List of theoretical physicists
The following is a partial list of notable physics theorists, those who are recognized in theoretical physics. Arranged by century of death, then year of birth:
Ancient times
- Thales (c. 624–546 BCE)
- Pythagoras^* (c. 569–475 BCE)
- Democritus° (c. 460 BCE)
- Archimedesº* (287–212 BCE)
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)
15th–16th century
- Nicolaus Copernicusº (1473–1543)
16th–17th century
- Galileo Galileiº* (1564–1642)
- Johannes Keplerº (1571–1630)
- René Descartes‡^ (1596–1650)
17th–18th century
- Blaise Pascal^ (1623–1662)
- Christiaan Huygens^ (1629–1695)
- Isaac Newton^*º (1642–1727)
- Gottfried Leibniz^ (1646–1716)
18th–19th century
- Leonhard Euler^ (1707–1783)
- Joseph Lagrange^º (1736–1813)
- Charles Coulomb (1736–1806)
- Joseph Fourier^ (1768–1830)
- Thomas Young‡* (1773–1829)
- Michael Faraday*† (1791–1867)
19th century
- William Hamilton^º (1805–1865)
- Hermann von Helmholtz‡† (1821–1894)
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
- Heinrich Hertz* (1857–1894)
19th–20th century
- William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin* (1824–1907)
- Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
- J. Willard Gibbs†^ (1839–1903)
- Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906)
- 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 Einsteinº (1879–1955)
- Max von Laue (1879–1960)
- Paul (1880–1933) and Tatyana Ehrenfest (1876–1964)
- Richard Tolman° (1881–1948)
- Arthur Eddington (1882–1944)
- Emmy Noether (1882–1935)
- Max Born (1882–1970)
- Niels Bohr (1885–1962)
- Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961)
- Arthur Holly Compton (1892–1962)
- Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)
- Georges Lemaître (1894–1966)
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974)
- Igor Tamm (1895–1971)
- Leó Szilárd (1898–1964)
- Ali Moustafa Mosharafa ( 1898–1950 )
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
- George Eugene Uhlenbeck (1900–1988)
20th century
- 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)
- Viktor Ambartsumian (1908–1996)
- 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)
- Feza Gürsey (1921–1992)
- Sergei Tyablikov (1921–1968)
- Abdus Salam (1926–1996)
- Dennis Sciama (1926–1999)
- Gurgen Askaryan (1928–1997)
- Revaz Dogonadze (1931–1985)
- Victor Popov (1937–1994)
20th–21st century
- Hans Bethe° (1906–2005)
- John Wheeler (1911–2008)
- Vitaly Ginzburg (1916–2009)
- Peter Westervelt (1919–2015)
- Yoichiro Nambu (1921–2015)
- Chen Ning Yang (born 1922)
- Behram Kurşunoğlu (1922–2003)
- Philip Warren Anderson (born 1923)
- Freeman Dyson (born 1923)
- Bruno Zumino (1923–2014)
- Roy J. Glauber (born 1925)
- Martin Gutzwiller (1925–2014)
- Tsung-Dao Lee (born 1926)
- Erdal İnönü (1926–2007)
- Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (born 1928)
- Robert Brout (1928–2011)
- Richard Arnowitt (1928–2014)
- Stanley Mandelstam (born 1928)
- Ezra T. Newman (born 1928)
- Reinhard Oehme (1928–2010)
- Dmitry Shirkov (born 1928)
- Murray Gell-Mann (born 1929)
- Peter Higgs (born 1929)
- Friedwardt Winterberg (born 1929)
- Leon Cooper (born 1930)
- Stanley Deser (born 1931)
- George Sudarshan (born 1931)
- Roger Penrose (born 1931)
- Valery Pokrovsky (born 1931)
- John Robert Schrieffer (born 1931)
- François Englert (born 1932)
- Sheldon Glashow (born 1932)
- Jeffrey Goldstone (born 1933)
- Tom Kibble (born 1933)
- Steven Weinberg (born 1933)
- Ludvig Faddeev (born 1934)
- John G. Cramer (born 1934)
- Julius Wess (1934–2007)
- Jacques Villain (born 1934)
- Nicola Cabibbo (1935–2010)
- Peter Freund (born 1936)
- Gerald Guralnik (born 1936)
- Harold Puthoff (born 1936)
- Kenneth G. Wilson (born 1936)
- C. R. Hagen (born 1937)
- Leo Kadanoff (born 1937)
- Martinus Veltman (born 1937)
