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Born March 11, 1920 • Dordrecht • Netherlands
Died September 5, 2017 (aged 97) • Tucson • Arizona
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1981)
Subjects Of Study spectroscopy • laser
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Charles Hard Townes
American physicist
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German-born American physicist
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
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British-American physicist
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Canadian physicist
Ernesto Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
American physicist
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Ivar Giaever, 1966.
Ivar Giaever
Norwegian-born American physicist
Stern, Otto
Otto Stern
American physicist
Burton Richter.
Burton Richter
American physicist
Philip W. Anderson
Philip W. Anderson
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Guglielmo Marconi
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Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
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Lord Rayleigh
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Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
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