The American Physical Society honors members with the designation Fellow for having made significant accomplishments to the field of physics.
The following list includes those fellows selected in the first 50 years of the tradition, that is, from 1921 through 1971.
1921
N. C. Krishna Aiyar Edward Bennett Alfred Heinrich Bucherer Keivin Burns Arthur Jeffrey Dempster Paul S. Epstein Griffith Conrad Evans Kyotoku Fuji Frank W. Ham Victor Hess Joel Henry Hildebrand George Wilber Moffitt F. H. Norton A. H. Patterson John K. Robertson Joseph Valasek
1922
William T. Bovie Walter F. Colby Charles Galton Darwin C. J. Davisson C. O. Fairchild R. L. Hartley Thomas C. Hebb Raymond Heising Mayo Dyer Hersey Clarence Wilson Hewlett Paul A. Heymans G. E. M. Jauncey Leonard B. Loeb Otto Maass G. M. J. Mackey F. W. Peek Worth Huff Rodebush R. B. Sosman Leonard Thompson Troland
1923
James Percy Ault Edgar C. Bain Robert H. Baker C. C. Bidwell G. Breit Vannevar Bush E. A. Eckhardt G. Faccioli John S. Foster Thornton C. Fry I. C. Gardner George E. Gibson Oliver Holmes Gish Franklin L. Hunt Loyd A. Jones David A Keys
John P. Minton Francis D. Murnaghan Chauncey G. Peters Alexander D. Ross R. A. Sawyer Wilmer Souder A. Q. Tool Milton S. Van Dusen
1924
Samuel Etienne Bieler Albert Bjorkeson I. S. Bowen Walter L. Cheney K. K. Darrow L. A. Hazeltine William Stubbs James J. H. Van Vleck Alan Tower Waterman
1925
Ernest F. Barker William Bowie P. Debye J. A. Eldridge Kanji Honda A. Hund C. B. Joliffe K. H. Kingdon Otto Laporte Charles F. Meyer Robert S. Mulliken H. Nagaoka H. H. Plaskett Charles Sheard H. D. Smyth John Q. Stewart
1926
Hugh L. Dryden Carl H. Eckhart Frederick S. Goucher Karl F. Harzfield Abraham Joffe A. S. McAllister Chester Snow Frank M. Walters Fritz Zwicky Nicolas de Kolossowsky
1927
Samuel K. Allison W. Bowie F. S. Brackett Robert B. Brode E. Buckingham Elmer Dershem O. S. Duffendack J. B. Green J. J. Hopfield H. Hotchkiss William V. Houston Fabian M. Kannenstine Frederick G. Keyes B. A. Kreider Ralph de L. Kronig Samuel C. Lind R. B. Owens J. Satterley F. E. Smith I. Stone
1928
Henry A. Barton Joseph A. Becker R. M. Bozorth F. S. Brackett John A. Carroll Harry Clark Edward Condon James M. Cork John A Eldridge Alexander Ellett Marion Eppley H. E. Farnsworth Alexander Forbes Hugo Fricke Lester H. Germer Alexander Goetz E. L. Harrington George Harrison T. R. Hogness Frank C. Hoyt Francis A. Jenkins J. C. Jensen J. B. Johnson Charles F. Kettering Arthur L. Kimball S. M. Kinter Charles A. Kraus Charles H. Kunsman Robert J. Lang Ernest O. Lawrence George A. Lindsay Adolph Lomb Alfred L. Loomis F. W. Loomis Morton Masius J. P. Maxfield W. H. McCurdy George S. Monk Jared K. Morse Robert A. Patterson W. J. Pietenpol David C. Prince Chester W. Rice
P. A. Ross Arthur E. Ruark Erwin Schrödinger Charles Sheard A. G. Shenstone John C. Slater Joseph Slepian Keith K. Smith W. W. Stifler Louis A. Turner Harold C. Urey M. S. Vallarta Hugo B. Wahlin Alan T. Waterman E. C. Watson William W. Watson R. L. Wegel Edward C. Wente Hermann Weyl Charles T. Zahn
1929
Robert d'Escourt Atkinson James A. Beattie Arthur Bramley L. F. Curtiss Joseph W. Ellis Gaylord P. Harnwell William V. Houston Joseph Kaplan C. C. Kiess Vern O. Knudsen Robert B. Lindsay Edward Mack, Jr Harry B. Maris Addams S. McAllister Carleton C. Murdock Jonas B. Nathanson J. R. Oppenheimer Thomas H. Osgood Hugh S. Taylor E. P. T. Tyndall John B. Whitehead J. W. Williams
1930
J. Frenkel Thomas H. Johnson Julian E. Mack George F. McEwen William Albert Noyes Otto Oldenberg Chester Snow Thomas Spooner J. J. Weigle Harvey E. White John G. Winans W. H. Zachariasen
1931
