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Abrikosov, A. A. (Alekseĭ Alekseevich)

Alivisatos, P.

Allison, Samuel King, 1900-1965

Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988

Anderson, Herbert Lawrence

Appelbaum, J. A. (Joel A.)

Bahcall, John N.

Bitter, Francis, 1902-1967

Bjorken, James D.

Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981

Campuzano, Juan Carlos

Chamberlain, Joseph W. (Joseph Wyan), 1928-2004

Chamberlain, O. (Owen)

Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995

Chew, Geoffrey F.

Christy, Robert F.

Cohen, Marvin L.

Cohen, Morrel H.

Coleman, Sidney, 1937-2007

Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962

Conwell, Esther M. (Esther Marley), 1922-2014

Coppersmith, Susan Nan

Crabtree, G. W.

Creutz, E.

Crewe, Albert V.

Cronin, James W., 1931-2016

Crutzen, Paul J., 1933-

Curtiss, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-

Davisson, Clinton Joseph, 1881-1958

Dempster, Arthur Jeffrey

Dresselhaus, M. S.

Eastman, Dean E. (Dean Eric)

Eckart, Carl, 1902-1973

Edelheit, Lewis

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

Fano, Ugo

Ference, Michael, 1911-

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

Fletcher, Harvey, 1884-1981

Franck, James, 1882-1964

Frauenfelder, Hans, 1922-

Freedman, Stuart J.

Friedman, Jerome I. (Jerome Isaac), 1930-

Fritzsche, Hellmut

Fultz, Dave, 1921-

Gabrielse, Gerald

Garwin, Richard L.

Ginsberg, Donald M.

Goldberger, Marvin L.

Gomer, R. (Robert)

Goodenough, John B.

Greene, Christopher Henry

Henyey, Louis G., 1910-1970

Herzberg, Gerhard, 1904-1999

Hilberry, Norman, 1899-

Hopfield, John J.

Horn, Paul (Paul M.)

Horowitz, Gary T., 1955-

Houston, W. V. (William Vermillion), 1900-

Howard, Louis N.

Isaacs, Eric D.

Jewett, Frank B. (Frank Baldwin), 1879-1949

Jin, Deborah S.

Joseph, Daniel D.

Kadanoff, Leo P.

Karle, Jerome

Kastner, Marc A.

Kelly, Mervin Joe

Kirkwood, John Gamble, 1907-1959

Klopsteg, Paul E. (Paul Ernest), 1889-

Koshiba, Masatoshi, 1926-2020

Kruskal, Martin D. (Martin David), 1925-2006

Kulsrud, R. M.

Lang, Norton D.

Langenberg, D. N., 1932-

Lauterbur, Paul C., 1929-2007

Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958

Lazarus, David, 1921-

Lederman, Leon M.

Lee, T. D., 1926-

Lee, Yuan Tseh, 1936-

Libchaber, Albert J.

Loeb, Leonard B. (Leonard Benedict), 1891-

Massey, Walter E.

Mayer, Joseph Edward, 1904-

Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 1906-1972

Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931

Millikan, Clark Blanchard, 1903-1966

Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953

Mooney, Melvin

Mottelson, Ben R.

Mulliken, Robert Sanderson

Mullins, William W.

Nagel, Sidney R.

Nambu, Yoichiro, 1921-2015

Nuckolls, John Hopkin

Parker, E. N. (Eugene Newman), 1927-

Phillips, J. C.

Phillips, Melba, 1907-2004

Pople, John A., 1925-2004

Reynolds, John Hamilton, 1923-2000

Rice, Oscar Knefler, 1903-1978

Rieser, Leonard M.

Rosenbluth, M. N.

Rosenfeld, Arthur H., 1926-

Rosner, Robert

Ross, Frank E. (Frank Elmore), 1874-1960

Rossby, Carl-Gustaf

Rowland, F. S.

Sachs, Robert Green, 1916-

Sandweiss, Jack H.

Schiffer, John P.

Schramm, David N.

Segal, Irving Ezra

Shankland, Robert S., 1908-

Shochet, Melvyn J.

Simpson, Joanne

Simpson, John A. (John Alexander), 1916-2000

Smith, George E., 1930-

Smith, Thor L.

States, M. N. (Marshall Ney)

Steinberger, J.

Szilard, Leo

Telegdi, Val, 1922-2006

Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

Treiman, Sam B.

Tsui, D. C. (Daniel Chee), 1939-

Turkevich, Anthony, 1916-2002

Turner, Michael Stanley

Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981

Wald, Robert M.

Weeks, John David

Weinberg, Alvin Martin, 1915-2006

Weissman, Samuel Isaac

Wentzel, Gregor, 1898-1978

Wetherill, George West

Wilczek, Frank

Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000

Winstein, Bruce

Wolfenstein, L. (Lincoln)

Wood, Robert Williams, 1868-1955

Yang, Chen Ning, 1922-

Zener, Clarence, 1905-

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