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Herbert L. Anderson, nuclear physicist •
James Cronin, Nobel laureate in physics •
Enrico Fermi, Nobel laureate in physics •
Riazuddin, nuclear physicist •
Robert Geroch, general relativist •
James Hartle, general relativist •
Craig Hogan, astronomer •
Faheem Hussain, string theorist •
Leo Kadanoff, condensed matter physicist •
Edward Kolb, cosmologist •
Willard Libby, chemist •
Emil Martinec, string theorist •
Joseph E. Mayer, chemist •
Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobel laureate in physics •
Yoichiro Nambu, Nobel laureate in physics •
Marcel Schein, cosmic ray physicist •
Eugene Parker, solar and plasma physicist •
John Alexander Simpson, nuclear and cosmic ray physicist •
Edward Teller, nuclear physicist, father of the hydrogen bomb •
Michael Turner, cosmologist •
Harold C. Urey, Nobel laureate in chemistry •
Carlos E.M. Wagner, particle phenomenologist •
Robert M. Wald, general relativist •
Gregor Wentzel, quantum physicist ==See also==