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Following is a list of
physicists who are notable for their achievements.
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Aryabhatta – India (476-550C.E)
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Jules Aarons – United States (1921–2016)
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Ernst Karl Abbe – Germany (1840–1905)
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Derek Abbott – Australia (born 1960)
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Hasan Abdullayev – Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, Soviet Union, Azerbaijan (1918–1993)
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Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov – Soviet Union, Russia (1928–2017) Nobel laureate
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Robert Adler – United States (1913–2007)
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Stephen L. Adler – United States (born 1939)
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Franz Aepinus – Rostock (1724–1802)
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Mina Aganagic – Albania, United States
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David Z Albert – United States (born 1954)
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Felicie Albert – France, United States
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Miguel Alcubierre – Mexico (born 1964)
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Zhores Ivanovich Alferov – Russia (1930–2019) Nobel laureate
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Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén – Sweden (1908–1995) Nobel laureate
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Alhazen – Basra, Iraq (965–1040)
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Artem Alikhanian – Armenia (1908–1978)
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Abram Alikhanov – Russia (1904–1970)
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John E. Allen – United Kingdom (born 1928)
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William Allis – United States (1901–1999)
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Samuel King Allison – United States (1900–1965)
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Yakov Lvovich Alpert – Russia, United States (1911–2010)
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Ralph Asher Alpher – United States (1921–2007)
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Semen Altshuler – Vitebsk (1911–1983)
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Luis Walter Alvarez – United States (1911–1988) Nobel laureate
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Viktor Ambartsumian – Soviet Union, Armenia (1908–1996)
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André-Marie Ampère – France (1775–1836)
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Anja Cetti Andersen – Denmark (born 1965)
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Hans Henrik Andersen – Denmark (1937–2012)
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Philip Warren Anderson – United States (1923–2020) Nobel laureate
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Carl David Anderson – United States (1905–1991) Nobel laureate
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Herbert L. Anderson – United States (1914–1988)
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Elephter Andronikashvili – Georgia (1910–1989)
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Anders Jonas Ångström – Sweden (1814–1874)
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Alexander Animalu, Nigeria (born 1938)
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Edward Victor Appleton – United Kingdom (1892–1965) Nobel laureate
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François Arago – France (1786–1853)
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Archimedes – Syracuse, Greece (ca. 287–212 BC)
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Manfred von Ardenne – Germany (1907–1997)
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Aristarchus of Samos – Samos, Greece (310–ca. 230 BC)
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Aristotle – Athens, Greece (384–322 BC)
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Nima Arkani-Hamed – United States (born 1972)
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Lev Artsimovich – Moscow (1909–1973)
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Aryabhata – Pataliputra, India (476–550)
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Neil Ashby – United States (born 1934)
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Maha Ashour-Abdalla – Egypt, United States (1943–2016)
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Gurgen Askaryan – Soviet Union (1928–1997)
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Alain Aspect – France (born 1947)
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Marcel Audiffren – France
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Avicenna – Persia (980–1037)
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Amedeo Avogadro – Italy (1776–1856)
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David Awschalom – United States (born 1956)
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APJ Abdul Kalam – India
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Al-Biruni – İran (born 973)
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Abu sahl Al-Quhi – İran (born 940)
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Xiaoyi Bao – Canada
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Mani Lal Bhaumik – United States (born 1931)
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Tom Baehr-Jones – United States (born 1980)
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Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge – U.K. (1925–2003)
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Cornelis Bakker – Netherlands (1904–1960)
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Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran – India (born 1938)
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V Balakrishnan – India (born 1943)
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Milla Baldo-Ceolin – Italy (1924–2011)
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Johann Jakob Balmer – Switzerland (1825–1898)
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Tom Banks – United States (born 1949)
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Riccardo Barbieri – Italy (born 1944)
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Marcia Barbosa – Brazil (born 1960)
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John Bardeen – United States (1908–1991) double Nobel laureate
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William A. Bardeen – United States (born 1941)
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Ronald Hugh Barker – Ireland (1915-2015)
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Charles Glover Barkla – U.K. (1877–1944) Nobel laureate
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Amanda Barnard – Australia (born 1971)
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Boyd Bartlett – United States (1897–1965)
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Asım Orhan Barut – Malatya, Turkey (1926–1994)
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Heinz Barwich – Germany (1911–1966)
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Nikolay Basov – Russia (1922–2001) Nobel laureate
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Laura Maria Caterina Bassi – Italy (1711–1778)
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Zoltán Lajos Bay – Hungary (1900–1992)
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Karl Bechert – Germany (1901–1981)
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Henri Becquerel – France (1852–1908) Nobel laureate
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Johannes Georg Bednorz – Germany (born 1950) Nobel laureate
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Isaac Beeckman – Netherlands (1588–1637)
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Alexander Graham Bell – Scotland, Canada, U.S.A. (1847–1922)
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John Stewart Bell – U.K. (1928–1990)
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Northern Ireland, U.K. (born 1943)
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Carl M. Bender – United States (born 1943)
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Abraham Bennet – England (1749–1799)
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Daniel Bernoulli – Switzerland (1700–1782)
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Hans Bethe – Germany, United States (1906–2005) Nobel laureate
