Physics people index
Physicists A–Z
Browse people in the Physics collection in surname, first-name order.
Featured static physicist timelines
Einstein, Albert121 records · 1879–1955Schrodinger, Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander80 records · 1910–1960Fermi, Enrico58 records · 1901–1954Higgs, Peter Ware34 records · 1929–2024Salam, Abdus24 records · 1926–1996Curie, Pierre23 records · 1859–1906Bohr, Niels Henrik David15 records · 1913–1939Thomson, Joseph John9 records · 1856–1913Heisenberg, Werner8 records · 1927–1942Chadwick, James7 records · 1932–1941Galilei, Galileo8 records · 1583–1638Rutherford, Ernest3 records · 1903–1920
All people in the Physics collection
Names are ordered by surname, then first name.
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Abrikosov, Alexei Alexeyevich2 recordsAgassiz, Louis2 recordsAgostini, Pierre2 recordsAharonov, Yakir1 recordsAkasaki, Isamu1 recordsAlferov, Zhores1 recordsAlferov, Zhores Ivanovich2 recordsAlfven, Hannes1 recordsAlfven, Hannes Olof Gosta4 recordsAlvarez, Luis3 recordsAlvarez, Luis Walter2 recordsAmaldi, Edoardo1 recordsAmano, Hiroshi1 recordsAmpere, Andre-Marie1 recordsAnderson, Carl David2 recordsAnderson, Philip Warren1 recordsAngstrom, Anders Jonas3 recordsArago, Francois2 recordsAretakis, Stefanos1 recordsArrhenius, Svante August5 recordsAshkin, Arthur1 recordsAspect, Alain4 recordsAston, Francis William1 recordsAuger, Pierre Victor1 recordsAymar, Robert2 records
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Babbage, Charles2 recordsBacher, Robert Fox1 recordsBaker, John1 recordsBanados, Maximo1 recordsBardeen, James1 recordsBardeen, John4 recordsBarish, Barry1 recordsBarish, Barry Clark2 recordsBarkhausen, Heinrich1 recordsBarkla, Charles Glover1 recordsBarnard, Christian2 recordsBartholin, Rasmus2 recordsBasov, Nikolai Gennadevich2 recordsBasov, Nikolay Gennadiyevich2 recordsBecker, Herbert1 recordsBecquerel, Henri4 recordsBell, Alexander Graham2 recordsBethe, Hans1 recordsBethe, Hans Albrecht3 recordsBhabha, Homi Jehangir5 recordsBinnig, Gerd1 recordsBlackett, Patrick1 recordsBlau, Marietta2 recordsBloch, Felix5 recordsBohr, Aage Niels4 recordsBohr, Niels5 recordsBohr, Niels Henrik David10 records · static timelineBoltzmann, Ludwig Eduard6 recordsBonse, Ulrich1 recordsBorn, Max3 recordsBorst, Lyle1 recordsBose, Jagadish Chandra3 recordsBose, Satyendra Nath2 recordsBothe, Walther1 recordsBoyle, Robert3 recordsBoyle, Willard1 recordsBradbury, Norris1 recordsBragg, William Henry4 recordsBragg, William Lawrence4 recordsBrattain, Walter Houser1 recordsBraun, Karl Ferdinand1 recordsBreit, Gregory1 recordsBrockhouse, Bertram5 recordsBroglie, Louis de1 recordsBrout, Robert20 recordsBush, Vannevar1 records
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Campanelli, Manuela1 recordsCao, Yuan1 recordsCarnot, Nicolas Leonard Sadi2 recordsCarter, Brandon2 recordsCavendish, Henry2 recordsCelsius, Anders2 recordsChadwick, James7 records · static timelineChamberlain, Owen1 recordsChambers, Robert G1 recordsChandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan1 recordsCherenkov, Pavel1 recordsCherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich4 recordsChowdhuri, Bibha2 recordsChristy, Robert Frederick1 recordsChurchill, Winston Leonard Spencer1 recordsClarke, John1 recordsClauser, John F1 recordsClauser, John F.1 recordsClausius, Rudolf Julius Emanuel7 recordsColding, Ludvig August2 recordsCompton, Arthur Holly3 recordsCooke, William Fothergill2 recordsCooper, Leon2 recordsCoulomb, Charles-Augustin de2 recordsCurie, Jacques2 recordsCurie, Pierre23 records · static timelineCurien, Hubert2 records
