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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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Goeppert-Mayer, Maria

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (28.06.1906-20.02.1972) was an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1956).

Herapath, John

John Herapath (30.05.1790-24.02.1868) was an English physicist.

Gehrcke, Ernst

Ernst Gehrcke (1.07.1878-25.1.1960) was a German physicist.

Gerlach, Walter

Walter Gerlach (1.08.1889-10.08.1979) was a German experimental physicist and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (1947).

Heron of Alexandria

Heron of Alexandria (probably 1st—2nd centuries AD) was an ancient Greek scholar and engineer.

Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (22.02.1857-1.01.1894) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1889).

Hertz, Gustav Ludwig

Gustav Ludwig Hertz (22.07.1887-30.10.1975) was a German physicist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR.

Herzberg, Gerhard

Gerhard Herzberg (born 25.12.1904) is a Canadian experimental physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1939), of which he was president in 1966—67.

Hess, Victor Franz

Victor Franz Hess (24.06.1883 - 17.12.1964) was an Austrian physicist and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1933).

Gibbs, Josiah Willard

Josiah Willard Gibbs (11.02.1839-28.04.1903) was an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Ginzburg, Vitaly Lazarevich

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (born 4.10.1916) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician (1966, corresponding member 1953).

Ghiorso, Albert

Albert Ghiorso (born 15.07.1915) is an American physicist and chemist.

Hirn, Gustave Adolphe

Gustave Adolphe Hirn (21.08.1815-14.01.1890) was a French physicist and engineer and a corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Sciences.

Hittorf, Johann Wilhelm

Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (27.03.1824-28.11.1914) was a German physicist and chemist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1884).