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Born January 24, 1941 (age 84) • Tel Aviv–Yafo • Israel
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2011)
Subjects Of Study quasicrystal

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Sir William Ramsay
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Tsien, Roger Y.
Roger Y. Tsien
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Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
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Osamu Shimomura
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Ada Yonath
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Ernest Rutherford
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Wilhelm Ostwald.
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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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