List of theoretical physicists

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The following is a partial list of notable theoretical physicists. Arranged by century of birth, then century of death, then year of birth. For explanation of symbols, see Notes at end of this article.

Ancient times[]

  • Thales (c. 624 – c. 546 BCE)
  • Pythagoras^* (c. 570 – c. 495 BCE)
  • Democritus° (c. 460 – c. 370 BCE)
  • Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
  • Archimedesº* (c. 287 – c. 212 BCE)
  • Hypatia^ªº (c. 350–370; died 415 AD)

Middle Ages[]

  • Ibn al-Haytham (c. 965 – c. 1040)
  • Al Beruni (c. 973 – c. 1048)
  • Omar Khayyám (c. 1048 – c. 1131)
  • Al Farabi (c. 872 – c. 950)
  • Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201–1274)
  • Jean Buridan  (1301 – c. 1359/62)
  • Nicole Oresme (c. 1320 – 1325 –1382)
  • Sigismondo Polcastro (1384–1473)

15th–16th century[]

  • Nicolaus Copernicusº (1473–1543)

16th century and 16th–17th centuries[]

  • Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576)
  • Tycho Brahe (1546–1601)
  • Giordano Bruno (1548–1600)
  • Galileo Galileiº* (1564–1642)
  • Johannes Keplerº (1571–1630)
  • Benedetto Castelli (1578–1643)
  • René Descartes‡^ (1596–1650)
  • Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598–1647)

17th century[]

  • Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665)
  • Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647)
  • Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608–1679)
  • Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618–1663)
  • Blaise Pascal^ (1623–1662)
  • Erhard Weigel (1625–1699)
  • Christiaan Huygens^ (1629–1695)

17th–18th centuries[]

  • Vincenzo Viviani (1622–1703)
  • Isaac Newton^*º (1642–1727)
  • Gottfried Leibniz^ (1646–1716)
  • Jacob Bernoulli (1655–1705)
  • Edmond Halley (1656–1742)
  • Luigi Guido Grandi (1671–1742)
  • Jakob Hermann (1678–1733)
  • Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (1678–1771)
  • Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695–1726)
  • Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759)
  • Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782)

18th century[]

  • Leonhard Euler^ (1707–1783)
  • Vincenzo Riccati (1707–1785)
  • Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765)
  • Laura Bassiª* (1711–1778)
  • Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711–1787)
  • Alexis Clairaut (1713–1765)
  • Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783)

18th–19th centuries[]

  • Franz Aepinus (1724–1802)
  • Henry Cavendish (1731–1810)
  • Joseph Lagrange^º (1736–1813)
  • Charles Coulomb (1736–1806)
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)
  • Jurij Vega (1754–1802)
  • John Dalton^ (1766–1844)
  • Joseph Fourier^ (1768–1830)
  • Thomas Young‡* (1773–1829)
  • Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862)
  • Étienne-Louis Malus (1775–1812)
  • André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836)
  • Carl Friedrich Gauss^ (1777–1855)
  • Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840)
  • Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana (1781–1864)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784–1846)
  • Claude-Louis Navier (1785–1836)
  • François Arago (1786–1853)
  • Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788–1827)
  • Georg Ohm (1789–1854)
  • Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857)
  • Félix Savart (1791–1841)
  • Ottaviano-Fabrizio Mossotti (1791–1863)
  • Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792–1843)
  • George Green^ (1793–1841)
  • Michel Chasles (1793–1880)
  • Gabrio Piola (1794–1850)
  • Gabriel Lamé (1795–1870)
  • Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832)
  • Nikolai Brashman (1796–1866)
  • Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796–1878)
  • Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (1797–1869)
  • Franz Ernst Neumann (1798–1895)
  • Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799–1864)

19th century[]

  • Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801–1862)
  • Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804–1851)
  • Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804–1889)
  • William Hamilton^º (1805–1865)
  • Samuel Earnshaw (1805–1888)
  • Julius Weisbach (1806–1871)
  • Joseph Liouville (1809–1882)
  • Auguste Bravais (1811–1863)
  • Osip Ivanovich Somov (1815–1876)
  • Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816–1872)
  • William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872)
  • Hermann von Helmholtz‡† (1821–1894)
  • Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821–1894)
  • August Krönig (1822–1879)
  • Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888)
  • August Davidov (1823–1885)
  • Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887)
  • Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866)
  • Ludvig Lorenz (1829–1891)
  • James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
  • Johann Bauschinger (1834–1893)
  • Josef Stefan (1835–1893)
  • Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891)
  • Pierre Henri Hugoniot (1851–1887)
  • Heinrich Hertz* (1857–1894)

19th–20th centuries[]

  • Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903)
  • William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin* (1824–1907)
  • Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923)
  • George William Hill (1838–1914)
  • Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
  • Viktor von Lang (1838–1921)
  • J. Willard Gibbs†^ (1839–1903)
  • Ernst Abbe (1840–1905)
  • Osborne Reynolds (1842–1912)
  • John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919)
  • Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842–1929)
  • Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906)
  • Nikolay Umov (1846–1915)
  • Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847–1921)
  • Diederik Korteweg (1848–1941)
  • Horace Lamb (1849–1934)
  • Woldemar Voigt (1850–1919)
  • Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925)
  • Jacobus Kapteyn (1851–1922)
  • Arthur Schuster (1851–1934)
  • Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911)
  • John Henry Poynting (1852–1914)
  • Orest Khvolson (1852–1934)
  • Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928)
  • Henri Poincaré (1854–1912)
  • Alfred Barnard Basset (1854–1930)
  • Emil Cohn (1854–1944)
  • Max Margules (1856–1920)
  • Carl Runge (1856–1927)
  •  [fr] (1856–1937)
  • Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857–1918)
  • Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935)
  • Joseph Larmor (1857–1942)
  • Maurice Couette (1858–1943)
  • Max Planck (1858–1947)
  • Karl Heun (1859–1929)
  • Vito Volterra (1860–1940)
  • Pierre Duhem (1861–1916)
  • Emil Wiechert (1861–1928)
  • Paul Drude (1863–1906)
  • Arthur Gordon Webster (1863–1923)
  • Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863–1940)
  • Vladimir Steklov (1864–1926)
  • Hermann Minkowski (1864–1909)
  • Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928)
  • Walther Nernst (1864–1941)
  • Pierre Weiss (1865–1940)
  • Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943)
  • Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963)
  • Gustav de Vries (1866–1934)
  • Martin Kutta (1867–1944)
  • Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951)
  • Gustav Mie (1868–1957)
  • Sergey Chaplygin (1869–1942)
  • Nikolai Kasterin (1869–1947)
  • Alfred-Marie Liénard (1869–1958)
  • Louis Bachelier (1870–1946)
  • Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937)
  • Émile Jouguet (1871–1943)
  • Boris Galerkin (1871–1945)
  • Martin Knudsen (1871–1949)
  • Émile Borel (1871–1956)
  • Marian Smoluchowski (1872–1917)
  • Paul Langevin (1872–1946)
  • Ludwik Silberstein (1872–1948)
  • Théophile de Donder (1872–1957)
  • Karl Schwarzschild (1873–1916)
  • Alfred Robb (1873–1936)
  • Tullio Levi-Civita (1873–1941)
  • E. T. Whittaker (1873–1956)
  • Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874–1915)
  • Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874–1954)
  • Max Abraham (1875–1922)
  • Gilbert N. Lewis (1875–1946)
  • Ludwig Prandtl (1875–1953)
  • Tatyana Ehrenfest-Afanasevaª (1876–1964)
  • James Jeans° (1877–1946)
  • Eduard Grüneisen (1877–1949)
  • Lise Meitner (1878–1968)
  • Walther Ritz (1878–1909)
  • Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936)
  • Stephen Timoshenko (1878–1972)
  • Leonid Mandelstam (1879–1944)
  • Carl Wilhelm Oseen (1879–1944)
  • Albert Einsteinº (1879–1955)
  • Nikolay Krylov (1879–1955)
  • Max von Laue (1879–1960)
  • Otto Sackur (1880–1914)
  • Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933)
  • Leonard Ornstein (1880–1941)
  •  [de] (1880–1947)
  • Abram Ioffe (1880–1960)
  • Gunnar Nordström (1881–1923)
  • Jun Ishiwara (1881–1947)
  • Walter Rogowski (1881–1947)
  • Richard Tolman° (1881–1948)
  • Gustav Herglotz (1881–1953)
  • Irving Langmuir (1881–1957)
  • Theodore von Kármán (1881–1963)
  • Erwin Madelung (1881–1972)
  • Arthur Eddington (1882–1944)
  • Emmy Noether^ª (1882–1935)
  • Max Born (1882–1970)
  • Paul Sophus Epstein (1883–1966)
  • Ludwig Hopf (1884–1939)
  • Arthur Erich Haas (1884–1941)
  • George David Birkhoff (1884–1944)
  • David Enskog (1884–1947)
  • Peter Debye (1884–1966)
  • Vsevolod Frederiks (1885–1944)
  • Naum Idelson (1885–1951)
  • Theodor Kaluza (1885–1954)
  • Hermann Weyl (1885–1955)
  • Niels Bohr (1885–1962)
  • Victor Robertovich Bursian (1886–1945)
  • Rudolf Seeliger (1886–1965)
  • Paul Lévy (1886–1971)
  • Geoffrey Taylor (1886–1975)
  • Walter H. Schottky (1886–1976)
  • Richard Becker (1887–1955)
  • Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961)
  • Charles Galton Darwin (1887–1962)
  • Adriaan Fokker (1887–1972)
  • Erich Kretschmann (1887–1973)
  • Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen (1887–1974)
  • Alexander Weinstein (1887–1979)
  • Waloddi Weibull (1887–1979)
  • Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff (1887–1994)
  • Alexander Friedmann (1888–1925)
  • Viktor Trkal (1888–1956)
  • Walther Kossel (1888–1956)
  • Wilhelm Lenz (1888–1957)
  • Antonio Signorini (1888–1963)
  • Frits Zernike (1888–1966)
  • Sydney Chapman (1888–1970)
  • Joseph Proudman (1888–1975)
  • Alfred Landé (1888–1976)
  • Hans Thirring (1888–1976)
  • Paul Peter Ewald (1888–1985)
  • Ralph H. Fowler (1889–1944)
  • Léon Brillouin (1889–1969)
  • Wojciech Rubinowicz (1889–1974)
  • Harry Nyquist (1889–1976)
  • Edwin C. Kemble (1889–1984)
  • Yoshio Nishina (1890–1951)
  •  [de] (1890–1952)
  • Arthur March (1891–1957)
  • Michael Polanyi (1891–1976)
  • Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989)
  • Arthur Holly Compton (1892–1962)
  • Karl Herzfeld (1892–1978)
  • Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)
  • Walter Gordon (1893–1939)
  • Meghnad Saha (1893–1956)
  • Erwin Fues (1893–1970)
  • Cornelius Lanczos (1893–1974)
  • Francis Murnaghan (1893–1976)
  • Adolf Kratzer (1893–1983)
  • Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959)
  • Georges Lemaître (1894–1966)
  • John Lennard-Jones (1894–1954)
  • Hans Kramers (1894–1952)
  • Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974)
  • Yakov Frenkel (1894–1952)
  • Norbert Wiener (1894–1964)
  • Oskar Klein (1894–1977)
  • Hugo Tetrode (1895–1931)
  • Karel Niessen (1895–1967)
  • Igor Tamm (1895–1971)
  • Vasily Vladimirovich Shuleikin (1895–1979)
  • Jan Burgers (1895–1981)
  • Aldo Pontremoli (1896–1928)
  • Boris Podolsky (1896–1966)
  • Erich Hückel (1896–1980)
  • Nikolay Semyonov (1896–1986)
  • Robert S. Mulliken (1896–1986)
  • Friedrich Hund (1896–1997)
  • Douglas Hartree (1897–1958)
  • Lewi Tonks (1897–1971)
  • Ivan Stranski (1897–1979)
  • Ali Moustafa Mosharafa (1898–1950)
  • Ronald Wilfred Gurney (1898–1953)
  • Leó Szilárd (1898–1964)
  • Leopold Infeld (1898–1968)
  • Vladimir Fock (1898–1974)
  •  [ru] (1898–1974)
  • Gregor Wentzel (1898–1978)
  • Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988)
  • Ivar Waller (1898–1991)
  •  [de] (1899–1967)
  • Edmund Clifton Stoner (1899–1968)
  • John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899–1980)
  • Gregory Breit (1899–1981)
  •  [de] (1899–1982)
  • Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (1899–1985)
  • Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina (1899–1999)
  • Fritz London (1900–1954)
  • Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
  • William V. Houston (1900–1968)
  • John C. Slater (1900–1976)
  • Mikhail Lavrentyev (1900–1980)
  • Vladimir Rojansky (1900–1981)
  • George Eugene Uhlenbeck (1900–1988)
  •  [de] (1900–1991)
  • Ernst Ising (1900–1998)

