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Born June 28, 1943 (age 81)
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1985)
Subjects Of Study quantum • resistance
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
Max Born
Max Born
German physicist
Störmer, Horst L.
Horst L. Störmer
German-American physicist
Hans Georg Dehmelt
American physicist
Neils Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
Louis-Victor de Broglie
Louis de Broglie
French physicist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Laughlin, Robert B.
Robert B. Laughlin
American physicist
Daniel C. Tsui
American physicist
Felix Bloch
American physicist
Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr.
American physicist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Rainer Weiss
American physicist
Maria Goeppert Mayer.
Maria Goeppert Mayer
American physicist
Theodor W. Hänsch
Theodor W. Hänsch
German scientist
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
German physicist

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