The history of physics

Year Name Achievement 1901 W. Röntgen For the discovery of the rays named after him (X-rays). 1902 H.

Nicolò Aggiunti (6.XII 1600-6.XII 1635) - Italian physicist.

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27.03.1845 - 10.02.1923) was a German experimental physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1896).

Jérémie Joseph Benoît Abria (19.03.1811 — 4.04.1892) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1880).

Ernst Ferdinand August (18.11.1795 - 25.03.1870) was a German physicist and inventor.

Kirill Sergeyevich Alexandrov (born 09.01.1931) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1972).

Hannes Alfvén (born 30.05.1908) was a Swedish physicist and astrophysicist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (from 1947).

Alhazen (the Latinised name of Abu Ali al-Haytham) (965 — 1039) was an Arab scholar and the best-known physicist of the Middle Ages.

Guillaume Amontons (31.08.1663 - 11.10.1705) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1699).

Anders Jonas Ångström (13.08.1814 —21.06.1874) was a Swedish physicist and astronomer.

Alexander Alexandrovich Andronov (11.IV 1901 - 31.X 1952) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1946).

Rukhi Guseinovich Annaev (24.I 1909 - 9.VII 1977) was a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmen SSR (1951) and its vice-president in 1956—59.

Dominique François Arago (26.02.1786 - 2.X 1853) was a French scientist and politician and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1809), from 1830 its permanent secretary.

Aristotle (384-322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist.

Svante August Arrhenius (19.02.1859-2.10.1927) was a Swedish physical chemist, one of the founders of physical chemistry, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1901).

Archimedes (about 287-212 BC) was an ancient Greek scientist.

George Atwood (1746-11.07 1807) was an English physicist and mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1776).

Yuri Nikolayevich Babaev (born 21.05.1928) is a Soviet experimental physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968).

Jacques Babinet (5.03.1794-21.X 1872) was a French physicist and astronomer and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1840).

Ernst Back (21.10.1881 - 20.07.1959) was a German experimental physicist.