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Homi J. Bhabha – India (1909–1966)
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Lars Bildsten – United States (1964)
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James Binney – England (born 1950)
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Gerd Binnig – Germany (born 1947) Nobel laureate
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Jean-Baptiste Biot – France (1774–1862)
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Raymond T. Birge – United States (1887–1980)
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Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī – Persia (973–1048)
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Vilhelm Bjerknes – Norway (1862–1951)
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James Bjorken – United States (born 1934)
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Patrick Blackett – U.K. (1897–1974) Nobel laureate
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Felix Bloch – Switzerland (1905–1983) Nobel laureate
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Nicolaas Bloembergen – Netherlands, United States (1920–2017) Nobel laureate
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Walter Boas – Germany, Australia (1904–1982)
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Céline Bœhm – France (born 1974)
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Nikolay Bogolyubov – Soviet Union, Russia (1909–1992)
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David Bohm – United States (1917–1992)
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Aage Bohr – Denmark (1922–2009) Nobel laureate
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Niels Bohr – Denmark (1885–1962) Nobel laureate
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Martin Bojowald – Germany (born 1973)
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Ludwig Boltzmann – Austria (1844–1906)
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Eugene T. Booth – United States (1912–2004)
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Max Born – Germany, U.K. (1882–1970) Nobel laureate
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Rudjer Josip Boscovich – Croatia (1711–1787)
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Jagadish Chandra Bose – India (1858–1937)
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Margrete Heiberg Bose – Denmark (1866–1952)
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Satyendra Nath Bose – India (1894–1974)
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Johannes Bosscha – Netherlands (1831–1911)
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Walther Bothe – Germany (1891–1957) Nobel laureate
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Edward Bouchet – United States (1852–1918)
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Mustapha Ishak Boushaki – Algeria (1967–)
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Mark Bowick – United States (born 1957)
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Robert Boyle – Ireland, England (1627–1691)
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Willard S. Boyle – Canada, United States (1924–2011) Nobel laureate
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William Henry Bragg – U.K. (1862–1942) Nobel laureate
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William Lawrence Bragg – U.K., Australia (1890–1971) Nobel laureate
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Tycho Brahe – Denmark (1546–1601)
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Howard Brandt – United States (1939–2014)
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Walter Houser Brattain – United States (1902–1987) Nobel laureate
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Karl Ferdinand Braun – Germany (1850–1918) Nobel laureate
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David Brewster – U.K. (1781–1868)
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Percy Williams Bridgman – United States (1882–1961) Nobel laureate
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Léon Nicolas Brillouin – France (1889–1969)
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Marcel Brillouin – France (1854–1948)
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Bertram Brockhouse – Canada (1918–2003) Nobel laureate
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Louis-Victor de Broglie – France (1892–1987) Nobel laureate
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William Fuller Brown, Jr. – United States (1904–1983)
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Ernst Brüche – Germany (1900–1985)
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Hermann Brück – Germany (1905–2000)
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Ari Brynjolfsson – Iceland (1927–2013)
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Hans Buchdahl – Germany, Australia (1918–2010)
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Gersh Budker – Soviet Union (1918–1977)
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Silke Bühler-Paschen – Austria (born 1967)
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Johannes Martinus Burgers – Netherlands (1895–1981)
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Friedrich Burmeister – Germany (1890–1969)
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Bimla Buti – India (born 1933)
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Christophorus Buys Ballot – Netherlands (1817–1890)
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Nicola Cabibbo – Italy (1935–2010)
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Nicolás Cabrera – Spain (1913–1989)
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Orion Ciftja – United States
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Curtis Callan – United States (born 1942)
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Annie Jump Cannon – United States (1863–1941)
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Fritjof Capra – Austria, United States (born 1939)
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Marcela Carena – Argentina (born 1962)
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Ricardo Carezani – Argentina, United States (1921–2016)
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Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot – France (1796–1832)
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David Carroll – United States (born 1963)
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Brandon Carter – Australia (born 1942)
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Hendrik Casimir – Netherlands (1909–2000)
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Henry Cavendish – U.K. (1731–1810)
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James Chadwick – U.K. (1891–1974) Nobel laureate
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Owen Chamberlain – United States (1920–2006) Nobel laureate
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Moses H. W. Chan – Hong Kong (born 1946)
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – India, United States (1910–1995) Nobel laureate
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Georges Charpak – France (1924–2010) Nobel laureate
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Émilie du Châtelet – France (1706–1749)
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Swapan Chattopadhyay – India (born 1951)
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Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1904–1990) Nobel laureate
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Maxim Chernodub – Russia, France (born 1973)
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Geoffrey Chew – United States (1924–2019)
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Boris Chirikov – Soviet Union, Russia (1928–2008)
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Juansher Chkareuli – Georgia (born 1940)
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Ernst Chladni – Germany (1756–1827)
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Nicholas Christofilos – Greece (1916-1972)
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Steven Chu – United States (born 1948) Nobel laureate
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Giovanni Ciccotti – Italy (born 1943)
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Benoît Clapeyron – France (1799–1864)
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George W. Clark – United States
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John Clauser – United States (born 1942) Nobel laureate
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Rudolf Clausius – Germany (1822–1888)
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Richard Clegg – U.K.
