Vladimir Dmitriyevich Zernov (1878 —30.09.1946) was a Soviet physicist. He graduated from Moscow University (1902) and was kept on there to prepare for a professorship. He began his scientific work in 1900 under P. N. Lebedev. In 1909 — 20 he was professor at Saratov University (rector from 1918). From 1921 he worked at various higher educational institutions in Moscow: Moscow University, the Pedagogical Institute, the Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, the N. E. Bauman Higher Technical School and others.
His research was in the field of acoustics (the measurement of sound pressure), radioactivity and thermal conductivity.