Atomic and quantum physics

Alfred Nier (born 28.05.1911) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1950).

Yoshio Nishina (6.12.1890-10.01.1951) was a Japanese physicist and a member of the Japan Academy (1948).

Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (born 7.11.1899) is a theoretical physicist.

Sergei Glebovich Rautian (born 18.12.1928) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979).

Karl Karlovich Rebane (born 11.04.1926) is a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR (1967) and its president (from 1973), and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Science…

Johannes Robert Rydberg (8.11.1854 —28.12.1919) was a Swedish physicist and mathematician and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1919).

Owen Willans Richardson (26.04.1879—15.02.1959) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1913).

Dmitri Sergeyevich Rozhdestvensky (7.04.1876-25.06.1940) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1929; corresponding member 1925).

Boris Lvovich Rosing (5.05.1869-20.04.1933) was a Soviet physicist and inventor and the founder of electronic television.

Arthur Edward Ruark (9.11. 1899-1.05.1978) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Heinrich Rubens (30.03 1865-17.07.1922) was a German experimental physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1907).

Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky (born 24.04.1919) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1954).

Kumar Patel (born 2.07.1938) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Wolfgang Pauli (25.04.1900-14.12.1958) — theoretical physicist.

Friedrich Paschen (22.01.1865-25.02.1947) was a German experimental physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1925).

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (23.04.1858 —4.10.1947) — a German theoretical physicist, the founder of quantum theory, a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1894) and its permanent secretary in 1912 — 38.

Yuras Karlovich Pozhela ( born 5.12.1925) — a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR (1968), its vice-president (from 1972).

Robert Wichard Pohl (10.08.1884-5.06.1976) — German experimental physicist, member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk (20.05.1913 —14.03.1966)—Soviet theoretical physicist, academician (1964; corresponding member 1953).

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born 11.08.1916) — Soviet physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics, academician (1966; corresponding member 1960).