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Gari Clifford – British-American physicist, biomedical engineer, academic, researcher
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John Cockcroft – U.K. (1897–1967) Nobel laureate
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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji – France (born 1933) Nobel laureate
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Arthur Compton – United States (1892–1962) Nobel laureate
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Karl Compton – United States (1887–1954)
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Edward Condon – United States (1902–1974)
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Leon Cooper – United States (born 1930) Nobel laureate
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Alejandro Corichi – Mexico (born 1967)
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Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis – France (1792–1843)
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Allan McLeod Cormack – South Africa, United States (1924–1998)
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Eric Allin Cornell – United States (born 1961) Nobel laureate
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Marie Alfred Cornu – France (1841–1902)
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Charles-Augustin de Coulomb – France (1736–1806)
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Ernest Courant – United States (1920–2020)
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Brian Cox – U.K. (born 1968)
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Charles Critchfield – United States (1910–1994)
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James Cronin – United States (1931–2016) Nobel laureate
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Sir William Crookes – U.K. (1832–1919)
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Paul Crowell – United States
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Marie Curie – Poland, France (1867–1934) twice Nobel laureate
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Pierre Curie – France (1859–1906) Nobel laureate
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Predrag Cvitanović – Croatia (born 1946)
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Dennis Gabor – Hungary (1900–1979) Nobel laureate
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Mary K. Gaillard – France, United States (born 1939)
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Galileo Galilei – Italy (1564–1642)
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Luigi Galvani – Italy (1737–1798)
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George Gamow – Russia, United States (1904–1968)
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Sylvester James Gates – United States (born 1950)
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Carl Friedrich Gauss – Germany (1777–1855)
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Pamela L. Gay – United States (born 1973)
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac – France (1778–1850)
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Hans Geiger – Germany (1882–1945)
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Andre Geim – Russian/British (born 1958) Nobel laureate
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Murray Gell-Mann – United States (1929–2019) Nobel laureate
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes – France (1932–2007) Nobel laureate
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Howard Georgi – United States (born 1947)
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Walter Gerlach – Germany (1889–1979)
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Christian Gerthsen – Denmark, Germany (1894–1956)
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Ezra Getzler – Australia (born 1962)
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Andrea M. Ghez – United States (born 1955) Nobel laureate
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Riccardo Giacconi – Italy, United States (1931–2018) Nobel laureate
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Ivar Giaever – Norway, United States (born 1929) Nobel laureate
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Josiah Willard Gibbs – United States (1839–1903)
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Valerie Gibson – U.K. (born 19??)
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William Gilbert – England (1544–1603)
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Piara Singh Gill – India (1911–2002)
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Naomi Ginsberg – United States (born 1979)
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Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg – Soviet Union, Russia (1916–2009) Nobel laureate
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Marvin D. Girardeau – United States (1930–2015)
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Marissa Giustina – United States (born 19??)
