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Lorenzo A. Richards
Lorenzo A. Richards (Lorenzo Adolph Richards, 1904–1993) was an American soil physicist with the USDA who formulated the Richards equation and built practical instruments for measuring soil water.
Lorenzo Sironi
Lorenzo Sironi is an astrophysicist at Columbia University who studies the plasma physics of black holes and neutron stars through simulations, and received the 2025 PECASE award.
Lou-Chuang Lee (李罗权)
Lou-Chuang Lee (李罗权, born 1947) is a Taiwanese space plasma physicist known for his theory of magnetic reconnection at Earth's magnetopause and for leading Taiwan's national space program.
Louis de Broglie
Louis-Victor de Broglie, 7th duc de Broglie, was a French theoretical physicist whose 1924 thesis proposed matter waves, confirmed in 1927 and earning the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Louis G. Henyey
Louis G. Henyey (1910–1970) was an American astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, known for the Henyey–Greenstein scattering function and his 1959 method for automatic computation of stellar evolution.
Louis Georges Gouy
Louis Georges Gouy (1854–1926) was a French physicist, professor at Lyon, known for the Gouy balance, the Gouy phase, and the Gouy–Chapman electric double layer.
Louis Harold Gray
Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965) was a British physicist and radiobiologist who formulated the Bragg-Gray principle for measuring radiation dose; the SI unit, the gray, honors him.
Louis Leprince-Ringuet
Louis Leprince-Ringuet (1901–2000) was a French physicist and essayist who led major cosmic-ray laboratories, coined "hyperon", and belonged to both the Académie des sciences and the Académie française.
Louis M Pecora
Louis M Pecora is an American physicist who, with Thomas Carroll, discovered a method for synchronizing chaotic systems in 1990 and was named a Clarivate Citation Laureate in 2020.
Louis Néel
Louis Eugène Félix Néel was a French physicist at Grenoble who described antiferromagnetism in 1932 and ferrimagnetism in 1947, winning the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Louis Paul Cailletet
Louis Paul Cailletet (1832–1913) was a French physicist and ironmaster's son who in 1877 first liquefied oxygen by sudden expansion, origin of the refrigeration and cryogenics industries.
Louis Slotin
Louis Alexander Slotin (1910–1946) was a Canadian physicist at Los Alamos who assembled the first atomic bomb's core and died nine days after a criticality accident in 1946.
Louis Taillefer
Louis Taillefer (born 1959) is a Canadian experimental condensed-matter physicist known for work on unconventional superconductors, and a professor at the Université de Sherbrooke until 2025.
Louis Winslow Austin
Louis Winslow Austin (1867–1932) was an American physicist who researched long-range radio transmission and, with Louis Cohen, derived the Austin–Cohen formula, heading a Navy radio laboratory at the National Bureau of Standards from 1908.
Lu Jeu Sham
Lu Jeu Sham is a Hong Kong-born condensed matter theorist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC San Diego, and one of the three founders of density functional theory, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
Luc Berger
Luc Berger, born 1933 in Morges, Switzerland, is a Swiss condensed matter physicist and emeritus Carnegie Mellon professor known for theories of current-induced magnetic torques.
Lucian M. Walkowicz
Lucian M. Walkowicz is an astronomer and educator known for research on stellar flares, leadership in the LSST survey, and work on the ethics of space exploration.
Luciano Maiani
Luciano Maiani (born 1941) is an Italian theoretical particle physicist, the M in the GIM mechanism that predicted the charm quark, and CERN Director-General from 1999 to 2003.
Luciano Rezzolla
Luciano Rezzolla is an Italian relativistic astrophysicist who has held the chair of theoretical astrophysics at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2013, studying black holes and neutron stars.
Lucio Mayer
Lucio Mayer is an Italian-born computational astrophysicist at the University of Zurich, known for proposing a merger-driven direct-collapse mechanism for supermassive black hole formation in a 2010 Nature paper.
Ludovic Berthier
Ludovic Berthier is a French CNRS physicist, since 2024 at ESPCI Paris, known for work on the glass transition, dynamic heterogeneities, and the 2017 swap Monte Carlo algorithm.
Ludvig Edman
Ludvig Edman is a Swedish professor of physics at Umeå University, known for his research on light-emitting electrochemical cells and for co-founding the company LunaLEC.
Ludvig Faddeev
Ludvig Faddeev (Людвиг Фаддеев, 1934–2017) was a Soviet and Russian mathematical physicist known for the Faddeev equations, the Faddeev–Popov method, and the quantum inverse scattering method.
Ludwig Biermann
Ludwig Biermann (1907–1986) was a German theoretical astrophysicist who inferred the solar wind from comet tails in 1951 and originated the Biermann battery mechanism for cosmic magnetic fields.
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist, born in Vienna in 1844, who founded statistical mechanics, derived the Boltzmann equation, and gave entropy a probabilistic interpretation.
Luis F. Rodríguez
Luis F. Rodríguez, also known as Luis Felipe Rodríguez, is a Mexican radio astronomer at UNAM who discovered the first microquasars in the Milky Way.
Luis Walter Alvarez
Luis Walter Alvarez (Luis Alvarez) was an American experimental physicist at Berkeley who won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics for the hydrogen bubble chamber.
Lukas Novotny
Lukas Novotny (Lukáš Novotný), born 1966 in Czechoslovakia, is a Czech-born physicist, Professor of Photonics at ETH Zurich, known for near-field microscopy, optical antennas, and nanoparticle levitation.
Luqiao Liu
Luqiao Liu is a physicist and associate professor of electrical engineering at MIT who works on spintronics, known for a 2012 Science paper on the giant spin Hall effect of tantalum.
Lydéric Bocquet
Lydéric Bocquet (born 1968) is a French physicist who studies nanofluidics, water and ion flow in nanometer channels, and holds a chair at the Collège de France.