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Born October 6, 1903 • Dungarvan • Ireland
Died June 25, 1995 (aged 91) • Belfast • Northern Ireland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Cockcroft
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
British physicist
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
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Carlo Rubbia
Italian physicist
Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
American physicist
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Charles Kao
British-American physicist
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer
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Ernst Ruska
German engineer
Ernesto Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
American physicist
Gabriel Lippmann
Gabriel Lippmann
French physicist
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Patrick Blackett
British physicist
Nikolay Basov
Nikolay Basov
Soviet physicist
Ferdinand Braun
Ferdinand Braun
German physicist
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Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist
Ivar Giaever, 1966.
Ivar Giaever
Norwegian-born American physicist
Binnig, Gerd
Gerd Binnig
German-born physicist

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