List: Notable electrical-engineers-turned-physicists

• Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac: Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from University of Bristol. Shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in physics for his reformulation of quantum mechanics.
  
• Edward Mills Purcell: Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in physics for discovering nuclear magnetic resonance in condensed matter.
  
• John Bardeen: Bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from University of Wisconsin. Shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for the invention of the transistor. Shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in physics for developing a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity (Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory).