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Born April 18, 1911 • Lviv • Austria-Hungary
Died May 11, 2011 (aged 100) • New York
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1983)
Subjects Of Study atomic nucleus • beryllium • beta radiation • deuterium • neutrino • nuclear photographic emulsion • photodisintegration • scattering • slow neutron • spin • moderator
Jack Kilby
American engineer
Powell, Cecil Frank
Cecil Frank Powell
British physicist
Césare Mansueto Giulio Lattes
Brazilian physicist
Ben Roy Mottelson
Danish physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
Emilio Segrè.
Emilio Segrè
Italian-American physicist
Melvin Schwartz
American physicist
Frederick Reines
American physicist
Davis, Raymond, Jr.
Raymond Davis, Jr.
American scientist
Henry Way Kendall
American physicist
Leon Max Lederman
Leon Max Lederman
American physicist
Robert Hofstadter
American physicist
Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger
German-American physicist
Clifford G. Shull
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Condon, Edward U.
Edward U. Condon
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James Rainwater
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Chen Ning Yang
Chen Ning Yang
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Robert H. Dicke
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