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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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Born October 4, 1841 • Ohio
Died March 23, 1924 (aged 82) • Ohio
Subjects Of Study gravity • measurement
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Kip Thorne
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Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
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John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler
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Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
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Galileo
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John Dalton
John Dalton
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Albert Of Saxony
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Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose.
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August Kundt
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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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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
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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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