Electricity and magnetism

Pierre Curie (15.05.1859-19.04.1906) was a French physicist and one of the founders of the study of radioactivity, and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1905).

Lev Davidovich Landau (22.01.1908-1.04.1968) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician (1946).

Paul Langevin (23.01.1872-19.12.1946) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1934).

Charles Christian Lauritsen (4.04.1892—13.04.1968) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1941).

Vadim Evgenyevich Lashkarev (7.10.1903—1.12.1974) was a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1945).

Petr Nikolayevich Lebedev (8.03.1866—14.03.1912) was a Russian experimental physicist.

Vladimir Konstantinovich Lebedinsky (20.07.1868-02.07.1937) was a Soviet physicist and a Doctor of Technical Sciences.

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

Emil Khristianovich Lenz (24.02.1804— 10.02.1865) was a Russian physicist and a member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1834).

Mikhail Alexandrovich Leontovich (7.03.1903 — 30.03.1981) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician (1946; corresponding member 1939).

Ernst Lecher (1.06.1856-19.07.1926) was an Austrian experimental physicist.

Gabriel Lippmann (16.08.1845-12.07.1921) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1886).

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1.07.1742 — 24.02.1799) was a German experimental physicist.

Oliver Joseph Lodge (12.06.1851-22.08.1940) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1887).

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (19.02.1711 — 15.04.1765) was an outstanding Russian scientist and materialist thinker, and a member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1745).

Heinz London (7.02.1907-3.08.1970) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1961).

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.

James Clerk Maxwell (13.07.1831 — 5.02.1879) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1855) and of the Royal Society of London (1861).

Guglielmo Marconi (25.04.1874-20.07.1937) was an Italian physicist, engineer and entrepreneur and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1912), and from 1930 its president.

Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart (20.02.1837-26.08.1908) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1884), and in 1904 its president.