Many famous physicists of the 20th and 21st century are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.

A

• Ernst Abbe - Germany (1840-1905)
• Hannes Alfvén - Sweden (1908-1995)
• Luis Alvarez - USA (1911 - 1988)
• Andre Marie Ampere, (1775-1836)
• Anders Jonas Ångström, - Sweden (1814-1874)
• Archimedes - Syracuse (circa 287 - 212 BC)
• Aristarchus of Samos (310 - circa 230 BC)
• Aristotle - Athens, Greece (384-322 BC)
• Amedeo Avogadro - Italy (1776-1856)

B

• Johann Jakob Balmer - Switzerland (1825-1898)
• John Bardeen - USA (1908-1991)
• Zoltán Lajos Bay - Hungary (1900-1992)
• John Stewart Bell - Britain (1928-1990)
• Henri Becquerel - France (1852-1908)
• Daniel Bernoulli - Switzerland (1700 – 1782)
• Jean-Baptist Biot, (1774-1862)
• Raymond T. Birge - USA (1887 - 1980)
• Vilhelm Bjerknes - Norway (1862 - 1951)
• Felix Bloch - Switzerland (1905-1983)
• René-Prosper Blondlot - France (1849-1930)
• Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962)
• Aage Niels Bohr - Denmark (1922- )
• Ludwig Boltzmann - Austria (1844-1906)
• Max Born - Germany, Britain (1882-1970)
• Rudjer Josip Boscovich — Dubrovnik (1711 – 1787)
• Satyendra Nath Bose - India (1894-1974)
• Robert Boyle - Ireland, England (1627-1691)
• David Brewster - Scotland (1781-1868)
• Louis-Victor de Broglie - France (1892-1987)
• Thomas Townsend Brown - USA (1905 - 1985)

C

• Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot - France (1796-1832)
• Henry Cavendish — Britain (1731 – 1810)
• Owen Chamberlain - USA (1920-)
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1904-1990)
• Ernst Chladni - Germany (1756-1827)
• Hans Christian Ørsted - Denmark (1777-1851)
• Giovanni Ciccotti - Italy (1943- )
• Rudolf Clausius - Germany (1822-1888)
• Alfred Cornu, (1841-1902)
• Charles Augustin de Coulomb — (1736 – 1806)
• Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)

D

• Jean le Rond d'Alembert — France (1717 – 1783)
• John Dalton - England (1766-1844)
• Sir Charles Galton Darwin, England (1887-1962)
• Paul Davies - Australia (1946- )
• Democritus - Abdera (circa 460 - 360 BC)
• René Descartes - France (1596-1650)
• Henri-Alexandre Deslandres - France (1853-1948)
• James Dewar - Britain (1842-1923)
• Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Britain (1902-1984)
• Revaz Dogonadze - Former Soviet Union, Georgia (1931-1985)
• Christian Doppler - Austria (1803-1853)
• Freeman Dyson - Britain, USA (1923- )

E

• William Eccles - Britain, (1875-1966)
• Paul Ehrenfest - Austria, (1880-1933)
• Felix Ehrenhaft - Austria, USA (1879-1952)
• Albert Einstein - Germany, USA (1879-1955)
• V. Walfrid Ekman - Sweden, (1874-1954)
• Roland Eötvös - Hungary (1848-1919)
• Ernest Esclangon - France, (1876-1954)
• Louis Essen - England, (1908-1997)
• Leonard Euler — (1707 – 1783)
• James Alfred Ewing - Scotland (1855-1935)

F

• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit — Poland, England, Netherlands (1686 – 1736)
• Michael Faraday - Britain (1791-1867)
• Enrico Fermi - Italy, (1901-1954)
• Richard Feynman - USA, (1918-1988)
• George Francis FitzGerald - Ireland (1851-1901)
• Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock - Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1898-1974)
• James David Forbes - Scotland (1809-1868)
• Léon Focault - France (1819-1868)
• Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
• Benjamin Franklin — USA (1706 – 1790)
• Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany (1787-1826)
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel - France (1788-1827)
• B. Roy Frieden -- USA, ()

G

• Galileo Galilei - Italy (1564-1642)
• Carl Friedrich Gauss - Germany (1777-1855)
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
• Murray Gell-Mann - USA (1929- )
• Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
• William Gilbert - England (1544-1603)
• Martin Gutzwiller - Switzerland (1925- )

H

• Rudolf Haag - Germany (1922- )
• Edwin Hall - USA (1855-1938)
• William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
• Peter Andreas Hansen - Denmark (1795 - 1874)
• W.W. Hansen - USA (1909-1949)
• Douglas Hartree - England (1897-1958)
• Stephen Hawking - England (1942- )
• Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
• Werner Karl Heisenberg - Germany (1901-1976)
• Hermann von Helmholtz - Germany (1821-1894)
• Joseph Henry - USA (1797-1878)
• John Herapath - England (1790-1868)
• Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Germany (1857-1894)
• George William Hill - USA (1838 - 1914)
• Robert Hooke - England (1635-1703)
• Christian Huygens, (1629-1695)

