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Also Known As John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
Born March 13, 1899 • Middletown • Connecticut
Died October 27, 1980 (aged 81) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Subjects Of Study amorphous solid • electron • magnetism
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