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Aristotle of Stagira (384–322 BC)
Aston, Francis William (1877–1945)
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Bohm, David Joseph (1917–1992)
Bohr, Niels Henrik David (1885–1962)
Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844–1906)
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Dewar, James (1842–1923)
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Dyson, Freeman John (1923–2020)

Eddington, Arthur Stanley (1882–1944)
Eigen, Manfred (1927–2029)
Einstein, Albert (1879–1955)
Esaki, Leo (1925–)
Everett III, Hugh (1925–1982)
Ewing, James Alfred (1855–1935)

Fabry, Marie Paul Auguste Charles (1867–1945)
Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel (1686–1736)
Faraday, Michael (1791–1867)
Fechner, Gustav Theodor (1801–1887)
Fermi, Enrico (1901–1954)
Feynman, Richard Phillips (1918–1988)
Fitch, Val Logsdon (1923–2015)
Fitzgerald, George Francis (1851–1901)
Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis (1819–1896)
Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon (1819–1868)
Franck, James (1882–1964)
Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790)
Fraunhofer, Joseph von (1787–1826)
Fresnel, Augustin Jean (1788–1827)
Friedmann, Alexandr Alexandrovich (1888–1925)

Gabor, Dennis (1900–1979)
Galileo, Galilei (1564–1642)
Galvani, Luigi (1737–1798)
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Guillaume, Charles Édouard (1861–1938)

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Hawksbee, Francis (died c. 1713)
Heaviside, Oliver (1850–1925)
Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901–1976)
Helmholtz, Hermann von (1821–1894)
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Huygens, Christiaan (1629–1695)

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Joule, James Prescott (1818–1889)

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Kastler, Alfred (1902–1984)
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Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert (1824–1887)
Kusch, Polykarp (1911–1993)

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Minkowski, Hermann (1864–1909)
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Mössbauer, Rudolf Ludwig (1929–)
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Mottelson, Ben Roy (1926–2022)

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Neumann, Franz Ernst (1798–1895)
Newton, Isaac (1642–1727)
Nobili, Leopoldo (1784–1835)

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Prigogine, Ilya (1917–2003)
Purcell, Edward M. (1912–1997)

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Raman, Chandrasekhar Venkata (1888–1970)
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Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Third Baron (1842–1919)
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Röntgen, Wilhelm Carl (1845–1923)
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Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count (1753–1814)
Rutherford, Ernest (1871–1937)

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Salam, Abdus (1926–1996)
Schrieffer, John Robert (1931–2019)
Schrödinger, Erwin (1887–1961)
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Weinberg, Steven (1933–2021)
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Wollaston, William Hyde (1766–1828)

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