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Adrian, R. J. (Ronald J.)

Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-

Appleton, Edward Victor, Sir, 1892-1965

Ashcroft, Neil W.

Aston, Francis William, 1877-1945

Barkla, C. G. (Charles Glover), 1877-1944

Bateman, Harry, 1882-1946

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005

Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

Booker, Henry G.

Born, Max, 1882-1970

Bragg, William Henry, 1862-1942

Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971

Campbell, David K.

Chadwick, James, 1891-1974

Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995

Clarke, John, 1942-

Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967

Coppersmith, Susan Nan

Cornell, Eric Allin, 1961-

Courant, Richard, 1888-1972

Davis, Stephen H., 1939-

Devons, Samuel

Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984

Dyson, Freeman J.

Eastman, Dean E. (Dean Eric)

Ehrlich, Gert

Eirich, F. R. (Frederick Roland), 1905-

Everhart, Thomas E.

Falicov, L. M. (Leopoldo Maximo), 1933-1995

Goldenfeld, Nigel

Goldhaber, Maurice, 1911-2011

Goldstone, Jeff Alan

Haldane, F. Duncan M.

Hewish, A.

Hooft, G. 't

Hulm, John K.

Jaffe, Arthur, 1937-

Josephson, B. D. (Brian David), 1940-

Kapitsa, P. L. (Petr Leonidovich), 1894-1984

Kittel, Charles

Kleppner, Daniel

Luttinger, Joaquin M.

Lyman, Theodore, 1874-1954

Mandelstam, Stanley

Millis, Andrew J.

Mott, N. F. (Nevill Francis), Sir, 1905-1996

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

Orowan, E. (Egon), 1902-1989

Pople, John A., 1925-2004

Powell, Cecil Frank

Ramakrishnan, Venki, 1952-

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011

Rayleigh, John William Strutt, Baron, 1842-1919

Read, Nicholas

Rice, Thomas Maurice, 1939-

Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959

Rivlin, R. S. (Ronald Samuel), 1915-2005

Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937

Ryle, Martin, 1918-1984

Salam, Abdus, 1926-1996

Sham, L. J.

Smith, Neville, 1942-2006

Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986

Spitzer, Lyman, 1914-1997

Steitz, Thomas A.

Thomas, Gareth, 1932-2014

Thomas, Llewellyn Hilleth, 1903-1992

Thomson, G. P. (George Paget), 1892-1975

Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940

Thouless, D. J.

Walton, Ernest, 1903-1995

Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees, 1869-1959

Zeleny, John, 1872-

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