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  • Pacinotti, Antonio — (17.06.1841-24.03.1912) was an Italian physicist and inventor and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1898).
  • Pais, Abraham — (born 19.05.1918) is an American theoretical physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1962).
  • Pál, Lénárd — (born 7.02.1925) is a Hungarian physicist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1974).
  • Palacios, Julio Martínez — (12.04.1891—21.02.1970) was a Spanish physicist, a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences and from 1966 its president.
  • Paneth, Friedrich Adolf — (31.08.1887—17.09.1958) was an Austrian radiochemist and chemist, one of the pioneers of radiochemistry.
  • Panofsky, Wolfgang Kurt Hermann — (born 24.04.1919) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1954).
  • Papaleksi, Nikolai Dmitriyevich — (2.12.1880—03.02.1947) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1939; corresponding member 1931).
  • Papin, Denis — (22.08.1647-1712) was a physicist and engineer, one of the inventors of the steam engine, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1680) and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences.
  • Parasyuk, Ostap Stepanovich — (born 20.12.1921) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1964).
  • Pascal, Blaise — (19.06.1623-19.08.1662) was a French mathematician, physicist and philosopher.
  • Paschen, Friedrich — (22.01.1865-25.02.1947) was a German experimental physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1925).
  • Pasechnik, Mitrofan Vasilyevich — (born 17.06.1912) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1961).
  • Patel, Kumar — (born 2.07.1938) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Pauli, Wolfgang — (25.04.1900-14.12.1958) — theoretical physicist.
  • Pauling, Linus Carl — ( born 28.02.1901) - an American chemist and physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1933).
  • Pavlovsky, Alexander Ivanovich — (born 27. 06.1927) is a Soviet experimental physicist, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979).
  • Pearson, Gerald — ( born 31.03.1905) - an American physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Pegram, George — (24.10.1876-12.08.1958) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Peierls, Rudolf Ernst — (born 5.06.1907) is an English theoretical physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1945).
  • Pekar, Solomon Isaakovich — (born 16.03.1917) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1961).
  • Peltier, Jean Charles Athanase — (22.02.1785-27.10.1845) was a French physicist.
  • Penning, Frans Michel — (12.09.1894—6.03.1953) was a Dutch physicist.
  • Penrose, Roger — (born 8.03.1931) is an English theoretical physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1972).
  • Penzias, Arno Allan — (born 26.04.1933) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975).
  • Perel, Vladimir Idelevich — (born 24.08.1928) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1981).
  • Perot, Alfred — (3.02.1863-28.02.1925) was a French physicist.
  • Perrin, Francis — (17.03.1901-27.07.1979) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1953).
  • Perrin, Jean Baptiste — (30.09.1870-17.04.1942) — French physicist and physical chemist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1923) and its president in 1936.
  • Petit, Alexis Thérèse — (2.10.1791-21.06.1820) — French physicist.
  • Petrov, Alexei Zinovyevich — (28.10.1910-9.05.1972) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1969).
  • Petrov, Vasily Vladimirovich — (19.07.1761 - 3.08.1834) was a Russian physicist and electrical engineer and an academician (1815; corresponding member 1802).
  • Petrushevsky, Fedor Fomich — (24.03.1828-17.02.1904) was a Russian physicist.
  • Petržílka, Václav — (20.03.1905-9.07.1976) was a Czechoslovak experimental physicist and a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, of which he was vice-president in 1956 — 59.
  • Petzval, József — (6.01.1807-17.09.1891) was an Austrian physicist and mathematician and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1849).
  • Pfund, August Herman — (28.12.1879-4.01.1949) — American physicist.
  • Piccard, Auguste — (28.01.1884-24.03.1962) was a Swiss physicist.
  • Piccioni, Oreste — ( born 24.10.1915)-an experimental physicist.
  • Pictet, Marc Auguste — (23.07.1752-19.04.1825) — a Swiss physicist.
  • Pictet, Raoul Pierre — (4.04.1846-27.07.1929) — a Swiss physicist.
  • Piekara, Arkadiusz Henryk — (born 12.01.1904) is a Polish experimental physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
  • Pieńkowski, Stefan — (28.07.1883-20.02.1953) was a Polish experimental physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
  • Pilchikov, Nikolai Dmitriyevich — (21.05.1857-19.05.1908) - a Russian physicist.
  • Pines, David — (born 8.06.1924) is an American theoretical physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1973).
  • Pippard, Alfred Brian — ( born 7.09.1920) — an English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1956).
  • Pitaevskii, Lev Petrovich — ( born 18.01.1933)—a Soviet theoretical physicist, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1976).