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Donald Arthur Glaser – United States (1926–2013) Nobel laureate
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Sheldon Glashow – United States (born 1932) Nobel laureate
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G. N. Glasoe – United States (1902–1987)
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Roy Jay Glauber – United States (1925–2018) Nobel laureate
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James Glimm – United States (born 1934)
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Karl Glitscher – Germany (1886–1945)
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Peter Goddard – U.K. (born 1945)
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer – Germany, United States (1906–1972) Nobel laureate
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Gerald Goertzel – United States (1920–2002)
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Marvin Leonard Goldberger – United States (1922–2014)
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Maurice Goldhaber – Austria, United States (1911–2011)
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Jeffrey Goldstone – U.K., United States (born 1933)
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Sixto González – Puerto Rico, United States (born 1965)
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Ravi Gomatam – India (born 1950)
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Lev Gor'kov – United States (1929–2016)
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Samuel Goudsmit – Netherlands, United States (1902–1978)
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Leo Graetz – Germany (1856–1941)
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Willem 's Gravesande – Netherlands (1688–1742)
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Michael Green (physicist) – Britain (born 1946)
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Daniel Greenberger – United States (born 1932)
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Brian Greene – United States (born 1963)
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John Gribbin – U.K. (born 1946)
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Vladimir Gribov – Russia (1930–1997)
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David J. Griffiths – United States (born 1942)
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David Gross – United States (born 1941) Nobel laureate
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Frederick Grover – United States (1876–1973)
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Peter Grünberg – Germany (1939–2018) Nobel laureate
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Charles Édouard Guillaume – Switzerland (1861–1931) Nobel laureate
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Ayyub Guliyev – Azerbaijan (born 1954)
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Feza Gürsey – Turkey (1921–1992)
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Alan Guth – United States (born 1947)
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Martin Gutzwiller – Switzerland (1925–2014)
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Rudolf Haag – Germany (1922–2016)
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Wander Johannes de Haas – Netherlands (1878–1960)
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Alain Haché – Canada (born 1970)
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Carl Richard Hagen – United States (born 1937)
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Otto Hahn – Germany (1879–1968)
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Edwin Hall – United States (1855–1938)
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John Lewis Hall – United States (born 1934) Nobel laureate
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Alexander Hamilton – U.K., Australia (born 1967)
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William Rowan Hamilton – Ireland (1805–1865)
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Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch – Germany (born 1941) Nobel laureate
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Peter Andreas Hansen – Denmark (1795–1874)
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W.W. Hansen – United States (1909–1949)
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Serge Haroche – France (born 1944) Nobel laureate
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Paul Harteck – Germany (1902–1985)
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John G. Hartnett – Australia (born 1952)
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Douglas Hartree – U.K. (1897–1958)
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Friedrich Hasenöhrl – Austria, Hungary (1874–1915)
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Lene Vestergaard Hau – Vejle, Denmark (born 1959)
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Stephen Hawking – U.K. (1942–2018) Wolf laureate
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Ibn al-Haytham – Iraq (965–1039)
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Evans Hayward – United States (1922–2020)
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Oliver Heaviside – U.K. (1850–1925)
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Werner Heisenberg – Germany (1901–1976) Nobel laureate
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Walter Heitler – Germany, Ireland (1904–1981)
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Hermann von Helmholtz – Germany (1821–1894)
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Charles H. Henry – United States (1937–2016)
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Joseph Henry – United States (1797–1878)
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John Herapath – U.K. (1790–1868)
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Carl Hermann – Germany (1898–1961)
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Gustav Ludwig Hertz – Germany (1887–1975) Nobel laureate
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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz – Germany (1857–1894)
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Karl Herzfeld – Austria, United States (1892–1978)
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Victor Francis Hess – Austria, United States (1883–1964) Nobel laureate
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Mahmoud Hessaby – Iran (1903–1992)
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Antony Hewish – U.K. (1924–2021) Nobel laureate
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Paul G. Hewitt – United States (born 1931)
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Peter Higgs – U.K. (1929–2024) Nobel laureate
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George William Hill – United States (1838–1914)
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Gustave-Adolphe Hirn – France (1815–1890)
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Carol Hirschmugl – United States, professor of physics, laboratory director
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Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin – England (1910–1994)
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Robert Hofstadter – United States (1915–1990) Nobel laureate
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Helmut Hönl – Germany (1903–1981)
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Pervez Hoodbhoy – Pakistan (born 1950)
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Gerardus 't Hooft – Netherlands (born 1946) Nobel laureate
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Robert Hooke – England (1635–1703)
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John Hopkinson – United Kingdom (1849–1898)
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Johann Baptiste Horvath – Slovakia (1732–1799)
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William V. Houston – United States (1900–1968)
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Charlotte (née Riefenstahl) Houtermans – Germany (1899–1993)
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Fritz Houtermans – Netherlands, Germany, Austria (1903–1966)
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Archibald Howie – U.K. (born 1934)
