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  • Sabine, Edward — (14.10.1788-26.06.1883) was an English physicist, astronomer and traveller, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1818) and its president in 1861—71.
  • Sabine, Wallace Clement — (13.06.1868-10.01.1919) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Sachs, Robert Green — (born 4.05.1916) — American theoretical physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1971).
  • Sadovsky, Alexander Ivanovich — (6.12.1859-26.12.1921)-a Russian physicist.
  • Sagdeev, Roald Zinnurovich — (born 26.12.1932) — a Soviet physicist, academician (1968, corresponding member 1964).
  • Sagnac, Georges Marc Marie — (14.10.1869 — 26.02.1928) — French experimental physicist.
  • Saha, Meghnad — (6.10.1894-16.02.1956) — Indian physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • Sakata, Shoichi — (14.01.1911-16.10.1970) — Japanese theoretical physicist.
  • Sakurai, Jun John — (31.01.1933-1982) — American theoretical physicist.
  • Salam, Abdus — (born 29.01.1926) — theoretical physicist.
  • Salpeter, Edwin Ernest — ( born 3.12.1924) is an American theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1967).
  • Saussure, Horace Bénédict de — (17.02.1740 - 22.01.1799) was a Swiss physicist and geographer.
  • Sauveur, Joseph — (24.03.1653-9.07.1716) —a French scientist, the founder of musical acoustics, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1696).
  • Savart, Félix — (30.06.1791-16.03.1841) — a French physicist, member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1827).
  • Savić, Pavle — (born 10.01.1909) - a Yugoslav physicist and chemist, member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, and from 1971 president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  • Schawlow, Arthur Leonard — (born 5.05. 1921) - American physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences (1970).
  • Schenberg, Mário — (born 2.07.1916) is a Brazilian physicist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (1942).
  • Scherrer, Paul — (03.02.1890-1970) was a Swiss experimental physicist.
  • Schiff, Leonard Isaac — (29.03.1915-1971) was an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1957).
  • Schiller, Nikolai Nikolayevich — (13.03.1848—23.02.1910) was a Russian physicist.
  • Schottky, Walter — (23.07.1886-4.03.1976) — a German physicist.
  • Schrieffer, John Robert — (born 31.05.1931) - an American physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1971).
  • Schrödinger, Erwin — (12.08.1887-4.01.1961) — an Austrian theoretical physicist, one of the creators of quantum mechanics.
  • Schuster, Arthur — (12.09.1851-14.10.1934) — an English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1879), vice-president in 1919 — 24.
  • Schwartz, Melvin — (born 2.11.1932) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975).
  • Schwarzschild, Karl — (9.10.1873 - 11.05.1916) was a German astronomer and physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1912).
  • Schweidler, Egon — (10.02.1873-12.02.1948) was an Austrian physicist and a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.
  • Schweigger, Johann — (8.04.1779-6.09.1857) was a German physicist.
  • Schwinger, Julian — (born 12.02.1918) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1949).
  • Seaborg, Glenn Theodore — (born 19.04.1912) — an American chemist and physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1948).
  • Seebeck, Thomas Johann — (9.04.1770- 10.12.1831) was a German physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1814).
  • Segner, János András — (9.10.1704-5.10.1777) — Hungarian mathematician and physicist.
  • Segrè, Emilio — (born 1.02.1905) - Italian experimental physicist, a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1958).
  • Seitz, Frederick — (born 4. VII 1911) was an American physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1951) and its president in 1962—69.
  • Selényi, Pál — (17.02.1884-21.03.1954) was a Hungarian physicist and a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1948).
  • Semenov, Nikolai Nikolayevich — (born 15.04.1896) — Soviet chemist and physicist, academician (1932; corresponding member 1929), and in 1963-71 vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
  • Serber, Robert — (born 14.03.1909) — an American theoretical physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1952).
  • Sevchenko, Anton Nikiforovich — (22.02.1903-26.09.1978) — Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1953).
  • Shafranov, Vitaly Dmitriyevich — (born 1.12.1929) — Soviet physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1981).
  • Shalnikov, Alexander Iosifovich — (born 10.05.1905) — Soviet experimental physicist, academician (1979, corresponding member 1946).
  • Shapiro, Fedor Lvovich — (6.04.1915-30.01.1973) — Soviet experimental physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968).
  • Shapiro, Iosif Solomonovich — (born 13.11.1918) — Soviet theoretical physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979).
  • Sharvin, Yuri Vasilyevich — (born 24.06.1919) — Soviet experimental physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1970).
  • Shchelkin, Kirill Ivanovich — (17.05.1911 —8.02.1968) — Soviet physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953).
  • Shchodro, Nikolai Ksaveryevich — (18.05.1883-12.03.1940) - Soviet physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929).
  • Shirkov, Dmitri Vasilyevich — (born 3.03.1928) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1960).
  • Shockley, William Bradford — (born 13.02.1910) - an American physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1951).
  • Shoenberg, David — (born 4.01.1911) is an English experimental physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1953).
  • Shpolsky, Eduard Vladimirovich — (23.09.1892-21.08.1975) - a Soviet physicist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1933).
  • Shubin, Semyon Petrovich — (31.07.1908 — 28.02.1938) — a Soviet theoretical physicist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1935).
  • Shubnikov, Alexei Vasilyevich — (29.03.1887-27.04.1970) - a Soviet physicist and crystallographer, academician (1953; corresponding member 1933).
  • Shubnikov, Lev Vasilyevich — (29.09.1901 —1945) — a Soviet experimental physicist, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
  • Shur, Yakov Savelyevich — (born 20.04.1908) - a Soviet physicist, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1970).
