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Born March 7, 1938 (age 88) • Carcassonne • France
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2007)
Subjects Of Study giant magnetoresistance
Grünberg, Peter
Peter Grünberg
German scientist
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
Emilio Segrè
Emilio Segrè
Italian-American physicist
Adam Riess
Adam Riess
American astronomer
Brian P. Schmidt.
Brian P. Schmidt
American-born Australian astronomer
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Martinus J.G. Veltman
Dutch physicist
Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter
American physicist
Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain
American physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Becquerel, Henri
Henri Becquerel
French physicist
Louis-Victor de Broglie
Louis de Broglie
French physicist
Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect
French physicist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Pierre Agostini
Pierre Agostini
French physicist
Anne L'Huillier
Anne L’Huillier
French physicist
Serge Haroche.
Serge Haroche
French physicist
Michel H. Devoret
Michel H. Devoret
French physicist
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Gérard Mourou
French physicist
Georges Charpak
Georges Charpak
French physicist
Gabriel Lippmann
Gabriel Lippmann
French physicist

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