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Born May 25, 1865 • Netherlands
Died October 9, 1943 (aged 78) • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study Zeeman effect
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Dutch physicist
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Martinus J.G. Veltman
Dutch physicist
Hooft, Gerardus 't
Gerardus ’t Hooft
Dutch physicist
Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Dutch physicist
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Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist
Commemorative medal depicting the profile of Johannes Diederik van der Waals.
Johannes Diederik van der Waals
Dutch physicist
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Sir Andre Geim
Russian-born physicist
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Nicolaas Bloembergen
Dutch-born American physicist
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Frits Zernike
Dutch physicist
Portrait of Albert Einstein in a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression.
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Neils Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-born American scientist
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist

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