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Born September 18, 1907 • Redondo Beach • California
Died September 7, 1991 (aged 83) • El Cerrito • California
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1951)
Subjects Of Study synchrocyclotron
Role In Manhattan Project

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Mulliken, 1966
Robert Sanderson Mulliken
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Jerome Karle, 1985.
Jerome Karle
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Shimomura, Osamu
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Ernest Rutherford
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie
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Otto Hahn
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Daniel Shechtman
Daniel Shechtman
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