Scientists beginning with "B". Biographies of physicists

Babaev, Yuri Nikolayevich — (born 21.05.1928) is a Soviet experimental physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968).
Babinet, Jacques — (5.03.1794-21.X 1872) was a French physicist and astronomer and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1840).
Bacher, Robert Fox — (born 31.08.1905) - American experimental physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1947).
Back, Ernst — (21.10.1881 - 20.07.1959) was a German experimental physicist.
Bakhmetev, Porfiry Ivanovich — (26.02.1860—14.10.1913) was a Bulgarian physicist and a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Baldin, Alexander Mikhailovich — (born 26.02.1926) — is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1981; a corresponding member from 1972).
Balmer, Johann Jakob — (1.05.1825-12.03.1898) was a Swiss physicist and mathematician.
Bardeen, John — (born 23.05.1908) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1954).
Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg — (2.12.1881-20.02.1956) was a German physicist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1949).
Barkla, Charles Glover — (27.06.1877-23.X 1944) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (from 1912).
Barkov, Lev Mitrofanovich — (born 24.10 1928) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1972).
Barlow, Peter — (13.10.1776-1.03.1862) was an English physicist and mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society (from 1823).
Barnett, Samuel Jackson — (14.12.1873-1956) was an American physicist.
Bartholinus, Erasmus — (13.08.1625-4.11.1698) was a Danish physicist and mathematician.
Bartoli, Adolfo — (19.03.1851 - 18.07.1896) was an Italian physicist.
Baryakhtar, Viktor Grigoryevich — (born 9.08.1930) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1978).
Basov, Nikolai Gennadiyevich — (born 14.12.1922) is a Soviet physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics, and an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966; a corresponding member from 1962).
Batschinski, Alexei Iosifovich — (2.04.1877-31.07.1944) was a Soviet physicist.
Beccaria, Giambattista — (3.10.1716-27.05.1781) was an Italian physicist.
Becquerel, Alexandre-Edmond — (24.03.1820-02.05.1891) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1863), its president in 1880.
Becquerel, Antoine César — (7.03.1788-18.1.1878) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1829), its president in 1838.
Becquerel, Antoine Henri — (15.XII.1852-25.08.1908) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1889), its president in 1908.
Běhounek, František — (27.10.1898-1.1.1973) was a Czechoslovak physicist and a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1960).
Békésy, Georg von — (3.06.1899-13.06.1972) was a Hungarian physicist and biophysicist.
Belyaev, Spartak Timofeyevich — (born 27.X.1923) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and academician (1968; corresponding member 1964).
Benedetti, Giovanni Battista — (14.08.1530-20.1.1590) was an Italian scientist.
Bennet, Abraham — (1750-1799) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1789).
Bennett, Willard Harrison — (born 13.06.1903) is an American physicist.
Benoît, René — (28.11.1844-4.05.1922) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1903).
Berdyev, Ata Abdurakhmanovich — (born 13.10.1914) is a Soviet physicist and academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR (1969), its vice-president in 1967-75.
Bernal, John Desmond — (10.05.1901-16.09.1971) was an English physicist and public figure and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1937).
Bernardini, Gilberto — (born 20.08.1906) is an Italian physicist and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1949).
Bernoulli, Daniel — (8.02.1700-17.03.1782) was a mathematician and physicist, one of the members of the famous Bernoulli dynasty.
Berzelius, Jöns Jacob — (20.08.1779-7.08.1848) was a Swedish chemist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1808), its president from 1810 and its permanent secretary from 1818.
Bethe, Hans Albrecht — (born 2.07.1906) is a theoretical physicist.
Bethge, Heinz — (born 15.11.1919) is a German physicist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1972).
Bhabha, Homi Jehangir — (30.10 1909-24.01 1966) was an Indian physicist and public figure.
Białobrzeski, Czesław — (31.08.1878-12.10.1953) — Polish physicist, a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1952).
Bilfinger, Georg Bernhard — (23.1.1693-18.02.1750) - German physicist.
Biot, Jean-Baptiste — (21.04.1774-3.02.1862) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1803).
Biquard, Pierre — (born 30.08.1901) is a French physicist.
Birge, Raymond Thayer — (13.03.1887-22.03.1980) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1932).
Bitter, Francis — (22.07.1902-26.07.1967) was an American physicist and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bjerknes, Carl Anton — (24.10.1825-20.03.1903) — Norwegian physicist.
Bjerknes, Vilhelm Friman Koren — (14.03.1862—9.04.1951) — Norwegian physicist and geophysicist, a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Bjorken, James — (born 22.06.1934) - American physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Black, Joseph — (16.04.1728-6.12.1799) was a Scottish chemist and physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783).
Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart — (18.11.1897—13.07.1974) was an English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1933) and its president (1965—70).
Blau, Marietta — (29.04.1894-1970) was an Austrian physicist and a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.
Bleaney, Brebis — (born 6.06.1915) is an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1950).
Bloch, Felix — (born 23.10.1905) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1948).
Bloembergen, Nicolaas — (born 11.03.1920) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1960).
Blokhintsev, Dmitri Ivanovich — (11.01.1908 — 27.01.1979) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1958) and of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1939).
Blondel, André — (28.08.1863-15.11.1938) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1913).
