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Auger yield electromagnetic radiation resonance luminescence photoelectric effect photovoltaic effect absorption pair production thermal radiation Planck’s constant Cherenkov radiation Poynting vector

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Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner

Austrian physicist

Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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