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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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Warburg, Emil Gabriel

Emil Gabriel Warburg (9.03.1846 - 28.07.1931) was a German physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1895).

Vartapetyan, Gamlet Arutyunovich

Gamlet Arutyunovich Vartapetyan (born 26.06.1927) is a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR (1977).

Watson, Kenneth Marshall

Kenneth Marshall Watson (born 7.09.1921) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974).

Weber, Wilhelm Eduard

Wilhelm Eduard Weber (24.10.1804-23.06.1891) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1834).

Weber, Joseph

Joseph Weber (born 17.05.1919) is an American physicist.

Weyl, Hermann

Hermann Weyl (9.11.1885-8.12.1955) was a German mathematician.

Weiss, Pierre Ernest

Pierre Ernest Weiss (25.03.1865-24.10.1940) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1926).

Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (born 28.06.1912) is a German theoretical physicist and astrophysicist and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

Veksler, Vladimir Iosifovich

Vladimir Iosifovich Veksler (4.03.1907—22.09.1966) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1958; corresponding member 1946).

Velikhov, Evgeny Pavlovich

Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov (born 2.02.1935) is a Soviet theoretical physicist, an academician (1974; corresponding member 1968) and vice-president (since 1977).

Wentzel, Gregor

Gregor Wentzel (17.02.1898-12.08.1978) was a theoretical physicist.

Vereshchagin, Leonid Fedorovich

Leonid Fedorovich Vereshchagin (29.04.1909—20.02.1977) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1966; corresponding member 1960).

Verkin, Boris Ieremiyevich

Boris Ieremiyevich Verkin (born 8.08.1919) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1972).

Vernov, Sergei Nikolayevich

Sergei Nikolayevich Vernov (10.07.1910-26.09.1982) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1968; corresponding member 1953).

Verschaffelt, Jules Émile

Jules Émile Verschaffelt (27.1.1870-22.12.1955) was a Belgian experimental physicist and a member of the Belgian Academy of Sciences (1919).

Viviani, Vincenzo

Vincenzo Viviani (5.04.1622-22.09.1703) was an Italian scientist and a member of the Accademia del Cimento in Florence.

Wigner, Eugene Paul

Eugene Paul Wigner (born 17.09.1902) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1945).

Wiedemann, Gustav Heinrich

Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (2.10.1826-23.02.1899) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1879).

Widerøe, Rolf

Rolf Widerøe (born 11.07.1902) is a Norwegian physicist and engineer and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1973).