Optics

Arthur Leonard Schawlow (born 5.05. 1921) - American physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences (1970).

Thomas Young (13.06.1773-10.05.1829) was an English scientist, one of the founders of wave optics, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1794) and its secretary in 1802-29.

Isaac Newton (4.01.1643-31.03.1727) was an outstanding English scientist who laid the foundations of modern natural science, the creator of classical physics, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1672) and its president (from …

Sergei Glebovich Rautian (born 18.12.1928) is a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1979).

Augusto Righi (27.08.1850-8.06.1921) was an Italian physicist and a member of the Accademia dei Lincei (1898).

Dmitri Sergeyevich Rozhdestvensky (7.04.1876-25.06.1940) was a Soviet physicist and an academician (1929; corresponding member 1925).

Henry Rowland (27.11.1848-16.04.1901) was an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

John William Rayleigh (Strutt) (12.11.1842 —30.06.1919) was an English physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1873), its president in 1905–08.

Kumar Patel (born 2.07.1938) is an American physicist and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Solomon Isaakovich Pekar (born 16.03.1917) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1961).

Arkadiusz Henryk Piekara (born 12.01.1904) is a Polish experimental physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Alfred Perot (3.02.1863-28.02.1925) was a French physicist.

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (born 11.08.1916) — Soviet physicist, one of the founders of quantum electronics, academician (1966; corresponding member 1960).

August Herman Pfund (28.12.1879-4.01.1949) — American physicist.

Anton Nikiforovich Sevchenko (22.02.1903-26.09.1978) — Soviet physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1953).

Sergei Yakovlevich Sokolov (8.10.1897 —20.05.1957) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953).

Boris Ivanovich Stepanov ( born 28.04.1913) is a Soviet physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1953).

George Gabriel Stokes (13.08.1819-1.02.1903) was an English physicist and mathematician and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1851).

Alexander Illarionovich Tudorovsky (24.08.1875-25.10.1963) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1933).

Petr Petrovich Feofilov (13.04.1915 —24.04.1980) was a Soviet physicist and a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1964).