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Born July 16, 1888 • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Died March 10, 1966 (aged 77) • Groningen • Netherlands
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Inventions phase-contrast microscope
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
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Donna Strickland
Canadian physicist
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Arthur Ashkin
American physicist
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Gérard Mourou
French physicist
CCD
Willard Boyle
Canadian physicist
Shockley
William B. Shockley
American physicist
Glauber, Roy J.
Roy J. Glauber
American physicist
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Donald A. Glaser
American physicist
Bardeen.
John Bardeen
American physicist
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Heinrich Rohrer
Swiss physicist
Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes
American physicist
CCD
George E. Smith
American physicist
Brattain
Walter H. Brattain
American physicist
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Dutch physicist
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Martinus J.G. Veltman
Dutch physicist
Hooft, Gerardus 't
Gerardus ’t Hooft
Dutch physicist
Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Dutch physicist
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Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist
Commemorative medal depicting the profile of Johannes Diederik van der Waals.
Johannes Diederik van der Waals
Dutch physicist

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