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Born March 9, 1923 • Vienna • Austria
Died April 19, 2016 (aged 93) • Santa Barbara • California
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1998)
Subjects Of Study chemical bonding
Mulliken, 1966
Robert Sanderson Mulliken
American chemist and physicist
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling
American scientist
Langmuir, Irving
Irving Langmuir
American chemist
Venki Ramakrishnan
Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist
Richard E. Smalley
American chemist and physicist
Edwin Mattison McMillan.
Edwin Mattison McMillan
American physicist
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr.
American chemist
Martin Karplus
Martin Karplus
American-Austrian chemist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Wigner, 1962
Eugene Wigner
American physicist
David Wineland, 2012.
David Wineland
American physicist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Francis William Aston.
Francis William Aston
British physicist and chemist
Gerhard Herzberg
Canadian physicist
Manfred Eigen
German physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist
Victor Francis Hess
Austrian physicist
Harold C. Urey
American chemist
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn T. Seaborg
American chemist

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