The history of physics

James Alfred Van Allen (born 7.09.1914) — American physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1959).

Gregory Hugh Wannier (born 30.12.1911) is a theoretical physicist.

Gleb Wataghin (Gleb Vasilyevich Vatagin) (born 3.11.1899) is an Italian theoretical physicist and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1960).

Wilhelm Eduard Weber (24.10.1804-23.06.1891) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1834).

Hermann Weyl (9.11.1885-8.12.1955) was a German mathematician.

Vincenzo Viviani (5.04.1622-22.09.1703) was an Italian scientist and a member of the Accademia del Cimento in Florence.

Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (2.10.1826-23.02.1899) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1879).

Paul Ulrich Villard (28.09.1860-13.I 1934) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1908).

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (14.02.1869 — 15.11.1959) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1900).

Otto Heinrich Wiener (15.06.1862-18.1.1927) was a German physicist.

Johann Heinrich Winkler (12.03.1703-18.05.1770) was a German physicist.

Emil Wiechert (26.12.1861-19.03.1928) was a German physicist and geophysicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1911).

Anatoly Alexandrovich Vlasov (20.08.1908-22.12.1975) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

William Hyde Wollaston (6.08.1766 —22.12.1828) was an English scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1793).

Alessandro Volta (18.02.1745-5.03.1827) was an Italian physicist, chemist and physiologist, and the inventor of the source of direct electric current.

Václav Votruba (born 19.12.1909) is a Czechoslovak theoretical physicist and a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1977).

Georgy (Yuri) Viktorovich Wulff (22.06.1863 — 25.12.1925) was a Soviet crystallographer and crystal physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1921).

William Alfred Wooster (born 18.08.1903) is an English physicist.

Friedrich Hasenöhrl (30.11.1874-7.10.1915) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Galileo Galilei (15.02.1564-8.01.1642) was an outstanding Italian physicist and astronomer, one of the founders of exact natural science and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1611).