American nuclear physicists

Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)

J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons.

Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

German-born American theoretical physicist (1906-1972)

German-American nuclear physicist

American nuclear physicist (1901–1958)

American physicist (1898–1988)

American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor (1911–1988)

20th-century American physicist

Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)

American physicist (1912-1997)

theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)

American physicist and Nobel laureate (1915-1990)

Danish nuclear physicist (1926–2022)

British physicist (1934–2019)

Hungarian-American Jewish physicist and inventor (1898–1964)

American physicist

Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (1904–1968)

American physicist

American physicist

American physicist

Polish-American mathematician

Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)

American physicist (1915–2001)

American physicist (1911-2008)

American astrophysicist (1914–2006)

US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory (1913–2004)

Austrian nuclear physicist (1894–1970)

American physicist (1904–1996)

American nuclear physicist (1919–1986)

American particle physicist (1912–1985)

1940s physicist who died of radiation poisoning (1921–1945)

American physicist (1911-2011)

American nuclear physicist (1915–2006)

American ufologist (1934–2019)

American physicist (1902-1974)

Canadian-American physicist (1886–1950)

American physicist (1921–2010)

American nuclear physicist (1905–2004)

Italian nuclear physicist, paleontologist, and university teacher (1901–2001)

13th United States Secretary of Energy

American physicist and nuclear scientist (1900–1965)

American physicist (1899–1981)

American physicist (1928–2025)

American nuclear physicist (1926–2012)

American physicist

American physicist (1921–2016)

American nuclear physicist (1927–2003)

American physicist and diplomat (1898–1986)

retired American naval officer and Department of Defense official

American physicist (1921-2009)

Nuclear physicist (1911–1998)

American physicist and science educator (1907–2004)

American physicist (1912–2002)

American theoretical physicist and textbook author (1925–2016)

American physicist (1911–1990)

American physicist (1907-1975)

nuclear physicist (1906–2000)

German rocket scientist (1913-2008)

American physicist, group leader during the Manhattan Project (1907–1990)