List of Physicists - M

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• Carolina Henriette Mac Gillavry — Netherlands (1904–1993)
• Ernst Mach — Austria-Hungary (1838–1916)
• Luciano Maiani — Italy, San Marino (born 1941)
• Theodore Maiman — United States (1927–2007)
• Ettore Majorana — Italy (1906–1938 presumed dead)
• Sudhansu Datta Majumdar — India (1915–1997)
• Richard Makinson — Australia (1913–1979)
• Juan Martín Maldacena — Argentina (born 1968)
• Étienne-Louis Malus — France (1775–1812)
• Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam — Imperial Russia, Soviet Union (1879–1944)
• Peter Mansfield — UK (born 1933)
• Carlo Marangoni — Italy (1840–1925)
• Guglielmo Marconi — Italy (1874–1937) Nobel laureate
• Henry Margenau — Germany, United States (1901–1977)
• William Markowitz — United States (1907–1998)
• Robert Marshak — United States (1916–1992)
• Walter Marshall — UK (1932–1996)
• Toshihide Maskawa — Japan (born 1940)
• Harrie Massey — Australia (1908–1983)
• John Cromwell Mather — United States (born 1946)
• James Clerk Maxwell — UK (1831–1879)
• Brian May — UK (born 1947)
• Maria Goeppert Mayer — Germany, United States (1906–1972)
• Ronald E. McNair — United States (1950–1986)
• Simon van der Meer — Netherlands (1925–2011)
• Fulvio Melia — United States (born 1956)
• Macedonio Melloni — Italy (1798–1854)
• Lise Meitner — Austria (1878–1968)
• Thomas Corwin Mendenhall — United States (1841–1924)
• M. G. K. Menon — India (born 1928)
• David Merritt — United States
• Albert Abraham Michelson — United States (1852–1931)
• Stanislav Mikheyev — Russia (1940–2011)
• Robert Andrews Millikan — United States (1868–1953)
• Arthur Milne — UK (1896–1950)
• Shiraz Minwalla — India
• John J. Montgomery — United States (1858–1911)
• Jagadeesh Moodera — India, United States (born 1950)
• Willie Hobbs Moore — United States (1934–1994)
• Rudolf Mössbauer — Germany (1929–2011)
• Henry Moseley — UK (1887–1915)
• Nevill Mott — UK (1905–1996)
• Ben Roy Mottelson — Denmark, United States (born 1926)
• Amédée Mouchez — Spain, France (1821–1892)
• Ali Moustafa — Egypt (1898–1950)
• José Enrique Moyal — Palestine, France, UK, United States, Australia (1910–1998)
• Mozi — China (ca. 450 BC)
• Karl Alexander Müller — Switzerland (born 1927)
• Richard A. Muller — United States (born 1944)
• Robert S. Mulliken — United States (1896–1986)
• Pieter van Musschenbroek — Netherlands (1692–1762)
• Leonid Mandelstam — Mahilyow