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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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Soddy, Frederick

Frederick Soddy (2.09.1877-22.09.1956) was an English physicist and chemist, one of the pioneers of radioactivity, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1910).

Sokolov, Sergei Yakovlevich

Sergei Yakovlevich Sokolov (8.10.1897 —20.05.1957) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953).

Soloukhin, Rem Ivanovich

Rem Ivanovich Soloukhin ( born 19.11.1930) is a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1977) and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968).

Salpeter, Edwin Ernest

Edwin Ernest Salpeter ( born 3.12.1924) is an American theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1967).

Spivak, Petr Efimovich

Petr Efimovich Spivak ( born 24.03.1911) is a Soviet experimental physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1964).

Spitzer, Lyman

Lyman Spitzer ( born 26.06.1914) is an American astrophysicist and physicist, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1952).

Starodubtsev, Sergei Vasilyevich

Sergei Vasilyevich Starodubtsev (24.10.1914—19.03.1967) was a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR (1956), and its vice-president (from 1956).

Stevin, Simon

Simon Stevin (1548-1620) was a Dutch mathematician, mechanician and physicist.

Stepanov, Alexander Vasilyevich

Alexander Vasilyevich Stepanov (26.08.1908 — 16.05.1972) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968).

Stepanov, Boris Ivanovich

Boris Ivanovich Stepanov ( born 28.04.1913) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1953).

Stefan, Josef

Josef Stefan (24.03.1835-7.01.1893) was an Austrian physicist and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1865).

Stokes, George Gabriel

George Gabriel Stokes (13.08.1819-1.02.1903) was an English physicist and mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1851).

Stoney, George Johnstone

George Johnstone Stoney (15.02.1826 — 5.07.1911) was an Irish physicist and mathematician, a member of the Irish Royal Society (1861) and its secretary for 20 years.

Stoner, Edmund Clifton

Edmund Clifton Stoner (2.10.1899-27.12.1968) was an English theoretical physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1937).

Strelkov, Petr Georgievich

Petr Georgievich Strelkov (16.10.1899 — 11.11.1968) was a Soviet experimental physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1960).

Stewart, Balfour

Balfour Stewart (1.11.1828-19.12.1887) was a Scottish physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1862).