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Fred Hoyle – U.K. (1915–2001)
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Veronika Hubeny – United States
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John Hubbard – U.K. (1931–1980)
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John H. Hubbell – United States (1925–2007)
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Edwin Powell Hubble – United States (1889–1953)
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Russell Alan Hulse – United States (born 1950) Nobel laureate
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Friedrich Hund – Germany (1896–1997)
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Tahir Hussain – Pakistan (1923–2010)
- Andrew D. Huxley – U.K. (born 1966)
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Christiaan Huygens – Netherlands (1629–1695)
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Menas Kafatos – Greece, United States (born 1945)
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Takaaki Kajita – Japan (born 1959) Nobel laureate
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Michio Kaku – United States (born 1947)
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Theodor Kaluza – Germany (1885–1954)
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes – Netherlands (1853–1926) Nobel laureate
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William R. Kanne – United States
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Charles K. Kao – China, Hong Kong, U.K., United States (1933–2018) Nobel laureate
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Pyotr Kapitsa – Russian Empire, Soviet Union (1894–1984) Nobel laureate
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Theodore von Kármán – Hungary, United States (1881–1963) aeronautical engineer
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Alfred Kastler – France (1902–1984) Nobel laureate
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Amrom Harry Katz – United States (1915–1997)
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Moshe Kaveh – Israel (born 1943) President of
Bar-Ilan University
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Predhiman Krishan Kaw – India (1948–2017)
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Heinrich Kayser – Germany (1853–1940)
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Willem Hendrik Keesom – Netherlands (1876–1956)
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Edwin C. Kemble – United States (1889–1984)
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Henry Way Kendall – United States (1926–1999) Nobel laureate
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Johannes Kepler – Germany (1571–1630)
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John Kerr – Scotland (1824–1907)
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Wolfgang Ketterle – Germany (born 1957) Nobel laureate
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Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov – Soviet Union (1919–2021)
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Jim Al-Khalili – U.K. (born 1962)
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Abdul Qadeer Khan – Pakistan (1936–2021)
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Yulii Borisovich Khariton – Soviet Union, Russia (1904–1996)
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Erhard Kietz – Germany, United States (1909–1982)
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Jack Kilby – United States (1923–2005) electronics engineer, Nobel laureate
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Toichiro Kinoshita – Japan, United States (1925–2023)
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Gustav Kirchhoff – Germany (1824–1887)
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Oskar Klein – Sweden (1894–1977)
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Hagen Kleinert – Germany (born 1941)
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Klaus von Klitzing – Germany (born 1943) Nobel laureate
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Jens Martin Knudsen – Denmark (1930–2005)
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Martin Knudsen – Denmark (1871–1949)
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Makoto Kobayashi – Japan (born 1944) Nobel laureate
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Arthur Korn – Germany (1870–1945)
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Masatoshi Koshiba – Japan (1926–2020) Nobel laureate
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Matthew Koss – United States (born 1961)
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Walther Kossel – Germany (1888–1956)
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Ashutosh Kotwal – United States (born 1965)
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Lew Kowarski – France (1907–1979)
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Hendrik Kramers – Netherlands (1894–1952)
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Serguei Krasnikov – Russia (born 1961)
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Adolf Kratzer – Germany (1893–1983)
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Lawrence M. Krauss – United States (born 1954)
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Herbert Kroemer – Germany (1928–2024) Nobel laureate
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August Krönig – Germany (1822–1879)
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Ralph Kronig – Germany, United States (1904–1995)
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Nikolay Sergeevich Krylov – Soviet Union (1917–1947)
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Ryogo Kubo – Japan (1920–1995)
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Daya Shankar Kulshreshtha – India (born 1951)
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Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov – Soviet Union (1903–1960)
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Behram Kursunoglu – Turkey (1922–2003)
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Polykarp Kusch – Germany (1911–1993) Nobel laureate
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Arthur B. McDonald – Canada (born 1943) Nobel laureate
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Carolina Henriette MacGillavry – Netherlands (1904–1993)
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Ernst Mach – Austria-Hungary (1838–1916)
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Katie Mack (astrophysicist) – United States (born 1981)
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Gladys Mackenzie – Scotland (1903–1972)
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Ray Mackintosh – U.K.
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Luciano Maiani – Italy, San Marino (born 1941)
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Theodore Maiman – United States (1927–2007)
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Arthur Maitland – U.K. (1925–1994)
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Ettore Majorana – Italy (1906–1938 presumed dead)
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Sudhansu Datta Majumdar – India (1915–1997)
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Richard Makinson – Australia (1913–1979)
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Juan Martín Maldacena – Argentina (born 1968)
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Étienne-Louis Malus – France (1775–1812)
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Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam – Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1879–1944)
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Franz Mandl – U.K. (1923–2009)
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Charles Lambert Manneback – Belgium (1894–1975)
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Peter Mansfield – U.K. (1933–2017)
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Carlo Marangoni – Italy (1840–1925)
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M. Cristina Marchetti – Italy, United States (born 1955)
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Guglielmo Marconi – Italy (1874–1937) Nobel laureate
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Henry Margenau – Germany, United States (1901–1977)
