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Born September 29, 1932 • Berlin • Germany
Died August 25, 2025 (aged 92) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2017)
Subjects Of Study Brans–Dicke theory • cosmic microwave background • cosmology • general relativity • gravitational wave • interferometer

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