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Born January 29, 1926 • Jhang Sadar • India
Died November 21, 1996 (aged 70) • Oxford • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1990) • Nobel Prize (1979)
Subjects Of Study electromagnetism • electroweak theory • weak interaction
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