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Born November 7, 1878 • Vienna • Austria
Died October 27, 1968 (aged 89) • Cambridge • England
Subjects Of Study Auger effect • nuclear fission • protactinium-231 • radioactivity • uranium

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German chemist
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Becquerel, Henri
Henri Becquerel
French physicist
Otto Robert Frisch
Austrian physicist
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler
American physicist
Geiger counter
Hans Geiger
German physicist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov
Soviet physicist
James Chadwick
James Chadwick
British physicist
Henry Moseley
British physicist
John R. Dunning
American physicist
Bertram Borden Boltwood
American chemist and physicist
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American physicist
Teller, Edward
Edward Teller
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Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
American physicist
Ernesto Orlando Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
American physicist
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
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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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