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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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Hall, Edwin Herbert

Edwin Herbert Hall (7.02.1855-20.02.1938) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1911).

Honda, Kotaro

Kotaro Honda (24.03.1870-12.02.1954) was a Japanese physicist.

Hofstadter, Robert

Robert Hofstadter (born 5.02.1915) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1958).

Khokhlov, Rem Viktorovich

Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov (15.07.1926 — 8.08.1977) was a Soviet physicist, one of the founders of nonlinear optics, an academician (1974; corresponding member 1966).

Hristov, Hristo Yankov

Hristo Yankov Hristov (born 12.06.1915) is a Bulgarian theoretical physicist and a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1961).

Hulubei, Horia

Horia Hulubei (15.02.1896-22.02.1972) was a Romanian physicist and a member of the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania (1955).

Hund, Friedrich

Friedrich Hund (born 4.02.1896) is a German theoretical physicist and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

Hückel, Erich

Erich Hückel (9.08.1896-16.02.1980) was a German theoretical physicist.

Schwartz, Melvin

Melvin Schwartz (born 2.11.1932) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1975).

Schwarzschild, Karl

Karl Schwarzschild (9.10.1873 - 11.05.1916) was a German astronomer and physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1912).

Schweidler, Egon

Egon Schweidler (10.02.1873-12.02.1948) was an Austrian physicist and a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.

Schwinger, Julian

Julian Schwinger (born 12.02.1918) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1949).

Shoenberg, David

David Shoenberg (born 4.01.1911) is an English experimental physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1953).

Schenberg, Mário

Mário Schenberg (born 2.07.1916) is a Brazilian physicist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (1942).

Scherrer, Paul

Paul Scherrer (03.02.1890-1970) was a Swiss experimental physicist.

Shirkov, Dmitri Vasilyevich

Dmitri Vasilyevich Shirkov (born 3.03.1928) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1960).