Atomic and quantum physics

Max Felix Theodor von Laue (9.10.1879 —24.04.1960) was a German theoretical physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1921).

Alexander Alexeyevich Lebedev (26.02.1893—15.03.1969) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1943; corresponding member 1939).

Philipp Eduard Anton Lenard (7.06.1862—20.05.1947) was a German physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.

John Edward Lennard-Jones (27.10.1894—1.02.1954) was an English theoretical physicist.

Irving Langmuir (31.01.1881-16.08.1957) was an American physicist and chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz (13.01.1917-23.10.1982) was a Soviet theoretical physicist, an academician (1970; corresponding member 1960) and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1967).

Fritz London (7.03.1900-30.03.1954) was a theoretical physicist.

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (18.07.1853-4.02.1928) was a Dutch theoretical physicist, the creator of the classical electron theory and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Petr Ivanovich Lukirsky (13.12.1894—16.02.1954) was a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician (1946, a corresponding member from 1933).

Willis Eugene Lamb (born 12.07.1913) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1954).

Robert Sanderson Mulliken (born 7.06.1896) is an American physicist and chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1936).

Sergei Leonidovich Mandelstam (born 22.02.1910) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979).

Josef Heinrich Mattauch (born 21.12.1895) is an Austrian physicist and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

William Frederick Meggers (13.07.1888 — 19.02. 1967) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1954).

Lise Meitner (7.02.1878-27.10.1968) was an Austrian physicist and radiochemist.

Mikhail Grigoryevich Meshcheryakov (born 17.09.1910) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953).

Arkady Beinusovich Migdal (born 11.03.1911) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician (1966; corresponding member 1953).

Robert Andrews Millikan (22.03.1868 —19.12.1953) was an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1915).

Henry Moseley (23.09.1887-10.08.1915) was an English physicist and one of the founders of X-ray spectroscopy.

Nevill Francis Mott (born 30.09.1905) is an English theoretical physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1936).