List of theoretical physicists
Ancient Times § Pythagoras^* (circa 569–475 BCE)
§ Democritus° (circa 460 BCE)
§ Archimedesº* (287–212 BCE)
15–16th century
§ Nicolaus Copernicusº (1473-1543)
16–17th century
§ Galileo Galileiº* (1564–1642)
§ Johannes Keplerº (1571-1630)
§ René Descartes‡^ (1596–1650)
[edit]17–18th century
§ Blaise Pascal^ (1623 - 1662)
§ Christiaan Huygens^ (1629-1695)
§ Isaac Newton^*º (1642-1727)
§ Gottfried Leibniz^ (1646–1716)
[edit]18–19th century
§ Leonhard Euler^ (1707–1783)
§ Joseph Lagrange^º (1736-1813)
§ Charles Coulomb (1736-1806)
§ Joseph Fourier^ (1768–1830)
§ Thomas Young‡* (1773–1829)
19th century
§ Michael Faraday*† (1791–1867)
§ William Hamilton^º (1805-1865)
§ Hermann von Helmholtz‡† (1821–1894)
§ William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin* (1824-1907)
§ James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
§ Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
§ J. Willard Gibbs†^ (1839–1903)
§ Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906)
§ Heinrich Hertz* (1857-1894)
[edit]19–20th century
§ Nikolay Umov (1846-1915)
§ Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928)
§ Henri Poincaré (1854–1912)
§ Max Planck (1858-1947)
§ Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943)
§ Marie Curie (1867-1934)
§ Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951)
§ Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
§ James Jeans° (1877–1946)
§ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
§ Paul (1880–1933) & Tatyana (1876–1964) Ehrenfest
§ Richard Tolman° (1881-1948)
§ Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)
§ Emmy Noether (1882–1935)
[edit]20th century
§ Albert Einsteinº (1879-1955)
§ Max von Laue (1879-1960)
§ Georges Lemaître (1894-1966)
§ Max Born (1882-1970)
§ Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
§ Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
§ Arthur Holly Compton (1892-1962)
§ Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)
§ Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974)
§ Igor Tamm (1895-1971)
§ Leó Szilárd (1898–1964)
§ Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958)
§ George Eugene Uhlenbeck (1900-1988)
§ Enrico Fermi* (1901-1954)
§ Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)
§ Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (1902-1978)
§ Pascual Jordan (1902-1980)
§ Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
§ Eugene Wigner (1902-1995)
§ Robert Oppenheimer* (1904–1967)
§ George Gamow‡° (1904–1968)
§ Felix Bloch (1905-1983)
§ Ettore Majorana (1906-1938)
§ Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972)
§ Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (1906-1979)
§ J. Hans D. Jensen (1907-1973)
§ Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981)
§ Lev Landau (1908–1968)
§ Ilya Frank (1908-1990)
§ John Bardeen (1908-1991)
§ Anatoly Vlasov (1908-1975)
§ Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909-1992)
§ José Enrique Moyal (1910-1998)
§ Arsenij Sokolov (1910-1986)
§ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995)
§ William Alfred Fowler (1911-1995)
§ Robert Dicke (1916-1997)
