The history of physics

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).

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.

Stanisław Loria (18.01.1883-8.08.1958) was a Polish physicist.

Francis Eugene Low (born 27.10.1921) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1967).

Johann Josef Loschmidt (15.03.1821—8.07.1895) was an Austrian physicist and chemist and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1870).

Alexei Vasilyevich Lykov (20.09.1910 —28.06.1974) was a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1956).

Gerhart Klaus Friedrich Lüders (born 25.02.1920) is a German theoretical physicist and a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

Otto Richard Lummer (17.07.1860-5.07.1925) was a German experimental physicist.

Francesco Maurolico (16.09.1494-21.07.1575) was an Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer.

Heinrich Gustav Magnus (2.05.1802 - 4.04.1870) was a German physicist and chemist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1840).

Joseph Edward Mayer (born 5.02.1904) is an American theoretical physicist and chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Julius Robert Mayer (25.02.1814-20.03.1878) was a German physician.

Albert Abraham Michelson (19.12.1852—9.05.1931) was an American physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1888) and its president in 1923-27.

Ettore Majorana (5.08.1906-25/26.03.1938) was an Italian theoretical physicist.

James MacCullagh (1809-24.10.1847) was an Irish theoretical physicist and a member of the Royal Irish Academy (1833).

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).

Tadeusz Iosifovich Malinovsky (born 14.10.1921) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR (1976).

Étienne Louis Malus (23.07.1775-24.02.1812) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1810).

Vagan Ivanovich Mamasakhlisov (18.12.1907-19.07.1972) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR (1960).

Stanley Mandelstam (born 12.12.1928) is a theoretical physicist.