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Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor: Quick Facts

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Born March 7, 1886 • London • England
Died June 27, 1975 (aged 89) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1944)
Subjects Of Study photon • quantum
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
British mathematician and physicist
Portrait of Albert Einstein in a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression.
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Neils Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
Sir Horace Lamb
Sir Horace Lamb
English mathematician
Max Born
Max Born
German physicist
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David Bohm
American physicist
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Osborne Reynolds
British engineer and physicist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
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Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
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Sir James Lighthill
British mathematician
Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs
British physicist
Stephen Hawking, 2007
Stephen Hawking
British physicist

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