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Nina Marković – Croatia, United States
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William Markowitz – United States (1907–1998)
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Laurence D. Marks – United States (born 1954)
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Robert Marshak – United States (1916–1992)
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Walter Marshall – U.K. (1932–1996)
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Toshihide Maskawa – Japan (1940–2021) Nobel laureate
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Harrie Massey – Australia (1908–1983)
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John Cromwell Mather – United States (born 1946) Nobel laureate
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James Clerk Maxwell – U.K. (1831–1879)
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Brian May – U.K. (born 1947)
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Maria Goeppert Mayer – Germany, United States (1906–1972)
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Ronald E. McNair – United States (1950–1986)
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Anna McPherson – Canadian (1901–1979)
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Simon van der Meer – Netherlands (1925–2011) Nobel laureate
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Lise Meitner – Austria (1878–1968)
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Fulvio Melia – United States (born 1956)
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Macedonio Melloni – Italy (1798–1854)
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Adrian Melott – United States (born 1947)
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Thomas Corwin Mendenhall – United States (1841–1924)
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M. G. K. Menon – India (1928–2016)
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David Merritt – United States
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Albert Abraham Michelson – United States (1852–1931) Nobel laureate
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Arthur Alan Middleton – United States
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Stanislav Mikheyev – Russia (1940–2011)
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Robert Andrews Millikan – United States (1868–1953) Nobel laureate
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Robert Mills – United States (1927-1999)
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Arthur Milne – U.K. (1896–1950)
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Shiraz Minwalla – India (born 1972)
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Bedangadas Mohanty – India (born 1973)
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Rabindra Nath Mohapatra – India, United States (born 1944)
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Kathryn Moler – United States
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Merritt Moore – United States (born 1988)
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Tanya Monro – Australia (born 1973)
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John J. Montgomery – United States (1858–1911)
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Jagadeesh Moodera – India, United States (born 1950)
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Jonathan P. Morris – United States (born 2010)
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Henry Moseley – U.K. (1887–1915)
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Rudolf Mössbauer – Germany (1929–2011) Nobel laureate
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Nevill Mott – U.K. (1905–1996) Nobel laureate
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Ben Roy Mottelson – Denmark, United States (1926–2022) Nobel laureate
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Amédée Mouchez – Spain, France (1821–1892)
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Ali Moustafa – Egypt (1898–1950)
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José Enrique Moyal – Palestine, France, U.K., United States, Australia (1910–1998)
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Karl Alexander Müller – Switzerland (1927–2023) Nobel laureate
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Richard A. Muller – United States (born 1944)
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Robert S. Mulliken – United States (1896–1986)
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Pieter van Musschenbroek – Netherlands (1692–1762)
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Thanu Padmanabhan – India (1957–2021)
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Heinz Pagels – United States (1939–1988)
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Abraham Pais – Netherlands, United States (1918–2000)
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Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky – Germany, United States (1919–2007)
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Blaise Pascal – France (1623–1662)
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John Pasta – United States (1918–1984)
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Jogesh Pati – United States (born 1937)
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Petr Paucek – United States
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Stephen Paul – United States (1953–2012)
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Wolfgang Paul – Germany (1913–1993) Nobel laureate
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Wolfgang Pauli – Austria-Hungary (1900–1958) Nobel laureate
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin – United States (1900-1979) astronomer and astrophysicist
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Ruby Payne-Scott – Australia (1912-1981)
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George B. Pegram – United States (1876–1958)
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Rudolf Peierls – Germany, U.K. (1907–1995)
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Jean Peltier – France (1785–1845)
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Roger Penrose – U.K. (born 1931) Wolf laureate, mathematician
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Arno Allan Penzias – United States (1933–2024) Nobel laureate, electrical engineer
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Martin Lewis Perl – United States (1927–2014) Nobel laureate
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Saul Perlmutter – United States (born 1959) Nobel laureate
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Jean Baptiste Perrin – France (1870–1942) Nobel laureate
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Konstantin Petrzhak – Soviet Union, Russia (1907–1998)
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Bernhard Philberth – Germany (1927–2010)
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William Daniel Phillips – United States (born 1948) Nobel laureate
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Max Planck – Germany (1858–1947) Nobel laureate
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Joseph Plateau – Belgium (1801–1883)
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Milton S. Plesset – United States (1908–1991)
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Ward Plummer – United States (1940–2020)
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Boris Podolsky – Taganrog (1896–1966)
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Henri Poincaré – France (1854–1912) mathematician
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Eric Poisson – Canada (born 1965)
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Siméon Denis Poisson – France (1781–1840) mathematician
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Balthasar van der Pol – Netherlands (1889–1959) electrical engineer
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Joseph Polchinski – United States (1954–2018)
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Hugh David Politzer – United States (born 1949) Nobel laureate
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John Polkinghorne – U.K. (1930–2021)
