Optics

Richard Tetley Glazebrook (18.09.1854—15.12.1935) was an English experimental physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1882).

Francesco Grimaldi (2.04.1618-28.12.1663) was an Italian scientist.

Robert Hooke (18.07.1635-3.03.1703) was an English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1663) and its secretary in 1677 — 83.

Christiaan Huygens (14.04.1629-8.07.1695) was a Dutch physicist, mechanician, mathematician and astronomer.

René Descartes (Latinised name Cartesius) (31.03.1596-11.02.1650) was a French philosopher, physicist, mathematician and physiologist.

Ali Javan (born 27.12.1926) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1974).

Dollond, John (10.06.1706–30.11.1761) was an English optician and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1761).

Doppler, Christian (30.11.1803–17.03.1853) was an Austrian physicist, mathematician and astronomer, and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1848).

Euclid (3rd century BC) was an ancient Greek scholar.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Elyashevich (born 21.08.1908) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1956).

Pierre Jacquinot (born 18.01.1910) is a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1966).

Evgeny Konstantinovich Zavoisky (28.09.1907—9.10.1976) was a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician (1964, corresponding member 1953).

Thomas Johann Seebeck (9.04.1770- 10.12.1831) was a German physicist and a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1814).

Pál Selényi (17.02.1884-21.03.1954) was a Hungarian physicist and a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1948).

Henry Friedrich Wilhelm Siedentopf (22.09.1872-8.05.1940) was a German physicist.

Arnold Johann Wilhelm Sommerfeld (5.12.1868-26.04.1951) was a German theoretical physicist and a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1920).

Vladimir Evseyevich Zuev (born 29.01.1925) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1981; corresponding member 1970).

Narinder Kapany (born 12.10.1926) is a physicist, one of the founders of fibre optics.

Alfred Kastler (born 03.05.1902) is a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1964).

Veniamin Moiseyevich Kelman (born 7.02.1915) is a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR (1962).