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Born June 24, 1883 • Austria
Died December 17, 1964 (aged 81) • Mount Vernon • New York
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1936)
Subjects Of Study cosmic ray
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John C. Mather
John C. Mather
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George F. Smoot, 2006.
George F. Smoot
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Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
Kajita Takaaki
Kajita Takaaki
Japanese physicist
Arthur B. McDonald
Arthur B. McDonald
Canadian physicist
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist
Walther Bothe
German physicist
Powell, Cecil Frank
Cecil Frank Powell
British physicist
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Rainer Weiss
American physicist
Anton Zeilinger
Anton Zeilinger
Austrian quantum physicist
John F. Clauser
John F. Clauser
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Chen Ning Yang
Chen Ning Yang
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John J. Hopfield
John J. Hopfield
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Nakamura, Shuji
Shuji Nakamura
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