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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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Back, Ernst

Ernst Back (21.10.1881 - 20.07.1959) was a German experimental physicist.

Baldin, Alexander Mikhailovich

Alexander Mikhailovich Baldin (born 26.02.1926) — is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1981; a corresponding member from 1972).

Balmer, Johann Jakob

Johann Jakob Balmer (1.05.1825-12.03.1898) was a Swiss physicist and mathematician.

Bardeen, John

John Bardeen (born 23.05.1908) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1954).

Barkhausen, Heinrich Georg

Heinrich Georg Barkhausen (2.12.1881-20.02.1956) was a German physicist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1949).

Barkla, Charles Glover

Charles Glover Barkla (27.06.1877-23.X 1944) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (from 1912).

Barkov, Lev Mitrofanovich

Lev Mitrofanovich Barkov (born 24.10 1928) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1972).

Barlow, Peter

Peter Barlow (13.10.1776-1.03.1862) was an English physicist and mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society (from 1823).

Bartoli, Adolfo

Adolfo Bartoli (19.03.1851 - 18.07.1896) was an Italian physicist.

Bartholinus, Erasmus

Erasmus Bartholinus (13.08.1625-4.11.1698) was a Danish physicist and mathematician.

Baryakhtar, Viktor Grigoryevich

Viktor Grigoryevich Baryakhtar (born 9.08.1930) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1978).

Basov, Nikolai Gennadiyevich

Nikolai Gennadiyevich Basov (born 14.12.1922) is a Soviet physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics, and an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966; a corresponding member from 1962).

Butler, Clifford Charles

Clifford Charles Butler (born 20.05.1922) is an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (from 1961).

Butler, Stuart Thomas

Stuart Thomas Butler (4.07.1926 - 15.05.1982) was an Australian theoretical physicist and a member of the Australian Academy of Science.

Bakhmetev, Porfiry Ivanovich

Porfiry Ivanovich Bakhmetev (26.02.1860—14.10.1913) was a Bulgarian physicist and a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Běhounek, František

František Běhounek (27.10.1898-1.1.1973) was a Czechoslovak physicist and a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1960).

Békésy, Georg von

Georg von Békésy (3.06.1899-13.06.1972) was a Hungarian physicist and biophysicist.