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Born February 3, 1862 • Virginia
Died November 10, 1949 (aged 87) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Notable Works “Physics of the Air”
Subjects Of Study atmosphere
Lloyd Viel Berkner
American physicist and engineer
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
John Dalton
John Dalton
British scientist
John Tyndall.
John Tyndall
Irish physicist
George Johnstone Stoney
Irish physicist
Heinrich Kayser
German physicist
Alfred Otto Carl Nier
American physicist
George Pake
American physicist
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
Hungarian-born American physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
A.A. Michelson.
A.A. Michelson
German-born American physicist
Rainer Weiss
American physicist
Charles H. Bennett
Charles H. Bennett
American physicist
Jack Kilby
American engineer

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