Lima's own Physics Nobel Laureate is ...

... William A. Fowler!

William Fowler was born in Pittsburgh, and moved to Lima with his family at the age of 2. He went to school in Lima, graduated from Central High School in 1929, and went on to get an Engineering Physics Degree from OSU. In the summers, he came back to Lima and worked as Recreational Director of the Horace Mann playground. During school, he held various jobs in Columbus. So, who knows, maybe he would have started his career at OSU-Lima, if the campus had existed back then...

Read his autobiography, and learn about his research in nuclear physics that led to his Nobel Prize in 1983, which he received together with Subramanyan Chandrasekhar.