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Born July 23, 1886 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died March 4, 1976 (aged 89) • Germany
Inventions tetrode
Notable Works “Thermodynamik”
Subjects Of Study Schottky defect • Schottky effect • thermodynamics • Schottky diode • electronics
Page, Robert Morris
Robert Morris Page
American physicist
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Rudolf Clausius
Rudolf Clausius
German mathematician and physicist
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Polish-born Dutch physicist
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Erwin Wilhelm Müller
German-American physicist
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish mathematician and physicist
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
J. Willard Gibbs
J. Willard Gibbs
American scientist
Valerie Thomas
Valerie Thomas
American scientist and inventor
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer and astrophysicist
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Italian physicist
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Harry Nyquist
American physicist
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Donna Strickland
Canadian physicist
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Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
American physicist and inventor
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Arthur Ashkin
American physicist
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Gérard Mourou
French physicist
CCD
Willard Boyle
Canadian physicist

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