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Born July 12, 1913 • Los Angeles • California
Died May 15, 2008 (aged 94) • Tucson • Arizona
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1955)
Subjects Of Study electromagnetism • hyperfine structure • quantum
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Enrico Fermi
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Laughlin, Robert B.
Robert B. Laughlin
American physicist
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Daniel C. Tsui
American physicist
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Steven Weinberg
American physicist
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Sheldon Glashow
American physicist
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Felix Bloch
American physicist
Neils Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Louis-Victor de Broglie
Louis de Broglie
French physicist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Max Born
Max Born
German physicist
Michel H. Devoret
Michel H. Devoret
French physicist
Störmer, Horst L.
Horst L. Störmer
German-American physicist
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Klaus von Klitzing
German physicist
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Abdus Salam
Pakistani physicist
Nevill F. Mott
Sir Nevill F. Mott
British physicist
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Wolfgang Paul
German physicist

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