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Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

American physicist

Pascual Jordan

German physicist

Gödel, Kurt; Schwinger, Julian; Einstein, Albert

Julian Seymour Schwinger

American physicist

Nikolay Basov

Nikolay Basov

Soviet physicist

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Tomonaga Shin’ichirō

Japanese physicist

Charles Hard Townes

Charles Hard Townes

American physicist

Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Prokhorov

Soviet physicist

Burton Richter.

Burton Richter

American physicist

Hendrik Anthony Kramers

Dutch physicist

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