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Julianne Pollard-Larkin – United States
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Alexander M. Polyakov – Russia, United States (born 1945)
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Bruno Pontecorvo – Italy, Soviet Union (1913–1993)
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Heraclides Ponticus – Greece (387–312 BC)
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Heinz Pose – Germany (1905–1975)
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Cecil Frank Powell – U.K. (1903–1969) Nobel laureate
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John Henry Poynting – U.K. (1852–1914)
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Ludwig Prandtl – Germany (1875–1953)
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Willibald Peter Prasthofer – Austria (1917–1993)
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Ilya Prigogine – Belgium (1917–2003)
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Alexander Prokhorov – Soviet, Russian (1916–2002) Nobel laureate
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William Prout – U.K. (1785–1850)
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Luigi Puccianti – Italy (1875–1952)
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Ivan Pulyuy – Ukraine (1845–1918)
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Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin – Serbia, United States (1858–1935)
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Edward Mills Purcell – United States (1912–1997) Nobel laureate
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Gabriele Rabel – Austria, United Kingdom (1880–1963)
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Isidor Isaac Rabi – Austria, United States (1898–1988) Nobel laureate
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Giulio Racah – Italian-Israeli (1909–1965)
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James Rainwater – United States (1917–1986) Nobel laureate
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Mark G. Raizen – New York City United States (born 1955)
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Alladi Ramakrishnan – India (1923–2008)
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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman – India (1888–1970) Nobel laureate
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Edward Ramberg – United States (1907–1995)
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Carl Ramsauer – Germany (1879–1955)
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Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. – United States (1915–2011) Nobel laureate
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Lisa Randall – United States (born 1962)
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Riccardo Rattazzi – Italy (born 1964)
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Lord Rayleigh – U.K. (1842–1919) Nobel laureate
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René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur – France (1683–1757)
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Sidney Redner – Canada, United States (born 1951)
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Martin John Rees – U.K. (born 1942)
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Hubert Reeves – Canada (born 1932)
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Tullio Regge – Italy (1931–2014)
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Frederick Reines – United States (1918–1998) Nobel laureate
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Louis Rendu – France (1789–1859)
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Osborne Reynolds – U.K. (1842–1912)
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Owen Willans Richardson – U.K. (1879–1959) Nobel laureate
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Robert Coleman Richardson – United States (1937–2013) Nobel laureate
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Burton Richter – United States (1931–2018) Nobel laureate
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Floyd K. Richtmyer – United States (1881–1939)
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Robert D. Richtmyer – (1910–2003)
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Charlotte Riefenstahl – Germany (1899–1993)
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Nikolaus Riehl – Germany (1901–1990)
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Adam Riess – United States (born 1969) Nobel laureate
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Karl-Heinrich Riewe – Germany
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Walther Ritz – Switzerland (1878–1909)
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Étienne-Gaspard Robert – Belgium (1763–1837)
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Heinrich Rohrer – Switzerland (1933–2013) Nobel laureate
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Joseph Romm – United States (born 1960)
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen – Germany (1845–1923) Nobel laureate
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Clemens C. J. Roothaan – Netherlands (1918–2019)
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Nathan Rosen – United States, Israel (1909–1995)
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Marshall Rosenbluth – United States (1927–2003)
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Yasha Rosenfeld – Israel (1948–2002)
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Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby – Sweden, United States (1898–1957)
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Bruno Rossi – Italy, United States (1905–1993)
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Joseph Rotblat – Poland, U.K. (1908–2005)
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Carlo Rovelli – Italy (born 1956)
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Mary Laura Chalk Rowles – United States (1904–1996)
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Subrata Roy (scientist) – India, United States
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Carlo Rubbia – Italy (born 1934) Nobel laureate
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Vera Rubin – United States (1928–2016)
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Serge Rudaz – Canada, United States (born 1954)
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David Ruelle – Belgium, France (born 1935)
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Ernst August Friedrich Ruska – Germany (1906–1988) Nobel laureate
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Ernest Rutherford – New Zealand, U.K. (1871–1937)
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Janne Rydberg – Sweden (1854–1919)
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Martin Ryle – U.K. (1918–1984) Nobel laureate
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Mendel Sachs – United States (1927–2012)
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Rainer K. Sachs – Germany and United States (born 1932)
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Robert G. Sachs – United States (1916–1999)
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Carl Sagan – United States (1934–1996)
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Georges-Louis le Sage – Switzerland (1724–1803)
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Georges Sagnac – France (1869–1926)
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Megh Nad Saha – Bengali India (1893–1956)
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Shoichi Sakata – Japan (1911–1970)
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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov – Soviet Union (1929–1989)
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Oscar Sala – Brazil (1922–2010)
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Abdus Salam – Pakistan (1926–1996) Nobel laureate
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Edwin Ernest Salpeter – Austria, Australia, United States (1924–2008)
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Anthony Ichiro Sanda – Japan, United States (born 1944)
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Antonella De Santo – Italy, U.K.