20th century[]

  • Nikolai Kochin (1901–1944)
  • Aleksandr Andronov (1901–1952)
  • Enrico Fermi* (1901–1954)
  • Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)
  • Carl Wagner (1901–1977)
  • Werner Braunbeck (1901–1977)
  • Anatoliy Lure (1901–1980)
  • Karl Bechert (1901–1981)
  • Henry Eyring (1901–1981)
  • Grete Hermann (1901–1984)
  • Yuri Rumer (1901–1985)
  • Edwin Albrecht Uehling (1901–1985)
  • Linus Pauling (1901–1994)
  • William Allis (1901–1999)
  •  [de] (1902–1938)
  • Otto Laporte (1902–1971)
  • Carl Eckart (1902–1973)
  • Edward Condon (1902–1974)
  • Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (1902–1978)
  • Pascual Jordan (1902–1980)
  • Paul Dirac (1902–1984)
  • Alfred Kastler (1902–1984)
  • Eugene Wigner (1902–1995)
  • Hans Hellmann (1903–1938)
  • John von Neumann (1903–1957)
  • Howard P. Robertson (1903–1961)
  • Lars Onsager (1903–1976)
  •  [fr] (1903–1979)
  • Helmut Hönl (1903–1981)
  • Mikhail Leontovich (1903–1981)
  • Philip M. Morse (1903–1985)
  • Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987)
  • Guido Beck (1903–1988)
  • Sydney Goldstein (1903–1989)
  • Llewellyn Thomas (1903–1992)
  • Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903–1996)
  • Bertha Swirles (1903–1999)
  • Meredith Gwynne Evans (1904–1952)
  • Robert Oppenheimer* (1904–1967)
  • George Gamow‡° (1904–1968)
  •  [ru] (1904–1970)
  • Léon Rosenfeld (1904–1974)
  • Otto Robert Frisch (1904–1979)
  • Christian Møller (1904–1980)
  • Walter Heitler (1904–1981)
  • Joseph Edward Mayer (1904–1983)
  •  [de] (1904–1990)
  • Dmitri Ivanenko (1904–1994)
  • Ralph Kronig (1904–1995)
  • Yulii Khariton (1904–1996)
  • Louis Néel (1904–2000)
  • George Placzek (1905–1955)
  • Felix Bloch (1905–1983)
  • Ernst Stueckelberg (1905–1984)
  • Herbert Fröhlich (1905–1991)
  • Clarence Zener (1905–1993)
  • Nevill Francis Mott (1905–1996)
  • Matvei Bronstein (1906–1938)
  • Ettore Majorana (1906–1938)
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayerª (1906–1972)
  • Eugene Feenberg (1906–1977)
  • Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (1906–1979)
  • William Houlder Zachariasen (1906–1979)
  • Fritz Sauter (1906–1983)
  • Alan Herries Wilson (1906–1995)
  • John Gamble Kirkwood (1907–1959)
  • J. Hans D. Jensen (1907–1973)
  • Hermann Arthur Jahn (1907–1979)
  •  [de] (1907–1979)
  • Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981)
  • Rudolf Peierls (1907–1995)
  • William Rarita (1907–1999)
  • Leonid I. Sedov (1907–1999)
  • Wu Ta-You (1907–2000)
  •  [de] (1908–1938)
  • Felix Gantmacher (1908–1964)
  • Lev Landau (1908–1968)
  • Anatoly Vlasov (1908–1975)
  • Lyubomir Krastanov (1908–1977)
  • Harrie Massey (1908–1983)
  • Șerban Țițeica (1908–1985)
  • Valentine Bargmann (1908���1989)
  • Ilya Frank (1908–1990)
  • John Bardeen (1908–1991)
  • Milton S. Plesset (1908–1991)
  • Moisey Markov (1908–1994)
  • Josef Meixner (1908–1994)
  • Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995)
  • Viktor Ambartsumian (1908–1996)
  •  [de] (1908–1996)
  • Sergei Mikhailovich Rytov (1908–1996)
  • Hans Euler (1909–1941)
  • Homi J. Bhabha (1909–1966)
  • Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984)
  • Friedrich Bopp (1909–1987)
  • William Penney, Baron Penney (1909–1991)
  • Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909–1992)
  • Gian Carlo Wick (1909–1992)
  • Nathan Rosen (1909–1995)
  • Richard Duffin (1909–1996)
  •  [de] (1909–1997)
  • Robert Serber (1909–1997)
  • Hendrik Casimir (1909–2000)
  • David A. Frank-Kamenetskii (1910–1970)
  • Aleksei Zinovyevich Petrov (1910–1972)
  • Charles Coulson (1910–1974)
  • Tjalling Koopmans (1910–1985)
  • Arseny Sokolov (1910–1986)
  • Anatoly Dorodnitsyn (1910–1994)
  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)
  •  [ru] (1910–1998)
  • José Enrique Moyal (1910–1998)
  • Sergei Vonsovsky (1910–1998)
  •  [ru]ª (1911–1977)
  • Mstislav Keldysh (1911–1978)
  • Carlo Cattaneo (1911–1979)
  • Gregory Hugh Wannier (1911–1983)
  • Klaus Fuchs (1911–1988)
  • Paul Weiss (1911–1991)
  • Arkady Migdal (1911–1991)
  • Walter Franz (1911–1992)
  • Richard Buckingham (1911–1994)
