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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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Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (31.03.1906-8.07.1979) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and a member of the Japan Academy (1951).

Thomson, Joseph John

Joseph John Thomson (18.12.1856-30.08.1940) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1884), its president in 1916-20.

Thomson, George Paget

George Paget Thomson (3.05.1892-10.09.1975) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1930).

Thomson (Kelvin), William

William Thomson (Kelvin) (26.06.1824-17.12.1907) was an English physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1851), its president in 1890-95.

Tonks, Lewi

Lewi Tonks (13.12.1897-1971) was an American physicist.

Treder, Hans-Jürgen

Hans-Jürgen Treder (born 4.09.1928) is a German theoretical physicist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1966).

Treiman, Sam Bard

Sam Bard Treiman (born 27.05.1925) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1972).

Trefilov, Viktor Ivanovich

Viktor Ivanovich Trefilov (born 6.08.1930) is a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1973) and its vice-president (from 1974).

Trowbridge, John

John Trowbridge (5.08.1843-18.02.1923) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1878).

Trutnev, Yuri Alexeyevich

Yuri Alexeyevich Trutnev (born 2.11.1927) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1964).

Tudorovsky, Alexander Illarionovich

Alexander Illarionovich Tudorovsky (24.08.1875-25.10.1963) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1933).

Tuve, Merle Antony

Merle Antony Tuve (27.06.1901-1982) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1946).

Tait, Peter Guthrie

Peter Guthrie Tait (28.04.1831-4.07.1901) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1879).

Ursu, Ioan

Ioan Ursu (born 5.04.1928) is a Romanian physicist and a member of the Romanian Academy (1974).