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Born May 23, 1908 • Madison • Wisconsin
Died January 30, 1991 (aged 82) • Boston • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1972) • Nobel Prize (1956)
Inventions transistor
Subjects Of Study BCS theory

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