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Born June 13, 1911 • Berlin • Germany
Died May 17, 1977 (aged 65) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Inventions field-emission microscope • field-ion microscope
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Valerie Thomas
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Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
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American physicist and inventor
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William B. Shockley
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John Bardeen
American physicist
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Chester F. Carlson
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Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes
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German physicist
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American physicist
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Walter H. Brattain
American physicist
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Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist

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