 1926)
* Tsung-Dao Lee (born 1926)
* György Marx (1927–2002)
* Eugene Irving Blount (1927–2005)
* (1927–2008)
* Michel Baranger (1927–2014)
* Walter Thirring (1927–2014)
* Gerald B. Whitham (1927–2014)
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* (born 1932)
* (1933–2005)
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* (1933–2008)
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* Lev Pitaevskii (1933–2022)
* Roger Balian (born 1933)
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* (born 1935)
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* (born 1936)
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* Peter Fulde (born 1936)
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* Praveen Chaudhari (1937–2007)
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* (1937–2017)
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* Wolfgang Götze (1937–2021)
* Gerald Mahan (1937–2021)
* Pantur Silaban (1937–2022)
* Alexander Fetter (born 1937)
* C. R. Hagen (born 1937)
* Iosif Khriplovich (born 1937)
* Leonid Pastur (born 1937)
* Tung-Mow Yan (born 1937)
* George Zweig (born 1937)
* Arthur Jaffe (born 1937)
* (1938–2004)
* Balázs Győrffy (1938–2012)
* C. V. Vishveshwara (1938–2017)
* Neil Ashcroft (1938–2021)
* Andrzej Kossakowski (1938–2021)
* Alexander Animalu (born 1938)
* Boris Arbuzov (physicist), Boris Arbuzov (born 1938)
* A. P. Balachandran (born 1938)
* Édouard Brézin (born 1938)
* Vitaly Efimov (born 1938)
* Alexei L. Efros (born 1938)
* Vladimir P. Krainov (born 1938)
* Anthony James Leggett (born 1938)
* Jayant Narlikar (born 1938)
* Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (born 1938)
* Sergei Novikov (mathematician), Sergei Novikov (born 1938)
* Leonard Parker (born 1938)
* Lu Jeu Sham (born 1938)
* Boris Struminsky (1939–2003)
* Roger Cowley (1939–2015)
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* Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini (1939–2019)
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* Emilio Del Giudice (1940–2014)
* Lev Lipatov (1940–2017)
* Edward Tryon (1940–2019)
* Toshihide Maskawa (1940–2021)
* Miguel Ángel Virasoro (physicist), Miguel Ángel Virasoro (1940–2021)
* Göran Lindblad (physicist), Göran Lindblad (1940–2022)
* Stanley Brodsky (born 1940)
* Juansher Chkareuli (born 1940)
* Mikhail Dyakonov (born 1940)
* Eleftherios Economou (born 1940)
* Uriel Frisch (born 1940)
* Peter Grassberger (born 1940)
* (born 1940)
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* (born 1940)
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* Brosl Hasslacher (1941–2005)
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* Thomas Appelquist (born 1941)
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* David Gross (born 1941)
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* Jeffrey Mandula (born 1941)
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* T. V. Ramakrishnan (born 1941)
* John Henry Schwarz (born 1941)
* Jerrold E. Marsden (1942–2010)
* Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)
* Alexander Belavin (born 1942)
* Curtis Callan (born 1942)
* Victor Sergeevich Fadin (born 1942)
* Crispin Gardiner (born 1942)
* Robert Geroch (born 1942)
* David J. Griffiths (born 1942)
* Konrad Osterwalder (born 1942)
* Yves Pomeau (born 1942)
* (born 1942)
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* Carl M. Bender (born 1943)
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* Paul Frampton (born 1943)
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* J. Michael Kosterlitz (born 1943)
* John Perdew (born 1943)
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* Alexander Arkadyevich Migdal, Alexander Migdal (born 1945)
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* (1957–2009)
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* Brian Greene (born 1963)
* Alexei Kitaev (born 1963)
* Sandip Trivedi (born 1963)
* Gia Dvali (born 1964)
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* Raman Sundrum (born 1964)
* (born 1965)
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* Stephen Hsu (born 1966)
* Durmus A. Demir (born 1967)
* João Magueijo (born 1967)
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* Juan Maldacena (born 1968)
* Vijay Balasubramanian (born 1969)
* Laura Mersini-Houghtonª (born 1969)
* Dam Thanh Son (born 1969)
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* Vlatko Vedral (born 1971)
* Steven Gubser (1972–2019)
* Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972)
* Shiraz Minwalla (born 1972)
* Maxim Chernodub (born 1973)
* Luboš Motl (born 1973)
* Cédric Villani (born 1973)
* Yasunori Nomura (born 1974)
* Brian Wecht (born 1975)
* Robert Seiringer (born 1976)
* Bianca Dittrichª (born 1977)
* Davide Gaiotto (born 1977)
* Katie Mack (astrophysicist), Katie Mack (born 1981)
* K. S. Babu
Fictional theoretical physicists
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* Gordon Freeman
* Eli Vance
* Isaac Kleiner
* Rodney McKay
* Samantha Carterª
* Larry Fleinhardt
* List of Angels & Demons characters#Leonardo Vetra, Leonardo Vetra
* Quinn Mallory
* Maximillian Arturo
* Nicholas Rush
* Daniel Faraday
* Catherine Elizabeth Halsey
* Milo Rambaldi
* Reed Richards
* Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom
* Radek Zelenka
* Sheldon Cooper
* List of characters in the BioShock series#The Lutece Twins, Rosalind and Robert Lutece
* Rick Sanchez
See also
* List of scientists
* List of physicists
*
Notes
: * Experimentalist also
: º Astronomer, astrophysics, astrophysicist or physical cosmology, cosmologist also
: ^ Developed new mathematics
: † Contributed to chemistry
: ‡ Contributed to biology
: ª Women in theoretical physics
Theoretical physicists, *
Physics-related lists, Theoretical physicists