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Born June 26, 1888 • Switzerland
Died January 13, 1953 (aged 64) • Zürich • Switzerland
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Swiss physicist
Bragg, Sir Lawrence
Sir Lawrence Bragg
British physicist
Sir William Bragg
Sir William Bragg
British physicist
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American chemist
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Max von Laue
German physicist
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John Desmond Bernal
Irish physicist
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Peter Debye
American physical chemist
Engraved portrait of Rene Just Hauy, French priest and mineralogist, shown from the chest up in formal attire, with his name printed below.
René-Just Haüy
French mineralogist
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Albert Wallace Hull
American physicist
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Bertram Eugene Warren
American crystallographer
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, 1948
Dame Kathleen Lonsdale
British chemist
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Johan Gottlieb Gahn
Swedish mineralogist
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Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt
German crystallographer
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Charles Mauguin
French mineralogist
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Franz Ernst Neumann
German mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
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Sir Charles Frank
English physicist
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Norman L. Bowen
Canadian petrologist