List of second-generation physicists

The following is a list of parent-child pairs who were both notable for their contribution in physics. The list is in alphabetical order by the father's last name.

Four parent-child pairs have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics: J. J. and George Paget Thomson (1906, 1937), William H. and Lawrence Bragg (1915), Niels and Aage Bohr (1922,1975), Manne and Kai Siegbahn (1924,1981).^[1]^[2] Marie and Pierre Curie won together the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, Marie also won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and their daughter Irène and her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie won together the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.^[1]

List

Parent	Notable for	Child	Notable for
John Bardeen	BCS theory Transistor	William A. Bardeen	Top quark condensate
Antoine César Becquerel	Photovoltaics	Edmond Becquerel	Thermionic emission Photovoltaics
Edmond Becquerel	Thermionic emission Photovoltaics	Henri Becquerel	Radioactivity
Henri Becquerel	Radioactivity	Jean Becquerel
Jan Beenakker	Senftleben–Beenakker effect	Carlo Beenakker
Johann Bernoulli	Catenary brachistochrone curve	Daniel Bernoulli	Bernoulli's principle
Marcel Brillouin		Léon Brillouin	Brillouin zone WKB approximation
Niels Bohr	Bohr model Complementarity Correspondence principle	Aage Bohr	Liquid drop model
Claude Bouchiat		Vincent Bouchiat
Marie-Anne Bouchiat		Hélène Bouchiat
William Henry Bragg	Bragg's law	Lawrence Bragg	Bragg's law
Blas Cabrera		Nicolás Cabrera	BCF theory for crystal growth
Nicolás Cabrera	BCF theory	Blas Cabrera Navarro
Lord Charles Cavendish		Henry Cavendish	Measuring the gravitational constant
Marie Curie	Radioactivity	Irène Joliot-Curie	Induced radioactivity
Pierre Curie	Curie's law Radioactivity	Irène Joliot-Curie	Induced radioactivity
Irène Joliot-Curie	Induced radioactivity	Hélène Langevin-Joliot
Frédéric Joliot-Curie	Induced radioactivity	Hélène Langevin-Joliot
George Darwin	Darwin symbols	Charles Galton Darwin	Darwin drift Darwin term
Sidney Drell	Drell–Yan process	Persis Drell
Paul Erman		Georg Adolf Erman
Werner Heisenberg	Uncertainty principle Matrix mechanics	Jochen Heisenberg
John J. Hopfield	Hopfield bands in oxygen	John Hopfield	Hopfield network Hopfield dielectric
Robert Karplus		Beverly Karplus Hartline
Hendrik Lorentz	Lorentz transformation Lorentz ether theory	Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz	Brownian noise
Ernst Mach	Mach number	Ludwig Mach	Mach–Zehnder interferometer
Franz Ernst Neumann	Neumann's law Magnetic vector potential	Carl Neumann	Neumann boundary condition
Jean Baptiste Perrin	Confirming Brownian motion Avogadro constant	Francis Perrin
Robert Wichard Pohl	F-centers	Robert Otto Pohl	3ω-method
Karl Schwarzschild	Schwarzschild metric	Martin Schwarzschild	Schwarzschild criterion
Manne Siegbahn	Siegbahn notation	Kai Siegbahn	Photoemission spectroscopy
Hans Thirring		Walter Thirring	Thirring model
J. J. Thomson	Discovery of the electron	George Paget Thomson	Electron diffraction
Harold Urey	Discovery of deuterium	Elizabeth Baranger
Louis Witten	Electrovacuum solution	Edward Witten	M-theory
Gregor Wentzel	WKB approximation	Donat Wentzel

References

^ ^a ^b Rydén, Jenny (2025-03-18). "Family matters: Meet the families with Nobel Prizes". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
^ "4 Father-Son Nobel Prize Winners In Physics". Retrieved 2025-04-04.

[:0-1] Rydén, Jenny (2025-03-18). "Family matters: Meet the families with Nobel Prizes". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2025-04-04.

[2] "4 Father-Son Nobel Prize Winners In Physics". Retrieved 2025-04-04.

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