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Born October 9, 1801 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died November 27, 1873 (aged 72) • Marseille • France
Notable Works “Treatise on Theoretical and Applied Electricity”
Subjects Of Study electrochemical reaction • electrolytic cell
Johann Wilhelm Ritter
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Johann Wilhelm Hittorf
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Auguste Piccard, 1961
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K. Alex Müller
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Fritz Zwicky
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Charles Édouard Guillaume
French physicist
Robert Emden
Swiss astronomer
Horace Bénédict de Saussure
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Paul Scherrer
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Alfred Otto Carl Nier
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William Penney
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Arsène d’Arsonval
French physician and physicist
George Pake
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Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
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Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
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