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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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Vonsovsky, Sergei Vasilyevich

Sergei Vasilyevich Vonsovsky (born 2.09.1910) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician (1966; corresponding member 1953).

Votruba, Václav

Václav Votruba (born 19.12.1909) is a Czechoslovak theoretical physicist and a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1977).

Wróblewski, Zygmunt Florenty

Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (28.10.1845—16.04.1888) was a Polish physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1880).

Wu, Chien-Shiung

Chien-Shiung Wu (born 31.05.1913) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1958).

Wood, Robert Williams

Robert Williams Wood (2.05.1868-11.08.1955) was an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1912).

Vul, Bentsion Moiseyevich

Bentsion Moiseyevich Vul (born 22.05.1903) is a Soviet physicist and an academician (1972; corresponding member 1939).

Wulff, Georgy (Yuri) Viktorovich

Georgy (Yuri) Viktorovich Wulff (22.06.1863 — 25.12.1925) was a Soviet crystallographer and crystal physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1921).

Haas, Arthur Erich

Arthur Erich Haas (30.04.1884-20.02.1941) was an Austrian theoretical physicist.

Haas, Wander Johannes de

Wander Johannes de Haas (21.03.1878-26.04.1960) was a Dutch physicist and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1922).

Gabor, Dennis

Dennis Gabor (5.06.1900-9.02.1979) was a physicist and the creator of holography.

Hasenöhrl, Friedrich

Friedrich Hasenöhrl (30.11.1874-7.10.1915) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Galilei, Galileo

Galileo Galilei (15.02.1564-8.01.1642) was an outstanding Italian physicist and astronomer, one of the founders of exact natural science and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1611).

Galitskii, Viktor Mikhailovich

Viktor Mikhailovich Galitskii (8.09.1924—7.01.1981) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1976).

Galkin, Alexander Alexandrovich

Alexander Alexandrovich Galkin (4.07.1914 —22.10.1982) was a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1965).

Galvani, Luigi

Luigi Galvani (9.09.1737-4.12.1798) was an Italian physicist and physiologist.

Hamilton, William Rowan

William Rowan Hamilton (4.08.1805—2.09.1865) was an Irish mathematician and physicist and a member of the Royal Irish Academy (1832), and its president in 1837—45.