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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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