Optics

Francesco Maurolico (16.09.1494-21.07.1575) was an Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer.

Albert Abraham Michelson (19.12.1852—9.05.1931) was an American physicist, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1888) and its president in 1923-27.

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Maksutov (23.04.1896-12.08.1964) was a Soviet optical physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1946).

Étienne Louis Malus (23.07.1775-24.02.1812) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1810).

Leonid Isaakovich Mandelstam (4.05.1879 —27.06.1944) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1929; a corresponding member in 1928).

Edme Mariotte (1620-12.05.1684) was a French physicist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1666) and one of its founders.

Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart (20.02.1837-26.08.1908) was a French physicist and a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1884), and in 1904 its president.

William Frederick Meggers (13.07.1888 — 19.02. 1967) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1954).

Theodore Harold Maiman (born 11.07.1927) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Macedonio Melloni (11.04.1798-11.03.1854) was an Italian physicist.

Nevill Francis Mott (born 30.09.1905) is an English theoretical physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1936).

Ivan Vasilyevich Obreimov (8.03.1894—2.12.981) was a Soviet experimental physicist and an academician (1958; corresponding member 1933).

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7.02.1888 — 21.11.1970) was an Indian physicist, a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences, its founder and president (from 1934).

Charles Hard Townes (born 28.07.1915)-an American physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics, member of the National Academy of Sciences (1956).

Charles Fabry (11.06.1867-11.12.1945) — French physicist, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1927).

Valentin Alexandrovich Fabrikant (born 9.10.19) — Soviet physicist, a member of the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (1968).

Michael Faraday (22.09.1791-25.08.1867) — English physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1824).

Frits Zernike (16.07.1888-10.03.1966) — Dutch physicist, a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1946).

Veniamin Pavlovich Chebotaev (born 27.08.1938) — Soviet physicist, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1981).

Pavel Alexeyevich Cherenkov (born 28.07.1904) — Soviet physicist, academician (1970; corresponding member 1964).