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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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Magnus, Heinrich Gustav

Heinrich Gustav Magnus (2.05.1802 - 4.04.1870) was a German physicist and chemist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1840).

Madelung, Erwin

Erwin Madelung (18.05.1881-1972) was a German theoretical physicist.

Mayer, Joseph Edward

Joseph Edward Mayer (born 5.02.1904) is an American theoretical physicist and chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Michelson, Albert Abraham

Albert Abraham Michelson (19.12.1852—9.05.1931) was an American physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1888) and its president in 1923-27.

Majorana, Ettore

Ettore Majorana (5.08.1906-25/26.03.1938) was an Italian theoretical physicist.

MacCullagh, James

James MacCullagh (1809-24.10.1847) was an Irish theoretical physicist and a member of the Royal Irish Academy (1833).

McLennan, John Cunningham

John Cunningham McLennan (14.04.1867 — 9.10.1935) was a Canadian physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1903), of which he was president in 1924.

McMillan, Edwin Mattison

Edwin Mattison McMillan (born 18.09.1907) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1947).

Maxwell, James Clerk

James Clerk Maxwell (13.07.1831 — 5.02.1879) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1855) and of the Royal Society of London (1861).

Maksutov, Dmitri Dmitriyevich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Maksutov (23.04.1896-12.08.1964) was a Soviet optical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946).

Malinovsky, Tadeusz Iosifovich

Tadeusz Iosifovich Malinovsky (born 14.10.1921) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR (1976).

Mulliken, Robert Sanderson

Robert Sanderson Mulliken (born 7.06.1896) is an American physicist and chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1936).

Malus, Étienne Louis

Étienne Louis Malus (23.07.1775-24.02.1812) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1810).

Mamasakhlisov, Vagan Ivanovich

Vagan Ivanovich Mamasakhlisov (18.12.1907-19.07.1972) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR (1960).

Mandelstam, Leonid Isaakovich

Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (4.05.1879 —27.06.1944) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1929; a corresponding member in 1928).

Mandelstam, Sergei Leonidovich

Sergei Leonidovich Mandelstam (born 22.02.1910) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979).

Mariotte, Edme

Edme Mariotte (1620-12.05.1684) was a French physicist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1666) and one of its founders.

Markov, Moisei Alexandrovich

Moisei Alexandrovich Markov (born 13.05.1908) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician (1966; a corresponding member in 1953).