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Dalen, Nils1 recordsDavenport, Thomas2 recordsDavies, Paul1 recordsDavisson, Clinton Joseph2 recordsde Broglie, Louis Victor2 recordsde Haas, Wander Johannes1 recordsDebye, Peter4 recordsDehmelt, Hans1 recordsDevoret, Michel H.1 recordsDirac, Paul Adrien Maurice4 recordsDiVincenzo, David1 recordsDoppler, Christian Andreas2 recordsDorner, Reinhard1 recordsDroste, Johannes1 recordsDrude, Paul1 recordsDunning, John R.1 recordsDyson, Freeman John1 records
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Eigler, Donald1 recordsEinstein, Albert121 records · static timelineElsasser, Walter1 recordsEmparan, Roberto1 recordsEnglert, Francois23 recordsEnglert, François1 recordsEsaki, Leo2 recordsEvans, Lyn5 recordsEveritt, Francis2 records
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Faraday, Michael2 recordsFermi, Enrico58 records · static timelineFert, Albert2 recordsFeynman, Richard Phillips4 recordsFitzGerald, George Francis1 recordsFlerov, Georgy Nikolaevich1 recordsFletcher, Harvey1 recordsFoucault, Jean Bernard Leon4 recordsFowler, Ralph Howard1 recordsFranck, James4 recordsFresnel, Augustin-Jean2 recordsFriedman, Jerome Isaac1 recordsFrisch, Otto Robert5 recordsFuchs, Klaus2 recordsFulling, Stephen1 records
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Gabor, Dennis1 recordsGabrielse, Gerald1 recordsGalilei, Galileo8 records · static timelineGeiger, Hans2 recordsGeim, Andre2 recordsGenzel, Reinhard1 recordsGermer, Lester2 recordsGhez, Andrea1 recordsGiaever, Ivar2 recordsGianotti, Fabiola19 recordsGibbons, Gary1 recordsGinzburg, Vitaly Lazarevich2 recordsGodel, Kurt1 recordsGoldstein, Eugen1 recordsGonzalez, Gabriela2 recordsGoudsmit, Samuel1 recordsGrossmann, Marcel2 recordsGrunberg, Peter2 recordsGunn, John Battiscombe1 recordsGuralnik, Gerald1 recordsGuth, Alan Harvey1 records
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Haffner, Hartmut1 recordsHagen, Carl Richard1 recordsHall, Edwin Herbert1 recordsHanneke, David1 recordsHaroche, Serge1 recordsHasenohrl, Friedrich2 recordsHasselmann, Klaus2 recordsHau, Lene Vestergaard4 recordsHawking, Stephen William5 recordsHeisenberg, Werner8 records · static timelineHeitler, Walter1 recordsHelmholtz, Hermann von1 recordsHertz, Gustav1 recordsHertz, Heinrich1 recordsHess, Victor Francis2 recordsHess, Victor Franz2 recordsHeuer, Rolf-Dieter9 recordsHiggs, Peter1 recordsHiggs, Peter Ware33 records · static timelineHilbert, David1 recordsHinton, Geoffrey1 recordsHittorf, Johann Wilhelm1 recordsHodgkin, Alan1 recordsHofmann, Sigurd3 recordsHooke, Robert1 recordsHopfield, John J1 recordsHopfield, John J.1 recordsHund, Friedrich4 recordsHuygens, Christaan1 recordsHuygens, Christiaan1 records
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Jarillo-Herrero, Pablo1 recordsJoliot-Curie, Frederic5 recordsJoliot-Curie, Irene1 recordsJosephson, Brian David2 recordsJospin, Lionel1 records
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Kajita, Takaaki1 recordsKane, Charles1 recordsKapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich2 recordsKapitza, Pyotr Leonidovich1 recordsKarlik, Berta2 recordsKarolus, August2 recordsKastler, Alfred2 recordsKendall, Henry1 recordsKerr, Roy1 recordsKibble, Tom1 recordsKim, Philip1 recordsKistiakowsky, George Bogdanovich2 recordsKlein, Oskar Benjamin2 recordsKohn, Walter2 recordsKouwenhoven, Leo1 recordsKramers, Hendrik Anthony1 recordsKrausz, Ferenc1 recordsKroemer, Herbert1 recordsKruskal, Martin1 recordsKurchatov, Igor1 recordsKurchatov, Igor Vasilyevich2 recordsKurti, Nicholas2 recordsKusch, Polykarp1 records
