The history of physics

Thomas Young (13.06.1773-10.05.1829) was an English scientist, one of the founders of wave optics, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1794) and its secretary in 1802-29.

Aleksander Jabłoński (26.02.1898-9.09.1980) was a Polish physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1956).

Boris Semyonovich Jacobi (21.09.1801-27.02.1874) was a Russian physicist and electrical engineer and a member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1847).

Lajos Jánossy (2.03.1912-2.03.1978) was a Hungarian physicist and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1950), and its vice-president in 1958-73.

Nguyen Van Hieu (born 21.06.1938) is a Vietnamese theoretical physicist.

Henryk Niewodniczański (10.12.1900-20.12.1968) was a Polish experimental physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1951).

Carl Gottfried Neumann (7.05.1832-27.03.1925) was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1893).

Walther Friedrich Hermann Nernst (25.06.1864 —18.02.1941) was a German physicist and physical chemist, one of the founders of physical chemistry, and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1905).

Yuri Efremovich Nesterikhin (born 10.10.1930) is a Soviet physicist and an academician (1981; corresponding member 1970).

William Nicol (1768 - 2.09.1851) was a Scottish scientist.

Ernest Fox Nichols (1.06.1869-29.04.1924) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1908).

William Nicholson (1753-21.05.1815) was an English physicist, chemist and engineer.

Kazuhiko Nishijima (born 4.10.1926) is a Japanese theoretical physicist.

Leopoldo Nobili (1784-5.08.1835) was an Italian physicist.

Jean Antoine Nollet (19.02.1700-2.04.1770) was a French experimental physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1739).

Isaac Newton (4.01.1643-31.03.1727) was an outstanding English scientist who laid the foundations of modern natural science, the creator of classical physics, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1672) and its president (from …

John Mitchell Nuttall (21.07.1890-28.01.1958) was an English physicist.

Jesse Ramsden (6.10.1735-5.11.1800) was an English mechanic and optician, a well-known maker of physical instruments, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1786).

Tullio Regge (born 11.07.1931) is an Italian theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1972).

Ernest Rutherford (30.08.1871-19.10.1937) — an English physicist, the founder of nuclear physics, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1903) and its president in 1925-30.