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Born August 22, 1913 • Italy
Died September 25, 1993 (aged 80) • Dubna • Russia
Awards And Honors Order of Lenin (1983)
Subjects Of Study heavy water • neutrino • heavy-water reactor • nuclear reactor
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
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