  • William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995)
  • Nicholas Kemmer (1911–1998)
  • Aleksander Akhiezer (1911–2000)
  • R. E. Siday (1912–1956)
  • Heinrich Welker (1912–1981)
  • Mikhail Volkenshtein (1912–1992)
  • Konrad Bleuler (1912–1992)
  • Alexander Davydov (1912–1993)
  • Siegfried Flügge (1912–1997)
  • Aleksandr Aleksandrov (1912–1999)
  • Sidney Dancoff (1913–1951)
  • Isaak Pomeranchuk (1913–1966)
  •  [de] (1913–1977)
  •  [de] (1913–1987)
  • Frederik Belinfante (1913–1991)
  • Bruno Pontecorvo (1913–1993)
  •  [de] (1914–1974)
  • Henry Primakoff (1914–1983)
  • Mark Kac (1914–1984)
  • Yakov Zeldovich (1914–1987)
  • Bernard Lippmann (1914–1988)
  • Lyman Spitzer (1914–1997)
  • George Michael Volkoff (1914–2000)
  • Leonard I. Schiff (1915–1971)
  • (1915–1973)
  •  [de] (1915–1977)
  • Theodore Holstein (1915–1985)
  • Evgeny Lifshitz (1915–1985)
  • Oleg Firsov (1915–1998)
  • Leonid Biberman (1915–1998)
  • Nicholas Metropolis (1915–1999)
  • John D. Eshelby (1916–1981)
  • Elliott Waters Montroll (1916–1983)
  • Iosif Shklovsky (1916–1985)
  •  [ru] (1916–1989)
  • Robert Marshak (1916–1992)
  • Kirill Tolpygo (1916–1994)
  • Robert Dicke (1916–1997)
  • Robert G. Sachs (1916–1999)
  • Per-Olov Löwdin (1916–2000)
  • Theodore H. Berlin (1917–1962)
  • Imre Fényes (1917–1977)
  • Ilya Lifshitz (1917–1982)
  • Yevgeny Zababakhin (1917–1984)
  • Solomon Pekar (1917–1985)
  • James Rainwater (1917–1986)
  • Veniamin Levich (1917–1987)
  •  [ru] (1917–1990)
  • David Bohm (1917–1992)
  • Dmitry Zubarev (1917–1992)
  •  [de] (1917–1992)
  • Herman Feshbach (1917–2000)
  • Richard Feynman (1918–1988)
  • Res Jost (1918–1990)
  • Julian Schwinger (1918–1994)
  • Kirill Gurov (1918–1994)
  • Harold Hopkins (1918–1994)
  • Max Dresden (1918–1997)
  • Irving Segal (1918–1998)
  • James Hamilton (1918–2000)
  • Abraham Pais (1918–2000)
  • Herbert Callen (1919–1993)
  • Julius Ashkin (1920–1982)
  • Ryogo Kubo (1920–1995)
  • Gerhart Lüders (1920–1995)
  • Herbert S. Green (1920–1999)
  • Sigurd Zienau (1921–1976)
  • Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989)
  • John M. Blatt (1921–1990)
  • Igor Ternov (1921–1996)
  • Feza Gürsey (1921–1992)
  • Sergei Tyablikov (1921–1968)
  • Melville S. Green (1922–1979)
  • Ernst G. Straus (1922–1983)
  • Lawrence Biedenharn (1922–1996)
  •  [da] (1922–1997)
  • Claude Bloch (1923–1971)
  • Kurt Symanzik (1923–1983)
  • Harold Grad (1923–1986)
  • Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger (1923–1997)
  • Gregory Pikus (1923–1998)
  • Louis Michel (1923–1999)
  •  [ru] (1924–1981)
  • Léon Van Hove (1924–1990)
  • Gregory Garibian (1924–1991)
  • Juan José Giambiagi (1924–1996)
  • Harry Lehmann (1924–1998)
  • Efim Fradkin (1924–1999)
  • John Clive Ward (1924–2000)
  • Sam Treiman (1925–1999)
  •  [sv] (1925–2000)
  • Gunnar Källén (1926–1968)
  • Rem Khokhlov (1926–1977)
  • Stuart Thomas Butler (1926–1982)
  • Eugene P. Gross (1926–1991)
  • Abdus Salam (1926–1996)
  •  [de] (1926–1998)
  • Dennis Sciama (1926–1999)
  • (1926–2000)
  • Aneesur Rahman (1927–1987)
  • Yuri Yappa (1927–1998)
  • Rolf Landauer (1927–1999)
  • Robert Mills (1927–1999)
  • John Stewart Bell (1928–1990)
  • Richard E. Cutkosky (1928–1993)
  • Gurgen Askaryan (1928–1997)
  •  [de] (1929–1988)
  • David Klyshko (1929–2000)
  •  [ru] (1929–2000)
  • Hugh Everett (1930–1982)
  • Ruslan Stratonovich (1930–1997)
  • Vladimir Gribov (1930–1997)
  • John Hubbard (1931–1980)
  • Felix Berezin (1931–1980)
  • Revaz Dogonadze (1931–1985)
  •  [de] (1931–1986)
  • Luciano Fonda (1931–1998)
  •  [de] (1932–1991)
  • J. J. Sakurai (1933–1982)
  • Leopoldo Máximo Falicov (1933–1995)
  • Shivaramakrishnan Pancharatnam (1934–1969)
  • Alexey Andreevich Anselm (1934–1998)
  • Vadim Berezinskii (1935–1980)
  • Peter A. Carruthers (1935–1997)
  • Victor Popov (1937–1994)
  • Claude Itzykson (1938–1995)
  • Roger Dashen (1938–1995)
  •  [de] (1938–1998)
  • Arkady Aronov (1939–1994)
  •  [de] (1939–2000)
  • Herbert H. Chen (1942–1987)
  • Dan Walls (1942–1999)
  • Elizabeth Gardnerª (1957–1988)
  • Vadim Knizhnik (1962–1987)

