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Born January 26, 1911 • Germany
Died March 20, 1993 (aged 82) • Dallas • Texas
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1955)
Subjects Of Study electron • magnetic moment
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Stern, Otto
Otto Stern
American physicist
Luis Alvarez
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American physicist
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American physicist
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American physicist
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John H. Van Vleck
American physicist and mathematician
Portrait of Albert Einstein in a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression.
Albert Einstein
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American physicist
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Maria Goeppert Mayer
American physicist
James Franck
James Franck
German physicist
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German-American physicist
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American astrophysicist
P.A.M. Dirac
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English physicist
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Louis de Broglie
French physicist
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Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
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Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist

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