| GABOR | Dennis -, 1971 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of holography (5) |
| LOUIS | Joint recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetism (5,4) |
| UNSER | Al, 1970 and 1971 winner of the Indianapolis 500 motor race (5) |
| TDLEE | Which Chinese-born US theoretical physicist, with Yang, won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their wor |
| ASTRO | Prefix with physics for the study of celestial objects |
| XRAY | Wilhelm Roentgen received a Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of ... radiation (1-3) |
| MAXBORN | German winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum mechanics (3,4) |
| NEEL | Joint recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetism (5,4) |
| HEWISH | Radio astronomer awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the discovery of pulsars (6) |
| GROUP | Bunch of geeks read over university physics for beginners (5) |
| PLANCK | Recipient of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on quantum theory (6) |
| RONTGEN | Scientist awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics for discovery of x-rays (7) |
| PENROSE | Roger -; co-recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on black holes (7) |
| DRAG | Term in physics for the retarding force exerted by air or fluid surrounding a moving object (4) |
| ARTHURASHKIN | American scientist who won one half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on optical tweezers: 2 wds. |
| LASER | Holography tool |
| TAMM | Igor, Russian physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering Cherenkov radiation |
| FERMI | 1938 Physics for publication Nobelist Enrico |
| DENNISGABOR | Hungarian-born British physicist and Nobel Laureate (1971) who invented the science of holography (6,5) |
| ECCLES | Greater Manchester town known for the invention, in 1793, of a pastry filled with dried fruit (6) |