Fred Allison Donald H. Andrews Alice H. Armstrong Edward J. Baldes James H. Bartlett Russell S. Bartlett J. W. Beams J. A. Bearden Ralph D. Bennett F. Russell Bichowsky Francis Bitter Oswald Blackwood Walker Bleakney C. Boeckner David G. Bourgin Joseph C. Boyce Charles J. Brasefield A. Keith Brewer Ferdinand Brickwedde James B. Brinsmade W. G. Brombacher Detlev W. Bronk S. Leroy Brown Andrew B. Bryan Perry Byerly Theodore W. Case V. L. Chrisler Andrew Christy George L. Clark Kenneth S. Cole J. R. Collins Donald Cooksey Richard T. Cox William H. Crew Leo H. Dawson David M. Dennison Elmer Dershem Jane M. Dewey G. H. Dieke Lee A. DuBridge Jesse W. M. DuMond Theodore Dunham Jr. James M. Eglin Frederick E. Fowle John G. Frayne James Friauf Nadiashda Galli-Shohat William F. Giaque George Glockler Samuel Goudsmit Frank Gray Grover R. Greenslade Ross Gunn Otto Halpern William R. Ham Arthur C. Hardy Robert J. Havighurst L. Grant Hector Edward L. Hill Maurice L. Huggins Elmer Hutchinson Sydney B. Ingram Lewis V. Judson J. C. Karcher Sebastian Karrer E. Lee Kinsey Paul Kirkpatrick Dewey D. Knowles Lewis R. Koller Frank C. Kracek Victor K. LaMer Rudolf Ladenburg R. M. Langer Karl Lark-Horovitz Charles C. Lauritsen Victor F. Lenzen H. H. Lester Noel C. Little Walter A. MacNair Louis R. Maxwell Philip M. Morse L. L. Nettleton W. W. Nicholas J. Rud Nielsen Wayne B. Nottingham Christian Nusbaum Paul S. Olmstead A. R. Olpin Dimitry H. Olshevsky Lars Onsager John M. Ort Frederic Palmer Linus Pauling Leo J. Peters Shirley L. Quimby I. I. Rabi Hubert H. Race N. Rashevsky Edward P. Robertson Vladimir Rojansky Duane Roller Richard Ruedy Edward O. Salant William Schriever A. G. Shenstone Francis G. Slack William W. Sleator Sinclair Smith Ambrose H. Stang F. W. Stevens Ernest C. G. Stuckelberg John B. Taylor James D. Tear Lewi Tonks Alva Turner M. A. Tuve J. T. Tykociner George E. Uhlenbeck D. S. Villars G. R. Wait Warren Weaver Lars A. Welo T. Russell Wilkins N. H. Williams Robert C. Williamson Thomas A. Wilson Enos E. Witmer Jay W. Woodrow Winthrop R. Wright Oliver R. Wulf Ralph W. G. Wyckoff Mark Zemansky Otto J. Zobel R. V. Zumstein Vladimir Zworykin Max von Laue
1932
S. Herbert Anderson Richard M. Badger Kenneth T. Bainbridge Weldon G. Brown G. B. Kistiakowsky Cornelius Lanczos J. E. Lennard-Jones Gordon L. Locher Harold Pender Eugen P. Wigner John von Neumann
1933
Gerald M. Almy James H. Bartlett Joseph G. Brown W. Edwards Deming R. T. Dufford P. Gerald Kruger Harold M. Mott-Smith
1934
Carl D. Anderson R. M. Badger Willard H. Bennett Paul P. Cioffi Halsey A. Frederick Louis P. Granath Charles D. Hodman Reginald L. Jones Alfred Lande M. Stanley Livingston Walter C. Michels L. M. Mott-Smith Harald H. Nielsen M. L. Pool R. R. Riesz J. E. Shrader Shirleigh Silverman K. J. Sixtus Lloyd P. Smith H. F. Stimson John Strong Lauriston S. Taylor Llewellyn H. Thomas Robert J. Van de Graaff Ernst Wilhelmy
1935
Arthur J. Aheard Robert F. Bacher Robert Bowling Barnes Hans Bethe F. H. Crawford John R. Dunning Gerald W. Fox Enrique Gaviola Otto Glasser Lawrence R. Hafstad J. D. Hanawalt James D. Hardy Francis E. Haworth Malcolm C. Henderson John J. Hopfield Walter S. Huxford M. J. Kelly Roy J. Kennedy Franz N. D. Kurie Edward S. Lamar W. Wallace Lozier Edwin M. McMillan Carl W. Miller Harry R. Mimno Robert F. Paton Gerald L. Pearson Earle K. Plyler Ernest C. Pollard Raymond J. Seeger Lewis K. Silicox Clinton L. Utterback Arthur P. R. Wadlund Bertram E. Warren Hugh C. Wolfe Clarence Zener
1936
