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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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Leslie, John

John Leslie (16.04.1766-3.02.1832) was a Scottish experimental physicist and mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1807).

Lecher, Ernst

Ernst Lecher (1.06.1856-19.07.1926) was an Austrian experimental physicist.

Lösche, Artur

Artur Lösche (born 20.10.1921) is a German physicist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1965).

Lee, Benjamin

Benjamin Lee (1.01.1935-16.06.1977) was an American theoretical physicist.

Lee, Tsung-Dao

Tsung-Dao Lee (born 25.02.1926) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Libby, Willard Frank

Willard Frank Libby (17.12.1908-8.09.1980) was an American physical chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1950).

Livingston, Milton Stanley

Milton Stanley Livingston (born 25.05.1905) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1970).

Lippmann, Gabriel

Gabriel Lippmann (16.08.1845-12.07.1921) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1886).

Lissajous, Jules Antoine

Jules Antoine Lissajous (4.03.1822-24.06.1880) was a French physicist and a corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1879).

Lifshitz, Evgeny Mikhailovich

Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz (born 21.02.1915) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician (1979; corresponding member 1966).

Lifshitz, Ilya Mikhailovich

Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz (13.01.1917-23.10.1982) was a Soviet theoretical physicist, an academician (1970; corresponding member 1960) and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1967).

Lloyd, Humphrey

Humphrey Lloyd (16.04.1800-17.01.1881) was an Irish physicist and a member of the Royal Irish Academy, its president in 1846—51.

Lobashev, Vladimir Mikhailovich

Vladimir Mikhailovich Lobashev (born 29.07.1934) is a Soviet experimental physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1970).

Logunov, Anatoly Alexeyevich

Anatoly Alexeyevich Logunov (born 30.12.1926) is a Soviet theoretical physicist, academician (1972; a corresponding member from 1968) and vice-president (from 1974).

Lodge, Oliver Joseph

Oliver Joseph Lodge (12.06.1851-22.08.1940) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1887).