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John B. Goodenough
American physicist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
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Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Soviet physicist
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt
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Louis-Eugène-Félix Néel
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Franz Maria Ulrich Theodor Hoch Aepinus
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Pierre-Ernest Weiss
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Gilbert, William
William Gilbert
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