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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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Eklund, Arne Sigvard

Arne Sigvard Eklund (born 19.06.1911) is a Swedish physicist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1972).

Exner, Franz

Franz Exner (24.03.1849—15.02.1926) was an Austrian physicist and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Ellis, Charles Drummond

Charles Drummond Ellis (1895-10.01.1980) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Elsasser, Walter

Walter Elsasser (born 20.03.1904) was a physicist and geophysicist.

Elster, Julius

Julius Elster (24.12.1854-6.04.1920) was a German experimental physicist.

Andrews, Thomas

Thomas Andrews (19.12.1813-26.02.1885) was an Irish physical chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1849).

Aepinus, Franz

Franz Aepinus (13.12.1724-22.08.1802) was a physicist and a member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1756).

Appleton, Edward

Edward Appleton (6.09.1892-21.04.1965) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1927).

Ehrenfest, Paul

Paul Ehrenfest (18.01.1880-25.09.1933) was a theoretical physicist.

Ørsted, Hans Christian

Hans Christian Ørsted (14.08.1777-9.03.1851) was a Danish physicist and, from 1815, permanent secretary of the Royal Danish Society.

Esaki, Leo

Leo Esaki (born 12.03.1925) is a Japanese physicist and a member of the Japan Academy (1975).

Estermann, Immanuel

Immanuel Estermann (31.03.1900-3.03.1973) was a German experimental physicist.

Eötvös, Loránd

Loránd Eötvös (27.07.1848-8.04.1919) was a Hungarian physicist and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1883), and in 1899-1905 its president.

Lanius, Karl

Karl Lanius (born 3.V 1927) is a German physicist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1969).

Powell, Cecil Frank

Cecil Frank Powell (5.12.1903-9.08.1969) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1949).

Scientists beginning with "A"

Abdullayev, Hasan Mammad Bagir oglu — (born 20.08.1918) is a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR (1967) and its president (since 1970), and a corresponding member of the USSR…

Scientists beginning with "E"

Eddington, Arthur Stanley — (28.12.1882—22.02.1944) — English astrophysicist and physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society (1914).