Physics: Biographies
- Carruthers, George Richard
- 'T Hooft, Gerardus
- Abbe, Ernst
- Abrikosov, Alexei Alekseyevich
- Aepinus, Franz Ulrich Theodosius
- Agostini, Pierre
- Akasaki, Isamu
- Alferov, Zhores Ivanovich
- Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta
- Alvarez, Luis Walter
- Amano, Hiroshi
- Amici, Giovanni Battista
- Ampère, André Marie
- Anderson, Carl David
- Anderson, Philip Warren
- Ångström, Anders Jöns
- Appleton, Sir Edward Victor
- Arago, Dominique François
- Arsonval, Arsène D'
- Ashkin, Arthur
- Avogadro, Amedeo, Conte Di Quaregna
- Bardeen, John
- Barish, Barry Clark
- Barkla, Charles Glover
- Basov, Nikolai Gennadiyevich
- Beccaria, Giambattista
- Becquerel
- Bednorz, Johannes Georg
- Beeckman, Isaac
- Bethe, Hans Albrecht
- Betzig, Robert Eric
- Bhabha, Homi Jehangir
- Binnig, Gerd
- Biot, Jean Baptiste
- Birkeland, Kristian
- Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart
- Bloch, Felix
- Bloembergen, Nicolaas
- Bohr, Aage Niels
- Bohr, Niels Henrik David
- Boltzmann, Ludwig
- Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso
- Born, Max
- Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe
- Bothe, Walther Wilhelm Georg
- Bouguer, Pierre
- Boyle, Willard Sterling
- Bragg, Sir William Henry
- Bragg, Sir William Lawrence
- Branly, Édouard
- Brattain, Walter Houser
- Braun, Karl Ferdinand
- Brewster, Sir David
- Bridgman, Percy Williams
- Brockhouse, Bertram
- Broglie, Louis Victor, Duc De
- Broglie, Maurice, Duc De
- Canton, John
- Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi
- Cavendish, Henry
- Chadwick, Sir James
- Chamberlain, Owen
- Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
- Charles, Jacques Alexandre César
- Charpak, Georges
- Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich
- Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich
- Chu, Steven
- Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emanuel
- Coblentz, William Weber
- Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas
- Cohen, Samuel Theodore
- Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude Nessim
- Compton, Arthur Holly
- Compton, Karl Taylor
- Cooper, Leon Neil
- Cormack, Allan Macleod
- Cornell, Eric Allin
- Cornu, Marie Alfred
- Coulomb, Charles Augustin De
- Cronin, James Watson
- Curie
- Dalén, Nils Gustaf
- Darwin, Charles Galton
- Davisson, Clinton Joseph
- De Gennes, Pierre-Gilles
- Debye, Peter Joseph Wilhelm
- Dehmelt, Hans Georg
- Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
- Drude, Paul Karl Ludwig
- Du Châtelet-Lomont, Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier De Breteuil, Marquise
- Duane, William, American Physicist
- Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie
- Dyson, Freeman John
- Ehrenfest, Paul
- Einstein, Albert
- Englert, François
- Esaki, Leo
- Ewing, Sir James Alfred
- Faraday, Michael
- Fermi, Enrico
- Ferraris, Galileo
- Fert, Albert
- Feynman, Richard Phillips
- Fitch, Val Logsdon
- Fitzgerald, George Francis
- Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis
- Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon
- Fowler, William Alfred
- Franck, James
- Frank, Ilya Mikhailovich
- Fresnel, Augustin Jean
- Friedman, Jerome Isaac
- Gabor, Dennis
- Gamow, George
- Geiger, Johannes Wilhelm
- Geim, Sir Andre Konstantinovich
- Gell-Mann, Murray
- Giaever, Ivar
- Gibbs, Josiah Willard
- Ginzburg, Vitaly Lazarevich
- Glaser, Donald Arthur
- Glashow, Sheldon Lee
- Glauber, Roy Jay
- Goeppert-Mayer, Maria
- Goodenough, John Bannister
- Gray, Stephen
- Grimaldi, Francesco Maria
- Gross, David Jonathan
- Grünberg, Peter Andreas
- Guericke, Otto Von
- Guillaume, Charles Édouard
- Haas, Arthur Erich
- Haldane, Frederick Duncan Michael
- Hall, John Lewis
- Hänsch, Theodor Wolfgang
- Hansen, William Webster
- Haroche, Serge
- Hasselmann, Klaus
- Hawking, Stephen William
- Heaviside, Oliver
- Heeger, Alan Jay
- Heisenberg, Werner
- Hell, Stefan Walter
- Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Von
- Henry, Joseph
- Hertz, Gustav
- Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf
- Herzberg, Gerhard
- Hess, Victor Francis
- Hewish, Antony
- Higgs, Peter Ware
- Hofstadter, Robert
- Hooke, Robert
- Hulse, Russell Alan
- Huygens, Christiaan
- Jensen, Johannes Hans Daniel
- Joffe, Abram
- Joliot-Curie
- Josephson, Brian David
- Joule, James Prescott
- Kajita, Takaaki
- Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike
- Kao, Sir Charles Kuen
- Kapitza, Peter
- Karle, Isabella L.
- Karle, Jerome
- Kastler, Alfred
- Kayser, Heinrich Gustav Johannes
- Kelvin, William Thomson, 1St Baron
- Kendall, Henry Way
- Ketterle, Wolfgang
- Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
- Kobayashi, Makoto
- Kohn, Walter
- Koshiba, Masatoshi
- Kosterlitz, John Michael
- Krausz, Ferenc
- Kroemer, Herbert
- Kusch, Polykarp
- L'huillier, Anne
- Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr.
