Molecular physics and thermodynamics

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (24.05.1686- 16.09.1736) - physicist.

Alexander Iosifovich Shalnikov (born 10.05.1905) — Soviet experimental physicist, academician (1979, corresponding member 1946).

Walther Friedrich Hermann Nernst (25.06.1864 —18.02.1941) was a German physicist and physical chemist, one of the founders of physical chemistry, and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1905).

William John Macquorn Rankine (5.07.1820-24.11.1872) was a Scottish engineer and physicist, one of the creators of technical thermodynamics, and a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Edinburgh (1850) and London (1853).

Karl Karlovich Rebane (born 11.04.1926) is a Soviet physicist, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR (1967) and its president (from 1973), and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Science…

Georg Wilhelm Richmann (22.07.1711 — 6.08.1753) was a Russian physicist and an academician (1741).

Owen Willans Richardson (26.04.1879—15.02.1959) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1913).

Benjamin Rumford (Thompson) (26.03.1753—21.08.1814) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1779).

John William Rayleigh (Strutt) (12.11.1842 —30.06.1919) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1873), its president in 1905–08.

Denis Papin (22.08.1647-1712) was a physicist and engineer, one of the inventors of the steam engine, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1680) and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences.

Edward Mills Purcell (born 30.08.1912) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1951).

Kumar Patel (born 2.07.1938) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jean Baptiste Perrin (30.09.1870-17.04.1942) — French physicist and physical chemist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1923) and its president in 1936.

Francis Perrin (17.03.1901-27.07.1979) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1953).

Marc Auguste Pictet (23.07.1752-19.04.1825) — a Swiss physicist.

Georg Placzek (26.09.1905-11.10.1955) - a theoretical physicist.

Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk (20.05.1913 —14.03.1966)—Soviet theoretical physicist, academician (1964; corresponding member 1953).

Alexander Savvich Predvoditelev (11.09.1891-27.12.1973) - Soviet physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939).

Ilya Prigogine (Ilya Romanovich) ( born 25.01.1917) — Belgian physicist and physical chemist, one of the founders of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, member of the Belgian Academy of Sciences (1953), its president in 1969…

Antonina Fedorovna Prikhodko ( born 26.04.1906) — Soviet experimental physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1964).