Physicist
| Name | Nationality | Date of Birth | Date of Death |
| Aaron Klug |
British |
August 11, 1926 |
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| Albert Einstein |
German |
March 14, 1879 |
April 18, 1955 |
| Andrei Sakharov |
Russian |
May 21, 1921 |
December 14, 1989 |
| Austin O'Malley |
American |
1858 |
1932 |
| Brian Greene |
American |
February 9, 1963 |
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| Cecil Frank Powell |
British |
December 5, 1903 |
August 9, 1969 |
| Chen Ning Yang |
American |
September 22, 1922 |
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| David Douglass |
American |
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| Edward Teller |
American |
January 15, 1908 |
September 9, 2003 |
| Enrico Fermi |
Italian |
September 29, 1901 |
November 28, 1954 |
| Eric Allin Cornell |
American |
December 19, 1961 |
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| Ernst Mach |
Austrian |
February 18, 1838 |
February 19, 1916 |
| Eugene Wigner |
American |
November 17, 1902 |
January 1, 1995 |
| Frank Tipler |
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February 1, 1947 |
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| Frederick Reines |
American |
March 16, 1918 |
August 26, 1998 |
| Freeman Dyson |
American |
December 15, 1923 |
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| Gordon Gould |
American |
July 17, 1920 |
September 16, 2005 |
| Hermann von Helmholtz |
German |
August 31, 1821 |
September 8, 1894 |
| Ilya Prigogine |
Belgian |
January 25, 1917 |
May 28, 2003 |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer |
American |
April 22, 1904 |
February 18, 1967 |
| Jack Steinberger |
American |
May 25, 1921 |
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| James Cronin |
American |
September 29, 1931 |
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| James Jeans |
English |
September 11, 1877 |
September 16, 1946 |
| James Prescott Joule |
English |
December 24, 1818 |
October 11, 1889 |
| James Van Allen |
American |
September 7, 1914 |
August 9, 2006 |
| Jerome Isaac Friedman |
American |
March 28, 1930 |
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| Johannes Stark |
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April 15, 1874 |
June 21, 1957 |
| John Arbuthnot |
Scottish |
April 29, 1667 |
1735 |
| John Archibald Wheeler |
American |
July 9, 1911 |
April 13, 2008 |
| John Henry Carver |
Australian |
1926 |
2004 |
| John Polkinghorne |
British |
October 16, 1930 |
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| John S. Bell |
Irish |
June 28, 1928 |
October 1, 1990 |
| John Tyndall |
English |
August 2, 1820 |
December 4, 1893 |
| Joseph Rotblat |
Polish |
November 4, 1908 |
August 31, 2005 |
| Kanya Kusano |
Japanese |
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| Klaus Fuchs |
German |
December 29, 1911 |
January 28, 1988 |
| Martin Lewis Perl |
American |
June 24, 1927 |
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| Murray Gell-Mann |
American |
September 15, 1929 |
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| Niels Bohr |
Danish |
October 7, 1885 |
November 18, 1962 |
| Oliver Joseph Lodge |
English |
June 12, 1851 |
August 22, 1940 |
| Paul Dirac |
British |
August 8, 1902 |
October 20, 1984 |
| Pieter Zeeman |
Dutch |
May 25, 1865 |
October 9, 1943 |
| Richard P. Feynman |
American |
May 11, 1918 |
February 15, 1988 |
| Robert B. Laughlin |
American |
November 1, 1950 |
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| Roger Penrose |
English |
August 8, 1931 |
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| Simon van der Meer |
Dutch |
November 24, 1925 |
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| Stephen Hawking |
English |
January 8, 1942 |
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| Victor Francis Hess |
American |
June 24, 1883 |
December 17, 1964 |
| Walter Kohn |
Austrian |
March 9, 1923 |
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| Walther Bothe |
German |
January 8, 1891 |
February 8, 1957 |
| Werner Heisenberg |
German |
December 5, 1901 |
February 1, 1976 |