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Born May 2, 1868 • Concord • Massachusetts
Died August 11, 1955 (aged 87) • New York
Subjects Of Study Raman effect • spectroscopy

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A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
Arthur Schawlow
Arthur L. Schawlow
American physicist
Nicolaas Bloembergen
American physicist
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
Anders Jonas Ångström
Swedish physicist
Kirchhoff, Gustav
Gustav Kirchhoff
German physicist
C.V. Raman
C.V. Raman
Indian physicist
Gerhard Herzberg
Canadian physicist
Johannes Stark.
Johannes Stark
German physicist
Alfred Otto Carl Nier
American physicist
George Pake
American physicist
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor

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