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Born May 16, 1925 • Nashville • Tennessee
Died December 25, 2018 (aged 93) • Maryland

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George Low
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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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