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Born May 10, 1901 • Ireland
Died September 15, 1971 (aged 70) • London • England
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
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British physicist
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British physicist
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German physicist
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American physicist
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English physicist
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, 1948
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale
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Pierre Curie
French chemist
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Ernest Rutherford
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Joseph Black, detail of an engraving by J. Rogers after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn
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P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
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British scientist

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