Molecular physics and thermodynamics

Hugh Longbourne Callendar (18.04.1863—21.01.1930) was an English experimental physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1894).

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21.09.1853—21.02.1926) was a Dutch physicist and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (01.06.1796-24.08.1832) was a French physicist and engineer, one of the founders of thermodynamics.

Polykarp Kusch (born 26.01.1911) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1956).

Georg Hermann Quincke (19.11.1834-13.01.1924) was a German physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1879).

Willem Hendrik Keesom (21.06.1876-24.03.1956) was a Dutch physicist and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1924).

Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (26.01.1799—28.01.1864) was a French physicist and engineer and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1858).

Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (2.01.1822-24.08.1888) was a German theoretical physicist, one of the creators of thermodynamics and of the kinetic theory of gases, and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Scie…

Martin Hans Christian Knudsen (15.02.1871— 27.05.1949) was a Danish physicist and oceanographer, a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (1909) and its secretary in 1917—46.

Pavel Pavlovich Kobeko (02.06.1897-06.01.1954) was a Soviet physicist and physical chemist.

Sergei Tikhonovich Konobeevsky (26.04.1890-26.02.1970) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946).

Ferdinand Kurlbaum (4.10.1857-29.07.1927) was a German experimental physicist.

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).

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

Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg (22.01.1890—2.02.1957) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1946; corresponding member 1932).

Paul Langevin (23.01.1872-19.12.1946) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1934).

Pierre Simon Laplace (28.03.1749-5.03.1827) was a French astronomer, physicist and mathematician and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1785).

John Edward Lennard-Jones (27.10.1894—1.02.1954) was an English theoretical physicist.

Irving Langmuir (31.01.1881-16.08.1957) was an American physicist and chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

John Leslie (16.04.1766-3.02.1832) was a Scottish experimental physicist and mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1807).