Two categories, Historic and More current Nobel prize winners, are referenced:
Historic: Walther Nernst (Chemistry, 1920), Albert Einstein (Physics, 1921), Max Planck (Physics, 1918), Robert Millikan (Physics, 1923) and Max von Laue (Physics, 1914), Arthur Holly Compton (Physics, 1927), Eugene Wigner (1963), Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson (1978)
- Barry Barish, 2018
- David J. Gross, 2004
- Gerardus ‘t Hooft, 1999
- John C. Mather, 2006
- James Peebles, 2019
- H. David Politzer, 2004
- Robert B. Laughlin, 1998
- Barack Obama, 2009
- Dan Shechtman, 2011
- Donna Strickland, 2018
- Kip Thorne, 2017
- Steven Weinberg, 1979
- Rainer Weiss, 2017
- Frank Wilczek, 2004
- Ada E. Yonath, 2009
Looking further into the work of: