Below is a list of famous physicists. Many of these from the 20th and 21st centuries are found on the list of recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics.
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List of Physicists - A Wikipedia page which displays in alphabetical order links to biographies of the most famous physicists in history.
Albert A. Michelson - A biography of the physicist whose optical experiments served as a foundation to the theory of relativity.
Enrico Fermi - Biography of the physicist who built the first experimental nuclear reactor, the Atomic Pile of the University of Chicago, USA.
Erwin Schrödinger - Personal life, works, and achievements of the physicist who developed the quantum mechanics, by the Nobel Prize Organization.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes - A biography of the father of superconductivity by the Nobel Prize Organization.
Louis de Broglie - A biography of the French scientist who postulated the wave nature of electrons, one of the basis of the quantum physics.
Max Planck - Personal life, works, and achivements of the man who was the father of the quantum physics, by the Nobel Prize Organization.
Niels Bohr - A biography by the Nobel Price Organization including personal life, topics of study, achievements, and awards.
Niels Bohr - Information about his life, contributions to physics, and theories. Reference books and links to websites of interest.
Robert A. Millikan - Personal life, fields of work, and achievements of the scientist who measured the charge of an electron, by the Nobel Prize Organization.
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