Category
page 1American optical physicists
Albert A. Michelson
American physicist (1852–1931)
Robert A. Millikan
American physicist (1868–1953)

Arthur Holly Compton
American physicist (1892–1962)
Steven Chu
American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate
Willis Lamb
American physicist (1913–2008)

Arthur Leonard Schawlow
American physicist
David J. Wineland
American physicist

William Daniel Phillips
physics Nobel laureate

Arthur Ashkin
American physicist (1922-2020)
John L. Hall
American physicist (born 1934)

Carl Wieman
Nobel prize winning US physicist
Edward W. Morley
American physical chemist
Robert W. Wood
American physicist and inventor (1868–1955)
Henry Augustus Rowland
American physicist (1848–1901)
Theodore Lyman
American physicist (1874–1954)
Daniel Kleppner
American physicist (1932–2025)
Herbert E. Ives
American physicist (1882-1953)
Eli Yablonovitch
American physicist

Robert Clark Jones
American physicist (1916–2004)
Stephen E. Harris
American physicist
Jean M. Bennett
American physicist (1930–2008)

Robert L. Byer
American physicist
H. Jeff Kimble
American physicist (1949–2024)
James Power Gordon
American physicist (1928–2013)

Raymond Chiao
American physicist
Charles Elmer
American entrepreneur, court stenographer, and amateur astronomer (1872–1954)

Marlan Scully
American physicist
Anthony J. DeMaria
American physicist
Robert W. Boyd
American physicist
Peter Franken
American physicist (1928–1999)

Christopher Monroe
American physicist
Joseph H. Eberly
American physicist

Vladimir Shalaev
American optical physicist

Anthony E. Siegman
American electrical engineer and educator (1931–2011)
Joseph W. Goodman
American engineer and physicist
John D. Strong
American optical physicist
Bruce H. Billings
American physicist
Perley G. Nutting
American physicist (1873-1949)
Deane B. Judd
American physicist
Floyd K. Richtmyer
American physicist
Leonard T. Troland
American physicist
Naomi J. Halas
American chemist and electrical engineer
Eric Van Stryland
American physicist