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Born March 10, 1923 • Nebraska
Died February 5, 2015 (aged 91) • Princeton • New Jersey
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1993) • Nobel Prize (1980)
Subjects Of Study CP violation • time reversal
Role In Manhattan Project

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