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Born December 5, 1903 • England
Died August 9, 1969 (aged 65) • Italy
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1950)
Subjects Of Study K meson • cosmic ray • muon • neutrino • pi meson

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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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