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Born August 14, 1886 • Toronto • Canada
Died March 11, 1950 (aged 63) • Florida
Subjects Of Study mass spectrometry • nuclide • uranium-235
Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
British physicist and chemist
Willard Harrison Bennett
American physicist
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
Jack Kilby
American engineer
Edwin Herbert Land
American inventor and physicist
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
American physicist
William Webster Hansen
American physicist
John Vincent Atanasoff
American mathematician and physicist
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist
Charles Kao
British-American physicist
Page, Robert Morris
Robert Morris Page
American physicist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Ernesto Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
American physicist
Pickering, William Hayward; Johnson, Lyndon
William Hayward Pickering
American engineer and physicist
Ivar Giaever, 1966.
Ivar Giaever
American physicist
Abelson, Philip Hauge
Philip Hauge Abelson
American scientist
Stern, Otto
Otto Stern
American physicist
Mauchly, John
John Mauchly
American physicist and engineer

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