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Born August 16, 1845 • Luxembourg
Died July 13, 1921 (aged 75) • Atlantic Ocean • Canada? • France?
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1908)

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Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Charles Édouard Guillaume
French physicist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
Carlo Rubbia
Italian physicist
Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
American physicist
Charles Kao
British-American physicist
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer
Ernst Ruska
German engineer
Ernesto Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
American physicist
Patrick Blackett
British physicist
Nikolay Basov
Nikolay Basov
Soviet physicist
Ferdinand Braun
Ferdinand Braun
German physicist
Simon van der Meer
Dutch physicist
Ivar Giaever, 1966.
Ivar Giaever
American physicist
Binnig, Gerd
Gerd Binnig
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Stern, Otto
Otto Stern
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