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Maria Goeppert Mayer
MAYER, MARIA GOEPPERT(b. Kattowicz, Upper Silesia [now Katowice, Poland], 28 June 1906: d. La Jolla, California, 20 February 1972)physics.Mayer was a mathematical physicist with a facility for the matrix manipulations of group theory and quantum mechanics and a chemist’s appreciation for the... Read more |
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Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven
ALFVéN, HANNES OLOF GOSTA(b. Norrkorping, Sweden, 30 May 1908; d. Stockholm, Sweden, 2 April 1995)physics, plasma state of matter, magnetohydrodynamics, plasma cosmogony, plasma cosmology.Alfvén, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics, is acknowledged as one of the greatest creative and intuitive... Read more |
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Aage Niels Bohr
Aage Niels Bohr , 1922-, Danish physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Copenhagen, 1954. He worked with his father Niels Bohr (who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922) in the 1940s on the development of the atomic bomb and succeeded (1963) him as director of the Niels Bohr Institute of Theoretical Physics.... Read more |
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James Franck
James Franck , 1882-1964, German physicist. He was professor of physics at Göttingen and at Johns Hopkins (1935-38) and professor of physical chemistry at the Univ. of Chicago from 1938. He specialized in atomic structure and photosynthesis. With Gustav Hertz he shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in... Read more |
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Pieter Zeeman
Pieter Zeeman , 1865-1943, Dutch physicist. He was professor of physics at the Univ. of Amsterdam from 1900 and director of the Physical Institute, Amsterdam, from 1908. In 1896 he discovered the Zeeman effect . He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with H. A. Lorentz. His works include ... Read more |
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Percy Williams Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman 1882-1961, American physicist, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1904; Ph.D., 1908). From 1910 he taught at Harvard, as professor from 1919. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. He is known also for his studies of... Read more |
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Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki Leo Esaki (born 1925) was one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973. Esaki was honored for his 1957 pioneering work in electron tunneling in semiconducting materials, which led to his creation of the Esaki diode, or tunnel diode. This technology helped advance research... Read more |
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John Bardeen
John Bardeen , 1908-91, American physicist, b. Madison, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin (B.S. 1928, M.S. 1929), Ph.D. Princeton, 1936. He was a research physicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1945 to 1951. In 1951 he became professor of electrical engineering and physics at the Univ. of... Read more |
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James Rainwater
James Rainwater 1917-86, American physicist, Ph.D. Columbia, 1946. After working on the Manhattan Project as a student during World War II, he became a professor of physics at Columbia in 1952. His theory that not all atomic nuclei are spherical was verified experimentally by Danish physicists... Read more |
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2 U.S. scientists win Nobel Prize in medicine. (Originated from Boston Globe)
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The women who inspire me; Sarah Brown reveals her own heroines from Poet...
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Scientists must take the lead in the search for new ways to teach their science
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Wrinkles in time; witness to the birth of the universe. (reprint,...
...paperback edition of the 1993 book, Smoot (winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 2006) cites recent projects seeking to further understanding...photos, diagrams, further reading, and a list of contributors to the Cosmic Background Explorer... |
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The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige. (Turkish).
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