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Born July 8, 1894 • Kronshtadt • Russia
Died April 8, 1984 (aged 89) • Moscow • Soviet Union
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1978)
Subjects Of Study helium II • low-temperature phenomenon • magnetism • superfluidity
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