Nuclear physics and elementary particles
The atomic nucleus and radioactivity, nuclear reactions and reactors, accelerators, particles and their interactions.
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Owen Chamberlain (born 10.07.1920) - American physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1960).
Pavel Alexeyevich Cherenkov (born 28.07.1904) — Soviet physicist, academician (1970; corresponding member 1964).
Geoffrey Foucar Chew (born 5.06.1924) — American theoretical physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences (1962).
James Chadwick (20.10.1891-24.07.1974) — English experimental physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society (1927).
Iosif Solomonovich Shapiro (born 13.11.1918) — Soviet theoretical physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979).
Fedor Lvovich Shapiro (6.04.1915-30.01.1973) — Soviet experimental physicist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1968).
Donald James Hughes (2.04.1915 — 1960) was an American experimental physicist.
Hideki Yukawa (23.01.1907-08.11.1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and a member of the Japan Academy (1946).
Harold Clayton Urey (29.04.1893 — 1981) was an American physicist and physical chemist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1935).
Chen Ning Yang (born 22.09.1922) is an American theoretical physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1965).
Leonid Mikhailovich Nemenov (16.02.1905-20.07.1980) was a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1962).
Oleg Fedorovich Nemets (born 13.02.1922) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1978).
Alfred Nier (born 28.05.1911) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1950).
Yoshio Nishina (6.12.1890-10.01.1951) was a Japanese physicist and a member of the Japan Academy (1948).
Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (born 7.11.1899) is a theoretical physicist.
Ernest Rutherford (30.08.1871-19.10.1937) — an English physicist, the founder of nuclear physics, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1903) and its president in 1925-30.
Frederick Reines (born 16.03. 1918) is an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
James Rainwater (born 9.12.1917) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1968).
Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky (born 24.04.1919) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1954).
Mitrofan Vasilyevich Pasechnik (born 17.06.1912) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1961).