20th–21st century[]

  • Hans Bethe° (1906–2005)
  • Melba Phillips (1907–2004)
  • László Tisza (1907–2009)
  • Victor Weisskopf (1908–2002)
  • Edward Teller (1908–2003)
  • Werner Romberg (1909–2003)
  • Leslie Howarth (1911–2001)
  • John Wheeler (1911–2008)
  • Frederick Seitz (1911–2008)
  • Ugo Fano (1912–2001)
  • Naum Meiman (1912–2001)
  • Evgenii Feinberg (1912–2005)
  • Markus Fierz (1912–2006)
  • Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007)
  • Harald Keres (1912–2010)
  • Maurice Pryce (1913–2003)
  • Willis Lamb (1913–2008)
  • Conyers Herring (1914–2009)
  • Anatole Abragam (1914–2011)
  •  [de] (1915–2003)
  • David Turnbull (1915–2007)
  • Ivan Supek (1915–2007)
  • Charles H. Townes (1915–2015)
  • Jan Korringa (1915–2015)
  • Harold Neville Vazeille Temperley (1915–2017)
  •  [ru] (1916–2006)
  • Frank Nabarro (1916–2006)
  • Vitaly Ginzburg (1916–2009)
  • Paolo Budinich (1916–2013)
  • Charles Kittel (1916–2019)
  • Ilya Prigogine (1917–2003)
  • Yurii Mitropolskiy (1917–2008)
  • Morikazu Toda (1917–2010)
  • Arthur Iberall (1918–2002)
  • Theodore A. Welton (1918–2010)
  • Clemens C. J. Roothaan (1918–2019)
  • Dirk ter Haar (1919–2002)
  • Rolf Hagedorn (1919–2003)
  • Huang Kun (1919–2005)
  • Hermann Bondi (1919–2005)
  • Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky (1919–2007)
  • Peter Westervelt (1919–2015)
  • Isaak Khalatnikov (1919–2021)
  • Brian Pippard (1920–2008)
  • Cyril Domb (1920–2012)
  • James Bruce French (1921–2002)
  • Felix Villars (1921–2002)
  • Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz (1921–2003)
  • Akiva Yaglom (1921–2007)
  •  [ru] (1921–2007)
  • Francis E. Low (1921–2007)
  • Andrew M. Gleason (1921–2008)
  • Albert Messiah (1921–2013)
  • Nico van Kampen (1921–2013)
  • Eugen Merzbacher (1921–2013)
  • Takeo Matsubara (1921���2014)
  • Jacques Friedel (1921–2014)
  •  [de] (1921–2014)
  • Yoichiro Nambu (1921–2015)
  • Louis Witten (born 1921)
  • Peter Mazur (1922–2001)
  • Melvin Lax (1922–2002)
  • Behram Kurşunoğlu (1922–2003)
  • William Cochran (1922–2003)
  • Karen Ter-Martirosian (1922–2005)
  • Herbert Goldstein (1922–2005)
  • Aage Bohr (1922–2009)
  • Arthur Wightman (1922–2013)
  • Marvin Leonard Goldberger (1922–2014)
  • Rudolf Haag (1922–2016)
  •  [de] (1922–2017)
  • Emil Wolf (1922–2018)
  • Richard J. Eden (1922–2021)
  • Chen-Ning Yang (born 1922)
  • Bryce DeWitt (1923–2004)
  • Christopher Longuet-Higgins (1923–2004)
  • Peter A. Wolff (1923–2013)
  • Bruno Zumino (1923–2014)
  • Walter Kohn (1923–2016)
  • H. Pierre Noyes (1923–2016)
  • Spartak Belyaev (1923–2017)
  • Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)
  • Philip Warren Anderson (1923–2020)
  • Laurie Brown (born 1923)
  •  [de] (1924–2002)
  • Pierre Aigrain (1924–2002)
  • Albert Hibbs (1924–2003)
  • Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (1924–2005)
  • Evan O'Neill Kane (1924–2006)
  • Edwin Ernest Salpeter (1924–2008)
  •  [de] (1924–2009)
  • Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010)
  • Yasushi Takahashi (1924–2013)
  • Keith Brueckner (1924–2014)
  • David Pines (1924–2018)
  • Geoffrey Chew (1924–2019)
  • Yuri Orlov (1924–2020)
  • Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz (born 1924)
  • Suraj N. Gupta (born 1924)
  • John Pople (1925–2004)
  • Ted Taylor (1925–2004)
  • John Ziman (1925–2005)
  • Renfrey Potts (1925–2005)
  • Martin David Kruskal (1925–2006)
  • Yuval Ne'eman (1925–2006)
  • Albert Overhauser (1925–2011)
  • Martin Gutzwiller (1925–2014)
  • Norman Rostoker (1925–2014)
  • John David Jackson (1925–2016)
  • Roy J. Glauber (1925–2018)
  • George G. Hall (1925–2018)
  • Toichiro Kinoshita (born 1925)
  • Nándor Balázs (1926–2003)
  • Erdal İnönü (1926–2007)
  • Karl Rebane (1926–2007)
  • Nikolai Borisovich Delone (1926–2008)
  • (1926–2009)
  •  [de] (1926–2010)
  • Gerald E. Brown (1926–2013)
  • Anatoly Logunov (1926–2015)
  • Sidney Drell (1926–2016)
  •  [ru] (1926–2019)
  • Tsung-Dao Lee (born 1926)
  • Ben Roy Mottelson (born 1926)
  •  [de] (born 1926)
  • Kenneth W. Ford (born 1926)
  •  [de] (born 1926)
  • Peter Lax (born 1926)
  • (1927–2005)
  • Walter Thirring (1927–2014)
  • Michel Baranger (1927–2014)
  •  [de] (1927–2017)
  •  [de] (1927–2017)
  • Elihu Abrahams (1927–2018)
  • Michael Woolfson (1927–2019)
  •  [sv] (1927–2020)
  • Yuri Raizer (1927–2021)
  • Murray Gerstenhaber (born 1927)
  • Emmanuel Rashba (born 1927)
  • Hermann Haken (born 1927)
  •  [de] (born 1927)
  • Arnold Kosevich (1928–2006)
  •  [de] (1928–2007)
  • Boris Chirikov (1928–2008)
  • Robert Kraichnan (1928–2008)
  • Reinhard Oehme (1928–2010)
  • Robert Brout (1928–2011)
  • Richard Arnowitt (1928–2014)
  • Samuel Edwards (1928–2015)
  • Abner Shimony (1928–2015)
  • Kerson Huang (1928–2016)
