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Guye, Charles

Charles Guye (15.10.1866-15.07.1942) was a Swiss experimental physicist.

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice

Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice (born 8.08.1902) is an English theoretical physicist, one of the creators of quantum mechanics, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1930).

Infeld, Leopold

Leopold Infeld (20.08.1898-15.01.1968) was a Polish theoretical physicist and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1952).

Keres, Harald Petrovich

Harald Petrovich Keres (born 15.11.1912) is a Soviet theoretical physicist and an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR (1961).

Klein, Oskar Benjamin

Oskar Benjamin Klein (15.09.1894-5.02.1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1945).

Larmor, Joseph

Joseph Larmor (11.07.1857-19.05.1942) was an English theoretical physicist and mathematician, a Fellow of the Royal Society (1892) and in 1912-14 its vice-president.

Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (18.07.1853-4.02.1928) was a Dutch theoretical physicist, the creator of the classical electron theory and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Michelson, Albert Abraham

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.

Møller, Christian

Christian Møller (22.12.1904-14.01.1980) was a Danish theoretical physicist and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Minkowski, Hermann

Hermann Minkowski (22.06.1864-12.01.1909) was a German mathematician and physicist.

Wheeler, John Archibald

John Archibald Wheeler (born 9.07.1911)-an American theoretical physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences (1952).

Khalatnikov, Isaak Markovich

Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov (born 17.10.1919) — Soviet theoretical physicist, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1972).

Penrose, Roger

Roger Penrose (born 8.03.1931) is an English theoretical physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society (1972).

Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (23.04.1858 —4.10.1947) — a German theoretical physicist, the founder of quantum theory, a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences (1894) and its permanent secretary in 1912 — 38.

Podolsky, Boris

Boris Podolsky (29.06.1896-28.02.1966) — an American theoretical physicist.

Poincaré, Henri

Henri Poincaré (29.04.1854-17.07.1912) — French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher, a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1887).