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Born July 11, 1916 • Australia
Died January 8, 2002 (aged 85) • Moscow • Russia
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1964)
Subjects Of Study quantum electrodynamics
Nikolay Basov
Nikolay Basov
Soviet physicist
Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Soviet physicist
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist
Ilya Mikhaylovich Frank.
Ilya Mikhaylovich Frank
Soviet physicist
Alferov, Zhores
Zhores Alferov
Russian physicist
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
Soviet physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Gödel, Kurt; Schwinger, Julian; Einstein, Albert
Julian Seymour Schwinger
American physicist
Tomonaga
Tomonaga Shin’ichirō
Japanese physicist
Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes
American physicist
Burton Richter.
Burton Richter
American physicist
Tamm
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
Soviet physicist
Abrikosov, Alexey A.
Alexey A. Abrikosov
Russian physicist
Sir Andre Geim
British-Dutch physicist
Konstantin Novoselov
Konstantin Novoselov
physicist
Andrey Sakharov
Andrey Sakharov
Soviet physicist and dissident
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Neils Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist

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