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Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
Louis-Eugène-Félix Néel
French physicist
Allan MacDonald
Canadian-American physicist
Ivar Giaever, 1966.
Ivar Giaever
American physicist
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist
Philip W. Anderson
Philip W. Anderson
American physicist