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Abrikosov, A. A. (Alekseĭ Alekseevich)

Anastasio, Michael R.

Bardeen, William A.

Baym, Gordon

Berko, Stephan

Bernstein, Ira B.

Bjorken, James D.

Bloch, Felix, 1905-

Blume, Martin, 1932-

Bohm, David, 1917-1992

Bohr, Aage

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

Callan, Curtis G.

Callen, Herbert B.

Campbell, David K.

Case, Kenneth M.

Chew, Geoffrey F.

Christ, Norman

Christy, Robert F.

Cohen, Morrel H.

Coleman, Sidney, 1937-2007

Coppersmith, Susan Nan

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

Deser, S. (Stanley)

DeWitt, Bryce S. (Bryce Seligman), 1923-2004

Drake, James (James F.)

Drell, Sidney D. (Sidney David), 1926-

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

Dyson, Freeman J.

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

Fano, Ugo

Feenberg, Eugene

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

Feshbach, Herman

Fetter, Alexander L., 1937-

Freedman, Daniel Z.

Frosch, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1928-

Furry, W. H. (Wendell Hinkle), 1907-

Gaillard, Mary K.

Gates, S. James

Georgi, Howard

Girvin, Steven M.

Glauber, Roy J., 1925-

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

Guth, Alan H.

Gutzwiller, M. C. (Martin C.)

Herring, William Conyers, 1914-

Herzfeld, Karl F. (Karl Ferdinand), 1892-

Hill, Edward Lee, 1904-1974

Hohenberg, Pierre C.

Holdren, John P.

Iachello, F.

Jackson, John David, 1925-2016

Jackson, Shirley Ann, 1946-

Jaffe, Arthur, 1937-

Julienne, Paul S.

Kadanoff, Leo P.

Kinoshita, T. (Toichiro)

Klein, Martin J.

Kohn, Walter, 1923-2016

Koonin, Steven E.

Kraichnan, Robert H., 1928-2008

Kroll, Norman Myles, 1922-

Landau, L. D. (Lev Davidovich), 1908-1968

Laporte, Otto, 1902-1971

Lee, P. A. (Patrick A.), 1946-

Lodge, Arthur S.

Louie, Steven G., 1949-

Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007

Luttinger, Joaquin M.

Mackey, George W. (George Whitelaw), 1916-2006

Mahan, Gerald D.

Maldacena, Juan Martin, 1968-

Marburger, John H., III (John Harmen), 1941-2011

Martin, Paul Cecil, 1931-

Massey, Walter E.

Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 1906-1972

McCoy, Barry M.

Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard), 1901-1976

Mermin, N. David

Millis, Andrew J.

Misner, Charles W.

Moss, Marvin K.

Mottelson, Ben R.

Nambu, Yoichiro, 1921-2015

O'Neil, T. M. (Thomas Michael), 1940-

Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958

Perdew, John P.

Pieper, Steven C.

Pines, David, 1924-2018

Polchinski, Joseph Gerard

Politzer, H. David, 1949-

Primakoff, H. (Henry), 1914-1983

Quinn, Helen R.

Randall, Harrison M. (Harrison McAllister), 1870-

Randall, Lisa

Read, Nicholas

Rice, Thomas Maurice, 1939-

Robson, Donald

Sachs, Robert Green, 1916-

Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989

Salam, Abdus, 1926-1996

Satchler, G. R. (George Raymond)

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

Schwinger, Julian, 1918-1994

Spitzer, Lyman, 1914-1997

Spruch, Larry

Steinhardt, Paul J.

Strominger, Andrew Eben

Susskind, Leonard

Szilard, Leo

Tarter, C. Bruce

Thomas, Llewellyn Hilleth, 1903-1992

Thorne, Kip S.

Thouless, D. J.

Treiman, Sam B.

Turner, Michael Stanley

Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988

Vafa, Cumrun

Van Nieuwenhuizen, Peter

Wald, Robert M.

Walecka, John Dirk, 1932-

Weinberg, Erick J.

Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002

Wentzel, Gregor, 1898-1978

Weyl, Hermann, 1885-1955

Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008

Wick, G. C. (Gian Carlo)

Wilczek, Frank

Will, Clifford M., 1946-

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

Wise, Mark B., 1953-

Witten, E.

Wolfenstein, L. (Lincoln)

York, James W., Jr., 1939-

Zamolodchikov, A. B., 1952-

Zumino, B. (Bruno), 1923-

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