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Adelberger, Eric G.

Alder, B. J.

Anderson, Carl D. (Carl David), 1905-1991

Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004

Bahcall, John N.

Bardeen, James Maxwell, 1939-

Barish, B. C. (Barry Clark), 1936-

Bateman, Harry, 1882-1946

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

Bitter, Francis, 1902-1967

Boehm, Felix

Bowman, J. D. (J. David)

Brewer, Richard G.

Brode, Robert B. (Robert Bigham), 1900-1986

Brown, Harold, 1927-2019

Chaikin, Paul M.

Christy, Robert F.

Clauser, John F. (John Francis), 1942-

Cocke, C. Lewis

Cohen, Bernard Leonard, 1924-

Cole, Julian D.

Coleman, Sidney, 1937-2007

Corrsin, Stanley, 1920-

Crane, H. R. (Horace Richard), 1907-2007

Dashen, Roger F.

Delbrück, Max

Deser, S. (Stanley)

Drake, James (James F.)

DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994

DuMond, Jesse W. M. (Jesse William Monroe), 1892-1976

Duwez, Pol

Eisenstein, James P. (James Philip)

Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-

Epstein, Paul S. (Paul Sophus), 1883-1966

Everhart, Thomas E.

Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988

Fletcher, James Chipman, 1919-1991

Fowler, William A.

Gehrels, Neil

Gell-Mann, Murray

Glaser, D. A.

Goldberger, Marvin L.

Gould, Roy W. (Roy Walter), 1927-

Greene, J. M. (John M.), 1928-

Hartle, J. B. (James B.)

Hellwarth, Robert Willis, 1930-2021

Herring, William Conyers, 1914-

Hopfield, John J.

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

Hughes, Vernon W.

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

Kimble, H. Jeff (Harry Jeffrey), 1949-

Koonin, Steven E.

Kryder, Mark H.

Lange, Andrew

Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1892-1968

Lauritsen, Thomas, 1915-1973

Leal, L. Gary

Leighton, Robert B.

Liepmann, H. W. (Hans Wolfgang), 1914-

Lin, C. C. (Chia-Chʻiao), 1916-2013

Lubensky, T. C.

Mandelbrot, Benoît B.

Marcus, Rudolph A. (Rudolph Arthur), 1923-

Mason, Max, 1877-1961

Maxworthy, T. (Tony)

Mayer, Joseph Edward, 1904-

McCoy, Barry M.

McKeown, R. D.

McLean, William B. (William Burdette), 1914-1976

McMillan, Edwin M. (Edwin Mattison), 1907-

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

Millikan, Clark Blanchard, 1903-1966

Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953

Molina, Mario J.

Mössbauer, Rudolf L. (Rudolf Ludwig), 1929-

Neddermeyer, Seth H. (Seth Henry), 1907-1988

Onuchic, José

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

Orowan, E. (Egon), 1902-1989

Osheroff, Douglas D.

Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007

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

Polchinski, Joseph Gerard

Politzer, H. David, 1949-

Prescott, Charles

Press, Frank, 1924-

Pritchard, David E. (David Edward), 1941-

Rainwater, L. James (Leo James), 1917-1986

Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961

Roshko, A. (Anatol)

Ruderman, Malvin A.

Schramm, David N.

Schubauer, Galen B. (Galen Brandt), 1904-

Schwarz, John H.

Sciulli, Frank J.

Sears, William Rees, 1913-2002

Shockley, William, 1910-1989

Spitzer, Frank, 1926-

Steinhardt, Paul J.

Stever, H. Guyford

Stix, Thomas Howard

Telegdi, Val, 1922-2006

Teukolsky, Saul A. (Saul Arno), 1947-

Thorne, Kip S.

Tollestrup, Alvin

Tolman, Richard C. (Richard Chace), 1881-1948

Townes, Charles H.

Trilling, George H.

Truesdell, C. (Clifford), 1919-2000

Tsuei, Chang C.

Turner, Michael Stanley

Von Kármán, Theodore, 1881-1963

Will, Clifford M., 1946-

Williams, Ellen D.

Willmarth, William W.

Wilson, Kenneth G. (Kenneth Geddes), 1936-2013

Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936-

Winstein, Bruce

Wise, Mark B., 1953-

Wu, Theodore Y.-T. (Theodore Yao-tsu)

Yariv, Amnon

Zewail, Ahmed H.

Zweig, George

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California Institute of Technology. Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy