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Also Known As Ben R. Mottelson
Born July 9, 1926 • Chicago • Illinois
Died May 13, 2022 (aged 95)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1975)
Subjects Of Study asymmetry • atomic nucleus
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Aage N. Bohr
Danish physicist
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James Rainwater
American physicist
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Robert Hofstadter
American physicist
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
Cockcroft
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
British physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Portrait of Albert Einstein in a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression.
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Neils Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish 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
Nakamura, Shuji
Shuji Nakamura
American materials scientist
Steven Chu.
Steven Chu
American physicist
John J. Hopfield
John J. Hopfield
American physicist
P.W. Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman
American physicist
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Kip Thorne
American physicist

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