  • John W. Cahn (1928–2016)
  • Stephen Gasiorowicz (1928–2016)
  • Stanley Mandelstam (1928–2016)
  • Dmitry Shirkov (1928–2016)
  • Wolfhart Zimmermann (1928–2016)
  • Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928–2017)
  • Roger Elliott (1928–2018)
  • (1928–2018)
  •  [de] (1928–2019)
  •  [ru] (born 1928)
  • Tatiana Birshteinª (born 1928)
  • Jürgen Ehlers (1929–2008)
  • Franco Bassani (1929–2008)
  • Vitaly Shafranov (1929–2014)
  • Lev Okun (1929–2015)
  • Lev Gor'kov (1929–2016)
  • David Finkelstein (1929–2016)
  • Norman Zabusky (1929–2018)
  • Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019)
  • Ezra T. Newman (1929–2021)
  • Peter Higgs (born 1929)
  •  [ru] (born 1929)
  • Friedwardt Winterberg (born 1929)
  • Asoke Nath Mitra (born 1929)
  • Kurt Gottfried (born 1929)
  • Semyon Gershtein (born 1929)
  • Antonino Zichichi (born 1929)
  • George B. Field (born 1929)
  • Joshua Zak (born 1929)
  •  [sv] (1930–2002)
  • Albert Tavkhelidze (1930–2010)
  • Riazuddin (1930–2013)
  • Raymond Stora (1930–2015)
  • Marvin D. Girardeau (1930–2015)
  • Mildred Dresselhaus (1930–2017)
  • George Herbert Weiss (1930–2017)
  • Richard M. Weiner (1930–2020)
  •  [de] (1930–2021)
  • John Polkinghorne (1930–2021)
  • Leon Cooper (born 1930)
  • Lawrence Paul Horwitz (born 1930)
  •  [ru] (born 1930)
  • Viktor Maslov (born 1930)
  • Volker Heine (born 1930)
  • Aleksandr Gurevich (born 1930)
  • Jun Kondo (born 1930)
  •  [de] (born 1930)
  • John Clayton Taylor (born 1930)
  • Martin Karplus (born 1930)
  • Joel Lebowitz (born 1930)
  • Valentin Turchin (1931–2010)
  • Richard Liboff (1931–2014)
  • Tullio Regge (1931–2014)
  • Leonid Keldysh (1931–2016)
  • Vladimir Braginsky* (1931–2016)
  •  [de] (1931–2016)
  • George Sudarshan (1931–2018)
  •  [ru] (1931–2018)
  • John Robert Schrieffer (1931–2019)
  • Loup Verlet (1931–2019)
  • Martinus Veltman (1931–2021)
  • Igor Dzyaloshinskii (1931–2021)
  • Roger Penrose (born 1931)
  • Stanley Deser (born 1931)
  • Valery Pokrovsky (born 1931)
  •  [ru] (born 1931)
  • (born 1931)
  • Michael Fisher (born 1931)
  • Mark Nelkin (born 1931)
  • Luis de la Peña (born 1931)
  • Anatoly Larkin (1932–2005)
  • Radu Bălescu (1932–2006)
  • H. Dieter Zeh (1932–2018)
  • Mark Azbel (1932–2020)
  • François Englert (born 1932)
  • John R. Klauder (born 1932)
  • Sheldon Glashow (born 1932)
  • Yakir Aharonov (born 1932)
  • Roald Sagdeev (born 1932)
  • Philippe Nozières (born 1932)
  • Charles W. Misner (born 1932)
  • Stuart A. Rice (born 1932)
  • Elliott H. Lieb (born 1932)
  • Claude Bouchiat (born 1932)
  • John Dirk Walecka (born 1932)
  •  [ru] (1933–2005)
  • Moshe Carmeli (1933–2007)
  •  [ru] (1933–2008)
  • Tom Kibble (1933–2016)
  • Steven Weinberg (1933–2021)
  • Jeffrey Goldstone (born 1933)
  • Andrzej Trautman (born 1933)
  • Lev Pitaevskii (born 1933)
  • John Hopfield (born 1933)
  • Gerald Harris Rosen (born 1933)
  • Steven Frautschi (born 1933)
  • Roger Balian (born 1933)
  • James Charles Phillips (born 1933)
  • Julius Wess (1934–2007)
  •  [ru] (1934–2011)
  • Manuel Cardona (1934–2014)
  •  [fr] (1934–2015)
  • Ludvig Faddeev (1934–2017)
  • Pierre Hohenberg (1934–2017)
  • David J. Thouless (1934–2019)
  • Michael Nauenberg (1934–2019)
  • Hiranmay Sen Gupta (born 1934)
  • Albert Schwarz (born 1934)
  • John G. Cramer (born 1934)
  • Rodney Loudon (born 1934)
  • Jacques Villain (born 1934)
  • Lowell Brown (born 1934)
  • James Bjorken (born 1934)
  •  [ru] (born 1934)
  • Fred Alan Wolf (born 1934)
  • Sebastian Doniach (born 1934)
  • George Zaslavsky (1935–2008)
  • Nicola Cabibbo (1935–2010)
  • Walter Greiner (1935–2016)
  • Oktay Sinanoğlu (1935–2015)
  • Giancarlo Ghirardi (1935–2018)
  •  [ru] (born 1935)
  • Francesco Calogero (born 1935)
  • Gordon Baym (born 1935)
  • Yakov Sinai (born 1935)
  • Marvin L. Cohen (born 1935)
  • David Ruelle (born 1935)
  • Herbert Wagner (born 1935)
  • Harald J.W. Mueller-Kirsten (born 1935)
  • N. David Mermin (born 1935)
  • Carl H. Brans (born 1935)
  • Hanoch Gutfreund (born 1935)
  • Evgeny Velikhov (born 1935)
  • Richard M. Friedberg (born 1935)
  • Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov (born 1935)
  • Kenneth G. Wilson (1936–2013)
  • Gerald Guralnik (1936–2014)
  • Peter Freund (1936–2018)
  •  [ru] (1936–2020)
  • Rudolf Muradyan (born 1936)
  • Abdul Qadeer Khan (born 1936)
  •  [de] (born 1936)
  • Harold Puthoff (born 1936)
  • Klaus Hepp (born 1936)
  • Sidney Coleman (1937–2007)
  • Praveen Chaudhari (1937–2007)
  • Vladimir Arnold (1937–2010)
  • David Olive (1937–2012)
  • Leo Kadanoff (1937–2015)
  •  [de] (1937–2017)
  • Jill Bonner (1937–2021)
  • C. R. Hagen (born 1937)
  • Iosif Khriplovich (born 1937)
  • Leonid Pastur (born 1937)
  • Tung-Mow Yan (born 1937)
  • George Zweig (born 1937)
