Mechanics

Dicke, Robert (born 6.05.1916) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1967).

Jean-Marie Constant Duhamel (5.02.1797-29.04.1872) was a French physicist and mathematician and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1840).

Johannes Kepler (27.12.1571-15.02.1630) was a German scientist and one of the creators of celestial mechanics.

Harald Petrovich Keres (born 15.11.1912) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR (1961).

Igor Mikhailovich Kirko (born 16.04.1918) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR (1966).

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (12.03.1824-17.10.1887) was a German physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1875).

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).

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).

Georgy Vyacheslavovich Kurdyumov (born 14.02.1902) is a Soviet metal physicist, an academician (1953, a corresponding member from 1946) and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1939).

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1.07.1646— 14.02.1716) was a German scientist and philosopher.

Leonardo da Vinci (15.04.1452-2.10.1519) was an Italian painter, scientist and inventor.

Gilbert Newton Lewis (25.10.1875-23.03.1946) was an American physical chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

James Clerk Maxwell (13.07.1831 — 5.02.1879) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1855) and of the Royal Society of London (1861).

Ernst Mach (18.02.1838-19.02.1916) was an Austrian physicist and idealist philosopher.

Mikhail Dmitriyevich Millionshchikov (16.01.1913-27.05.1973) was a Soviet physicist and public figure, an academician (1962; corresponding member 1953), and from 1962 a vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Ostrogradsky (24.09.1801-1.01.1862) was a Russian mathematician and mechanician, a member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1830).

James Watt (19.01. 1736-19.08.1819) —a Scottish inventor, the creator of the universal steam engine, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1784).

John Archibald Wheeler (born 9.07.1911)-an American theoretical physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences (1952).

Michael Faraday (22.09.1791-25.08.1867) — English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1824).

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (born 19.10.1910) — American theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1955).