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Lamb, Willis Eugene1 recordsLaming, Richard1 recordsLamont, Mike2 recordsLandau, Lev Davidovich3 recordsLangevin, Paul1 recordsLaue, Max Theodore Felix von2 recordsLaughlin, Robert Betts2 recordsLawrence, Ernest1 recordsLawrence, Ernest Orlando2 recordsLenard, Philip1 recordsLenard, Philipp3 recordsLense, Josef1 recordsLHuillier, Anne3 recordsLibby, Willard1 recordsLinde, Andrei Dmitriyevich1 recordsLippmann, Gabriel1 recordsLorentz, Hendrik Antoon6 recordsLoss, Daniel1 records
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Mach, Ernst4 recordsMaier-Leibnitz, Heinz2 recordsMaldacena, Juan3 recordsManabe, Syukuro1 recordsMarconi, Guglielmo1 recordsMarcus, Charles1 recordsMarolf, Donald2 recordsMartinis, John M.1 recordsMathur, Samir1 recordsMaxwell, James Clerk1 recordsMayor, Michel1 recordsMcCord, Rube1 recordsMcDonald, Arthur B.1 recordsMcMillan, Edwin1 recordsMeer, Simon van der1 recordsMeitner, Lise3 recordsMele, Eugene1 recordsMichelson, Albert Abraham2 recordsMiller, Leonard1 recordsMillikan, Robert2 recordsMillikan, Robert Andrews6 recordsMinkowski, Hermann1 recordsMitchell, Dana P.1 recordsMolenkamp, Laurens2 recordsMorley, Edward Williams1 recordsMorse, Samuel Finley Breese2 recordsMoseley, Henry2 recordsMoseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys4 recordsMott, Nevill Francis2 recordsMourou, Gérard1 recordsMyers, Steve4 records
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Narlikar, Jayant Vishnu3 recordsNeddermeyer, Seth Henry2 recordsNernst, Walther2 recordsNewman, Ezra1 recordsNier, Alfred1 recordsNoddack, Ida1 recordsNordheim, Lothar1 recordsNovoselov, Konstantin2 records
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Occhialini, Giuseppe1 recordsOersted, Hans Christian3 recordsOganessian, Yuri3 recordsOhm, Georg Simon2 recordsOliphant, Mark1 recordsOppenheimer, J Robert1 recordsOppenheimer, J. Robert3 recordsOppenheimer, Julius Robert2 recordsOppenheimer, Robert9 records
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Page, Don5 recordsParisi, Giorgio2 recordsPascal, Blaise2 recordsPauli, Wolfgang Ernst2 recordsPena, Federico1 recordsPenington, Geoffrey1 recordsPenrose, Roger4 recordsPerlmutter, Saul1 recordsPerrin, Jean Baptiste1 recordsPerry, Malcolm1 recordsPiccard, Auguste1 recordsPlanck, Max4 recordsPlanck, Max Karl Ernst1 recordsPleasonton, Frances1 recordsPlucker, Julius1 recordsPoincare, Henri3 recordsPolchinski, Joseph2 recordsPollock, Herbert1 recordsPontecorvo, Bruno1 recordsPound, Robert1 recordsPound, Robert Vivian1 recordsPowell, Cecil Frank2 recordsPowers, Philip N.1 recordsPreiswerk, Peter1 recordsPretorius, Frans1 recordsProkhorov, Alexander2 recordsProkhorov, Alexander Mikhailovich2 recordsPurcell, Edward2 records
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Rabi, Isidor Isaac3 recordsRamachandran, Gopalasamudram Narayanan3 recordsRaman, Chandrasekhara Venkata6 recordsRamanna, Raja1 recordsRamsauer, Carl1 recordsRamsey, Norman3 recordsRasetti, Franco1 recordsRauch, Helmut1 recordsRaychaudhuri, Amal Kumar1 recordsReall, Harvey1 recordsRebka, Glen1 recordsRebka, Glen Anderson1 recordsReid, Alexander1 recordsReitze, David1 recordsRetherford, Robert1 recordsRichardson, Owen Willans1 recordsRichter, Burton3 recordsRiess, Adam G.1 recordsRohrer, Heinrich1 recordsRontgen, Wilhelm Conrad2 recordsRontgen, Wilhelm Konrad von1 recordsRosen, Nathan1 recordsRossby, Carl-Gustaf2 recordsRotblat, Joseph1 recordsRubbia, Carlo2 recordsRubens, Heinrich2 recordsRuska, Ernst August Friedrich1 recordsRutherford, Ernest3 records · static timelineRutherford, Ernst1 recordsRydberg, Johannes Robert2 records
