Electricity and magnetism

Arthur Auguste de la Rive (9.10.1801-27.11.1873) was a Swiss physicist.

Augusto Righi (27.08.1850-8.06.1921) was an Italian physicist and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1898).

Johann Wilhelm Ritter (16.12.1776—23.01.1810) was a German physicist and chemist and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1804).

Georg Wilhelm Richmann (22.07.1711 — 6.08.1753) was a Russian physicist and an academician (1741).

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

Dmitri Apollinarievich Rozhansky (1.09.1882-27.09.1936) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1933).

Robert Rompe (born 10.09.1905) is a German physicist and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1953).

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

Edward Mills Purcell (born 30.08.1912) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1951).

Wolfgang Pauli (25.04.1900-14.12.1958) — theoretical physicist.

Robert Vivian Pound (born 16.05.1919) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1961).

Antonio Pacinotti (17.06.1841-24.03.1912) was an Italian physicist and inventor and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1898).

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

Arkadiusz Henryk Piekara (born 12.01.1904) is a Polish experimental physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Jean Charles Athanase Peltier (22.02.1785-27.10.1845) was a French physicist.

Frans Michel Penning (12.09.1894—6.03.1953) was a Dutch physicist.

Vasily Vladimirovich Petrov (19.07.1761 - 3.08.1834) was a Russian physicist and electrical engineer and an academician (1815; corresponding member 1802).

Fedor Fomich Petrushevsky (24.03.1828-17.02.1904) was a Russian physicist.

Hippolyte Pixii (1808 -1835) was a French inventor.

Alfred Brian Pippard ( born 7.09.1920) — an English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1956).