Nobel Prize Winners in Physics

A German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics

Arthur Compton

An American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect.

Carl David Anderson

An American physicist best known for his discovery of the positron in 1932.

C. V. Raman

An Indian physicist known mainly for his work in the field of light scattering.

Charles Glover Barkla

A British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917

Charles H. Townes

IQ 165

An American physicist who worked on the theory and application of the maser and laser devices.

Yang Chen-Ning

A Chinese theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge t

Edwin Hubble

IQ 170

A genius American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observa

Enrico Fermi

An Italian physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He is considered as the a

Ernest Lawrence

A pioneering American nuclear scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 for his invention of the cyclot

Ernest Rutherford

A genius New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. He is considered to be the greates

Ernest Walton

An Anglo-Irish physicist and Nobel laureate who became the first person in history to split the atom.

Erwin Schrödinger

A Nobel Prize-winning Austrian-Irish physicist best known for his "Schrödinger's cat" thought experiment.

Fred Hoyle

An English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis

Georges Lemaître

A Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.

Guglielmo Marconi

IQ 165

An Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission.

Hans Christian Ørsted

A Danish physicist and chemist discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

A Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate who liquefied helium for the first time in 1908.

Heinrich Hertz

A German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves

Hendrik Lorentz

A Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman

Henry Moseley

An English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics lead to the discovery of the X-Ray spectrum.

John Cockcroft

A British physicist who shared with Ernest Walton the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 for splitting the atomic nucleus

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

A British scientist who received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations of the densities of the most imp

John Bardeen

An American engineer and physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.

Joseph John Thomson

A British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron

Henri Poincaré

French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science who made fundamental contributions to pure and app

Lawrence Bragg

An Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915.

Lev Landau

A Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.

Lise Meitner

IQ 165

A leading Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and

Louis de Broglie

A French physicist and aristocrat who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory.

Luis Walter Alvarez

An American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for the developme

Marie Curie

A Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

Max Planck

A German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.

Michael Faraday

An English scientist whose main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism an

Niels Bohr

A Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the

Nikola Tesla

IQ 195

Was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist.

Oliver Heaviside

An English mathematician and physicist who brought complex numbers to circuit analysis, invented a new technique for sol

Paul Dirac

An English theoretical physicist who is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century.

Percy Williams Bridgman

IQ 185

An American physicist who received the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.

Pyotr Kapitsa

A leading Soviet physicist, engineer, and Nobel laureate, best known for his work in low-temperature physics.

Richard Feynman

An American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.

Robert Andrews Millikan

An American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementar

Satyendra Nath Bose

IQ 185

An Indian mathematician and physicist specialising in theoretical physics.

Stephen Hawking

An English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

IQ 170

An Indian-American astrophysicist who spent his professional life in the United States.

Werner Heisenberg

German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.

William Ramsay

Discovering noble gases

William Shockley

An American physicist and inventor who won the Nobel Prize for researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the t

Wolfgang Pauli