21st-century physicists

Macedonian atomic physicist (1939–2019)

Iranian general and physicist (1961–2020)

former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, geophysicist, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)

Nigerian physicist and academic

Nigerian physicist

Qatari scientist

Tunisian physicist and politician

Nuno Filipe Gomes Loureiro was a Portuguese plasma physicist. He was the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center from 2024 until his murder in 2025.

Colombian physicist

Chilean physicist

Nigerian astronomer and educator

Czech physicist and local politician

Kyrgyzstani politician and physicist

Congolese physicist, author and politician

uzbek physicist

Belgian physicist

Norwegian professor