Blondlot, René Prosper — (3.07.1849 — 24.11.1930) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1894).
Bogdanov, Sergei Vasilyevich — (born 2.08.1921) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979).
Bogoliubov, Nikolai Nikolayevich — (born 21.08.1909) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and mathematician, an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953; corresponding member 1946) and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1948).
Boguslavsky, Sergei Anatolyevich — (1.12.1883-3.09.1923) was a Russian theoretical physicist.
Bohm, David Joseph — (born 20.12.1917) was an American theoretical physicist.
Bohr, Aage — (born 19.06.1922) was a Danish theoretical physicist and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (1955).
Bohr, Niels Henrik David — (7.10.1885 - 18.11.1962) was an outstanding Danish theoretical physicist, one of the creators of modern physics and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (1917), of which he was president from 1939.
Bokut, Boris Vasilyevich — (born 27.10.1926) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1980).
Boltwood, Bertram Borden — (27.07.1870-15.08.1927) was an American chemist and physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1911).
Boltzmann, Ludwig — (20.02.1844 - 5.09.1906) was an Austrian theoretical physicist, one of the founders of classical statistical physics and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1895).
Bonner, Tom — (19.X 1910 - 6.12.1961) was an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1959).
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso — (28.1.1608 — 31.12.1679) was an Italian scientist and a member of the Accademia del Cimento in Florence.
Borgman, Ivan Ivanovich — (24.02.1849 - 17.05.1914) was a Russian physicist.
Borisevich, Nikolai Alexandrovich — (born 21.09.1923) was a Soviet physicist, academician (1981; corresponding member 1972), academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1969) and president of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR from 1969.
Born, Max — (11.12.1882 - 5.1.1970) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of the new physics.
Borovik-Romanov, Andrei Stanislavovich — (born 18.03.1920) was a Soviet experimental physicist, academician (1972; corresponding member 1966).
Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe — (18.05.1711 — 13.02.1787) was a Croatian scientist and philosopher.
Bose, Jagadish Chandra — (30.11.1858-23.11.1937) was an Indian physicist and physiologist and one of the founders of biophysics.
Bose, Satyendra Nath — (1.1.1894-4.02.1974) was an Indian physicist.
Bothe, Walther — (8.1.1891 - 8.02.1957) was a German physicist and one of the pioneers of nuclear physics.
Bouguer, Pierre — (16.02.1698-15.08.1758) was a French scientist, one of the founders of photometry and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1735).
Boyko, Boris Borisovich — (born 6.08.1923) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1974).
Boyle, Robert — (25.01.1627-30.12.1691) was an English chemist, physicist and philosopher and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1663).
Boys, Charles Vernon — (15.03.1855 - 30.03.1944) was an English experimental physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1888).
Bozorth, Richard Milton — (10.04.1896-24.01.1981) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Bragg, William Henry — (2.06.1862-12.03.1942) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1907), and its president in 1935—40.
Bragg, William Lawrence — (31.03.1890-1.07.1971) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1921).
Branly, Édouard — (23.10.1844-24.03.1940) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1911).
Brattain, Walter — (born 10.02.1902) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1959).
Braun, Karl Ferdinand — (6.06.1850-20.04.1918) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1914).
Bravais, Auguste — (23.08.1811 - 30.03.1863) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1854).
Brazdžiūnas, Povilas — (born 18.09.1897) was a Soviet physicist and academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR (1956).
Breit, Gregory — (born 14.07.1899) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1939).
Brekhovskikh, Leonid Maksimovich — (born 6.05.1917) is a Soviet physicist and an academician (1968; corresponding member 1953).
Brewster, David — (11.12.1781-10.02.1868) was a Scottish physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1815) and president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864).
Bridgman, Percy Williams — (21.04.1882-20.08.1961) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Brillouin, Léon — (7.08.1889 — 1969) was a French physicist.
Brillouin, Marcel — (19.12.1854-16.06.1948) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1921).
Broglie, Louis de — (born 15.07.1892) is a French theoretical physicist, one of the creators of quantum mechanics, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1933) and its permanent secretary in 1942 — 75.
Broglie, Maurice de — (27.04.1875-14.07.1960) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1924).
Brueckner, Keith Allan — (born 19.03.1924) was an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1969).
Bruno, Giordano — (1548-17.02.1600) was an Italian thinker, a fighter against scholasticism and theology and an active supporter of the teaching of N.
Bucherer, Alfred Heinrich — (9.07.1863 — 16.04.1927) — German experimental physicist.
Budker, Gersh Itskovich (Andrei Mikhailovich) — (1.05.1918-4.07.1977) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1964; corresponding member 1958).
Bunkin, Fyodor Vasilyevich — (born 17.1.1929) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1976).
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm — (31.03.1811 -16.08.1899) was a German chemist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1846).
Burhop, Eric — (31.1.1911-22.1.1980) was an English physicist and public figure and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1963).
Busch, Georg Adolf — (born 12.09.1908) - Swiss physicist.
Butler, Clifford Charles — (born 20.05.1922) is an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (from 1961).
Butler, Stuart Thomas — (4.07.1926 - 15.05.1982) was an Australian theoretical physicist and a member of the Australian Academy of Science.