| THOMSON | Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered the electron in 1897 (7) |
| MAXBORN | Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was grandfather to Olivia Newton-John (3,4) |
| GELLMANN | Nobel Prize-winning physicist who proposed the concept of strangeness in quarks and contributed towards the classification of elementary particles (4-4) |
| ALVAREZ | Nobel Prize-winning physicist noted for his discovery of the iridium layer and his theory that the m |
| CROOKES | William ___, English chemist and physicist who discovered the element thallium in 1861 (7) |
| OERSTED | Danish physicist who discovered the magnetic effect of an electric current (7) |
| GILBERT | Physicist who discovered how to make magnets and coined the new Latin word "electricus" (7) |
| FARADAY | English physicist who discovered electromagnetic induction (7,7) |
| MICHAEL | English physicist who discovered electromagnetic induction (7,7) |
| POLARON | A conducting electron in an ionic crystal |
| RONTGEN | Wilhelm -; German physicist who discovered X-rays (7) |
| CHAMBERLAIN | Owen ___, US physicist who discovered the antiproton with E. G. Segre in 1955, and with him shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics (11) |
| CURIE | Marie -; Nobel Prize-winning physicist depicted by Rosamund Pike in the biopic Radioactive (5) |
| AGA | Stored-heat cooker invented in 1922 by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
| ERNEST | First name of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Rutherford (6) |
| DIRAC | Nobel Prize-winning physicist and co-founder of quantum mechanics whose discoveries have been described as "exquisitely carved marble statues falling out of the sky" (5) |
| ESAKI | English short film about a Nobel prize-winning physicist (5) |
| QED | 2001 Peter Parnell stage play about Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (1,1,1) |
| PAULI | Wolfgang ___ (Nobel prize-winning physicist) |
| BOHR | Danish, Nobel Prize-winning physicist |