- Lamont, Johann Von
- Landau, Lev Davidovich
- Langevin, Paul
- Laue, Max Von
- Laughlin, Robert Betts
- Lawrence, Ernest Orlando
- Lebedev, Pyotr Nikolaevich
- Lederman, Leon Max
- Lee, David Morris
- Lee, Tsung-Dao
- Leggett, Sir Anthony James
- Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton
- Lindemann, Frederick Alexander
- Lippman, Gabriel Jonas
- Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph
- Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
- Mach, Ernst
- Magnus, Heinrich Gustav
- Malus, Étienne Louis
- Manabe, Syukuro
- Mansfield, Sir Peter
- Marconi, Guglielmo, Marchese
- Mariotte, Edme
- Maskawa, Toshihide
- Mather, John Cromwell
- Maxwell, James Clerk
- Mayer, Julius Robert Von
- Mcdonald, Arthur Bruce
- Mclennan, Sir John Cunningham
- Mcmillan, Edwin Mattison
- Meitner, Lise
- Melloni, Macedonio
- Michelson, Albert Abraham
- Millikan, Robert Andrews
- Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys
- Mössbauer, Rudolf Ludwig
- Mott, Sir Nevill
- Mottelson, Benjamin Roy
- Mourou, Gérard Albert
- Müller, Karl Alexander
- Nakamura, Shuji
- Nambu, Yoichiro
- Néel, Louis Eugène Félix
- Newton, Sir Isaac
- Nollet, Jean Antoine
- Novoselov, Sir Konstantin Sergeevich
- Oersted, Hans Christian
- Oganessian, Yuri Tsolakovich
- Ohm, Georg Simon
- Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert
- Osheroff, Douglas Dean
- Papin, Denis
- Parisi, Giorgio
- Paul, Wolfgang
- Pauli, Wolfgang
- Penrose, Sir Roger
- Penzias, Arno Allan
- Peregrinus, Petrus
- Perl, Martin Lewis
- Perrin, Jean Baptiste
- Phillips, William Daniel
- Planck, Max
- Poggendorff, Johann Christian
- Politzer, Hugh David
- Powell, Cecil Frank
- Poynting, John Henry
- Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich
- Pupin, Michael Idvorsky
- Purcell, Edward Mills
- Rabi, Isidor Isaac
- Rainwater, James
- Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata
- Ramsey, Norman Foster, Jr.
- Randall, Lisa
- Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3D Baron
- Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault De
- Reines, Frederick
- Richardson, Robert Coleman
- Richardson, Sir Owen Willans
- Richter, Burton
- Ritz, Walter
- Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad
- Rohrer, Heinrich
- Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad
- Rowland, Henry Augustus
- Rubbia, Carlo
- Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count
- Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford, 1St Baron
- Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris
- Rydberg, Johannes Robert
- Ryle, Sir Martin
- Saha, Meghnad
- Salam, Abdus
- Saussure, Horace Bénédict De
- Schawlow, Arthur Leonard
- Schönbein, Christian Friedrich
- Schrieffer, John Robert
- Schrödinger, Erwin
- Schuster, Sir Arthur
- Schwartz, Melvin
- Schwinger, Julian Seymour
- Seaborg, Glenn Theodore
- Segrè, Emilio
- Shockley, William Bradford
- Shull, Clifford
- Siegbahn, Kai Manne Borje
- Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg
- Smith, George Elwood
- Smoot, George Fitzgerald, 3D
- Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm
- Stark, Johannes
- Stefan, Josef
- Steinberger, Jack
- Stern, Otto
- Stevin, Simon
- Stokes, Sir George Gabriel
- Störmer, Horst Ludwig
- Strickland, Donna Theo
- Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson
- Szilard, Leo
- Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich
- Taylor, Joseph Hooton, Jr.
- Taylor, Richard Edward
- Teller, Edward
- Thompson, Benjamin
- Thomson, Sir George Paget
- Thomson, Sir Joseph John
- Thomson, William
- Thouless, David James
- Ting, Samuel Chao Chung
- Tomonaga, Sinichiro
- Torricelli, Evangelista
- Townes, Charles Hard
- Tsui, Daniel Chee
- Tyndall, John
- Van Allen, James Alfred
- Van De Graaff, Robert Jemison
- Van Der Meer, Simon
- Van Der Waals, Johannes Diderik
- Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck
- Vavilov, Sergei Ivanovich
- Veltman, Martinus Justinus Godefriedus
- Vitelo
- Volta, Alessandro, Conte
- Von Klitzing, Klaus
- Waals, Johannes Diderik Van Der
- Walton, Ernest Thompson Sinton
- Weber, Wilhelm Eduard
- Weinberg, Steven
- Weiss, Rainer
- Wheatstone, Sir Charles
- Wheeler, John Archibald
- Whittingham, Michael Stanley
- Wieman, Carl Edwin
- Wien, Wilhelm
- Wigner, Eugene Paul
- Wilczek, Frank Anthony
- Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees
- Wilson, Kenneth Geddes
- Wineland, David Jeffrey
- Witelo Of Silesia
- Wood, Robert Williams
- Wu, Chien-Shiung
- Yang, Chen-Ning
- Young, Thomas
- Yukawa, Hideki
- Zeeman, Pieter
- Zernike, Frits
- Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma
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