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Denotes Nobel Prize Winners • Updated September 2011

• Yakir Aharonov
  Professor, Department of Physics, Computational Science and Engineering, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA; also, Emeritus Professor, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, and University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA (joint appointment)
• Alain Aspect
  CNRS Distinguished Scientist and Head of the Atom Optics Group, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau France
• Charles L. Bennett
  Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
• Sir Michael V. Berry
  FRS, Melville Wills Professor of Physics Emeritus, Department of Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
• John F. Clauser
  Research Physicist, J.F. Clauser & Associates, Walnut Creek, CA USA
• Emmanuel Desurvire
  Director, Thales Physics Research Group, Palaiseau, France, since early 2007
• Thomas W. Ebbesen
  Professor, University of Strasbourg, and Director, ISIS (Institute of Science and Supramolecular Engineering), Strasbourg, France
• Albert Fert (2007)
  Professor of Physics, University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France isi.highlycited.com
• Andre K. Geim (2010)
  FRS, Langworthy Research Professor, Chair of Condensed Matter Physics, and Director of Manchester Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• Michael B. Green, FRS
  John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Theoretical Physics, Theoretical High Energy Particle Physics Group, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• David J. Gross (2004)
  University of California, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
• Peter Gruenberg (2007)
  Professor, Institute of Solid-State Physics, Julich Research Center, Julich, Germany
• Alan H. Guth
  Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Juan Ignacio Cirac
  Director of Theory Division, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
• Sumio Iijima
  Professor, Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan; Research Fellow, NEC Corporation, Ibaraki, Japan.
• Sajeev John
  University Professor of Physics and Canada Research Chair, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada
• Andrei Linde
  Professor of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
• Arthur B. McDonald
  Director, Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute; Gordon and Patricia Gray Chair in Particle Astrophysics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• Shuji Nakamura
  Professor, Materials Department, Director of the Center for Solid State Lighting and Displays, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.
• Masataka Nakazawa
  Professor, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
• Kostya Novoselov (2010)
  Royal Society Research Fellow, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
• Hideo Ohno
  Professor of the Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, and Director of the Center for Spintronics Integrated Systems, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan
• Lyman A. Page
  Henry DeWolf Smyth Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
• David N. Payne, FRS
  Professor and Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
• Sir John B. Pendry
  FRS, Professor of Theoretical Solid State Physics and Head of the Condensed Matter Theory Group, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK
• Sir Roger Penrose
  O.M., F.R.S., Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Saul Perlmutter (2011)
  Professor, Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA, and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA
• Lord Rees of Ludlow (Martin J. Rees, F.R.S.)
  Astronomer Royal; Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge
• Adam G. Riess (2011)
  Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA, and Senior Member, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD USA
• Vera C. Rubin
  Senior Fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, D.C. USA
• Brian P. Schmidt (2011)
  Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia
• Sheldon Schultz
  Research Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
• John H. Schwarz
  Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
• David R. Smith
  William Bevan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engieering and Director of the Center for Metamaterial and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
• David N. Spergel
  Charles Young Professor on the Class of 1897 Foundation and Chair, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA
• Paul J. Steinhardt
  Albert Einstein Professor of Science, Departments of Physics and of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ, USA.
• Yoshinori Tokura
  Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• † Yoji Totsuka
  Former Director-General, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK); Special University Professor, Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• Frank A. Wilczek (2004)
  Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
• Edward Witten
  Charles Simonyi Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.
• Eli Yablonovitch
  Professor and James and Katherine Lau Chair in Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
• Anton Zeilinger
  Full Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna, and Scientific Director, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Austria
• Peter Zoller
  Professor of Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, and Scientific Director, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria

† Deceased

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