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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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Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (26.08.1743-8.05.1794) was a French chemist, one of the founders of chemistry, and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1772).

Lazarev, Boris Georgiyevich

Boris Georgiyevich Lazarev (born 6.08.1906) is a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1951).

Lazarev, Petr Petrovich

Petr Petrovich Lazarev (13.04.1878-24.04.1942) was a Soviet physicist and biophysicist and an academician (1917).

Lyman, Theodore

Theodore Lyman (23.02.1874- 11.09.1954) was an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lambert, Johann Heinrich

Johann Heinrich Lambert (26.08.1728-25.09.1777) was a German scientist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1765).

Landau, Lev Davidovich

Lev Davidovich Landau (22.01.1908-1.04.1968) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician (1946).

Landé, Alfred

Alfred Landé (13.12.1888-1975) was a German theoretical physicist.

Landsberg, Grigory Samuilovich

Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg (22.01.1890—2.02.1957) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1946; corresponding member 1932).

Langevin, Paul

Paul Langevin (23.01.1872-19.12.1946) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1934).

Laplace, Pierre Simon

Pierre Simon Laplace (28.03.1749-5.03.1827) was a French astronomer, physicist and mathematician and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1785).

Laporte, Otto

Otto Laporte (23.07.1902-28.03.1971) was an American physicist.

Larkin, Anatoly Ivanovich

Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin (born 14.10.1932) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979).

Larmor, Joseph

Joseph Larmor (11.07.1857-19.05.1942) was an English theoretical physicist and mathematician, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1892) and in 1912-14 its vice-president.

Lattes, Cesare Mansueto Giulio

Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes (born 11.07.1924) is a Brazilian physicist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Lauritsen, Charles Christian

Charles Christian Lauritsen (4.04.1892—13.04.1968) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1941).

Laue, Max Felix Theodor von

Max Felix Theodor von Laue (9.10.1879 —24.04.1960) was a German theoretical physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1921).

Lashkarev, Vadim Evgenyevich

Vadim Evgenyevich Lashkarev (7.10.1903—1.12.1974) was a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1945).