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Abelson, Philip Hauge

Adair, Robert K., 1924-

Agnew, Harold M.

Allison, Samuel King, 1900-1965

Almy, Gerald Marks, 1904-

Al'tshuler, B. L.

Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988

Anastasio, Michael R.

Anderson, Herbert Lawrence

Anderson, John D., 1930-

Arnold, R. G. (Raymond George), 1942-

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

Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996

Barschall, H. H. (Henry Herman), 1915-1997

Beams, Jesse W. (Jesse Wakefield), 1898-1977

Becquerel, Henri, 1852-1908

Bertsch, George F.

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

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

Blosser, Henry Gabriel

Boehm, Felix

Bohr, Aage

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

Bollinger, Lowell M. (Lowell Moyer)

Bonner, Tom Wilkerson, 1910-1961

Booth, Eugene

Born, Max, 1882-1970

Bowman, J. D. (J. David)

Bradbury, Norris, 1909-1997

Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981

Brillouin, Léon, 1889-1969

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

Bromley, D. Allan (David Allan), 1926-2005

Brooks, Harvey

Brown, G. E. (Gerald Edward), 1926-

Casten, R.

Chadwick, James, 1891-1974

Chamberlain, O. (Owen)

Christy, Robert F.

Cockcroft, John, Sir, 1897-1967

Cocke, C. Lewis

Cohen, Bernard Leonard, 1924-

Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974

Cool, Rodney L. (Rodney Lee), 1920-1988

Coppi, B.

Courant, Richard, 1888-1972

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

Creutz, E.

Cronin, James W., 1931-2016

Curie, Marie, 1867-1934

Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906

Davis, Raymond, 1914-2006

Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966

Dennison, David M. (David Mathias), 1900-1976

Deutsch, Martin, 1917-2002

Devons, Samuel

Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)

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

Dunning, John R. (John Ray), 1907-1975

Eckart, Carl, 1902-1973

Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-

Enge, Harald A.

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

Feenberg, Eugene

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

Feshbach, Herman

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

Fitch, Val L., 1923-2015

Foster, John S., 1922-

Fowler, William A.

Frauenfelder, Hans, 1922-

Freedman, Stuart J.

Gamow, George, 1904-1968

Garwin, Richard L.

Gibbons, John H., 1929-2015

Goldhaber, Gertrude S. -1998

Goldhaber, Maurice, 1911-2011

Goodman, Charles D.

Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978

Greisen, Kenneth

Grunder, Hermann

Haeberli, W. (Willy)

Hafstad, Lawrence, 1904-

Hardy, John Christopher

Haworth, Leland J. (Leland John), 1904-

Haxton, Wick C.

Hecker, Siegfried S.

Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976

Henley, Ernest M.

Herb, R. G. (Raymond George), 1908-1996

Hilberry, Norman, 1899-

Hill, Edward Lee, 1904-1974

Hofstadter, Robert, 1915-1990

Holt, R. J. (Roy J.)

Jacak, Barbara

Jackson, John David, 1925-2016

Jeffries, C. D., 1922-

Jensen, J. Hans D.

Kemble, Edwin C. (Edwin Crawford), 1889-

Kerst, Donald William, 1911-1993

Keyworth, George A., II, 1939-

Kusch, Polykarp, 1911-1993

Laughlin, Robert B.

Lauritsen, Charles Christian, 1892-1968

Lauritsen, Thomas, 1915-1973

Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958

Livingston, M. Stanley (Milton Stanley)

Lodge, Arthur S.

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

Loomis, F. W. (Francis Wheeler), 1889-1976

Lyneis, Claude, 1943-

Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992

Masukawa, Toshihide, 1940-

Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 1906-1972

McKeown, R. D.

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

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

Merzbacher, Eugen

Meyerhof, Walter E. (Walter Ernst), 1922-

Middleton, Roy, 1927-2004

Miller, George H. (physicist)

Morrison, Philip

Moss, Joel M.

Moss, Marvin K.

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

Mottelson, Ben R.

Moyer, Burton J., 1912-1973

Nagamiya, S. (Shoji)

Nier, Alfred O. (Alfred Otto), 1911-1994

Nierenberg, William Aaron, 1919-2000

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

Osheroff, Douglas D.

Pandharipande, V. R.

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

Pieper, Steven C.

Pollock, Robert Elwood, 1936-

Poskanzer, A. M. (Arthur M.), 1931-

Powell, Cecil Frank

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

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011

Rasmussen, Norman C.

Rieser, Leonard M.

Robertson, R. G. Hamish, 1943-

Robson, Donald

Rosenfeld, Arthur H., 1926-

Rotblat, Joseph, 1908-2005

Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937

Sachs, Robert Green, 1916-

Sandweiss, Jack H.

Satchler, G. R. (George Raymond)

Schiff, Leonard I. (Leonard Isaac), 1915-1971

Schiffer, John P.

Schwinger, Julian, 1918-1994

Segrè, Emilio

Shull, Clifford Glenwood

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

Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976

Smyth, Henry De Wolf, 1898-1986

Sprouse, Gene D.

Stern, Otto, 1888-1969

Szilard, Leo

Tape, Gerald Frederick, 1915-2005

Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

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

Turkevich, Anthony, 1916-2002

Tuve, Merle Antony, 1901-1982

Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988

Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred), 1914-2006

Van de Graaf, Robert Jemison, 1901-1967

Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980

Walecka, John Dirk, 1932-

Warburton, Ernest Keeling

Watson, Kenneth M.

Weinberg, Alvin Martin, 1915-2006

Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002

Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008

Wick, G. C. (Gian Carlo)

Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995

Williams, John H. (John Harry), 1908-

Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000

Wiringa, Robert Bruce

Woosley, Stanford E.

Wu, C. S. (Chien-shiung), 1912-1997

York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank)

Zacharias, Jerrold Reinach, 1905-1986

Zinn, Walter H. (Walter Henry), 1906-2000

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University of Minnesota. Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Rochester. Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Texas at Austin. Department of Physics

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