Electricity and magnetism

Anton Karlovich Walter (24.12.1905—13.08.1965) — Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1951).

Martinus van Marum (20.03.1750-26.12.1837) was a Dutch physicist and botanist.

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (13.03.1889-27.10.1980) was an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1935).

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

Johan Carl Wilcke (6.09.1732-18.04.1796) was a Swedish physicist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, from 1784 its permanent secretary.

Alan Herries Wilson (born 2.07.1906) is an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1942).

Wilhelm Wien (13.01.1864-30.08.1928) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.

Max Karl Wien (25.12.1866-24.02.1938) was a German physicist.

Johann Heinrich Winkler (12.03.1703-18.05.1770) was a German physicist.

Alessandro Volta (18.02.1745-5.03.1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist and physiologist, and the inventor of the source of direct electric current.

Sergei Vasilyevich Vonsovsky (born 2.09.1910) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician (1966; corresponding member 1953).

Bentsion Moiseyevich Vul (born 22.05.1903) is a Soviet physicist and an academician (1972; corresponding member 1939).

Wander Johannes de Haas (21.03.1878-26.04.1960) was a Dutch physicist and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1922).

Alexander Alexandrovich Galkin (4.07.1914 —22.10.1982) was a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1965).