Michael Nauenberg (19 December 1934 – 22 July 2019) was an American theoretical physicist and physics historian.

When he moved to the United States in the 1950s, Nauenberg studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his doctorate in 1960 from Cornell University under Hans Bethe with a thesis on particle physics.

In 1966 he became Professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).

[6] In addition, he published contributions to 20th-century physicists, including Edmund Clifton Stoner[7] and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

In 2013, he received the Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award for his influential work on the history of science.