PHYSICIST ENTRIES BY COUNTRY OF BIRTH

AUSTRIA

Boltzmann, Ludwig
Doppler, Christian
Mach, Ernst
Meitner, Lisa
Pauli, Wolfgang
Schrödinger, Erwin
Stefan, Josef

BAVARIA

Ohm, George Simon
Stark, Johannes

CHINA

Lee, Tsung-Dao
Ting, Samuel Chao Chung
Wu, Chien-Shiung
Yang, Chen Ning

DENMARK

Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Ørsted, Hans Christian

ENGLAND

Barkla, Charles Glover
Blackett, Patrick Stuart
Maynard, Lord
Chadwick, Sir James
Cockcroft, John Douglas
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Dyson, Freeman
Faraday, Michael
Hawking, Stephen
Hooke, Robert
Joule, James Prescott
Mott, Sir Nevill Francis
Newton, Sir Isaac
Poynting, John Henry
Rayleigh, Lord (John William
Strutt)
Thomson, Joseph John (J. J.)
Young, Thomas

ESTONIA

Lenz, Heinrich Friedrich Emil

FRANCE

Ampère, André-Marie
Becquerel, Antoine-Henri
Broglie, Louis-Victor-Pierre,
prince de
Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi
Cavendish, Henry
Coulomb, Charles Augustin
Fizeau, Armand-Hippolyte-
Louis
Foucault, Jean-Bernard-Léon
Fresnel, Augustin Jean
Langevin, Paul
Perrin, Jean-Baptiste
GERMANY
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Born, Max
Einstein, Albert
Franck, James
Fraunhofer, Joseph von
Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich
Geiger, Hans Wilhelm
Goeppert-Mayer, Maria
Gertrude
Heisenberg, Werner
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig
Ferdinand von
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf
Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert
Kroemer, Herbert
Kusch, Polykarp
Landé, Alfred
Laue, Max Theodor Felix von
Mössbauer, Rudolf Ludwig
Penzias, Arno Allan
Planck, Max Ernest Ludwig
Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad
Stern, Otto
Weber, Wilhelm Eduard


HUNGARY

Gabor, Dennis
Lenard, Philipp von
Teller, Edward

Wigner, Eugene Paul

INDIA

Bhabha, Homi Jehangir
Chandrasekhar, Subramanyan
Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara
Venkata

IRELAND

FitzGerald, George Francis
Kelvin, Lord (William
Thomson)
Stokes, George Gabriel

ISRAEL

Ne’eman, Yuval

ITALY

Fermi, Enrico
Galilei, Galileo
Rubbia, Carlo
Segrè, Emilio Gino
Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe
Antonio Anastasio

JAPAN

Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro
Yukawa, Hideki

NETHERLANDS

Bloembergen, Nicolaas
Bernoulli, Daniel
’t Hooft, Gerard
Huygens, Christian
Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike
Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon
Snell, Willibrord
Veltman, Martinus
Zeeman, Pieter

NEW ZEALAND

Rutherford, Ernest

PAKISTAN

Salam, Abdus

POLAND

Curie, Marie
Rabi, Isidor Isaac

PRUSSIA

Clausius, Rudolf Julius
Emmanuel
Michelson, Albert Abraham
Nernst, Walther
Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes
Wilhelm
Wien, Wilhelm (Carl Werner
Otto Fritz Franz)

RUSSIA

Alferov, Zhores Ivanovich
Cherenkov, Pavel
Alekseyevich
Gamow, George
Kapitsa, Pyotr
Landau, Lev Davidovich
Sakharov, Andrey
Dmitriyevich

SCOTLAND

Maxwell, James Clerk
Wilson, Charles Thomson
Rees

SERBIA

Tesla, Nikola

SICILY

Archimedes

SWEDEN

Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta
Ångstrom, Anders Jonas
Rydberg, Johannes Robert

SWITZERLAND

Bloch, Felix

UNITED STATES

Alvarez, Luis W.
Anderson, Carl David
Anderson, Philip Warren
Bardeen, John
Bridgman, Percy Williams
Chu, Steven
Compton, Arthur Holly
Davisson, Clinton Joseph
Feynman, Richard Phillips
Fitch, Val Logsdon
Gell-Mann, Murray
Glaser, Donald Arthur
Glashow, Sheldon
Henry, Joseph
Kilby, Jack St. Clair
Lamb, Willis Eugene Jr.
Lederman, Leon M.
Millikan, Robert Andrews
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Purcell, Edward Mills
Ramsey, Norman F.
Reines, Frederick
Richter, Burton
Schawlow, Arthur Leonard
Schrieffer, John Robert
Schwinger, Julian
Shockley, William
Taylor, Joseph H., Jr.
Townes, Charles Hard
Van Allen, James
Van de Graaff, Robert Jemison
Van Vleck, John Housbrook
Weinberg, Steven
Wheeler, John Archibald

WALES

Josephson, Brian David

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