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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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Fowler, Ralph Howard

Ralph Howard Fowler (17.01.1889-28.07.1944) was an English theoretical physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1925).

Fowler, William Alfred

William Alfred Fowler (born 9.08.1911) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1956).

Fajans, Kazimierz

Kazimierz Fajans (21.05.1887-18.05.1975) — a physicist and chemist, one of the pioneers of the study of radioactivity.

Fedorov, Fedor Ivanovich

Fedor Ivanovich Fedorov ( born 19.06.1911) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1966).

Feather, Norman

Norman Feather (16.02.1904-14.08.1978) was an English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1945) and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (its president in 1967 — 70).

Feinberg, Gerald

Gerald Feinberg ( born 27.05.1933) is an American theoretical physicist.

Feinberg, Evgeny Lvovich

Evgeny Lvovich Feinberg ( born 27.06.1912) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966).

Feynman, Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips Feynman ( born 11.05.1918) — an American theoretical physicist, one of the creators of modern quantum electrodynamics, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1954).

Feoktistov, Lev Petrovich

Lev Petrovich Feoktistov ( born 14.02.1928) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1966).

Feofilov, Petr Petrovich

Petr Petrovich Feofilov (13.04.1915 —24.04.1980) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1964).

Fermat, Pierre

Pierre Fermat (20.08.1601-12.01.1665) was a French mathematician and physicist.

Fermi, Enrico

Enrico Fermi (29.09.1901-28.02.1954) — an Italian physicist, a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1935).

Ferraris, Galileo

Galileo Ferraris (31.10.1847-7.02.1897) was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer, a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1891).

Fechner, Gustav Theodor

Gustav Theodor Fechner (19.04.1801 —18.02.1887) was a German physicist, philosopher and physiologist.

Feshbach, Herman

Herman Feshbach ( born 2.02.1917) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1969).

Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis

Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau (23.09.1819 — 18.09.1896) —a French physicist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1860) and its president (1878).

Feenberg, Eugene

Eugene Feenberg (19.10.1906-7.02.1977) — an American theoretical physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Fierz, Markus

Markus Fierz ( born 20.06.1912) is a Swiss theoretical physicist.