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Sakharov, Andrei7 recordsSakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich7 recordsSalam, Abdus24 records · static timelineSchrieffer, Robert2 recordsSchrodinger, Erwin1 recordsSchrodinger, Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander79 records · static timelineSchwarzschild, Karl1 recordsSchwinger, Julian2 recordsSchwinger, Julian Seymour2 recordsSciama, Dennis William1 recordsSeaborg, Glenn1 recordsSeaborg, Glenn T.1 recordsSeaborg, Glenn Theodore3 recordsSegre, Emilio2 recordsSegre, Emilio Gino3 recordsSen, Ashoke3 recordsSerber, Robert1 recordsSham, Lu Jeu1 recordsShapiro, Irwin Ira1 recordsShockley, William1 recordsShoemaker, David1 recordsShull, Clifford3 recordsSiegbahn, Kai Manne Borje4 recordsSiegbahn, Karl Manne Georg1 recordsSiegbahn, Manne Georg4 recordsSiemens, Werner von2 recordsSimon, Franz2 recordsSlotin, Louis Alexander1 recordsSmith, Christopher Llewellyn1 recordsSmith, George Elwood1 recordsSmith, James H.2 recordsSmyth, Henry DeWolf2 recordsSnell, Arthur2 recordsSnyder, Hartland Snyder1 recordsSommerfeld, Arnold3 recordsStarobinsky, Alexander1 recordsStarobinsky, Alexei Alexandrovich1 recordsStefan, Josef2 recordsStokes, George Gabriel1 recordsStoney, George Johnstone2 recordsStormer, Horst Ludwig3 recordsStrauser, Wilbur1 recordsStrickland, Donna1 recordsStrominger, Andrew1 recordsStrutt, John William12 recordsSturgeon, William1 recordsSudarshan, Ennackal Chandy George3 recordsSusskind, Leonard3 recordsSzilard, Leo6 records
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Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich4 recordsTaylor, Geoffrey Ingram1 recordsTaylor, Joseph Hooton1 recordsTaylor, Richard1 recordsTeitelboim, Claudio1 recordsTeller, Edward4 recordsTesla, Nikola1 recordsTeukolsky, Saul Arno1 recordsThirring, Hans1 recordsThomas, Llewellyn1 recordsThomson, George Paget2 recordsThomson, Joseph John9 records · static timelineThomson, Robert William4 recordsThomson, William14 recordsThorlacius, Larus1 recordsThorne, Kip Stephen3 recordsTing, Samuel2 recordsTisch, John1 recordsTomonaga, Sin-Itiro3 recordsTonomura, Akira1 recordsTreimer, Wolfgang1 recordsTruman, Harry S1 recordsTsui, Daniel2 recordsTuck, James Leslie1 records
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Vaidya, Prahalad Chunnilal1 recordsVeltman, Martinus1 recordsvon Klitzing, Klaus2 recordsvon Neumann, John2 recordsvon Weizsacker, Carl Friedrich1 records
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Waals, Johannes Diderik van Der5 recordsWagoner, Robert V1 recordsWahl, Arthur1 recordsWald, Robert1 recordsWatt, James3 recordsWeber, Joseph1 recordsWeber, William1 recordsWeinberg, Steven21 recordsWeiss, Rainer5 recordsWeyl, Hermann1 recordsWheatstone, Charles2 recordsWheeler, John Archibald3 recordsWiechert, Emil2 recordsWiedemann, Gustav2 recordsWien, Wihelm1 recordsWien, Wilhelm6 recordsWiener, Otto2 recordsWigner, Eugene2 recordsWigner, Eugene Paul1 recordsWilkinson, Guy1 recordsWill, Clifford Martin1 recordsWilson, Charles Thomson Rees3 recordsWineland, David J.1 recordsWitten, Edward1 recordsWolfgang, Pauli1 recordsWollan, Ernest3 recordsWoods, Leona1 records