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Glenn T. Seaborg

Glenn T. Seaborg

American chemist

Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton

British engineer

Andrey Sakharov

Andrey Sakharov

Soviet physicist and dissident

Teller, Edward

Edward Teller

Hungarian-born American physicist

Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov

Soviet physicist

Homi Bhabha

Homi Bhabha

Indian physicist

Walter Henry Zinn

American physicist

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