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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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Keesom, Willem Hendrik

Willem Hendrik Keesom (21.06.1876-24.03.1956) was a Dutch physicist and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1924).

Keldysh, Leonid Veniaminovich

Leonid Veniaminovich Keldysh (born 7.04.1931) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1976, corresponding member 1968).

Kelman, Veniamin Moiseyevich

Veniamin Moiseyevich Kelman (born 7.02.1915) is a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1962).

Kemble, Edwin Crawford

Edwin Crawford Kemble (born 28.01.1889) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1931).

Kemmer, Nicholas

Nicholas Kemmer (born 7.12.1911) is an English theoretical physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1956).

Kepler, Johannes

Johannes Kepler (27.12.1571-15.02.1630) was a German scientist and one of the creators of celestial mechanics.

Keres, Harald Petrovich

Harald Petrovich Keres (born 15.11.1912) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR (1961).

Kerr, John

John Kerr (17.12.1824-18.08.1907) was a Scottish physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1890).

Kerst, Donald William

Donald William Kerst (born 1.02.1911) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1951).

Kikoin, Isaak Konstantinovich

Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin (born 28.03.1908) is a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician (1953; corresponding member 1943).

Kirensky, Leonid Vasilyevich

Leonid Vasilyevich Kirensky (10.04.1909—3.11.1969) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1968; corresponding member 1964).

Kirkwood, John Gamble

John Gamble Kirkwood (30.05.1907-9.08.1959) was an American theoretical physicist and chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Kirko, Igor Mikhailovich

Igor Mikhailovich Kirko (born 16.04.1918) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR (1966).

Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (12.03.1824-17.10.1887) was a German physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1875).

Kiselevsky, Leonid Ivanovich

Leonid Ivanovich Kiselevsky (born 12.04.1927) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1980).

Kittel, Charles

Charles Kittel (born 18.07.1916) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1957).

Clapeyron, Benoît Paul Émile

Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (26.01.1799—28.01.1864) was a French physicist and engineer and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1858).

Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emanuel

Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (2.01.1822-24.08.1888) was a German theoretical physicist, one of the creators of thermodynamics and of the kinetic theory of gases, and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Scie…