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Born January 29, 1926 • Jhang Sadar • India
Died November 21, 1996 (aged 70) • Oxford • England • (Died on this day)
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1990) • Nobel Prize (1979)
Subjects Of Study electromagnetism • electroweak theory • weak interaction
Steven Weinberg
American physicist
Sheldon Glashow
American physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Sir Nevill F. Mott at the ceremony with his Nobel Prize for Physics, 1977.
Sir Nevill F. Mott
British physicist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
Chen Ning Yang
Chen Ning Yang
American physicist
Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann
American physicist
Carlo Rubbia
Italian physicist
Emilio Segrè.
Emilio Segrè
Italian-American physicist
Frederick Reines
American physicist
Henry Way Kendall
American physicist
Hans Georg Dehmelt
American physicist
Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee
Chinese-American physicist
Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist
Wolfgang Paul
German physicist
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr.
American physicist
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Neils Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist