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Also Known As Brian David Josephson
Born January 4, 1940 (age 86) • Cardiff • Wales
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1973)
Subjects Of Study Josephson effect • science • superconductivity • tunneling • Josephson junction • mysticism

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