§ David Bohm (1917-1992)
§ Dmitry Zubarev (1917-1992)
§ Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
§ Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)
§ Igor Ternov (1921-1996)
§ Sergei Tyablikov (1921-1968)
§ Abdus Salam (1926-1996)
§ Dennis Sciama (1926-1999)
§ Revaz Dogonadze (1931-1985)
§ Victor Popov (1937-1994)
[edit]20th–21st century
§ Hans Bethe° (1906-2005)
§ John Wheeler (1911-2008)
§ Vitaly Ginzburg (1916-2009)
§ Peter Westervelt (1919-)
§ Yoichiro Nambu (1921–)
§ Chen Ning Yang (1922–)
§ Philip Warren Anderson (1923-)
§ Freeman Dyson (1923-)
§ Bruno Zumino (1923-)
§ Roy J. Glauber (1925-)
§ Martin Gutzwiller (1925-)
§ Tsung-Dao Lee (1926-)
§ Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928-)
§ Robert Brout (1928-2011)
§ Stanley Mandelstam (1928-)
§ Ezra T. Newman (1928-)
§ Reinhard Oehme (1928-2010)
§ Dmitry Shirkov (1928-)
§ Murray Gell-Mann (1929-)
§ Peter Higgs (1929-)
§ Leon Cooper (1930-)
§ Stanley Deser (1931-)
§ Roger Penrose^ (1931-)
§ John Robert Schrieffer (1931-)
§ François Englert (1932-)
§ Sheldon Glashow (1932-)
§ Jeffrey Goldstone (1933-)
§ Tom Kibble (1933-)
§ Steven Weinberg (1933-)
§ Ludvig Faddeev (1934-)
§ Julius Wess (1934-2007)
§ Nicola Cabibbo (1935-2010)
§ Peter Freund (1936-)
§ Gerald Guralnik (1936-)
§ Harold Puthoff (1936-)
§ Kenneth G. Wilson (1936-)
§ C. R. Hagen (1937-)
§ Leo Kadanoff (1937-)
§ Martinus Veltman (1937-)
§ A. P. Balachandran (1938-)
§ Anthony James Leggett (1938-)
§ Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (1938-)
§ Daniel Z. Freedman (1939-)
§ John Iliopoulos (1940-)
§ Brian David Josephson (1940-)
§ Toshihide Maskawa (1940-)
§ Stanislav Mikheyev (1940-)
§ Leonard Susskind (1940-)
§ Kip Thorne (1940-)
§ Francisco Jose Yndurain Muñoz (1940-2008)
§ David Gross (1941-)
§ Luciano Maiani (1941-)
§ Holger Bech Nielsen (1941-)
§ John Henry Schwarz (1941-)
§ Stephen Hawking (1942-)
§ V. Balakrishnan (1943-)
§ Richard H. Price (1943-)
§ Pierre Ramond (1943-)
§ Makoto Kobayashi (1944-)
§ Sergio Ferrara (1945-)
§ Michael Green (physicist) (1946-)
§ Gerardus 't Hooft (1946-)
§ Howard Georgi (1947-)
§ Michio Kaku (1947–)
§ Hugh David Politzer (1949-)
§ Sylvester James Gates (1950-)
§ Robert B. Laughlin (1950-)
§ Stephen Parke (1950-)
§ Kyriakos Tamvakis (1950-)
§ Alexei Smirnov (1951-)
§ Frank Wilczek (1951-)
§ Edward Witten (1951-)
§ Sankar Das Sarma (1953-)
§ David Deutsch (1953-)
§ José W. F. Valle (1953-)
§ Mark B. Wise (1953-)
§ Joseph Polchinski (1954-)
§ Fulvio Melia (1956-)
§ Nathan Seiberg (1956-)
§ Ashoke Sen (1956-)
§ Joseph Lykken (1957-)
§ Cumrun Vafa (1960-)
§ Michael R. Douglas (1961-)
§ Marcela Carena (1962-)
§ Lisa Randall (1962-)
§ Brian Greene (1963-)
§ Raman Sundrum (1964-)
§ Durmus A. Demir (1967[clarification needed]-)
§ João Magueijo (1967-)
§ Antony Garrett Lisi (1968-)
§ Juan Maldacena (1968-)
§ Nima Arkani-Hamed (1972-)
§ Maxim Chernodub (1973-)
§ Gerald B. Cleaver
§ Anzhong Wang
§ Charles Thorn
Fictional Theoretical physicists
§ Gordon Freeman
§ Eli Vance
§ Isaac Kleiner
§ Rodney McKay
§ Samantha Carter
§ Sheldon Cooper
§ Larry Fleinhardt
§ Leonardo Vetra
§ Viney Beniwal
§ Quinn Mallory
