Henry Rudolf Hertz (the 160th anniversary of his birth) by V. P. Samokhin, E. A. Tikhomirova

“…<p>A brief overview of the main achievements of Heinrich Hertz, an outstanding German physicist, has been shown to prove to the whole world the existence of electromagnetic waves. …”
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I.M. Sechenov: professional and personal qualities of scientist (to the 185-th anniversary of the prominent russian physiologist) by L. A. Pomelova, I. I. Shevelev, N. E. Vazheevskaya, R. V. Shurupova

“…This was an outstanding Russian physiologist, psychologist, pathologist, histologist, toxicologist, cultural anthropologist, chemist, physicist, biochemist, evolutionist, military engineer, teacher, writer, humanist, philosopher and rationalist, creator of the physiological school; Honored ordinary professor, corresponding member of the Biological category (1869–1904), an honorary member (1904) of the Imperial Academy of Sciences;holder of the Orders of St. …”
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Dear Einstein: scientific disclosure in the scientist's correspondences to children by Joyce Loraine Lopes Cunha, Sheila Alves Almeida

“…Einstein is one of the names with the greatest impact in the scientific field. Furthermore, the physicist corresponded with children from different parts of the world. …”
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Die verborgene Schönheit der Natur: die Sicht des Physikers by Hans J. Pirner

“… The article “The hidden beauty of nature” starts with a differentiation of beauty in art and science. The view of a physicist defines scientific aesthetics as a beautiful combination of intuition visualized in tables, graphs and pictures with simple explanations of the underlying laws of nature. …”
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On periodic differential equations with dissipation by Carlos Franco, Joaquin Collado

“…This work may be of interest for scientists and engineers dealing with parametric resonance applications or physicist working on the motion of a damped wave in a periodic media.…”
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Irene Joliot-Curie, une féministe engagée ? by Louis-Pascal Jacquemond

“…Was Irène Joliot-Curie a feminist? Chemist, physicist and laboratory researcher, she worked in a masculine profession, and called herself a feminist. …”
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New Ways to Modelling and Predicting Ionosphere Variables by Sandro M. Radicella

“…The new way of thinking science from Newtonian determinism to nonlinear unpredictability and the dawn of advanced computer science and technology can be summarized in the words of the theoretical physicist Michel Baranger, who, in 2000, said in a conference: “Twenty-first-century theoretical physics is coming out of the chaos revolution; it will be about complexity and its principal tool will be the computer.”. …”
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Anomalous Mind-Matter Influence, Free Will, and the Nature of Causality by George Williams

“…I begin by considering the argument by the physicist Sean Carroll that the laws of physics as we understand them rule out psychokinesis (and other modes of psi), and find his claims problematic, in part due to misunderstandings of arguments borrowed from David Hume. …”
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Life in a Random Universe: Sciama's Argument Reconsidered by Zhi-Wei Wang, Samuel L. Braunstein

“…Here we revisit an elegant argument by the British physicist Dennis Sciama, who demonstrated that were our Universe random, it would almost certainly have a negligible chance for life. …”
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Utiliser l’analyse harmonique pour « classer les races humaines ». Le programme de recherche de Fernand Ozil au Centre de recherches scientifiques, industrielles et maritimes de Ma... by Laurent Mazliak, Loïc Petitgirard

“…The CRSIM was created by the physicist François Canac, who had been the main scientific energy in Toulon and was a close acquaintance of Admiral Darlan. …”
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The Hilbert Edition: What is it and what is it good for? by Ulrich Majer

“…The Mathematical Institute (MI) of the University of Göttingen and the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB) together possess an impressive collection of documents by David Hilbert, perhaps the most important mathematicians of the period 1885-1930, and a very significant mathematical physicist. These holdings will be called here the Nachlaß of D. …”
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Claims of priority – The scientific path to the discovery of X-rays by Uwe Busch

“…The German-Hungarian physicist Philipp Lenard, a co-founder of German Physics, considered himself a “true discoverer”. …”
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MJM MedTalks (S01E02): A Conversation with Dr. Shirin Enger by Nadia Blostein

“…Shirin A. Enger, medical physicist and Associate Professor at the Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology & Medical Physics Unit. …”
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Visions : How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century / by Kaku, Michio, author 537278

“…The final section of the book takes us yet further into the future, as we see how quantum physicists are perfecting new ways of harnessing the matter and energy of the Universe. …”

Rocketry Science / by Shuler, Mignon, author 648052

“…It is named after Hermann Oberth, the Hungarian-born, German physicist and a founder of modern rocketry, who apparently first described the effect. …”
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The Experimental Flesh: Incarnation in Terms of Quantum Measurement and Phenomenological Perception by Will Johncock

“…Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of a reality-as-flesh will be employed alongside, and inside, physicist Niels Bohr’s demand that the constituent elements of physical reality emerge via the concurrent incarnation of the measurer and the measured during experimental procedures. …”
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THE INERTIA OF LIGHT. VERIFICATION OF NEWTON’S SECOND LAW BY ACONFINED FLOW OF RADIATION IN A REFLECTIVE CAVITY by C. M. Figueroa, S. Saracho

“…In 1904, the Austrian physicist Fritz Hasenöhrl examined by means of mental experiments the black body radiation in a reflecting cavity. …”
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Startling Discoveries and Contrarian Anomalies: Small Comets and Other Heresies by Henry Bauer

“…Louis Frank was a distinguished physicist at the University of Iowa whose specialty was plasma physics. …”
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Critical Evaluation of City Streets by Talib Hameed, Huda Sabah Fakher Al_deen

“…  The diverse urban spaces of the streets is an important part of the city's physicist configuration and a link between architectural and civilizational communication through time starting from the historic towns down to the contemporary cities, within the proposals of the future cities. …”
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About Roy Glauber by Bretislav Friedrich, Daniel Kleppner, Dudley Herschbach

“…Abstract We recount the life, work, and legacy of the theoretical physicist Roy Glauber (1925–2018). Admitted to Harvard at age 16, called upon to participate in the Manhattan Project at age eighteen, and appointed to the Harvard Physics faculty at age 29, Glauber is credited with seminal contributions to three separate fields of physics: nuclear scattering, statistical physics, and foundational work in quantum optics, which earned him the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics. …”
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