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Born October 5, 1899 • Wisconsin
Died April 17, 1961 (aged 61) • Oak Ridge • Tennessee
Subjects Of Study health physics • atomic bomb
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Luis Alvarez
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British scientist
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Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
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German-American physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-born American scientist
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Vannevar Bush
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Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
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Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
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German-born American physicist

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