Prominent Experimental Physicists
Famous experimental physicists include:
- Alhacen (965–1039)
- Carl David Anderson (1905–1991)
- John Bardeen (1908–1991)
- Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852–1908)
- Gerd Binnig (1947–Present)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973–1043)
- Patrick Blackett (Baron Blackett) (1897–1974)
- Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–Present)
- Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858–1937)
- William Henry Bragg (1862–1942)
- William Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971)
- Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987)
- Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918)
- James Chadwick (1891–1974)
- Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006)
- Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904–1990)
- Steven Chu (1948–Present)
- John Cockcroft (1897–1967)
- Marie Curie (1867–1934)
- Clinton Davisson (1881–1958)
- Charles Drummond Ellis (1895–1980)
- Michael Faraday (1791–1867)
- Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
- Al-Khazini (fl. 1115-1130)
- Max von Laue (1879–1960)
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901–1958)
- Ernst Mach (1838–1916)
- Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931)
- Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953)
- Ukichiro Nakaya (1900–1962)
- Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888–1970)
- John William Strutt (3rd Baron Rayleigh) (1842–1919)
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923)
- Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937)
- William Bradford Shockley (1910–1989)
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)
- Joseph John Thomson (1856–1940)
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