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Modern physics... and at once the names come to mind of the scientists whose painstaking labour and inquiring minds prepared the splendid present of this ancient science of nature. Here you will find short notes on the biographies of scientists: physicists of the past and the present who each made their contribution to the growth of physics. Every biographical note gives the main facts of the scientist's life and work, together with the results obtained in the fields in which he was active. The section is richly illustrated with portraits, some of them rare. These pages introduce the people who widened the bounds of human knowledge of the world around us, uncovering step by step ever new secrets of nature and its laws.
The faces of some of these scientists can still often be seen in the modern world. Look at the collection "Physicists on banknotes".

Every year new scientists become laureates of the world-famous Nobel Prize. List of Nobel Prize laureates in physics.

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Wick, Gian-Carlo

Gian-Carlo Wick (born 15.X 1909) is an Italian theoretical physicist.

Villard, Paul Ulrich

Paul Ulrich Villard (28.09.1860-13.I 1934) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1908).

Wilcke, Johan Carl

Johan Carl Wilcke (6.09.1732-18.04.1796) was a Swedish physicist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, from 1784 its permanent secretary.

Wilson, Alan Herries

Alan Herries Wilson (born 2.07.1906) is an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1942).

Wilson, Robert Woodrow

Robert Woodrow Wilson (born 10.1.1936) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1979).

Wilson, Robert Rathbun

Robert Rathbun Wilson (born 4.03.1914) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1957).

Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (14.02.1869 — 15.11.1959) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1900).

Wien, Wilhelm

Wilhelm Wien (13.01.1864-30.08.1928) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.

Wien, Max Karl

Max Karl Wien (25.12.1866-24.02.1938) was a German physicist.

Violle, Jules Louis Gabriel

Jules Louis Gabriel Violle (16.11.1841 —12.09.1923) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1897).

Wiechert, Emil

Emil Wiechert (26.12.1861-19.03.1928) was a German physicist and geophysicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1911).

Viščakas, Jurgis

Jurgis Viščakas (born 18.04.1927) is a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR (1976).

Vladimirsky, Vasily Vasilyevich

Vasily Vasilyevich Vladimirsky (born 2.08.1915) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1962).

Vlasov, Anatoly Alexandrovich

Anatoly Alexandrovich Vlasov (20.08.1908-22.12.1975) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Wollaston, William Hyde

William Hyde Wollaston (6.08.1766 —22.12.1828) was an English scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1793).

Volodko, Leonid Vikentyevich

Leonid Vikentyevich Volodko (2.1.1928 - 29.09.1978) was a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1977).

Volta, Alessandro

Alessandro Volta (18.02.1745-5.03.1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist and physiologist, and the inventor of the source of direct electric current.

Wolfke, Mieczysław

Mieczysław Wolfke (29.05.1883-3.05.1947) was a Polish physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1932).