Molecular physics and thermodynamics

Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz (13.01.1917-23.10.1982) was a Soviet theoretical physicist, an academician (1970; corresponding member 1960) and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1967).

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (19.02.1711 — 15.04.1765) was an outstanding Russian scientist and materialist thinker, and a member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1745).

Fritz London (7.03.1900-30.03.1954) was a theoretical physicist.

Olli Lounasmaa (born 20.08.1930) is a Finnish physicist and a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters (1970).

Francis Wheeler Loomis (4.08.1889-9.02.1976) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1949).

René Auguste Lucas (born 17.07.1898) is a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1964).

John Cunningham McLennan (14.04.1867 — 9.10.1935) was a Canadian physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1903), of which he was president in 1924.

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).

Robert Sanderson Mulliken (born 7.06.1896) is an American physicist and chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1936).

Edme Mariotte (1620-12.05.1684) was a French physicist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1666) and one of its founders.

Macedonio Melloni (11.04.1798-11.03.1854) was an Italian physicist.

Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn (7.01.1906—18.09.1980) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1951).

Pieter van Musschenbroek (14.03.1692 — 19.09.1761) was a Dutch physicist.

Ivan Vasilyevich Obreimov (8.03.1894—2.12.981) was a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician (1958; corresponding member 1933).

Lars Onsager (27.02.1903-5.10.1976) was an American chemist and physicist, one of the creators of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1947).

Isidor Isaac Rabi (born 29.07.1898) is an American physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1940).

Gopalasamudram Ramachandran (born 8.10.1922) is an Indian physicist and biophysicist, a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences (1950), its vice-president in 1962 — 64.

William Ramsay (2.10.1852-23.07.1916) was an English chemist and physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1888).

Norman Foster Ramsey (born 27.08.1915) — an American experimental physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences (1952).

Immanuil Lazarevich Fabelinsky (born 27.01.1911) Soviet physicist, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979).