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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
Henry Way Kendall
American physicist
Frederick Reines
American physicist
Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop
Australian-born nuclear physicist
Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
Fabiola Gianotti
Fabiola Gianotti
Italian physicist
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
Emilio Segrè.
Emilio Segrè
Italian-American physicist
Peretz Markish
Russian writer
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
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Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
Kajita Takaaki
Kajita Takaaki
Japanese physicist
Arthur B. McDonald
Arthur B. McDonald
Canadian physicist
Melvin Schwartz
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Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek
American physicist
Davis, Raymond, Jr.
Raymond Davis, Jr.
American scientist
David Gross
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Steven Weinberg
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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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