March 23 - Wernher von Braun (died 1977), German-born physicist and engineer.

Klaus Hepp (born 11 December 1936) is a German-born Swiss theoretical physicist working mainly in quantum field theory.

June 16 - Wernher von Braun (b. 1912), German-born American physicist and engineer.

Klaus was a German-born British physicist who was sent to America to work on the atomic project where he became one of the lead scientists.

May 21 - James Franck, German-born physicist (born 1882)

December 18 - Max Jammer (born 1915), German-born Israeli physicist.

March 20 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist (b. 1911)

The German-born British physicist Klaus Fuchs, who took part in the Manhattan Project, was deputy director until 1974.

April 5 - Frederick Lindemann, German-born British physicist (died 1957)

Ernst Wolfgang Hamburger is a German-born Brazilian physicist and popularizer of science.