The history of physics

Democritus (c. 460-370 BC) was an ancient Greek scientist and materialist philosopher, the chief representative of ancient atomism.

Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (14.08.1886—11.03.1950) was a Canadian physicist and chemist.

Yuri Nikolayevich Denisyuk (born 27.07.1927) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1970).

David Mathias Dennison (26.04.1900 —3.04.1976) was an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1953).

Emil Stefanov Djakov (born 2.03.1908) is a Bulgarian physicist and a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1967).

Germer, Lester Halbert (10.10.1896–3.10.1971) was an American physicist and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Josephson, Brian David (born 4.01.1940) is an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1970).

Joule, James Prescott (24.12.1818–11.10.1889) was an English physicist, one of the discoverers of the law of conservation of energy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1850).

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (born 8.08.1902) is an English theoretical physicist, one of the creators of quantum mechanics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1930).

Dobrotin, Nikolai Alexeyevich (born 18.06.1908) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1967).

Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Mikhail Iosifovich (2.01.1862–15.02.1919) was a Russian physicist and electrical engineer who laid the foundations of three-phase current engineering.

Doppler, Christian (30.11.1803–17.03.1853) was an Austrian physicist, mathematician and astronomer, and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1848).

Humphry Davy (17.12.1778-29.05.1829) was an English chemist and physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1803) and its president in 1820—27.

Pierre Duhem (10.06.1861 —14.09.1916) was a French theoretical physicist and a historian and philosopher of science, and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1913).

Pierre Louis Dulong (12.02.1785-19.07.1838) was a French physicist and chemist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1823) and its president (1828).

Charles François Du Fay (14.09.1698-16.07.1739) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1723).

Euclid (3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek scholar.

Nikolai Grigoryevich Egorov (19.09.1849 —22.07.1919) was a Russian experimental physicist.

Willibald Karl Jentschke (born 6.12.1911) is an Austrian physicist.

Jules Célestin Jamin (30.05.1818-12.02.1886) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1868).