List of Physicists - S

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• Mendel Sachs — United States (born 1927)
• Robert G. Sachs — United States (1916–1999)
• Carl Sagan — United States (1934–1996)
• Georges-Louis le Sage — Switzerland (1724–1803)
• Georges Sagnac — France (1869–1926)
• Megh Nad Saha — Bengali India (1893–1956)
• Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — Soviet Union (1929–1989)
• Oscar Sala — Brazil (1922–2010)
• Abdus Salam — Pakistan, UK (1926–1996) Nobel laureate
• Edwin Ernest Salpeter — Austria, Australia, United States (1924–2008)
• Anthony Ichiro Sanda — Japan, United States (born 1944)
• Vikram Sarabhai — India (1919–1971)
• Isidor Sauers — Austria (born 1948)
• Félix Savart — France (1791–1841)
• Martin Schadt — Switzerland (born 1938)
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow — United States (1921–1999)
• Craige Schensted — United States
• Joël Scherk — United States (1946–1979)
• Otto Scherzer — Germany (1909–1982)
• Walter H. Schottky — Germany (1886–1976)
• Kees A. Schouhamer Immink — Netherlands (born 1946)
• John Robert Schrieffer — United States (born 1931)
• Erwin Schrödinger — Austria-Hungary (1887–1961)
• Melvin Schwartz — United States (1932–2006)
• John Henry Schwarz — United States (born 1941)
• Karl Schwarzschild — Germany (1876–1916)
• Julian Schwinger — United States (1918–1994) Nobel laureate
• Dennis William Sciama — UK (1926–1999)
• Thomas Johann Seebeck — Estonia (1770–1831)
• Raymond Seeger — United States (1906–1992)
• Emilio G. Segrè — United States, Italy (1905–1989) Nobel laureate
• Nathan Seiberg — United States (born 1956)
• Frederick Seitz — United States (1911–2008)
• Nikolay Semyonov — Russia (1896–1986)
• Ashoke Sen — India (born 1956)
• Robert Serber — United States (1909–1997)
• Roman U. Sexl — Austria (1939–1986)
• Mikhail Shifman — Russia, United States (born 1949)
• Dmitry Shirkov — Russia (born 1928)
• William Bradford Shockley — United States (1910–1989)
• Lev Shubnikov — Russia, Netherlands, Ukraine (1901–1937)
• Clifford Shull — United States (1915–2001)
• Manne Siegbahn — Sweden (1886–1978)
• Kai Siegbahn — Sweden (1918–2007)
• Ludwik Silberstein — Poland, Germany, Italy, United States, Canada (1872–1948)
• Willem de Sitter — Netherlands (1872–1934)
• Francis G. Slack — United States (1897–1985)
• John C. Slater — United States (1900–1976)
• Louis Slotin — United States (1910–1946)
• Alexei Smirnov — Russia, Italy (born 1951)
• Lee Smolin — United States (born 1955)
• Marian Smoluchowski — Poland (1872–1917)
• George Smoot — United States (born 1945)
• Willebrord Snel van Royen (Snellius) — Netherlands (1580–1626)
• Arsenij Sokolov — Russia (1910–1986)
• Arnold Sommerfeld — Germany (1868–1951)
• Bent Sørensen — Denmark (born 1941)
• Rafael Sorkin — United States (born 1945)
• Maria Spiropulu — West Macedonia, Greece (born 1970)
• Johannes Stark — Germany (1874–1957)
• Max Steenbeck — (1901–1981)
• Jožef Stefan — Austria-Hungary, Slovenia (1835–1893)
• Jack Steinberger — Germany, United States (born 1921)
• Karl August von Steinheil — Germany (1801–1870)
• George Sterman — United States (born 1946)
• Otto Stern — Germany (1888–1969)
• Simon Stevin — Belgium, Netherlands (1548–1620)
• George Gabriel Stokes — Ireland, UK (1819–1903)
• Aleksandr Stoletov — Russia (1839–1896)
• Horst Ludwig Störmer — Germany (born 1949)
• Andrew Strominger — United States (born 1955)
• Ernst Stueckelberg — Switzerland (1905–1984)
• George Sudarshan — India, United States (born 1931)
• Rashid Sunyaev - Uzbek SSR (born 1943)
• Oleg Sushkov — Australia-Russia (born 1950)
• Leonard Susskind — United States (born 1940)
• Joseph Wilson Swan — UK (1828–1914)
• Jean Henri van Swinden — Netherlands (1746–1823)
• Bertha Swirles — UK (1903–1999)
• Leó Szilárd — Austria-Hungary, United States (1898–1964)
• Shen Kuo — China (1031–1095)
• Andrei Sakharov — Moscow
• Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov — Soviet union