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Born June 27, 1901 • Canton • South Dakota
Died May 20, 1982 (aged 80) • Bethesda • Maryland
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Lloyd Viel Berkner
American physicist and engineer
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Oliver Heaviside
British physicist
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Sydney Chapman
British mathematician and physicist
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Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
Stephen Hawking, 2007
Stephen Hawking
British physicist
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Yves-André Rocard
French mathematician and physicist
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Alfred Otto Carl Nier
American physicist
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George Pake
American physicist
Portrait of Albert Einstein in a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression.
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-born American scientist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
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Rainer Weiss
American physicist
Charles H. Bennett
Charles H. Bennett
American physicist
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Jack Kilby
American engineer

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