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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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Hughes, David Edward

David Edward Hughes (16.05.1831-21.01.1900) was an English physicist and inventor and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1880).

Yukawa, Hideki

Hideki Yukawa (23.01.1907-08.11.1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and a member of the Japan Academy (1946).

Young, Thomas

Thomas Young (13.06.1773-10.05.1829) was an English scientist, one of the founders of wave optics, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1794) and its secretary in 1802-29.

Urey, Harold Clayton

Harold Clayton Urey (29.04.1893 — 1981) was an American physicist and physical chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1935).

Jucys, Adolfas Pranovich

Adolfas Pranovich Jucys (12.09.1904-4.02.1974) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR (1953).

Jabłoński, Aleksander

Aleksander Jabłoński (26.02.1898-9.09.1980) was a Polish physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1956).

Jacobi, Boris Semyonovich

Boris Semyonovich Jacobi (21.09.1801-27.02.1874) was a Russian physicist and electrical engineer and a member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1847).

Yang, Chen Ning

Chen Ning Yang (born 22.09.1922) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1965).

Jánossy, Lajos

Lajos Jánossy (2.03.1912-2.03.1978) was a Hungarian physicist and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1950), and its vice-president in 1958-73.

Nguyen Van Hieu

Nguyen Van Hieu (born 21.06.1938) is a Vietnamese theoretical physicist.

Niewodniczański, Henryk

Henryk Niewodniczański (10.12.1900-20.12.1968) was a Polish experimental physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1951).

Néel, Louis

Louis Néel (born 22.02.1904) is a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1953).

Neumann, John von

John von Neumann (28.12.1903-8.02.1957) was an American mathematician and physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (from 1937).

Neumann, Carl Gottfried

Carl Gottfried Neumann (7.05.1832-27.03.1925) was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1893).

Neumann, Franz Ernst

Franz Ernst Neumann (11.09.1798-23.05.1895) was a German theoretical physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1858).

Nemenov, Leonid Mikhailovich

Leonid Mikhailovich Nemenov (16.02.1905-20.07.1980) was a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1962).

Nemets, Oleg Fedorovich

Oleg Fedorovich Nemets (born 13.02.1922) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1978).

Nernst, Walther Friedrich Hermann

Walther Friedrich Hermann Nernst (25.06.1864 —18.02.1941) was a German physicist and physical chemist, one of the founders of physical chemistry, and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1905).

Nesterikhin, Yuri Efremovich

Yuri Efremovich Nesterikhin (born 10.10.1930) is a Soviet physicist and an academician (1981; corresponding member 1970).

Nicol, William

William Nicol (1768 - 2.09.1851) was a Scottish scientist.