List of theoretical physicists

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The following is a partial list of theoretical physicists:

Contents 1 Ancient Times 2 15–16th century 3 16–17th century 4 17–18th century 5 18–19th century 6 19th century 7 19–20th century 8 20th century 9 20–21st century 10 Theoretical physicists in pop culture 11 Notes 12 See also

Ancient Times

• Pythagoras^* (circa 569–475 BCE)
• Archimedesº* (287–212 BCE)
• Jesus (8-2 BC/BCE – 29-36 AD/CE)

15–16th century

• Nicolaus Copernicusº (1473-1543)

16–17th century

• Galileo Galileiº* (1564–1642)
• Johannes Keplerº (1571-1630)
• René Descartes‡^ (1596–1650)

17–18th century

• Isaac Newton^* (1642-1727)
• Gottfried Leibniz^ (1646–1716)

18–19th century

• Joseph Lagrange (1736-1813)
• Joseph Fourier^ (1768–1830)
• Thomas Young‡* (1773–1829)

19th century

• William Hamilton (1805-1865)
• Hermann von Helmholtz‡† (1821–1894)
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
• Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
• J. Willard Gibbs†^ (1839–1903)
• Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906)
• Heinrich Hertz* (1857-1894)

19–20th century

• Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928)
• Henri Poincaré^ (1854–1912)
• Max Planck (1858-1947)
• Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943)
• Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
• James Jeans° (1877–1946)
• Paul (1880–1933) & Tatyana (1876–1964) Ehrenfest
• Richard Tolman° (1881-1948)
• Emmy Noether (1882–1935)

20th century

• Albert Einsteinº (1879-1955)
• Max Born (1882-1970)
• Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
• Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961)
• Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)
• Satyendra Bose (1894–1974)
• Leo Szilard (1898–1964)
• Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958)
• Enrico Fermi* (1901-1954)
• Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)
• Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
• Robert Oppenheimer* (1904–1967)
• George Gamow‡° (1904–1968)
• Hans Bethe° (1906–2005)
• Lev Landau (1908–1968)
• John Bardeen (1908-1991)
• Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
• Abdus Salam (1926-1996)
• Revaz Dogonadze (1931-1985)

20–21st century

• John Wheeler (1911-)
• Yoichiro Nambu (1921–)
• Chen Ning Yang (1922–)
• Martin Gutzwiller (1925-)
• Peter Higgs (1929-)
• Roger Penrose (1931-)
• Sheldon Glashow (1932-)
• Steven Weinberg (1933-)
• Martinus Veltman (1937-)
• Kip Thorneº (1940-)
• Stephen Hawkingº (1942-)
• V. Balakrishnan (1943-)
• Gerardus 't Hooft (1946-)
• Michio Kaku (1947–)
• Edward Witten (1951-)
• Brian Greene (1963-)
• Juan Maldacena (1968-)
• Tom Kibble
• Ashoke Sen (1956-)
• Harold Puthoff
• Mark Roberts
• Gerald Rothberg

Theoretical physicists in pop culture

• Gordon Freeman
• Isaac Kleiner
• Judith Mossman
• Eli Vance

Notes

 * Experimentalist also
 º Astronomer, astrophysicist or cosmologist also
 ^ Developed new mathematics
 † Contributed to chemistry
 ‡ Contributed to biology

See also

• Genealogy of Theoretical Physicists
• List of scientists
• List of physicists