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| 1979 | Sakharov | Named in honor of Academician Andrej Dmitrievich Sakharov, distinguished physicist and mathematician |
| 2001 | Einstein | Named in memory of Albert Einstein (1879–1955), the greatest scientist of the twentieth century. Alt |
| 2002 | Euler | Named for the great Swiss-born mathematician and astronomer Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), who spent mu |
| 3905 | Doppler | Named in memory of the Austrian physicist Christian Doppler (1803-1853), professor of mathematics an |
| 3949 | Mach | Named in memory of Ernst Mach (1838-1916), professor of physics at the universities of Graz and Prag |
| 4065 | Meinel | Named in honor of U.S. astronomer Aden Meinel, originator of new techniques and facilities, includin |
| 4716 | Urey | Winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of deuterium, Harold Urey (1893-1981) |
| 5668 | Foucault | Named in memory of Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819–1868), French physicist and astronomer, well kno |
| 7495 | Feynman | Named in memory of Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988), outstanding theoretical physicist, 1965 Nobel pri |
| 7672 | Hawking | Named in honor of Stephen Hawking (b. 1942), theoretical physicist, professor of mathematics at Camb |
| 8000 | Isaac Newton | Named for Isaac Newton (1643-1727), hailed by some as the greatest universal genius of all time. Ne |
| 8103 | Fermi | Named in memory of the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize in |
| 13092 | Schrödinger | The Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), born in Vienna, founded wave mechanics in 1926 |
| 13149 | Heisenberg | Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) was co-founder of quantum theory, formulated the uncertainty prin |
| 37582 | Faraday | The English naturalist Michael Faraday (1791-1867) discovered the liquefaction of chlorine and the b |