J

• Ali Javan - Iran (1928-)
• Edwin Jaynes - USA (1922-1998)
• Song Jin-joo - Korea/USA
• Brian David Josephson - Britain (1940- )
• James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)

K

• Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
• John Kerr - Britain (1824-1907)
• Bernard Bruno Kinsey - Britain, USA (1910-1995)
• Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, (1824 - 1887)
• August Krönig - Germany (1822-1879)

L

• Joseph-Louis Lagrange — France (1736 – 1813)
• Lev Davidovich Landau - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908-1968)
• Irving Langmuir - USA (1851-1957)
• Ernest Lawrence - USA (1901-1958)
• Georges-Louis LeSage — Switzerland (1724 – 1803)
• John Leslie - Scotland (1766-1832)
• Karl L. Littrow - Austria (1811 - 1877)
• Maurice Loewy - Austria/France (1833 - 1907)
• Johann Loschmidt - Germany (1821-1895)
• Lucretius - Rome (98? - 55 BC)

M

• Ernst Mach - Austria (1838-1916)
• Etienne-Louis Malus — France (1775 – 1812)
• Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1879-1944)
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall - US (1841-1924)
• William Markowitz - USA (1907-1998)
• James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
• Ronald E. McNair - USA (1950-1986)
• Macedonio Melloni - Italy (1798–1854)
• Albert Abraham Michelson - USA (1852-1931)
• Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov - Imperial Russia (1857-1918)
• Robert Andrews Millikan - USA (1868- 1953)
• Amédée Mouchez - Spain, France (1821-1892)
• Richard A. Muller - USA

N

• John von Neumann - Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
• Simon Newcomb - USA (1835 - 1909)
• Isaac Newton - England (1642-1727)
• Leopoldo Nobili - Italy (1784-1835)

O

• Georg Ohm - Germany (1789-1854)
• Robert Oppenheimer - USA (1904-1967)
• Nicolas Oresme - France (1325-1382)
• Egon Orowan - Hungary/ USA (1901-1989)
• Yuri Orlov - Soviet Union, USA (1924- )

P

• Blaise Pascal - France (1623-1662)
• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli - Austria (1900-1958)
• G. B. Pegram - USA (1876-1958)
• Max Planck - Germany (1858-1947)
• Joseph Plateau - Belgium (1801 - 1883)
• John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
• Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912)
• Heraclides Ponticus - Greece (387 - 312 BC)
• John Henry Poynting - Britain (1852-1914)
• William Prout - England (1785-1850)

R

• Hubert Reeves - Canada (1932- )
• Osborne Reynolds - Britain (1842-1912)
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - Germany (1845-1923)
• Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby - Sweden, USA (1898-1957)
• David Ruelle - Belgium, France (1935- )
• Ernest Rutherford - New Zealand, England (1871-1937)
• Janne Rydberg, Sweden (1854-[[1919])

S

• Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Soviet Union (1929-1989)
• Oscar Sala - Brazil (1922-)
• Jack Sarfatti , (1939- )
• Felix Savart - France (1791-1841)
• Erwin Schrödinger, (1887-1961)
• Emilio G. Segrè - USA/Italy (1905-1989)
• Willebrord Snell - Netherlands (1580-1626)
• Jožef Stefan - Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
• Karl August von Steinheil - Germany, (1801-1870)
• George Gabriel Stokes - Britain (1819-1903)
• Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)

T

• Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895-1971)
• Edward Teller - Austria-Hungary/USA (1908-2003)
• Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary/USA (1856-1943)
• Joseph John Thomson, England (1856-1940)
• William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) - Ireland (1824-1907)
• Kip Stephen Thorne - USA (1940-)
• Evangelista Torricelli - Italy (1608-1647)
• Charles Townes - USA (1915-)
• Johann Georg Tralles — Germany (1763 – 1822)

U

• Zurab Urushadze - Georgia (1930-)

V

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals - Netherlands (1837-1923)
• Giovanni Battista Venturi — Italy (1746 – 1822)
• Alessandro Volta - Italy (1745-1827)

W

• John James Waterston - Scotland (1811–1883)
• James Watt - Scotland (1736–1819)
• Gleb Wataghin - Ukraine/Italy/Brazil (1896-1986)
• Wilhelm Weber, (1804–1891)
• Steven Weinberg - USA (1933– )
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf - Austria, USA (1908–2002)
• Eugene Wigner - Austria-Hungary/USA (1902–1993)
• Robert R. Wilson - USA (1914–2000)
• Edward Witten - USA (1951– )
• Robert W. Wood - USA (1868–1955)
• Arthur Wightman - USA

Y

• Thomas Young - England (1773–1829)
• Hideki Yukawa - Japan (1907–1981)

See also

• List of theoretical physicists
• List of mathematicians
• Pictures of some physicists (mostly 20th century American) are collected in the Emilio Segre Visual Archives