§ Maximillian Arturo
§ Nicholas Rush
§ Tricia Kennedy Curry
§ Daniel Faraday
§ Democritus° (circa 460 BCE)
§ Archimedesº* (287–212 BCE)
15–16th century
§ Nicolaus Copernicusº (1473-1543)
16–17th century
§ Galileo Galileiº* (1564–1642)
§ Johannes Keplerº (1571-1630)
§ René Descartes‡^ (1596–1650)
[edit]17–18th century
§ Blaise Pascal^ (1623 - 1662)
§ Christiaan Huygens^ (1629-1695)
§ Isaac Newton^*º (1642-1727)
§ Gottfried Leibniz^ (1646–1716)
[edit]18–19th century
§ Leonhard Euler^ (1707–1783)
§ Joseph Lagrange^º (1736-1813)
§ Charles Coulomb (1736-1806)
§ Joseph Fourier^ (1768–1830)
§ Thomas Young‡* (1773–1829)
19th century
§ Michael Faraday*† (1791–1867)
§ William Hamilton^º (1805-1865)
§ Hermann von Helmholtz‡† (1821–1894)
§ William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin* (1824-1907)
§ James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
§ Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
§ J. Willard Gibbs†^ (1839–1903)
§ Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906)
§ Heinrich Hertz* (1857-1894)
[edit]19–20th century
§ Nikolay Umov (1846-1915)
§ Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928)
§ Henri Poincaré (1854–1912)
§ Max Planck (1858-1947)
§ Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943)
§ Marie Curie (1867-1934)
§ Arnold Sommerfeld (1868-1951)
§ Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
§ James Jeans° (1877–1946)
§ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
§ Paul (1880–1933) & Tatyana (1876–1964) Ehrenfest
§ Richard Tolman° (1881-1948)
§ Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)
§ Emmy Noether (1882–1935)
[edit]20th century
§ Albert Einsteinº (1879-1955)
§ Max von Laue (1879-1960)
§ Georges Lemaître (1894-1966)
§ Max Born (1882-1970)
§ Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
§ Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
§ Arthur Holly Compton (1892-1962)
§ Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)
§ Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974)
§ Igor Tamm (1895-1971)
§ Leó Szilárd (1898–1964)
§ Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958)
§ George Eugene Uhlenbeck (1900-1988)
§ Enrico Fermi* (1901-1954)
§ Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)
§ Samuel Abraham Goudsmit (1902-1978)
§ Pascual Jordan (1902-1980)
§ Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
§ Eugene Wigner (1902-1995)
§ Robert Oppenheimer* (1904–1967)
§ George Gamow‡° (1904–1968)
§ Felix Bloch (1905-1983)
§ Ettore Majorana (1906-1938)
§ Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972)
§ Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (1906-1979)
§ J. Hans D. Jensen (1907-1973)
§ Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981)
§ Lev Landau (1908–1968)
§ Ilya Frank (1908-1990)
§ John Bardeen (1908-1991)
§ Anatoly Vlasov (1908-1975)
§ Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909-1992)
§ José Enrique Moyal (1910-1998)
§ Arsenij Sokolov (1910-1986)
§ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995)
§ William Alfred Fowler (1911-1995)
§ Robert Dicke (1916-1997)
§ David Bohm (1917-1992)
§ Dmitry Zubarev (1917-1992)
§ Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
§ Julian Schwinger (1918-1994)
§ Igor Ternov (1921-1996)
§ Sergei Tyablikov (1921-1968)
§ Abdus Salam (1926-1996)
§ Dennis Sciama (1926-1999)
§ Revaz Dogonadze (1931-1985)
§ Victor Popov (1937-1994)
[edit]20th–21st century
§ Hans Bethe° (1906-2005)
§ John Wheeler (1911-2008)
§ Vitaly Ginzburg (1916-2009)
§ Peter Westervelt (1919-)
§ Yoichiro Nambu (1921–)
§ Chen Ning Yang (1922–)
§ Philip Warren Anderson (1923-)
§ Freeman Dyson (1923-)
§ Bruno Zumino (1923-)
§ Roy J. Glauber (1925-)
§ Martin Gutzwiller (1925-)
§ Tsung-Dao Lee (1926-)
§ Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928-)
§ Robert Brout (1928-2011)
§ Stanley Mandelstam (1928-)
§ Ezra T. Newman (1928-)
§ Reinhard Oehme (1928-2010)
§ Dmitry Shirkov (1928-)
§ Murray Gell-Mann (1929-)
§ Peter Higgs (1929-)
§ Leon Cooper (1930-)
§ Stanley Deser (1931-)
§ Roger Penrose^ (1931-)
§ John Robert Schrieffer (1931-)
§ François Englert (1932-)
§ Sheldon Glashow (1932-)
§ Jeffrey Goldstone (1933-)
§ Tom Kibble (1933-)
§ Steven Weinberg (1933-)
§ Ludvig Faddeev (1934-)
§ Julius Wess (1934-2007)
§ Nicola Cabibbo (1935-2010)
§ Peter Freund (1936-)
§ Gerald Guralnik (1936-)
§ Harold Puthoff (1936-)
§ Kenneth G. Wilson (1936-)
§ C. R. Hagen (1937-)
§ Leo Kadanoff (1937-)
§ Martinus Veltman (1937-)
§ A. P. Balachandran (1938-)
§ Anthony James Leggett (1938-)
§ Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (1938-)
§ Daniel Z. Freedman (1939-)
§ John Iliopoulos (1940-)
§ Brian David Josephson (1940-)
§ Toshihide Maskawa (1940-)
§ Stanislav Mikheyev (1940-)
§ Leonard Susskind (1940-)
§ Kip Thorne (1940-)
§ Francisco Jose Yndurain Muñoz (1940-2008)
§ David Gross (1941-)
§ Luciano Maiani (1941-)
§ Holger Bech Nielsen (1941-)
§ John Henry Schwarz (1941-)
§ Stephen Hawking (1942-)
§ V. Balakrishnan (1943-)
§ Richard H. Price (1943-)
§ Pierre Ramond (1943-)
§ Makoto Kobayashi (1944-)
§ Sergio Ferrara (1945-)
§ Michael Green (physicist) (1946-)
§ Gerardus 't Hooft (1946-)
§ Howard Georgi (1947-)
§ Michio Kaku (1947–)
§ Hugh David Politzer (1949-)
§ Sylvester James Gates (1950-)
§ Robert B. Laughlin (1950-)
§ Stephen Parke (1950-)
§ Kyriakos Tamvakis (1950-)
§ Alexei Smirnov (1951-)
§ Frank Wilczek (1951-)
§ Edward Witten (1951-)
§ Sankar Das Sarma (1953-)
§ David Deutsch (1953-)
§ José W. F. Valle (1953-)
§ Mark B. Wise (1953-)
§ Joseph Polchinski (1954-)
§ Fulvio Melia (1956-)
§ Nathan Seiberg (1956-)
§ Ashoke Sen (1956-)
§ Joseph Lykken (1957-)
§ Cumrun Vafa (1960-)
§ Michael R. Douglas (1961-)
§ Marcela Carena (1962-)
§ Lisa Randall (1962-)
§ Brian Greene (1963-)
§ Raman Sundrum (1964-)
§ Durmus A. Demir (1967[clarification needed]-)
§ João Magueijo (1967-)
§ Antony Garrett Lisi (1968-)
§ Juan Maldacena (1968-)
§ Nima Arkani-Hamed (1972-)
§ Maxim Chernodub (1973-)
§ Gerald B. Cleaver
§ Anzhong Wang
§ Charles Thorn
Fictional Theoretical physicists
§ Gordon Freeman
§ Eli Vance
§ Isaac Kleiner
§ Rodney McKay
§ Samantha Carter
§ Sheldon Cooper
§ Larry Fleinhardt
§ Leonardo Vetra
§ Viney Beniwal
§ Quinn Mallory
§ Maximillian Arturo
§ Nicholas Rush
§ Tricia Kennedy Curry
§ Daniel Faraday
