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Erwin Wilhelm Müller
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Born June 13, 1911 • Berlin • Germany
Died May 17, 1977 (aged 65) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Inventions field-emission microscope • field-ion microscope
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
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Harry Nyquist
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Two 15-foot (4.6-metre) spherical terminals of the Van de Graaff direct current electrostatic generator, New Bedford, Mass., 1935.
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff
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Arthur Ashkin
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Page, Robert Morris
Robert Morris Page
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Willard Boyle
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Shockley
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Donald A. Glaser
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Bardeen.
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Henry Augustus Rowland
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Chester F. Carlson
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Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes
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Walter Schottky
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George E. Smith
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