The history of physics

How the science took shape: discoveries and disputes, scientific schools, prizes and recognition.

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Väinö Toivo Hovi (born 29.09.1913) is a Finnish physicist and a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (1960).

Kotaro Honda (24.03.1870-12.02.1954) was a Japanese physicist.

Hristo Yankov Hristov (born 12.06.1915) is a Bulgarian theoretical physicist and a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1961).

Horia Hulubei (15.02.1896-22.02.1972) was a Romanian physicist and a member of the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania (1955).

Fedor Nikiforovich Shvedov (27.02.1840-25.12.1905) was a Russian physicist.

Egon Schweidler (10.02.1873-12.02.1948) was an Austrian physicist and a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.

Mário Schenberg (born 2.07.1916) is a Brazilian physicist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (1942).

Paul Scherrer (03.02.1890-1970) was a Swiss experimental physicist.

Dmitri Vasilyevich Shirkov (born 3.03.1928) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1960).

Leonard Isaac Schiff (29.03.1915-1971) was an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1957).

Erwin Schrödinger (12.08.1887-4.01.1961) — an Austrian theoretical physicist, one of the creators of quantum mechanics.

Johannes Stark (15.04.1874-21.06.1957) — a German physicist, a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.

Leonhard Euler (15.04.1707-18.09.1783) — a mathematician, mechanician and physicist.

Albert Einstein (14.03.1879-18.04.1955) was an outstanding theoretical physicist and one of the founders of modern physics.

Arne Sigvard Eklund (born 19.06.1911) is a Swedish physicist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1972).

Thomas Andrews (19.12.1813-26.02.1885) was an Irish physical chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1849).

Franz Aepinus (13.12.1724-22.08.1802) was a physicist and a member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1756).

Edward Appleton (6.09.1892-21.04.1965) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1927).

Paul Sophus Epstein (20.03.1883-9.02.1966) was a theoretical physicist.

Hans Christian Ørsted (14.08.1777-9.03.1851) was a Danish physicist and, from 1815, permanent secretary of the Royal Danish Society.