Theoretical physicists

Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.

Danish physicist (1885–1962)

Italian–American physicist (1901–1954)

Austrian physicist (1887–1961)

Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)

physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)

Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician (1902–1995)

Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)

theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient

Chinese physicist (1922–2025)

Irish mathematician and astronomer (1805-1865)

Hungarian-American Jewish nuclear physicist (1908–2003)

Chinese-American physicist (1926–2024)

Belgian theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

American physical chemist and theoretical physicist (1903-1976)

Macedonian atomic physicist (1939–2019)

Austrian-Hungarian laser physicist and university teacher (born 1962)

Pakistani nuclear engineer (1936–2021)

Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist (1909-1992)

German-American physicist (1900-1954)

Swedish physicist

Argentine physicist

Mexican theoretical physicist (born 1964)

Turkish physicist (born 1949)

German physicist (1922–2016)

American physicist

Iranian-American physicist

Austrian physicist (1934-2007)

South African cosmologist

Danish theoretical physicist and professor emeritus

American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University

Sammarinese physicist

American physicist (1928-2016)

Turkish physicist (1921–1992)

Greek physicist

Soviet physicist (1913-1966)

American theoretical physicist and textbook author (1925–2016)

Swiss theoretical physicist (1918–1990)

Australian physicist (1925–2006)

Belgian physicist, Director General of CERN (1924–1990)

Korean-born American theoretical physicist

British-Australian nuclear physicist

theoretical physicist (1879-1944)

Israeli physicist

Greek physicist

Austrian physicist and botanist (1880-1963)

Argentine physicist

Soviet physicist (1916–1982)

American scientist (1899–1972)

Norwegian theoretical physicist (1898-1965)

Particle physicist

Mathematician and physicist

Turkish-American theoretical physicist (1926–1994)

Soviet physicist (1911-1968)

physicist (1928–2016)

Soviet physicist (1926-1977)

mathematician, researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-9599-0136

American physicist (1914-1983)