- A. P. Balachandran (born 1938)
- Anthony James Leggett (born 1938)
- Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (born 1938)
- Daniel Z. Freedman (born 1939)
- Ratko Janev (born 1939)
- Pran Nath (born 1939)
- John Iliopoulos (born 1940)
- Brian David Josephson (born 1940)
- Toshihide Maskawa (born 1940)
- Stanislav Mikheyev (born 1940)
- Leonard Susskind (born 1940)
- Kip Thorne (born 1940)
- Francisco Jose Yndurain Muñoz (1940–2008)
- David Gross (born 1941)
- Luciano Maiani (born 1941)
- Holger Bech Nielsen (born 1941)
- John Henry Schwarz (born 1941)
- Stephen Hawking° (born 1942)
- V. Balakrishnan (born 1943)
- Paul Frampton (born 1943)
- Richard H. Price (born 1943)
- Pierre Ramond (born 1943)
- Kurt Binder (born 1944)
- Makoto Kobayashi (born 1944)
- Sergio Ferrara (born 1945)
- Michael Green (born 1946)
- Gerardus 't Hooft (born 1946)
- İsmail Hakkı Duru (born 1946)
- Jürg Fröhlich (born 1947)
- Howard Georgi (born 1947)
- Michio Kaku (born 1947)
- John Cardy (born 1947)
- Walter Selke (born 1947)
- Dimitri Nanopoulos (born 1948)
- Hugh David Politzer (born 1949)
- Nihat Berker (born 1949)
- Tekin Dereli (born 1949)
- Ayşe Erzan (born 1949)
- Sylvester James Gates (born 1950)
- Robert B. Laughlin (born 1950)
- Stephen Parke (born 1950)
- Goran Senjanovic (born 1950)
- Kyriakos Tamvakis (born 1950)
- Christopher T. Hill (born 1951)
- Alexei Smirnov (born 1951)
- Frank Wilczek (born 1951)
- Edward Witten (born 1951)
- Wojciech H. Zurek (born 1951)
- Paul J. Steinhardt (born 1952)
- Alexander Zamolodchikov (born 1952)
- Alexei Zamolodchikov (1952–2007)
- Ali Chamseddine (born 1953)
- Sankar Das Sarma (born 1953)
- David Deutsch (born 1953)
- José W. F. Valle (born 1953)
- Mark B. Wise (born 1953)
- Joseph Polchinski (born 1954)
- Lawrence M. Krauss (born 1954)
- Julia Yeomans (born 1954)
- Lee Smolin (born 1955)
- Fulvio Melia (born 1956)
- Viatcheslav Mukhanov (born 1956)
- Nathan Seiberg (born 1956)
- Ashoke Sen (born 1956)
- Carlo Rovelli (born 1956)
- Joseph Lykken (born 1957)
- Cumrun Vafa (born 1960)
- Xiao-Gang Wen (born 1961)
- Michael R. Douglas (born 1961)
- Gian F. Giudice (born 1961)
- Marcela Carena (born 1962)
- Igor Klebanov (born 1962)
- Lisa Randall (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)
- Durmus A. Demir (born 1967)
- João Magueijo (born 1967)
- Antony Garrett Lisi (born 1968)
- Juan Maldacena (born 1968)
- Dam Thanh Son (born 1969)
- Nima Arkani-Hamed (born 1972)
- Steven Gubser (born 1972)
- Maxim Chernodub (born 1973)
- Charles Thorn
- Abdus Salam, 20th century Pakistani physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in 1979
- Fazlur Khan, 20th century Bangladeshi mechanician
- Mahmoud Hessaby, 20th century Iranian physicist
- Ali Javan, 20th century Iranian physicist
- Mehran Kardar, Iranian theoretical physicist
- Munir Nayfeh Palestinian-American particle physicist
- Abdul Qadeer Khan Pakistani metallurgist and nuclear scientist
- Riazuddin Pakistani theoretical physicist
- Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood, Pakistani nuclear engineer and nuclear physicist
- Ali Musharafa Egyptian nuclear physicist
- Sameera Moussa Egyptian nuclear physicist
- Munir Ahmad Khan, Father of Pakistan's nuclear program.
Fictional theoretical physicists
- Gordon Freeman
- Tony Stark
- Eli Vance
- Isaac Kleiner
- Rodney McKay
- Samantha Carter
- Larry Fleinhardt
- Leonardo Vetra
- Quinn Mallory
- Maximillian Arturo
- Nicholas Rush
- Daniel Faraday
- Catherine Elizabeth Halsey
- Milo Rambaldi
- Reed Richards
- Victor Von Doom
- Radek Zelenka
- Erik Lehnsherr
- Sheldon Cooper
See also
Notes
* Experimentalist also
º Astronomer, astrophysicist or cosmologist also
^ Developed new mathematics
† Contributed to chemistry
‡ Contributed to biology
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