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Vikram Sarabhai – India (1919–1971)
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Isidor Sauers – Austria (born 1948)
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Félix Savart – France (1791–1841)
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Brendan Scaife – Ireland (born 1928)
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Martin Schadt – Switzerland (born 1938)
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Arthur Leonard Schawlow – United States (1921–1999) Nobel laureate
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Craige Schensted – United States
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Joël Scherk – France (1946–1979)
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Otto Scherzer – Germany (1909–1982)
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Brian Schmidt – Australia, United States (born 1967) Nobel laureate
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Alan Schoen – United States (1924–2023)
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Walter H. Schottky – Germany (1886–1976)
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Kees A. Schouhamer Immink – Netherlands (born 1946)
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John Robert Schrieffer – United States (1931–2019) Nobel laureate
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Erwin Schrödinger – Austria-Hungary (1887–1961) Nobel laureate
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John Henry Schwarz – United States (born 1941)
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Melvin Schwartz – United States (1932–2006) Nobel laureate
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Karl Schwarzschild – German Empire (1876–1916)
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Julian Schwinger – United States (1918–1994) Nobel laureate
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Marlan Scully – United States (born 1939)
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Dennis William Sciama – U.K. (1926–1999)
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Bice Sechi-Zorn – Italy, United States (1928–1984)
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Thomas Johann Seebeck – Estonia (1770–1831)
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Raymond Seeger – United States (1906–1992)
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Emilio G. Segre – Italy, United States (1905–1989) Nobel laureate
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Nathan Seiberg – United States (born 1956)
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Frederick Seitz – United States (1911–2008)
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Nikolay Semyonov – Russia (1896–1986)
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Ashoke Sen – India (born 1956)
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Hiranmay Sen Gupta – Bangladesh (1934–2022)
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Robert Serber – United States (1909–1997)
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Roman U. Sexl – Austria (1939–1986)
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Shen Kuo – China (1031–1095)
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Mikhail Shifman – Russia, United States (born 1949)
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Dmitry Shirkov – Russia (1928–2016)
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William Shockley – United States (1910–1989) Nobel laureate
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Boris Shraiman – United States (1956)
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Lev Shubnikov – Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine (1901–1937)
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Clifford Shull – United States (1915–2001) Nobel laureate
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Kai Siegbahn – Sweden (1918–2007) Nobel laureate
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Manne Siegbahn – Sweden (1886–1978) Nobel laureate
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Ludwik Silberstein – Poland, Germany, Italy, United States, Canada (1872–1948)
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Eva Silverstein – United States (born 1970)
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John Alexander Simpson – United States (1916–2000)
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Willem de Sitter – Netherlands (1872–1934)
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Uri Sivan – Israel (born 1955)
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Tamitha Skov – United States space weather physicist, researcher and public speaker
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G. V. Skrotskii – Russia (1915–1992)
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Francis G. Slack – United States (1897–1985)
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John C. Slater – United States (1900–1976)
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Louis Slotin – United States (1910–1946)
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Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov – Russia, Italy (born 1951)
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George E. Smith – United States (born 1930) Nobel laureate
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Lee Smolin – United States (born 1955)
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Marian Smoluchowski – Poland (1872–1917)
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George Smoot – United States (born 1945) Nobel laureate
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Willebrord Snell – Netherlands (1580–1626)
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Arsenij Sokolov – Russia (1910–1986)
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Arnold Sommerfeld – Germany (1868–1951)
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Bent Sørensen – Denmark (born 1941)
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Rafael Sorkin – United States (born 1945)
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Zeinabou Mindaoudou Souley (1964 - ) Nuclear physicist from Niger
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Nicola Spaldin – United Kingdom (born 1969)
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Maria Spiropulu – Greece (born 1970)
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Henry Stapp – United States (born 1928)
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Johannes Stark – Germany (1874–1957) Nobel laureate
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Max Steenbeck – (1901–1981)
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Joseph Stefan – Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835–1893)
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Jack Steinberger – Germany, United States (1921–2020) Nobel laureate
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Paul J. Steinhardt – United States (born 1952)
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Carl August Steinheil – Germany (1801–1870)
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George Sterman – United States (born 1946)
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Otto Stern – Germany (1888–1969) Nobel laureate
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Simon Stevin – Belgium, Netherlands (1548–1620)
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Thomas H. Stix – United States (1924–2001)
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George Gabriel Stokes – Ireland, U.K. (1819–1903)
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Aleksandr Stoletov – Russia (1839–1896)
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Donna Strickland – Canada (born 1959) Nobel laureate
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Horst Ludwig Störmer – Germany (born 1949) Nobel laureate
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Leonard Strachan – United States, astrophysicist
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Julius Adams Stratton – United States
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Andrew Strominger – United States (born 1955)
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Audrey Stuckes – U.K. (1923–2006)
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Ernst Stueckelberg – Switzerland (1905–1984)
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George Sudarshan – India, United States (1931–2018)
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Rashid Sunyaev – USSR (born 1943)
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Oleg Sushkov – USSR, Australia (born 1950)
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Leonard Susskind – United States (born 1940)
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Joseph Swan – U.K. (1828–1914)
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Jean Henri van Swinden – Netherlands (1746–1823)
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Bertha Swirles – U.K. (1903–1999)
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Leo Szilard – Austria-Hungary, United States (1898–1964)
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^ Jordanova, V. K.; Delzanno, G. L.; Henderson, M. G.; Godinez, H. C.; Jeffery, C. A.; Lawrence, E. C.; Morley, S. K.; Moulton, J. D.; Vernon, L. J.; Woodroffe, J. R.; Brito, T. V. (2018-10-01).
"Specification of the near-Earth space environment with SHIELDS" (PDF). Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. Dynamics of the Sun-Earth System: Recent Observations and Predictions. 177: 148–159.
Bibcode:
2018JASTP.177..148J.
doi:
10.1016/j.jastp.2017.11.006.
ISSN
1364-6826.
S2CID
125573634.