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Born June 27, 1931 • Netherlands
Died January 4, 2021 (aged 89) • Netherlands
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1999)
Subjects Of Study fundamental interaction • subatomic particle
Hooft, Gerardus 't
Gerardus ’t Hooft
Dutch physicist
Yukawa Hideki at Columbia University, 1949.
Yukawa Hideki
Japanese physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-born American scientist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann
American physicist
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Carlo Rubbia
Italian physicist
Emilio Segrè
Emilio Segrè
Italian-American physicist
Adam Riess
Adam Riess
American astronomer
Richter, Burton; Perl, Martin Lewis; Goldhaber, Gerson
Martin Lewis Perl
American physicist
Brian P. Schmidt.
Brian P. Schmidt
American-born Australian astronomer
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Donald A. Glaser
American physicist
Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter
American physicist
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Walther Bothe
German physicist
Grünberg, Peter
Peter Grünberg
German scientist
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Albert Fert
French scientist
Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain
American physicist
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Dutch physicist
Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Dutch physicist

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