  • Shvedov, Fedor Nikiforovich — (27.02.1840-25.12.1905) was a Russian physicist.
  • Sidorov, Veniamin Alexandrovich — (born 19.10.1930) — a Soviet physicist, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968).
  • Siedentopf, Henry Friedrich Wilhelm — (22.09.1872-8.05.1940) was a German physicist.
  • Siegbahn, Kai — (born 20.04.1918) — a Swedish experimental physicist, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
  • Siegbahn, Manne Karl Georg — (3.12.1886—26.09.1978) — a Swedish experimental physicist, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1922).
  • Siemens, Ernst Werner — (13.12.1816-6.12.1892) — a German physicist, electrical engineer and entrepreneur, a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1874).
  • Simon, Francis — (2.07.1893-31.10.1956) — physicist.
  • Sinelnikov, Kirill Dmitriyevich — (29.05.1901 — 16.10.1966) — a Soviet experimental physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1948).
  • Sirota, Nikolai Nikolayevich — (born 2.11.1913) — a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1956).
  • Skłodowska-Curie, Maria — (7.11.1867—4.07.1934) — a Polish and French physicist and chemist, one of the founders of the study of radioactivity.
  • Skobeltsyn, Dmitri Vladimirovich — (born 24.02.1892) — a Soviet physicist and public figure, an academician (1946; corresponding member 1939).
  • Skrinsky, Alexander Nikolayevich — (born 15.1 1936) — a Soviet physicist, an academician (1970; corresponding member 1968).
  • Slater, John Clarke — (22.12.1900-25.07.1976) — an American theoretical physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1932).
  • Smekal, Adolf — (12.12.1895-7.03.1959) — an Austrian theoretical physicist.
  • Smirnov, Adrian Anatolyevich — (born 16.02.1908) — a Soviet theoretical physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1967), vice-president (1970-74).
  • Smolensky, Georgy Anatolyevich — (born 23.06.1910) — a Soviet physicist, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1970).
  • Smoluchowski, Marian — (28.05.1872 — 5.09.1917) was a Polish physicist.
  • Snell, Arthur — ( born 10.03.1909) is an American experimental physicist.
  • Snellius, Willebrord — (1580-30.10.1626) was a Dutch scholar.
  • Snyder, Hartland — (1913 -22.05.1962) was an American theoretical physicist.
  • Soddy, Frederick — (2.09.1877-22.09.1956) was an English physicist and chemist, one of the pioneers of radioactivity, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1910).
  • Sokolov, Alexei Petrovich — (7.03.1854-26.03.1928) was a Russian physicist.
  • Sokolov, Sergei Yakovlevich — (8.10.1897 —20.05.1957) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953).
  • Soloukhin, Rem Ivanovich — ( born 19.11.1930) is a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1977) and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968).
  • Sommerfeld, Arnold Johann Wilhelm — (5.12.1868-26.04.1951) was a German theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1920).
  • Spitzer, Lyman — ( born 26.06.1914) is an American astrophysicist and physicist, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1952).
  • Spivak, Petr Efimovich — ( born 24.03.1911) is a Soviet experimental physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1964).
  • Stark, Johannes — (15.04.1874-21.06.1957) — a German physicist, a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.
  • Starodubtsev, Sergei Vasilyevich — (24.10.1914—19.03.1967) was a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR (1956), and its vice-president (from 1956).
  • Steenbeck, Max — (born 21.03.1904) - a German physicist, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1956), and in 1962 —64 its vice-president.
  • Stefan, Josef — (24.03.1835-7.01.1893) was an Austrian physicist and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1865).
  • Steinberger, Jack — (born 25.05.1921) - an American experimental physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1966).
  • Stepanov, Alexander Vasilyevich — (26.08.1908 — 16.05.1972) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968).
  • Stepanov, Boris Ivanovich — ( born 28.04.1913) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1953).
  • Stern, Otto — (17.02.1888-17.08.1969) - a German experimental physicist.
  • Stevin, Simon — (1548-1620) was a Dutch mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
  • Stewart, Balfour — (1.11.1828-19.12.1887) was a Scottish physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1862).
  • Stokes, George Gabriel — (13.08.1819-1.02.1903) was an English physicist and mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1851).
  • Stoletov, Alexander Grigoryevich — (29.07.1839-14.05.1896) was a Russian physicist.
  • Stoner, Edmund Clifton — (2.10.1899-27.12.1968) was an English theoretical physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1937).
  • Stoney, George Johnstone — (15.02.1826 — 5.07.1911) was an Irish physicist and mathematician, a member of the Irish Royal Society (1861) and its secretary for 20 years.
  • Strassmann, Fritz — (22.02.1902-24.04.1980) — a German chemist and physicist.
  • Strelkov, Petr Georgievich — (16.10.1899 — 11.11.1968) was a Soviet experimental physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1960).
  • Stueckelberg, Ernst Karl Gerlach — (born 1.02.1905) — a Swiss theoretical physicist.
  • Sturgeon, William — (22.05.1783-4.12.1850) was an English inventor.
  • Sudarshan, Ennackal Chandy George — (born 16.09.1931) was an Indian theoretical physicist and a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
  • Sumbaev, Oleg Igorevich — (born 4.02.1930) was a Soviet experimental physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979).
  • Supek, Ivan — (born 18.04.1915) was a Yugoslav physicist and a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (1947).
  • Sutherland, Gordon Brims — (8.04.1907-27.06.1980) — English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1949).
  • Synge, John Lighton — (born 23.03.1897) — an Irish theoretical physicist and mathematician, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and its president in 1961—64.
  • Szalay, Sándor — (born 4.10.1909) — Hungarian physicist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1965).
  • Szilard, Leo — (11.02.1898-30.05.1964) was a physicist.