Teorijska fizika
Teorijska fizika je grana fizike koja koristi matematičke modele i apstrakcije u pokušaju da objasni prirodne fenomene. Sama srž teorijske fizike je matematička fizika, iako se koriste i druge konceptualne tehnike. Cilj je racionalizovati, objasniti i predvideti fizičke fenomene.
Napredak nauke u najvećem delu zavisi od međusobnog odnosa između ogleda i teorije. Ipak, u nekim slučajevima, istraživanja u teorijskoj fizici se zasnivaju isključivo na matematičkim argumentima, ne uzimajući u obzir eksperimente i posmatranja.
Poznati teorijski fizičari uključuju:
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
- Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695)
- Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
- Leonhard Euler (1707–1783)
- Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813)
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)
- Joseph Fourier (1768–1830)
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1842)
- William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865)
- Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888)
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
- J. Willard Gibbs (1839–1903)
- Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906)
- Hendrik A. Lorentz (1853–1928)
- Henri Poincaré (1854–1912)
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943)
- Max Planck (1858–1947)
- Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
- Milutin Milanković (1879–1958)
- Emmy Noether (1882–1935)
- Max Born (1882–1970)
- Niels Bohr (1885–1962)
- Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961)
- Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)
- Satyendra Nath Bose (1894–1974)
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)
- Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)
- Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)
- Paul Dirac (1902–1984)
- Eugene Wigner (1902–1995)
- Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967)
- Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (1906–1979)
- Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981)
- John Bardeen (1908–1991)
- Lev Landau (1908–1967)
- Anatoly Vlasov (1908–1975)
- Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909–1992)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)
- Richard Feynman (1918–1988)
- Julian Schwinger (1918–1994)
- Feza Gursey (1921–1992)
- Chen Ning Yang (1922– )
- Freeman Dyson (1923– )
- Gunnar Källén (1926–1968)
- Abdus Salam (1926–1996)
- Murray Gell-Mann (1929– )
- Riazuddin (1930– )
- Roger Penrose (1931– )
- George Sudarshan (1931– )
- Sheldon Glashow (1932– )
- Tom W. B. Kibble (1932– )
- Steven Weinberg (1933– )
- Gerald Guralnik (1936–)
- Sidney Coleman (1937–2007)
- C. R. Hagen (1937–)
- Ratko Janev (1939– )
- Leonard Susskind (1940– )
- Michael Berry (1941– )
- Bertrand Halperin (1941–)
- Stephen Hawking (1942–2018 )
- Alexander Polyakov (1945–)
- Gerardus 't Hooft (1946– )
- Jacob Bekenstein (1947–)
- Robert Laughlin (1950–)
- Edward Witten (1951– )
- Savas Dimopoulos (1952– )
- Lee Smolin (1955– )
- Brian Greene (1963– )