  • Alexander Fetter (born 1937)
  •  [ru] (1938–2004)
  • Balázs Győrffy (1938–2012)
  • Neil Ashcroft (1938–2021)
  • A. P. Balachandran (born 1938)
  • Anthony James Leggett (born 1938)
  • Jayant Narlikar (born 1938)
  • Alexander Animalu (born 1938)
  • Boris Arbuzov (born 1938)
  • Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (born 1938)
  • Lu Jeu Sham (born 1938)
  • Vladimir P. Krainov (born 1938)
  • Vitaly Efimov (born 1938)
  • Alexei L. Efros (born 1938)
  • Leonard Parker (born 1938)
  • Édouard Brézin (born 1938)
  • Sergei Novikov (born 1938)
  • Boris Struminsky (1939–2003)
  • Roger Cowley (1939–2015)
  • Yoseph Imry (1939–2018)
  • (1939–2019)
  • Ratko Janev (1939–2019)
  • Daniel Z. Freedman (born 1939)
  • Stephen L. Adler (born 1939)
  • Andrei Slavnov (born 1939)
  • Pran Nath (born 1939)
  • Vladimir E. Zakharov (born 1939)
  • Alexander F. Andreev (born 1939)
  • James Hartle (born 1939)
  • Roman Jackiw (born 1939)
  • Carlo Becchi (born 1939)
  • Ramamurti Rajaraman (born 1939)
  • Marlan Scully (born 1939)
  • James M. Bardeen (born 1939)
  • Francisco José Ynduráin (1940–2008)
  • Alexei Fridman (1940–2010)
  • Stanislav Mikheyev (1940–2011)
  • Marshall Stoneham (1940–2011)
  • Lev Lipatov (1940–2017)
  • Miguel Ángel Virasoro (1940–2021)
  • Toshihide Maskawa (1940–2021)
  • Stanley Brodsky (born 1940)
  • Juansher Chkareuli (born 1940)
  • Haim Harari (born 1940)
  • Igor Tyutin (born 1940)
  • Mikhail Dyakonov (born 1940)
  • John Iliopoulos (born 1940)
  • Brian Josephson (born 1940)
  • Leonard Susskind (born 1940)
  • Kip Thorne (born 1940)
  • Dmitri Ryutov (born 1940)
  • Uriel Frisch (born 1940)
  •  [de] (born 1940)
  • Eleftherios Economou (born 1940)
  • Peter Grassberger (born 1940)
  •  [sv] (born 1940)
  • Brosl Hasslacher (1941–2005)
  • Guido Altarelli (1941–2015)
  • David Gross (born 1941)
  • Vladimir Belinski (born 1941)
  • Michael Berry (born 1941)
  • Luciano Maiani (born 1941)
  • Holger Bech Nielsen (born 1941)
  • John Henry Schwarz (born 1941)
  • Bertrand Halperin (born 1941)
  • T. V. Ramakrishnan (born 1941)
  • Thomas Appelquist (born 1941)
  • Jeffrey Mandula (born 1941)
  • Peter Pulay (born 1941)
  • Peter Minkowski (born 1941)
  • William A. Bardeen (born 1941)
  • Stephen Hawking (1942–2018)
  • Arkady Vainshtein (born 1942)
  • Victor Sergeevich Fadin (born 1942)
  • Alexander Belavin (born 1942)
  • Curtis Callan (born 1942)
  • David J. Griffiths (born 1942)
  • Robert Geroch (born 1942)
  •  [de] (born 1942)
  • Gabriele Veneziano (born 1942)
  • Yves Pomeau (born 1942)
  • Crispin Gardiner (born 1942)
  • Michael Shur (born 1942)
  • Konrad Osterwalder (born 1942)
  • V. Balakrishnan (born 1943)
  • Charles Bennett (born 1943)
  • Carl M. Bender (born 1943)
  • Paul Frampton (born 1943)
  • Richard H. Price (born 1943)
  • Pierre Ramond (born 1943)
  • Jean Zinn-Justin (born 1943)
  • J. Michael Kosterlitz (born 1943)
  • Rashid Sunyaev (born 1943)
  • Amnon Aharony (born 1943)
  • Erio Tosatti (born 1943)
  • Harald Fritzsch (born 1943)
  • John Perdew (born 1943)
  • Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019)
  • Kurt Binder (born 1944)
  • Makoto Kobayashi (born 1944)
  • Rabindra Mohapatra (born 1944)
  • Boris Shklovskii (born 1944)
  • Michael Thorpe (born 1944)
  • Anthony Ichiro Sanda (born 1944)
  • Alexander Kuzemsky (born 1944)
  • Sergio Ferrara (born 1945)
  • Alexander Markovich Polyakov (born 1945)
  • Michele Parrinello (born 1945)
  • Bernard de Wit (born 1945)
  • Anthony Zee (born 1945)
  • Rod Crewther (1945–2020)
  • Peter Goddard (born 1945)
  • Alexander Migdal (born 1945)
  • W. G. Unruh (born 1945)
  • Israel Michael Sigal (born 1945)
  • Jakob Yngvason (born 1945)
  • Nikolai Shakura (born 1945)
  • Gennady Chibisov (1946–2008)
  • Viacheslav Belavkin (1946–2012)
  • Vladimir Fortov (1946–2020)
  • André Neveu (born 1946)
  • Michael Green (born 1946)
  • Gerardus 't Hooft (born 1946)
  • İsmail Hakkı Duru (born 1946)
  • Charles Thorn (born 1946)
  •  [de] (born 1946)
  • Lorenz S. Cederbaum (born 1946)
  • Jean-Bernard Zuber (born 1946)
  • William E. Caswell (1947–2001)
  • Jacob Bekenstein (1947–2012)
  •  [de] (born 1947)
  • John Joannopoulos (born 1947)
  • Jürg Fröhlich (born 1947)
  • Howard Georgi (born 1947)
  • Alan Guth (born 1947)
  • Michio Kaku (born 1947)
  • Roberto Car (born 1947)
  • John Cardy (born 1947)
  • Walter Selke (born 1947)
  • Erick Weinberg (born 1947)
  • Claudio Bunster (born 1947)
  • Anna N. Żytkow (born 1947)
  • Robert Wald (born 1947)
  • John Joannopoulos (born 1947)
  • Henry Tye (born 1947)
  • Michael F. Shlesinger (born 1948)
  • Thomas Curtright (born 1948)
  • Eugene Levich (born 1948)
  • Alexei Starobinsky (born 1948)
  • Dimitri Nanopoulos (born 1948)
  • Andrei Linde (born 1948)
