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Born January 26, 1911 • Germany
Died March 20, 1993 (aged 82) • Dallas • Texas
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1955)
Subjects Of Study electron • magnetic moment
Hans Georg Dehmelt
American physicist
Stern, Otto
Otto Stern
American physicist
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez
American physicist
Henry Way Kendall
American physicist
Felix Bloch
American physicist
John H. Van Vleck
American physicist
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Rainer Weiss
American physicist
Maria Goeppert Mayer.
Maria Goeppert Mayer
American physicist
James Franck
James Franck
German physicist
Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger
German-American physicist
Arno Penzias
American astrophysicist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Louis-Victor de Broglie
Louis de Broglie
French physicist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist

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