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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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Deprez, Marcel

Marcel Deprez (29.12.1843- 16.10.1918) was a French physicist and engineer and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1886).

Javan, Ali

Ali Javan (born 27.12.1926) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974).

Djakov, Emil Stefanov

Emil Stefanov Djakov (born 2.03.1908) is a Bulgarian physicist and a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1967).

Dzhelepov, Boris Sergeyevich

Boris Sergeyevich Dzhelepov (born 12.04.1910) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953).

Dzhelepov, Venedikt Petrovich

Dzhelepov, Venedikt Petrovich (born 12.04.1913) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966).

Germer, Lester Halbert

Germer, Lester Halbert (10.10.1896–3.10.1971) was an American physicist and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Jeans, James Hopwood

Jeans, James Hopwood (11.09.1877–16.09.1946) was an English physicist and astrophysicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1906).

Giauque, William Francis

Giauque, William Francis (born 12.05.1895) is an American physicist and chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1936).

Josephson, Brian David

Josephson, Brian David (born 4.01.1940) is an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1970).

Joule, James Prescott

Joule, James Prescott (24.12.1818–11.10.1889) was an English physicist, one of the discoverers of the law of conservation of energy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1850).

Dzyaloshinskii, Igor Ekhielyevich

Dzyaloshinskii, Igor Ekhielyevich (born 1.02.1931) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1974).

Diviš, Prokop

Diviš, Prokop (26.03.1698–21.12.1765) was a Czech physicist.

Dicke, Robert

Dicke, Robert (born 6.05.1916) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1967).

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (born 8.08.1902) is an English theoretical physicist, one of the creators of quantum mechanics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1930).

Dobrotin, Nikolai Alexeyevich

Dobrotin, Nikolai Alexeyevich (born 18.06.1908) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1967).

Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Mikhail Iosifovich

Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Mikhail Iosifovich (2.01.1862–15.02.1919) was a Russian physicist and electrical engineer who laid the foundations of three-phase current engineering.

Dollond, John

Dollond, John (10.06.1706–30.11.1761) was an English optician and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1761).

Doppler, Christian

Doppler, Christian (30.11.1803–17.03.1853) was an Austrian physicist, mathematician and astronomer, and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1848).

Dorfman, Yakov Grigoryevich

Dorfman, Yakov Grigoryevich (7.04.1898–5.02.1974) was a Soviet physicist and a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1934).