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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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Clay, Jacob

Jacob Clay (18.01.1882 - 31.05.1955) was a Dutch physicist.

Klein, Oskar Benjamin

Oskar Benjamin Klein (15.09.1894-5.02.1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1945).

Klement, Fedor Dmitriyevich

Fedor Dmitriyevich Klement (30.05.1903-28.06.1973) was a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR (1951).

Knudsen, Martin Hans Christian

Martin Hans Christian Knudsen (15.02.1871— 27.05.1949) was a Danish physicist and oceanographer, a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (1909) and its secretary in 1917—46.

Coblentz, William Weber

William Weber Coblentz (20.02.1873 —15.09.1962) was an American physicist and astrophysicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Kowarski, Lew

Lew Kowarski (10.02.1907-30.07.1979) was a French physicist.

Kovács, István

István Kovács (16.12.1913) is a Hungarian physicist and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1967).

Kozyrev, Boris Mikhailovich

Boris Mikhailovich Kozyrev (4.05.1905 —21.10.1979) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968).

Cockcroft, John Douglas

John Douglas Cockcroft (27.05.1897—18.09.1967) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1936).

Kohlrausch, Friedrich Wilhelm Georg

Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (14.10.1840-17.01.1910) was a German experimental physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1895).

Komar, Anton Panteleimonovich

Anton Panteleimonovich Komar (born 30.05.1904) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1948).

Compton, Arthur Holly

Arthur Holly Compton (10.09.1892-15.03.1962) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1927).

Compton, Karl Taylor

Karl Taylor Compton (14.09.1887-22.06.1954) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Cohn, Emil Georg

Emil Georg Cohn (28.09.1854-28.01.1944) was a German theoretical physicist.

Conway, Arthur William

Arthur William Conway (2.10.1875-11.03.1950) was an Irish physicist and mathematician, a member of the Royal Irish Academy and its president.