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Born November 27, 1848 • Honesdale • Pennsylvania • (Birthday in 6 days)
Died April 16, 1901 (aged 52) • Baltimore • Maryland
Inventions concave diffraction grating
Subjects Of Study electromagnetism • mechanical equivalent of heat • ohm
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Deslandres
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
French physicist
Valerie Thomas
Valerie Thomas
American scientist and inventor
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer
Harry Nyquist
American physicist
Two 15-foot (4.6-metre) spherical terminals of the Van de Graaff direct current electrostatic generator, New Bedford, Mass., 1935.
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
American physicist and inventor
Arthur Ashkin
American physicist
Page, Robert Morris
Robert Morris Page
American physicist
Steven Weinberg
American physicist
CCD
Willard Boyle
Canadian-American physicist
Shockley
William B. Shockley
American physicist
Hans Georg Dehmelt
American physicist
Donald A. Glaser
American physicist
Bardeen.
John Bardeen
American physicist
Sheldon Glashow
American physicist
Carlson, Chester
Chester F. Carlson
American physicist and inventor
Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes
American physicist
CCD
George E. Smith
American physicist
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr.
American physicist
Brattain
Walter H. Brattain
American physicist

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