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Born August 16, 1845 • Luxembourg
Died July 13, 1921 (aged 75) • Atlantic Ocean • Canada? • France?
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1908)

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Polish-born French physicist
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Pierre Curie
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Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
Carlo Rubbia
Italian physicist
Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
American physicist
Charles Kao
British-American physicist
Sir Martin Ryle.
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British astronomer
Ernst Ruska
German engineer
Ernesto Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
American physicist
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British physicist
Nikolay Basov
Nikolay Basov
Soviet physicist
Ferdinand Braun
Ferdinand Braun
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Simon van der Meer
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Ivar Giaever, 1966.
Ivar Giaever
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Stern, Otto
Otto Stern
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