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Born May 31, 1931 • Oak Park • Illinois
Died July 27, 2019 (aged 88) • Tallahassee • Florida
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1972)
Notable Works “Theory of Superconductivity”
Subjects Of Study BCS theory • superconductivity

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