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Born January 12, 1903 • Russia
Died February 7, 1960 (aged 57) • Moscow • Soviet Union
Subjects Of Study nuclear energy • nuclear fission • nuclear fusion • energy conversion
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Andrey Sakharov
Andrey Sakharov
Soviet physicist and dissident
Nikolay Basov
Nikolay Basov
Soviet physicist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist
Homi Bhabha
Homi Bhabha
Indian physicist
Ernesto Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
American physicist
Walther Bothe
German physicist
Walter Henry Zinn
American physicist
Aleksandr Popov, detail of a painting by P.D. Korin
Aleksandr Popov
Russian engineer
Bruno Pontecorvo
Italian-born physicist
Boris Borisovich, Prince Golitsyn
Russian physicist
Yevgeny Konstantinovich Zavoysky
Soviet physicist
Gersh Itskovich Budker
Soviet physicist
Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Soviet physicist
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist
Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev
Sergei Korolev
Soviet scientist

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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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