List of Physicists - W

W

• Johannes Diderik van der Waals — Netherlands (1837–1923)
• Ludwig Waldmann — Germany (1913–1980)
• Ernest Walton — Ireland (1903–1995)
• Kan-Chang Wang — China (1907–1998)
• Aaldert Wapstra — Netherlands (1923–2006)
• John Clive Ward — England, Australia (1924–2000)
• Gleb Wataghin — Ukraine, Italy, Brazil (1896–1986)
• John James Waterston — UK (1811–1883)
• James Watt — UK (1736–1819)
• Denis Weaire — Ireland (194?–)
• Colin Webb — UK (born 1937)
• Wilhelm Weber — Germany (1804–1891)
• Alvin Weinberg — United States (1915–2006)
• Steven Weinberg — United States (born 1933)
• Victor Frederick Weisskopf — Austria, United States (1908–2002)
• Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker — Germany (1912–2007)
• Heinrich Welker — Germany (1912–1981)
• Peter Westervelt — United States (born 1919)
• Gregor Wentzel — Germany (1898–1978)
• John Archibald Wheeler — United States (1911–2008)
• Gian-Carlo Wick — Italy (1909–1992)
• Emil Wiechert — Prussia (1861–1928)
• Carl Wieman — United States (born 1951)
• Wilhelm Wien — Germany (1864–1928)
• Arthur Wightman — United States (born 1922)
• Eugene Wigner — Austria-Hungary, United States (1902–1993)
• Frank Wilczek — United States (born 1951)
• Charles Thomson Rees Wilson — UK (1869–1959)
• Kenneth Geddes Wilson — United States (born 1936)
• Robert R. Wilson — United States (1914–2000)
• Karl Wirtz — Germany (1910–1994)
• Robert Woodrow Wilson — United States (born 1936)
• Michael Woolfson - UK (born 1927)
• Mark B. Wise — Canada, United States (born 1953)
• Edward Witten — United States (born 1951)
• Emil Wolf — Czechoslovakia, United States (born 1922)
• Fred Alan Wolf — United States (born 1934)
• Lincoln Wolfenstein — United States (born 1923)
• Stephen Wolfram — UK (born 1959)
• Robert W. Wood — United States (1868–1955)
• Chien-Shiung Wu — United States (1912–1997)