Wolf Prize in Physics laureates

Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world.

British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)

English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher

Russian physicist (1916–2009)

Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)

Italian-American astrophysicist (1931-2018)

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics

American mathematician and physicist

Dutch theoretical physicist

Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)

American scientist (1927–2014)

Belgian theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)

Israeli scientist

American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)

British physicist (1938–2026)

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

Nobel prize winning US physicist

British physicist (1934–2019)

American astronomer

Swiss astronomer

French physicist

American scientist (1914-2006)

French physicist

Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997) (death at 85 years)

American physicist (1911-2008)

Austrian quantum physicist (born 1945)

French physicist

American physicist

Italian physicist (1948-)

Austrian-Hungarian laser physicist and university teacher (born 1962)

Austrian American theoretical physicist (1908–2002)

British cosmologist and astrophysicist (1942-)

Mexican-Israeli physicist

American physicist/Inventor of first working laser

Dutch physicist (1900–1988)

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American mathematical physicist (1944–2019)

Italian experimental physicist (1905–1993)

Israeli physicist

American physicist (1928-2011)

American physicist (1911-2011)

American physicist (1937–2015)

British physicist

American physicist (1922–2006)

Italian physicist (1907-1993), who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay

English physicist, chemist and mathematician (1931–2021)

American mathematician and physicist

American physicist, information theorist and IBM Research fellow

Spanish theoretical physicist

Austrian theoretical physicist (1952-)

British metallurgist

American physicist (1932–2025)

Canadian computer scientist

American physicist (1934–2024)

Israeli physicist (1939-2018)

Canadian physicist

American physicist (1921–2016)

American physicist (1914–2009)