Nuclear physics and elementary particles

Ivar Waller (born 11.06.1898) - Swedish theoretical physicist, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Anton Karlovich Walter (24.12.1905—13.08.1965) — Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1951).

Robert Van de Graaff (20.12.1901-16.01.1967) — American physicist.

Antonius van den Broek (4.05.1870-25.10.1926) — Dutch lawyer and physicist, a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1923).

Gamlet Arutyunovich Vartapetyan (born 26.06.1927) is a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR (1977).

Kenneth Marshall Watson (born 7.09.1921) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974).

Vladimir Iosifovich Veksler (4.03.1907—22.09.1966) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1958; corresponding member 1946).

Gregor Wentzel (17.02.1898-12.08.1978) was a theoretical physicist.

Sergei Nikolayevich Vernov (10.07.1910-26.09.1982) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1968; corresponding member 1953).

Eugene Paul Wigner (born 17.09.1902) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1945).

Gian-Carlo Wick (born 15.X 1909) is an Italian theoretical physicist.

Robert Rathbun Wilson (born 4.03.1914) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1957).

Vasily Vasilyevich Vladimirsky (born 2.08.1915) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1962).

Chien-Shiung Wu (born 31.05.1913) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1958).

Walter Heinrich Heitler (2.01.1904-15.11.1981) was a theoretical physicist.

Viktor Mikhailovich Galitskii (8.09.1924—7.01.1981) was a Soviet theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1976).

George (Georgiy Antonovich) Gamow (4.03.1904-20.08.1968) was an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1953).

Otto Hahn (8.03.1879-28.07.1968) was a German radiochemist and physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1924).

Hans Wilhelm Geiger (30.09.1882-24.09.1945) was a German experimental physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1937).

Werner Karl Heisenberg (5.12.1901 - 1.02.1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the creators of quantum mechanics.