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Synopsis The Encyclopaedia of Physicists is an up-to-date edited work in five volumes giving precisely the accounts of life and works of physicists in chronological order from the earliest period to the present day. Names of scientists are mentioned in alphabetical order in each volume. The brief life accounts and achievements of every physicist makes the reader thoroughly acquainted with all notable physicists and with those who are known only to students of physics. An intelligent layman can understand very well the nature of the work of the physicists in his own area and the manner in which it has contributed to the later developments. Each account of the life and works of a physicist brings to light as well his status in the world of science, and the recognition he had achieved during his life time.