  • Giorgio Parisi (born 1948)
  • Bennie Ward (born 1948)
  • Gabor Forgacs (born 1948)
  • Toshiki Tajima (born 1948)
  • Douglas Ross (born 1948)
  • Don Page (born 1948)
  •  [ru] (born 1948)
  •  [fr] (born 1948)
  •  [de] (1949–2012)
  • Hugh David Politzer (born 1949)
  • Alexander Vilenkin (born 1949)
  • Nihat Berker (born 1949)
  • Tekin Dereli (born 1949)
  • Ayşe Erzan (born 1949)
  • Mikhail Shifman (born 1949)
  •  [de] (born 1949)
  • Richard G. Palmer (born 1949)
  • Itamar Procaccia (born 1949)
  • Steven Gwon Sheng Louie (born 1949)
  • Sylvester James Gates (born 1950)
  • Robert B. Laughlin (born 1950)
  • Stephen Parke (born 1950)
  • Goran Senjanovic (born 1950)
  • Kyriakos Tamvakis (born 1950)
  •  [de] (born 1950)
  • Carlton M. Caves (born 1950)
  • Berndt Müller (born 1950)
  • Johann Rafelski (born 1950)
  • Shuichi Nosé (1951–2005)
  • Christopher T. Hill (born 1951)
  • Alexei Smirnov (born 1951)
  • Frank Wilczek (born 1951)
  • Edward Witten (born 1951)
  • Cosmas Zachos (born 1951)
  • F. Duncan Haldane (born 1951)
  • Wojciech H. Zurek (born 1951)
  • Thibault Damour (born 1951)
  • Demetrios Christodoulou (born 1951)
  • Ignazio Ciufolini (born 1951)
  • Allan H. MacDonald (born 1951)
  • Alexei Zamolodchikov (1952–2007)
  • Alexander Zamolodchikov (born 1952)
  • Ian Affleck (born 1952)
  • Bernard Derrida (born 1952)
  • Christof Wetterich (born 1952)
  • Peter Zoller (born 1952)
  • Horst Stöcker (born 1952)
  • Paul Steinhardt (born 1952)
  • Mikhail Voloshin (1953–2020)
  • Peter Guy Wolynes (born 1953)
  • Boris Feigin (born 1953)
  • Ali Chamseddine (born 1953)
  • Sankar Das Sarma (born 1953)
  • Stephan W. Koch (born 1953)
  • David Deutsch (born 1953)
  • John Preskill (born 1953)
  • José W. F. Valle (born 1953)
  • Mark B. Wise (born 1953)
  • Daniel L. Stein (born 1953)
  •  [de] (born 1953)
  • Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018)
  • Julia Yeomans (born 1954)
  • David Vanderbilt (born 1954)
  • Lawrence M. Krauss (born 1954)
  •  [de] (born 1954)
  • Mikhail Feigelman (born 1954)
  • Barton Zwiebach (born 1954)
  • Alexandre Bouzdine (born 1954)
  • Michael Loss (born 1954)
  • Lee Smolin (born 1955)
  • Valery Rubakov (born 1955)
  • Boris Altshuler (born 1955)
  • Augusto Sagnotti (born 1955)
  • Gilles Brassard (born 1955)
  • Zlatko Tesanovic (1956–2012)
  • Fulvio Melia (born 1956)
  • David Lindley (born 1956)
  • Viatcheslav Mukhanov (born 1956)
  • Carlo Rovelli (born 1956)
  • Nathan Seiberg (born 1956)
  • Ashoke Sen (born 1956)
  • Kurt Kremer (born 1956)
  • Dieter Lüst (born 1956)
  • Susan M. Scottª (born 1956)
  •  [fr] (1957–2009)
  • Joseph Lykken (born 1957)
  • Mikhail Katsnelson (born 1957)
  • Thanu Padmanabhan (born 1957)
  • Mehran Kardar (born 1957)
  • Peter Woit (born 1957)
  • Marc Mézard (born 1957)
  • David Tannor (born 1958)
  • Neil Turok (born 1958)
  • Piers Coleman (born 1958)
  • Stephen Wolfram (born 1959)
  •  [de] (born 1959)
  • Cumrun Vafa (born 1960)
  • Carlo Beenakker (born 1960)
  • Raymond Laflamme (born 1960)
  • David Drabold (born 1960)
  • Xiao-Gang Wen (born 1961)
  • Michael R. Douglas (born 1961)
  • Gian F. Giudice (born 1961)
  • Erik Verlinde (born 1961)
  •  [ru] (born 1961)
  • Subir Sachdev (born 1961)
  • Jacques Distler (born 1961)
  • John C. Baez (born 1961)
  • Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (born 1962)
  • Marcela Carena (born 1962)
  • Igor Klebanov (born 1962)
  • Lisa Randallª (born 1962)
  • Carlos E.M. Wagner (born 1962)
  • Brian Greene (born 1963)
  • Gerald B. Cleaver (born 1963)
  • Alexei Kitaev (born 1963)
  • Miguel Alcubierre (born 1964)
  • Raman Sundrum (born 1964)
  • Ángel Rubio (born 1965)
  • Stephen Hsu (born 1966)
  • Sean M. Carroll (born 1966)
  • Durmus A. Demir (born 1967)
  • João Magueijo (born 1967)
  • Antony Garrett Lisi (born 1968)
  • Juan Maldacena (born 1968)
  • Natalia Berloff (born 1968)
  • Jeff Forshaw (born 1968)
  • Laura Mersini-Houghtonª (born 1969)
  • Dam Thanh Son (born 1969)
  • Vijay Balasubramanian (born 1969)
  • Vlatko Vedral (born 1971)
  • Mikhail Lukin (born 1971)
  • Shiraz Minwalla (born 1972)
  • Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972)
  • Steven Gubser (1972–2019)
  • Maxim Chernodub (born 1973)
  • Luboš Motl (born 1973)
  • Cédric Villani (born 1973)
  • Yasunori Nomura (born 1974)
  • Robert Seiringer (born 1976)
  • K. S. Babu
  • Bianca Dittrichª (born 1977)
  • Davide Gaiotto (born 1977)

Fictional theoretical physicists[]

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Notes[]

* Experimentalist also
º Astronomer, astrophysicist or cosmologist also
^ Developed new mathematics
† Contributed to chemistry
‡ Contributed to biology
ª Women in theoretical physics
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