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Born September 29, 1932 (age 92) • Berlin • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2017)
Subjects Of Study Brans–Dicke theory • cosmic microwave background • cosmology • general relativity • gravitational wave • interferometer

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Robert Woodrow Wilson
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John C. Mather
John C. Mather
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George F. Smoot, 2006.
George F. Smoot
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Maria Goeppert Mayer.
Maria Goeppert Mayer
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James Franck
James Franck
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Hans Georg Dehmelt
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Stern, Otto
Otto Stern
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Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger
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Robert H. Dicke
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Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
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Max Planck
Max Planck
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Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
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Richard Feynman
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