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Many famous physicists of the 20th and 21st century are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.

Famous early physicists:

Democritus - Abdera (circa 460 BC - 360 BC)
Archimedes - Syracuse (circa 287 BC - 212 BC)
Lucretius - Rome (98?-55 BC)
William Gilbert - England (1544-1603)
Galileo Galilei - Italy (1564-1642)
Willebrord Snell - Netherlands (1580-1626)
René Descartes - France (1596-1650)
Evangelista Torricelli - Italy (1608-1647)
Blaise Pascal - France (1623-1662)
Robert Boyle - England (1627-1691)
Christian Huygens, (1629-1695)
Robert Hooke - England (1635-1703)
Isaac Newton - England (1642-1727)

Famous physicists of the 18th century:

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Poland, England, Netherlands(1686-1736)
Daniel Bernoulli - Switzerland (1700-1782)
Benjamin Franklin, USA (1706-1790)
Leonard Euler, (1707-1783)
Rudjer Josip Boscovich - Dubrovnik (1711-1787)
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert - France (1717-1783)
Henry Cavendish - Britain (1731-1810)
Charles Augustin de Coulomb, (1736-1806)
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, (1736-1813)
James Watt Scotland (1736-1819)

Famous physicists of the 19th century:

Alessandro Volta - Italy (1745-1827)
Ernst Chladni - Germany (1756-1827)
John Dalton - England (1766-1844)
Joseph Fourier, (1768-1830)
Thomas Young - England (1773-1829)
Jean-Baptist Biot, (1774-1862)
Andre Marie Ampere, (1775-1836)
Amedeo Avogadro - Italy (1776-1856)
Carl Friedrich Gauss - Germany (1777-1855)
Hans Christian Ørsted - Denmark (1777-1851)
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac - France (1778-1850)
David Brewster - Scotland (1781-1868)
William Prout - England (1785-1850)
Joseph von Fraunhofer Germany (1787-1826)
Augustin-Jean Fresnel - France (1788-1827)
Georg Ohm - Germany (1789-1854)
Michael Faraday - Britain (1791-1867)
Felix Savart - France (1791-1841)
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot - France (1796-1832)
Joseph Henry - USA (1797-1878)
Christian Doppler - Austria (1803-1853)
Wilhelm Weber, (1804-1891)
William Hamilton - Ireland (1805-1865)
Anders Jonas Ångström, - Sweden(1814-1874)
James Prescott Joule - Britain (1818-1889)
Hippolyte Fizeau - France (1819-1896)
Léon Focault - France (1819-1868)
George Gabriel Stokes - Britain (1819-1903)
Hermann von Helmholtz - Germany (1821-1894)
Rudolf Clausius - Germany (1822-1888)
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, (1824 - 1887)
Johann Jakob Balmer - Switzerland (1825-1898)
William Thomson - (Lord Kelvin) England (1824-1907)
Joseph Wilson Swan, (1828-1914)
James Clerk Maxwell - Britain (1831-1879)
Jožef Stefan - Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835-1893)
Ernst Mach - Austria (1838-1916)
Josiah Gibbs, (1839-1903)
Ernst Abbe - Germany (1840-1905)
Marie Alfred Cornu, (1841-1902)
James Dewar - Britain (1842-1923)
Osborne Reynolds - Britain (1842-1912)
Ludwig Boltzmann - Austria (1844-1906)
Roland Eötvös - Hungary (1848-1919)
Oliver Heaviside - Britain (1850-1925)
George Francis FitzGerald - Ireland (1851-1901)
John Henry Poynting - Britain (1852-1914)
Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912)
Janne Rydberg, Sweden (1854-1919)
Edwin Hall - USA (1855-1938)
Joseph John Thomson, England (1856-1940)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - Germany (1857-1894)
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov - Imperial Russia (1857-1918)

Famous physicists of the 20th century:

Hannes Alfven - Sweden (1908-1995)
Henri Becquerel - France (1852-1908)
John Stewart Bell - Britain (1928-1990)
Felix Bloch - Switzerland (1905-1983)
Niels Bohr - Denmark (1885-1962)
Max Born - Germany, Britain (1882-1970)
Satyendra Nath Bose - India (1894-1974)
Louis-Victor de Broglie - France (1892-1987)
Thomas Townsend Brown - American (1905 - 1985)
Marie Curie - Poland (1867-1934)
Fritjof Capra - Austria, USA (1939- )
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1904-1990)
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - Britain (1902-1984)
Freeman Dyson - Britain, USA (1923- )
Paul Ehrenfest - Austria (1880-1933)
Albert Einstein - Germany, USA (1879-1955)
Enrico Fermi - Italy (1901-1954)
Richard Feynman - USA (1918-1988)
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1898-1974)
Murray Gell-Mann - USA (1929- )
Werner Karl Heisenberg - Germany (1901-1976)
Stephen Hawking - England (1942- )
Edwin Jaynes - USA (1922-1998)
Lev Davidovich Landau - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1908-1968)
Irving Langmuir - USA (1851-1957)
Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1879-1944)
John von Neumann - Austria-Hungary, USA (1903-1957)
Robert Oppenheimer - USA (1904-1967)
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli - Austria (1900-1958)
Max Planck - Germany (1858-1947)
John Polkinghorne - Britain (1930- )
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - Germany (1845-1923)
Ernest Rutherford - New Zealand, England (1871-1937)
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov - Soviet Union (1929-1989)
Erwin Schrödinger, (1887-1961)
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm - Imperial Russia, Soviet union (1895-1971)
Nikola Tesla - Austria-Hungary, USA (1856-1943)
Steven Weinberg - USA (1933- )
Arthur Wightman - USA
Eugene Wigner - Austria-Hungary, USA (1902-1993)
Victor Frederick Weisskopf - Austria, USA (1908-2002)

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