| Jörg B Götte | Quantum Optics, Molecular Optics, Singular Optics | | | | |
| Samantha Paterson | Physics, MRI, pre-clinical MRI, Sleeping Sickness | Neuroscience and Psychology | 2015 | 2019 | Jean Rodgers (grad student), William Matthew Holmes (grad student), Mhairi Macrae (grad student) |
| Jean Rodgers | | | | | |
| Mhairi Macrae | | | | | |
| Richard Ernest Azuma | Nuclear Physics | | | 1960 | Gething Morgan Lewis (grad student) |
| William Gemmell Cochran | | | | | John Wishart (grad student) |
| robert leon stamps | magnetism, condensed matter | | | | |
| Robert Simson | | | | 1711 | James Jurin (grad student) |
| Colin Maclaurin | | | | 1712 | Robert Simson (research assistant) |
| Christina A Burge | | Astronomy | 2009 | 2012 | Alexander L. MacKinnon (grad student) |
| Sean F. Johnston | optical physics; spectroscopy; instrumentation; history and philosophy of science; historical sociology of science and technology; ethics | | | | |
| Alexander Donnachie | | | | 1962 | John Currie Gunn (grad student) |
| Aikitsu Tanakadate | | | 1888 | 1890 | William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) (research assistant) |
| William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) | | | | | |
| Marian Smoluchowski | | | 1896 | 1897 | William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) (research scientist) |
| Simon Peter Mekhail | | | | | |
| John G Rutherglen | | | | 1951 | Philip Ivor Dee (grad student) |
| James King Walker | | | | 1960 | John G Rutherglen (grad student), Philip Ivor Dee (grad student) |
| James William Howarth | Particle physics | | | | |
| John Lamb | | | | | |
| Edward Taylor Jones | electromagnetism | | | | |
| Kiran Ramesh | Aerospace Engineering, Fluid dynamics, Aerodynamics | | | | |
| Harold Albert Wilson | Physics | | | | |
| Alexander Stuart Russell | Radioactivity | | | 1913 | Frederick Soddy (post-doc) |
| William A. Little | superconductivity of organic, metal-organic, and high temperature ceramic superconductors | | | 1957 | Samuel Crowe Curran (grad student) |
| Samuel Crowe Curran | nuclear physics | | | 1937 | Edward Taylor Jones (grad student) |
| John Betteley Birks | | | | 1949 | Philip Ivor Dee (grad student) |
| Stephen M. Barnett | | | | | |
| Filippo M. Miatto | Physics | | 2009 | 2012 | Stephen M. Barnett (grad student) |
| Bruno Touschek | High Energy Physics | | | 1949 | John Currie Gunn (grad student) |
| Ronald W.P. Drever | gravitational wave detectors based on optical interferometry | | | 1958 | Samuel Crowe Curran (grad student) |
| David W. G. S. Leith | | | | 1962 | Gething Morgan Lewis (grad student) |
| Derek Lindsay Pursey | | | | 1953 | John Currie Gunn (grad student) |
| William Matthew Holmes | Mri, nmr | | | | |
| James Hunter Whitelaw | | | | 1961 | Charles D. Weir (grad student) |
| Douglas R.O. Morrison | | | | 1957 | Philip Ivor Dee (grad student) |
| John Currie Gunn | Theoretical physics | | | | |
| Gething Morgan Lewis | Nuclear & Fundamental Particle Physics | | | 1953 | Philip Ivor Dee (grad student) |
| Alexander L. MacKinnon | | Astronomy | | | John C. Brown (grad student) |
| Aleksandra (Sasha) Radjenovic | MRI | | | | |
| Radostin Dimov Simitev | | | | | |
| Muhamad Hifzhudin Noor | | Mathematics and Statistics | 2016 | 2020 | Radostin Dimov Simitev (grad student) |
| Luis Silva | | Mathematics and Statistics | 2013 | 2015 | Radostin Dimov Simitev (post-doc) |
| James F Mather | | Mathematics and Statistics | 2018 | 2018 | Radostin Dimov Simitev (post-doc) |
| James J Quinn | | Mathematics and Statistics | 2016 | 2021 | Radostin Dimov Simitev (grad student) |
| Ameneh Asgari-Targhi | | | | | |
| Peter Bliss Mortensen | | Mathematics and Statistics | 2016 | 2021 | Radostin Dimov Simitev (grad student) |
| Charles D. Weir | | | | | |
| Angela Busse | | | | 2009 | Wolf-Christian Müller (grad student) |
| Ethan Simpson | | Particle Physics | 2019 | 2023 | James William Howarth (grad student) |
| Chris M. Bouchard | High Energy, lattice QCD, Nucleon physics | | | | |
| Paul McKenna | | | | | |
| Dan Protopopescu | Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics | | | | |
| Philip Ivor Dee | | | | | |
| Bipasha Chakraborty | Lattice QCD | Physics & Astronomy | 2012 | 2014 | Christine Davies (grad student) |
| Christine Davies | | | | | |
| Louise Desplat | | School of Physics and Astronomy School of Physics and Astronomy | 2015 | 2019 | Joo-Von Kim (grad student), robert leon stamps (grad student) |