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| Abbe, Ernst |
| Aepinus, Franz Ulrich Theodosius |
| Alvarez, Luis Walter |
| Amici, Giovanni Battista |
| Ampère, André Marie |
| Anderson, Carl David |
| Anderson, Philip Warren |
| Ångström, Anders Jöns |
| Appleton, Sir Edward Victor |
| Arago, Dominique François |
| Arsonval, Arsène d’ |
| Avogadro, Amedeo, conte di Quaregna |
| Bardeen, John |
| Barkla, Charles Glover |
| Beccaria, Giambattista |
| Becquerel |
| Bednorz, Johannes Georg |
| Beeckman, Isaac |
| Bethe, Hans Albrecht |
| Bhabha, Homi Jehangir |
| Binnig, Gerd |
| Biot, Jean Baptiste |
| Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart |
| Bloembergen, Nicolaas |
| Bohr, Aage Niels |
| Bohr, Niels Henrik David |
| Boltzmann, Ludwig |
| Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso |
| Born, Max |
| Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe |
| Bouguer, Pierre |
| Bragg, Sir William Henry |
| Bragg, Sir William Lawrence |
| Brewster, Sir David |
| Bridgman, Percy Williams |
| Broglie, Louis Victor, duc de |
| Broglie, Maurice, duc de |
| Canton, John |
| Carnot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi |
| Cavendish, Henry |
| Chadwick, Sir James |
| Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan |
| Charles, Jacques Alexandre César |
| Charpak, Georges |
| Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich |
| Chladni, Ernst Florens Friedrich |
| Clausius, Rudolf Julius Emanuel |
| Coblentz, William Weber |
| Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas |
| Compton, Arthur Holly |
| Compton, Karl Taylor |
| Cormack, Allan MacLeod |
| Cornu, Marie Alfred |
| Coulomb, Charles Augustin de |
| Cronin, James Watson |
| Curie |
| Darwin, Charles Galton |
| Davisson, Clinton Joseph |
| Debye, Peter Joseph Wilhelm |
| Dehmelt, Hans Georg |
| Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice |
| Drude, Paul Karl Ludwig |
| Duane, William, American physicist |
| Duhem, Pierre Maurice Marie |
| Ehrenfest, Paul |
| Einstein, Albert |
| Ewing, Sir James Alfred |
| Faraday, Michael |
| Fermi, Enrico |
| Ferraris, Galileo |
| Feynman, Richard Phillips |
| Fitch, Val Logsdon |
| Fitzgerald, George Francis |
| Fizeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis |
| Foucault, Jean Bernard Léon |
| Fowler, William Alfred |
| Franck, James |
| Fresnel, Augustin Jean |
| Friedman, Jerome Isaac |
| Gamow, George |
| Geiger, Johannes Wilhelm |
| Gell-Mann, Murray |
| Gibbs, Josiah Willard |
| Glashow, Sheldon Lee |
| Gray, Stephen |
| Grimaldi, Francesco Maria |
| Guericke, Otto von |
| Haas, Arthur Erich |
| Hansen, William Webster |
| Hawking, Stephen William |
| Heaviside, Oliver |
| Heisenberg, Werner |
| Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von |
| Henry, Joseph |
| Hertz, Gustav |
| Hertz, Heinrich Rudolf |
| Herzberg, Gerhard |
| Hess, Victor Francis |
| Hooke, Robert |
| Huygens, Christiaan |
| Joffe, Abram |
| Joliot-Curie |
| Joule, James Prescott |
| Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike |
| Kapitza, Peter |
| Karle, Jerome |
| Kayser, Heinrich Gustav Johannes |
| Kelvin, William Thomson, 1st Baron |
| Kendall, Henry Way |
| Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert |
| Lamont, Johann von |
| Landau, Lev Davidovich |
| Langevin, Paul |
| Laue, Max von |
| Lawrence, Ernest Orlando |
| Lebedev, Pyotr Nikolaevich |
| Lederman, Leon Max |
| Lee, Tsung-Dao |
| Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton |
| Lindemann, Frederick Alexander |
| Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph |
| Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon |
| Mach, Ernst |
| McLennan, Sir John Cunningham |
| McMillan, Edwin Mattison |
| Magnus, Heinrich Gustav |
| Malus, Étienne Louis |
| Marconi, Guglielmo, Marchese |
| Mariotte, Edme |
| Maxwell, James Clerk |
| Mayer, Julius Robert von |
| Meitner, Lise |
| Melloni, Macedonio |
| Michelson, Albert Abraham |
| Millikan, Robert Andrews |
| Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys |
| Mott, Sir Nevill |
| Mottelson, Benjamin Roy |
| Müller, Karl Alexander |
| Newton, Sir Isaac |
| Nollet, Jean Antoine |
| Oersted, Hans Christian |
| Ohm, Georg Simon |
| Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh |
| Oppenheimer, J. Robert |
| Papin, Denis |
| Paul, Wolfgang |
| Pauli, Wolfgang |
| Penzias, Arno Allan |
| Peregrinus, Petrus |
| Perrin, Jean Baptiste |
| Planck, Max |
| Poggendorff, Johann Christian |
| Poynting, John Henry |
| Pupin, Michael Idvorsky |
| Rabi, Isidor Isaac |
| Rainwater, James |
| Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata |
| Ramsey, Norman Foster |
| Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3d Baron |
| Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de |
| Richter, Burton |
| Ritz, Walter |
| Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad |
| Rohrer, Heinrich |
| Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad |
| Rowland, Henry Augustus |
| Rubbia, Carlo |
| Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count |
| Rutherford, Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron |
| Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris |
| Rydberg, Johannes Robert |
| Saha, Meghnad |
| Salam, Abdus |
| Saussure, Horace Bénédict de |
| Schawlow, Arthur Leonard |
| Schönbein, Christian Friedrich |
| Schrödinger, Erwin |
| Schuster, Sir Arthur |
| Seaborg, Glenn Theodore |
| Shockley, William Bradford |
| Siegbahn, Kai Manne Borje |
| Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg |
| Sommerfeld, Arnold Johannes Wilhelm |
| Stefan, Josef |
| Steinberger, Jack |
| Stern, Otto |
| Stokes, Sir George Gabriel |
| Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson |
| Szilard, Leo |
| Taylor, Richard E. |
| Teller, Edward |
| Thompson, Benjamin |
| Thomson, Sir George Paget |
| Thomson, Sir Joseph John |
| Thomson, William |
| Torricelli, Evangelista |
| Townes, Charles Hard |
| Tyndall, John |
| Van de Graaff, Robert Jemison |
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