Famous Physicists from United States

Chu, Steven (St. Louis)

Secretary of Energy under Barack Obama
Feynman, Richard (New York City)

The Nobel-winning author of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Lawrence, Ernest O. (Canton)

Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the cyclotron
Richter, Charles F. (Overpeck)

The seismologist who created the earthquake scale
Van Allen, James (Mount Pleasant)

Cosmic ray expert who found the Van Allen radiation belts