Scientists beginning with "W"
- Wagner, Carl Wilhelm — (25.05.1901 -10.12.1977) — German physicist and physical chemist, a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.
- Waller, Ivar — (born 11.06.1898) - Swedish theoretical physicist, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
- Walter, Alexander Filippovich — (20.05.1898 —1941) — Soviet physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1933).
- Walter, Anton Karlovich — (24.12.1905—13.08.1965) — Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1951).
- Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton — (born 6.10.1903) is an Irish physicist and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
- Wannier, Gregory Hugh — (born 30.12.1911) is a theoretical physicist.
- Warburg, Emil Gabriel — (9.03.1846 - 28.07.1931) was a German physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1895).
- Wataghin, Gleb (Gleb Vasilyevich Vatagin) — Wataghin (Gleb Vasilyevich Vatagin) (born 3.11.1899) is an Italian theoretical physicist and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1960).
- Watson, Kenneth Marshall — (born 7.09.1921) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974).
- Watt, James — (19.01. 1736-19.08.1819) —a Scottish inventor, the creator of the universal steam engine, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1784).
- Weber, Joseph — (born 17.05.1919) is an American physicist.
- Weber, Wilhelm Eduard — (24.10.1804-23.06.1891) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1834).
- Weinberg, Alvin Martin — (born 20.04.1915) — American physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1961).
- Weinberg, Steven — (born 3.05.1933) - American theoretical physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1972).
- Weiss, Pierre Ernest — (25.03.1865-24.10.1940) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1926).
- Weisskopf, Victor Frederick — (born 19.09.1908) — American theoretical physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1952).
- Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von — (born 28.06.1912) is a German theoretical physicist and astrophysicist and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.
- Wentzel, Gregor — (17.02.1898-12.08.1978) was a theoretical physicist.
- Weyl, Hermann — (9.11.1885-8.12.1955) was a German mathematician.
- Wheatstone, Charles — (6.02.1802-19.10.1875)-an English physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society.
- Wheeler, John Archibald — (born 9.07.1911)-an American theoretical physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences (1952).
- Wick, Gian-Carlo — (born 15.X 1909) is an Italian theoretical physicist.
- Widerøe, Rolf — (born 11.07.1902) is a Norwegian physicist and engineer and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1973).
- Wiechert, Emil — (26.12.1861-19.03.1928) was a German physicist and geophysicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1911).
- Wiedemann, Gustav Heinrich — (2.10.1826-23.02.1899) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1879).
- Wien, Max Karl — (25.12.1866-24.02.1938) was a German physicist.
- Wien, Wilhelm — (13.01.1864-30.08.1928) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.
- Wiener, Otto Heinrich — (15.06.1862-18.1.1927) was a German physicist.
- Wightman, Arthur Strong — (born 30.03.1922) - American theoretical physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Wigner, Eugene Paul — (born 17.09.1902) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1945).
- Wilcke, Johan Carl — (6.09.1732-18.04.1796) was a Swedish physicist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, from 1784 its permanent secretary.
- Wilkinson, Denys Haigh — (born 5.09.1922) — an English physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society (1956).
- Wilson, Alan Herries — (born 2.07.1906) is an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1942).
- Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees — (14.02.1869 — 15.11.1959) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1900).
- Wilson, Robert Rathbun — (born 4.03.1914) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1957).
- Wilson, Robert Woodrow — (born 10.1.1936) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1979).
- Winkler, Johann Heinrich — (12.03.1703-18.05.1770) was a German physicist.
- Wolfke, Mieczysław — (29.05.1883-3.05.1947) was a Polish physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1932).
- Wollaston, William Hyde — (6.08.1766 —22.12.1828) was an English scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1793).
- Wood, Robert Williams — (2.05.1868-11.08.1955) was an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1912).
- Wooster, William Alfred — (born 18.08.1903) is an English physicist.
- Wróblewski, Zygmunt Florenty — (28.10.1845—16.04.1888) was a Polish physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1880).
- Wu, Chien-Shiung — (born 31.05.1913) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1958).
- Wulff, Georgy (Yuri) Viktorovich — (22.06.1863 — 25.12.1925) was a Soviet crystallographer and crystal physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1921).