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Born March 4, 1862 • Switzerland
Died October 8, 1940 (aged 78) • Zürich • Switzerland
Notable Works “Gaskugeln”
Subjects Of Study star
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
American astronomer
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
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Kip Thorne
American physicist
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Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Alfvén
Swedish physicist
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Russell Alan Hulse
American physicist
Swings, Pol
Pol Swings
Belgian astronomer
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Arno Penzias
American astrophysicist
John C. Mather
John C. Mather
American physicist
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William Fowler
American astrophysicist
Deslandres
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
French physicist
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Antony Hewish
British physicist
George Smoot, 2006
George Smoot
American physicist
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
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Jacques Piccard
Swiss oceanic engineer
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Heinrich Rohrer
Swiss physicist
K. Alex Müller
K. Alex Müller
Swiss physicist

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