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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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Ptolemy, Claudius

Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century AD) - an ancient Greek scholar, the author of the treatise “Great Mathematical Composition of Astronomy in Thirteen Books” (the Almagest, in its Arabic translation), which for more than a th…

Poiseuille, Jean Louis Marie

Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille (22.04.1799-26.12.1869) - French physiologist and physicist, a member of the French Academy of Medicine (1842).

Poincaré, Henri

Henri Poincaré (29.04.1854-17.07.1912) — French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1887).

Poisson, Siméon Denis

Siméon Denis Poisson (21.06.1781-25.06.1840) — French mechanician, mathematician and physicist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1812).

Pouillet, Claude Servais Mathias

Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet (16.02.1790— 14.06.1868) — French physicist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1837).

Sutherland, Gordon Brims

Gordon Brims Sutherland (8.04.1907-27.06.1980) — English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1949).

Sakata, Shoichi

Shoichi Sakata (14.01.1911-16.10.1970) — Japanese theoretical physicist.

Sachs, Robert Green

Robert Green Sachs (born 4.05.1916) — American theoretical physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1971).

Sakurai, Jun John

Jun John Sakurai (31.01.1933-1982) — American theoretical physicist.

Szalay, Sándor

Sándor Szalay (born 4.10.1909) — Hungarian physicist, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1965).

Salam, Abdus

Abdus Salam (born 29.01.1926) — theoretical physicist.

Saha, Meghnad

Meghnad Saha (6.10.1894-16.02.1956) — Indian physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Sevchenko, Anton Nikiforovich

Anton Nikiforovich Sevchenko (22.02.1903-26.09.1978) — Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1953).

Segrè, Emilio

Emilio Segrè (born 1.02.1905) - Italian experimental physicist, a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1958).

Semenov, Nikolai Nikolayevich

Nikolai Nikolayevich Semenov (born 15.04.1896) — Soviet chemist and physicist, academician (1932; corresponding member 1929), and in 1963-71 vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences.