| Galileo Galilei | Universita di Pisa | 1585 |
| Vincenzo Viviani | Universita di Pisa | 1642 |
| Isaac Barrow* | Cambridge | 1652 |
| Isaac Newton | Cambridge | 1668 |
| Roger Cotes | Cambridge | 1706 |
| Robert Smith | Cambridge | 1715 |
| Walter Taylor | Cambridge | 1723 |
| Stephen Whisson | Cambridge | 1742 |
| Thomas Postlethwaite | Cambridge | 1756 |
| Thomas Jones | Cambridge | 1782 |
| Adam Sedgwick | Cambridge | 1811 |
| William Hopkins | Cambridge | 1830 |
| George Stokes | Cambridge | 1841 |
| John Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) | Cambridge | 1868 |
| JJ Thomson | Cambridge | 1883 |
| John Townsend | Cambridge | 1903 |
| Robert Van de Graff | Oxford | 1928 |
| John Trump | MIT | 1933 |
| Louis Smullin | MIT | 1939 |
| Abraham Bers | MIT | 1959 |
| Julian Briggs | MIT | 1964 |
| YY Lau | MIT | 1973 |
*Pulleyn was his official tutor, whereas Barrow was NOT a formal advisor but probably had the greatest influence on the young Newton
| Hermann von Helmholtz | Medicinisch-chirurgisches Friedrich-Wilhelm-Institut | 1842 |
| Gabriel Lippmann | Université Paris-Sorbonne | 1875 |
| Marie Curie | Université Paris-Sorbonne | 1903 |
| Ladislas Goldstein* | Université Paris-Sorbonne | 1937 |
| Thomas Marshall | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | 1960 |
| Ronald Gilgenbach | Columbia University | 1978 |
*He began working at Marie Curie’s laboratory (the Radium Institute) in 1927 and, when Marie died in 1934, he completed his PhD under her successor