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Molecular physics and thermodynamics

The structure of matter, the gas laws, temperature and heat, entropy, phase transitions.

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Hirn, Gustave Adolphe

Gustave Adolphe Hirn (21.08.1815-14.01.1890) was a French physicist and engineer and a corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Sciences.

Golitsyn, Boris Borisovich

Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (2.03.1862 —17.05.1916) was a Russian physicist, the founder of seismology in Russia and a member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1898).

Hooke, Robert

Robert Hooke (18.07.1635-3.03.1703) was an English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1663) and its secretary in 1677 — 83.

Gouy, Louis Georges

Louis Georges Gouy (19.02.1854-27.01.1926) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1913).

Guye, Charles

Charles Guye (15.10.1866-15.07.1942) was a Swiss experimental physicist.

Davydov, Alexander Sergeyevich

Alexander Sergeyevich Davydov (born 26.12.1912) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1964).

Dalton, John

John Dalton (6.09.1766-27.07.1844) was an English chemist and physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1822).

Debye, Peter Joseph William

Peter Joseph William Debye (24.03.1884—2.02.1966) was a physicist and chemist and one of the founders of the theory of the solid state.

Giauque, William Francis

Giauque, William Francis (born 12.05.1895) is an American physicist and chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1936).

Joule, James Prescott

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).

Dewar, James

Dewar, James (20.09.1842–27.03.1923) was an English chemist and physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1877).

Dulong, Pierre Louis

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).

Dufour, Louis

Louis Dufour (17.02.1832-14.11.1892) was a Swiss physicist.

Zhurkov, Serafim Nikolayevich

Serafim Nikolayevich Zhurkov (born 29.05.1905) is a Soviet physicist and an academician (1968; a corresponding member 1958).

Imanov, Latif Mukhtar oglu

Latif Mukhtar oglu Imanov (15.09.1922—12.03.1980) was a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR (1976).

Cavendish, Henry

Henry Cavendish (10.10.1731-24.02.1810) was an English physicist and chemist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1760).

Casimir, Hendrik

Hendrik Casimir (born 15.07.1909) is a Dutch physicist and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1946) and its president (1973).