Norman I. Adams Mildred Allen William P. Allis Gladys A. Anslow H. Beutler N. Henry Black Norris E. Bradbury Eli Franklin Burton Alvin B. Cardwell M. F. Crawford Paul H. Dike C. Drummond Ellis Robley D. Evans Floyd A. Firestone Alfred B. Focke Donald D. Foster R. H. Fowler Nathaniel H. Frank Wendell H. Furry Lachlan Gilchrist H. Grayson-Smith Erich Hausmann Sterling B. Hendricks Frederick V. Hunt Dunham Jackson Hubert M. James Ernest J. Jones Hans Mueller George M. Murphy Henry Victor Neher Lothar Nordheim John L. Rose Jenny E. Rosenthal George H. Shortley L. B. Slichter Leland B. Snoddy E. C. Stevenson Donald C. Stockbarger James D. Stranathan Julius A. Stratton J. C. Street Edward Teller Robert N. Varney John P. Vinti John A. Wheeler Ernest O. Wollan E. J. Workman John C. G. Wulff
1937
Sidney Walter Barnes Preston R. Bassett Richard A. Beth Felix Bloch Emma P. Carr Carl T. Chase F. Woodbridge Constant H. Richard Crane Charles S. Fazel J. Stuart Foster George Gamow Arthur Haas R. G. Herb Gerhard Herzberg Herrick L. Johnston Edward B. Jordan P. Kapitza Harold P. Knauss Hilario Magliano R. C. Mason J. C. Mouzon Walter M. Nielsen Lyman G. Parratt Milton S. Plesset G. W. Potapenko Richard D. Present Frederick Seitz F. Simon Charles P. Smyth Harry J. White Dudley Williams Alfred Wolf
1938
W. E. Albertson J. G. Albright Alexander Allen Luis Alvarez John Bardeen E. L. Bowles William F. Brown J. Franklin Carlson R. C. Colwell Albert S. Coolidge Palmer H. Craig Daniel S. Elliott Walter B. Ellwood Maurice Ewing W. A. Fowler Walter Gordy Eugene Guth G. G. Harvey Leland J. Haworth Joseph E. Henderson Clarence N. Hickman J. Barton Hong Victor E. Lagg Willis E. Lamb John J. Linvingood Frederick B. Llewellyn John H. Manley Carol G. Montgomery D. D. Montgomery Rose C. L. Mooney A. H. Nielson A. O. C. Nier Foster C. Nix A. Nordsiek Melba Phillips J. R. Richardson Rogers D. Rusk John C. Schelleng Robert Serber Robert S. Shankland William Shockley William R. Smythe John C. Steinberg A. F. C. Stevenson R. L. Thorton J. G. Trump L. C. Van Atta Karl S. Van Dyke Ralph D. Wyckoff Jerrold Zacharias
1939
Allen V. Astin Paul L. Bayley Katharine Burr Blodgett C. Hawley Cartwright Ernest E. Charlton Jacob Clay Gioacchino Failla Franco Rasetti Enrico Fermi James B. Fisk Gorton R. Fonda Moritz Goldhaber Paul M. Gross William W. Hansen Caryl P. Haskins William P. Jesse Gleason W. Kenrich Emil J. Konopinski Sorgo A. Korff Donald H. Loughridge Millard F. Manning Karl W. Moissner Henry M. O'Bryan Arthur L. Patterson Lynn H. Rumbaugh Leonard I. Schiff Gordon Shrum Theodore E. Sterno Chauncey G. Suits Viktor F Weisskopf Milton G. White Howell J. Williams John H. Williams E. Bright Wilson Rolland M. Zabel Walter H. Zinn Stanley N. van Voorhis Arthur von Hippel
1940
Otto Beeck J. W. Buchta George B. Collins Felix Cornuschi Peter J. W. Debye Richard B. Dow Frank G. Dunnington Louis A. Gebhard Newell S. Gingrich Robert E. Holzer C. Rulon Jeppesen Elbe H. Johnson Jerome M. B. Kellogg Donald W. Kerst Harold J. Kersten Harry A. Kirkpatrick John G. Kirkwood J. K. Knipp R. S. Krishnan P. Kusch Spiro Kyropoulos Overton Luhr Sidney Millman Kenneth R. More Lyle W. Phillips Norman F. Ramsey Howard A. Robinson David Sinclair Chester M. Van Atta Clifford N. Wall Robert K. Waring Gleb Wataghin J. C. M. Whitaker Martin D. Whitaker
1941
Vernon M. Albers Herbert L. Anderson Paul A. Anderson Alfredo Banos W. H. Barkas Clarence E. Bennett L. V. Berkner Francis Birch John P. Blewett T. W. Bonner Eugene T. Booth Paul L. Copeland William E. Danforth John P. Delaney Lewis A. Delsasso Charles S. Draper Harold E. Edgerton Walter M. Elsasser Immanuel Estermann Isidor Fankuchen Eugene Feenberg Ivan A. Getting G. Norris Glasoe Roy W. Goranson Malcolm H. Hebb Albert G. Hill J. O. Hirschfelder J. Warren Horton Henry G. Houghton Maurice L. Huggins Curtis J. Humphreys David R. Inglis Ellis A. Johnson Ralph P. Johnson Martin D. Kamen Ralph B. Kennard George E. Kimball R. W. P. King Robert Burnett King Harry V. Knorr James F. Kochlor Bernhard Kurrelmeyer Lawrence M. Langer David B. Langmuir