Optics

Charles Vernon Boys (15.03.1855 - 30.03.1944) was an English experimental physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1888).

Boris Vasilyevich Bokut (born 27.10.1926) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1980).

Nikolai Alexandrovich Borisevich (born 21.09.1923) was a Soviet physicist, academician (1981; corresponding member 1972), academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1969) and president of the Academy…

William Lawrence Bragg (31.03.1890-1.07.1971) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1921).

David Brewster (11.12.1781-10.02.1868) was a Scottish physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1815) and president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864).

Pierre Bouguer (16.02.1698-15.08.1758) was a French scientist, one of the founders of photometry and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1735).

Fyodor Vasilyevich Bunkin (born 17.1.1929) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1976).

Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov (24.03.1891—25.01.1951) — Soviet physicist and public figure, academician (1932; corresponding member 1931), President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1945).

Jurgis Viščakas (born 18.04.1927) is a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR (1976).

Leonid Vikentyevich Volodko (2.1.1928 - 29.09.1978) was a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1977).

Mieczysław Wolfke (29.05.1883-3.05.1947) was a Polish physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1932).

Robert Williams Wood (2.05.1868-11.08.1955) was an American experimental physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1912).

Dennis Gabor (5.06.1900-9.02.1979) was a physicist and the creator of holography.

Enrique Gaviola (born 31.08.1900) is an Argentine physicist.

Galileo Galilei (15.02.1564-8.01.1642) was an outstanding Italian physicist and astronomer, one of the founders of exact natural science and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1611).

William Rowan Hamilton (4.08.1805—2.09.1865) was an Irish mathematician and physicist and a member of the Royal Irish Academy (1832), and its president in 1837—45.

Ernst Gehrcke (1.07.1878-25.1.1960) was a German physicist.

Andrei Alexandrovich Gershun (1903-6.12.1952) was a Soviet physicist and a professor (1933).

Alexander Lvovich Gershun (29.10.1868-8.06.1915) was a Russian physicist.

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (born 4.10.1916) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician (1966, corresponding member 1953).