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Born September 2, 1922 • New York City • New York
Died September 21, 2020 (aged 98) • New Jersey
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2018)
Inventions optical tweezers
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Canadian physicist
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George E. Smith
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Shockley
William B. Shockley
American physicist
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Donald A. Glaser
American physicist
Bardeen.
John Bardeen
American physicist
Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes
American physicist
Brattain
Walter H. Brattain
American physicist
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
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Donna Strickland
Canadian physicist
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Gérard Mourou
French physicist
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Heinrich Rohrer
Swiss physicist
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Frits Zernike
Dutch physicist
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Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-born American scientist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
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Rainer Weiss
American physicist
John F. Clauser
John F. Clauser
American physicist
Chen Ning Yang, 2008
Chen Ning Yang
Chinese-born American theoretical physicist

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