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Born October 9, 1801 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died November 27, 1873 (aged 72) • Marseille • France
Notable Works “Treatise on Theoretical and Applied Electricity”
Subjects Of Study electrochemical reaction • electrolytic cell
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Jacques Piccard
Swiss oceanic engineer
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Johann Wilhelm Ritter
German physicist
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Johann Wilhelm Hittorf
German physicist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
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Heinrich Rohrer
Swiss physicist
K. Alex Müller
K. Alex Müller
Swiss physicist
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Felix Bloch
American physicist
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Fritz Zwicky
Swiss scientist
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Charles Édouard Guillaume
French physicist
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Robert Emden
Swiss astronomer
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Horace Bénédict de Saussure
Swiss physicist
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Paul Scherrer
Swiss physicist
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Arsène d’Arsonval
French physician and physicist
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George Pake
American physicist
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Alfred Otto Carl Nier
American physicist
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William Penney
British scientist
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Portrait of Albert Einstein in a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression.
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher

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