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Born October 4, 1903 • New York
Died June 15, 1995 (aged 91) • Frederick • Maryland
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Teller, Edward
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Robert Goddard
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Edwin H. Land
Edwin Herbert Land
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Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
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Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
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John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler
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British-American physicist
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Robert Morris Page
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Allan MacLeod Cormack
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Ernest Orlando Lawrence
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Ivar Giaever, 1966.
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John Mauchly
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