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Born August 22, 1913 • Italy
Died September 25, 1993 (aged 80) • Dubna • Russia
Awards And Honors Order of Lenin (1983)
Subjects Of Study heavy water • neutrino • heavy-water reactor • nuclear reactor
Frederick Reines
American physicist
Henry Way Kendall
American physicist
Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop
Australian-born nuclear physicist
Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
Fabiola Gianotti
Fabiola Gianotti
Italian physicist
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
Emilio Segrè.
Emilio Segrè
Italian-American physicist
Peretz Markish
Russian writer
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
Peierls, Sir Rudolf Ernst; Dirac, P.A.M.; Pauli, Wolfgang
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls
British physicist
Kajita Takaaki
Kajita Takaaki
Japanese physicist
Arthur B. McDonald
Arthur B. McDonald
Canadian physicist
Melvin Schwartz
American physicist
Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek
American physicist
Davis, Raymond, Jr.
Raymond Davis, Jr.
American scientist
David Gross
American physicist
Steven Weinberg
American physicist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
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