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Born March 8, 1866 • Moscow • Russia
Died March 14, 1912 (aged 46) • Moscow • Russia
Subjects Of Study light • pressure

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Albert Einstein
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James Clerk Maxwell
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Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
French physicist
P.W. Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman
American physicist
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American inventor and physicist
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Thomas Young
British physician and physicist
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
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François Arago
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Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
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Lomonosov, Mikhail
Mikhail Lomonosov
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Andrey Sakharov
Andrey Sakharov
Soviet physicist and dissident
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Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
Boris Nemtsov
Boris Nemtsov
Russian physicist and politician
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Soviet physicist
Aleksandr Popov, detail of a painting by P.D. Korin
Aleksandr Popov
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Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
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