The history of physics

Gustave Gaspard Coriolis (21.05.1792- 19.09.1843) was a French physicist and engineer and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1836).

Marie Alfred Cornu (6.03.1841-12.04.1902) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1878), and its president in 1896.

Dirk Koster (5.10.1889-12.02.1950) was a Dutch physicist.

Daulat Singh Kothari (born 6.07.1906) is an Indian physicist and astrophysicist and a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and was its president (1973 — 75).

Eugénie Cotton (13.10.1881-16.06.1967) was a French physicist and public figure.

Georg Wolfgang Krafft (16.07.1701-16.07.1754) was a German physicist.

August Karl Krönig (20.09.1822-5.06.1879) was a German physicist.

Christian Christiansen (9.10.1843-28.02.1917) was a Danish physicist.

Rappal Sangameswaran Krishnan (born 23.09.1911) is an Indian physicist and a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Yuri Alexandrovich Krutkov (29.05.1890—12.09.1952) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1933).

Ryogo Kubo (born 15.02.1920) is a Japanese theoretical physicist.

William David Coolidge (23.10.1873-03.02.1975) was an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1925).

Charles Augustin Coulomb (14.06.1736—23.08.1806) was a French physicist and military engineer and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1803).

Nicholas Kurti (born 14.05.1908) is an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1956), and its vice-president in 1965-67.

Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (12.01.1903—7.02.1960) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1943).

Pierre Curie (15.05.1859-19.04.1906) was a French physicist and one of the founders of the study of radioactivity, and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1905).

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (26.08.1743-8.05.1794) was a French chemist, one of the founders of chemistry, and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1772).

Rudolf Walther Ladenburg (6.06.1882-3.04.1952) was a German physicist.

Theodore Lyman (23.02.1874- 11.09.1954) was an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Johann Heinrich Lambert (26.08.1728-25.09.1777) was a German scientist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1765).