  • Pixii, Hippolyte — (1808 -1835) was a French inventor.
  • Placzek, Georg — (26.09.1905-11.10.1955) - a theoretical physicist.
  • Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig — (23.04.1858 —4.10.1947) — a German theoretical physicist, the founder of quantum theory, a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1894) and its permanent secretary in 1912 — 38.
  • Planté, Gaston — (22.04.1834-21.05.1889) — a French physicist.
  • Plateau, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand — (14.10.1801 —15.10.1883) — a Belgian physicist, a member of the Belgian Academy of Sciences (1836).
  • Plücker, Julius — (16.07.1801-22.05.1868) — a German mathematician and physicist.
  • Pniewski, Jerzy Maria — ( born 1.06.1913)-a Polish physicist, a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1971).
  • Pockels, Friedrich Carl — (18.06.1865-.29.08.1913) - a German physicist.
  • Podolsky, Boris — (29.06.1896-28.02.1966) — an American theoretical physicist.
  • Pogány, Béla — (1.04.1887-23.12.1943) — a Hungarian physicist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1931).
  • Poggendorff, Johann Christian — (29.12.1796—24.01.1877) — a German physicist and publisher, a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1839).
  • Pohl, Robert Wichard — (10.08.1884-5.06.1976) — German experimental physicist, member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.
  • Poincaré, Henri — (29.04.1854-17.07.1912) — French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1887).
  • Poiseuille, Jean Louis Marie — (22.04.1799-26.12.1869) - French physiologist and physicist, a member of the French Academy of Medicine (1842).
  • Poisson, Siméon Denis — (21.06.1781-25.06.1840) — French mechanician, mathematician and physicist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1812).
  • Polvani, Giovanni — (17.12.1892-11.08.1970) — an Italian physicist, a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1948).
  • Pomeranchuk, Isaak Yakovlevich — (20.05.1913 —14.03.1966)—Soviet theoretical physicist, academician (1964; corresponding member 1953).
  • Pontecorvo, Bruno Maximovich — (born 22.08.1913) — Soviet physicist, academician (1964, corresponding member 1958).
  • Popov, Alexander Stepanovich — (16.03.1859 — 13.01.1906) — Russian physicist and electrical engineer, inventor of radio.
  • Porta, Giovanni Battista — (between 3— 15.10.1535—4.02.1615)—Italian scientist.
  • Post, Richard Freeman — ( born 14.11. 1918) - American physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Pouillet, Claude Servais Mathias — (16.02.1790— 14.06.1868) — French physicist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1837).
  • Pound, Robert Vivian — (born 16.05.1919) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1961).
  • Poynting, John Henry — (9.09.1852-30.03.1914) — an English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1888), its vice-president in 1910—11.
  • Pozhela, Yuras Karlovich — ( born 5.12.1925) — a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR (1968), its vice-president (from 1972).
  • Predvoditelev, Alexander Savvich — (11.09.1891-27.12.1973) - Soviet physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939).
  • Preiswerk, Peter — (16.01.1907—1972) —Swiss physicist.
  • Prévost, Pierre — (3.03.1751 -8.04.1839) - Swiss physicist, philosopher and man of letters.
  • Priestley, Joseph — (13.03.1733-6.02.1804) — English chemist, physicist and materialist philosopher, Fellow of the Royal Society (1767).
  • Prigogine, Ilya — (Ilya Romanovich) ( born 25.01.1917) — Belgian physicist and physical chemist, one of the founders of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, member of the Belgian Academy of Sciences (1953), its president in 1969.
  • Prikhodko, Antonina Fedorovna — ( born 26.04.1906) — Soviet experimental physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1964).
  • Pringsheim, Peter — (19.03.1881—20.11.1964) — German physicist.
  • Proca, Alexandru — (16.10.1897-13.12.1955) — Romanian theoretical physicist.
  • Procopiu, Ștefan — (19.01.1890-22.08.1972) — Romanian physicist, member of the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania (1955).
  • Prokhorov, Alexander Mikhailovich — (born 11.08.1916) — Soviet physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics, academician (1966; corresponding member 1960).
  • Prokoshkin, Yuri Dmitriyevich — ( born 19.12.1929) — Soviet physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1970).
  • Ptolemy, Claudius — (2nd century AD) - an ancient Greek scholar, the author of the treatise “Great Mathematical Composition of Astronomy in Thirteen Books” (the Almagest, in its Arabic translation), which for more than a thousand years remained the compendium of astronomical knowledge.
  • Purcell, Edward Mills — (born 30.08.1912) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1951).