* 1949 – Horst Ludwig Störmer, German physicist, Nobel laureate

* 1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1968 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1908 )

* 1945 – Douglas Osheroff, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1901 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* 1902 – Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1984 )

* 1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

* 1845 – Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1921 )

* 1887 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1961 )

* 1924 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1928 – Herbert Kroemer, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1974 – Konstantin Novoselov, Russian-English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1971 )

* 1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1997 )

* 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1850 )

Aage Niels Bohr (; 19 June 1922 – 9 September 2009 ) was a Danish nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate, and the son of the famous physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr.

* 1913 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1993 )

* 1882 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1961 )

* 1965 – Sir Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1892 )

* 1900 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* 1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1879 )

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (; May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989 ) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist.

* May 21 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist and human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( declined ) ( died 1989 )

** Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( declined ) ( b. 1921 )

Despite its promise of nuclear safety, SDI was described by many of its critics ( including Soviet nuclear physicist and later peace activist Andrei Sakharov ) as being even more dangerous than MAD because of these political implications.

In December 1981, Guth read a paper from Moscow physicist Andrei Linde saying that the whole universe is within just one bubble, so nothing is destroyed by wall collisions.

Among other famous vacationers of Sillamäggi were poet Konstantin Balmont ( 1905 ), painter Albert Benois ( 1898 and 1899 ), physicist Paul Ehrenfest ( 1908 – 1912 ), botanist Andrei Famintsyn ( 1890s ), historian Mikhail Gershenzon ( 1911 – 1914 ), inventor Boris Rosing ( 1902 – 1911 ), composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( 1868 ).

The bubble universe model by physicist Andrei Linde postulates that our Universe is one of many that grew from a multiverse consisting of vacuum that had not yet decayed to its ground state.

* December 14 – Andrei Sakharov ( born 1921 ), nuclear physicist.

Among them were Boris Yeltsin, physicist Andrei Sakharov, and lawyer Anatoly Sobchak.

Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde (; born March 2, 1948 ) is a Russian-American theoretical physicist, the Harald Trap Friis Professor of Physics at Stanford University.

In 1971, renowned Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov supported a protest of two political prisoners, V. Fainberg and V. Borisov, who announced a hunger strike against " compulsory therapeutic treatment with medications injurious to mental activity " in a Leningrad psychiatric institution.

* Andrei Sakharov ( 1921 – 1989 ), Soviet physicist and dissident

Yelena Bonner (; 15 February 1923 – 18 June 2011 ) was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the noted physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov.

In October 1970, while attending the trial of human rights activists Revol't ( Ivanovich ) Pimenov and Boris Vail in Kaluga, Bonner met Andrei Sakharov, a nuclear physicist and human rights activist.

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* Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov — an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975.

* Soviet nuclear physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov was announced as the recipient of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, but was not allowed to travel to Oslo to accept it.

Notable among these was the eminent physicist, Andrei Sakharov.

* Andrei Linde, a Russian physicist

By 1973, Turchin had founded the Moscow chapter of Amnesty International with Andrey Tverdokhlebov and was working closely with the well-known physicist and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov.