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Born January 18, 1880 • Vienna • Austria
Died September 25, 1933 (aged 53) • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Subjects Of Study blackbody radiation • quantum
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist
Josef Stefan
Austrian physicist
Neils Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Louis-Victor de Broglie
Louis de Broglie
French physicist
Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Max Born
Max Born
German physicist
Chen Ning Yang
Chen Ning Yang
American physicist
J. Willard Gibbs
J. Willard Gibbs
American scientist
David Bohm
American physicist
Laughlin, Robert B.
Robert B. Laughlin
American physicist
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Daniel C. Tsui
American physicist
Störmer, Horst L.
Horst L. Störmer
German-American physicist
Hans Georg Dehmelt
American physicist

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