Molecular physics and thermodynamics

Max Born (11.12.1882 - 5.1.1970) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of the new physics.

Marcel Brillouin (19.12.1854-16.06.1948) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1921).

Alexander Filippovich Walter (20.05.1898 —1941) — Soviet physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1933).

Johannes Diderik van der Waals (23.11.1837-9.03.1923) - Dutch physicist, a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (13.03.1889-27.10.1980) was an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1935).

Pierre Ernest Weiss (25.03.1865-24.10.1940) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1926).

Boris Ieremiyevich Verkin (born 8.08.1919) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1972).

Jules Émile Verschaffelt (27.1.1870-22.12.1955) was a Belgian experimental physicist and a member of the Belgian Academy of Sciences (1919).

Johan Carl Wilcke (6.09.1732-18.04.1796) was a Swedish physicist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, from 1784 its permanent secretary.

Wilhelm Wien (13.01.1864-30.08.1928) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.

Jules Louis Gabriel Violle (16.11.1841 —12.09.1923) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1897).

Leonid Vikentyevich Volodko (2.1.1928 - 29.09.1978) was a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1977).

Mieczysław Wolfke (29.05.1883-3.05.1947) was a Polish physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1932).

Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski (28.10.1845—16.04.1888) was a Polish physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1880).

Robert Williams Wood (2.05.1868-11.08.1955) was an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1912).

Nikolai Alexandrovich Gezekhus (17.01.1845—1919) was a Russian physicist.

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (6.12.1778-9.05.1850) was a French physicist and chemist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1806).

John Herapath (30.05.1790-24.02.1868) was an English physicist.

Gerhard Herzberg (born 25.12.1904) is a Canadian experimental physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1939), of which he was president in 1966—67.

Josiah Willard Gibbs (11.02.1839-28.04.1903) was an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.