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Max Born
Max Born (1881 - 1970) work, for which he received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 with Walther Bothe, improved the laws describing the movement of electrons around the nucleus in the centre of ...
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Max Born
Max Born (1881 - 1970) won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 for his work on subatomic particles. His work on wave functions lead to the understanding that electrons should be regarded as particles.
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Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
Sir Joseph Swan (1818 - 1914) was a physicist and chemist born in Sunderland, England who is credited with producing the first electric light bulb.
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Edward Appleton
Edward Appleton was born on the 6th September 1891, at 41 Maperton Road in Bradford. He had a difficult birth due to the broadness of his head and ended up marked by the doctor's instruments.
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Sir Richard Arkwright
Richard Arkwright's determination and business sense lead to the establishment of successful cotton mills across Great Britain, and arguably began the industrial revolution. He was born in Preston, ...
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Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner (1878 - 1968). Austrian-born Swedish nuclear physicist. After leaving Nazi Germany in 1938 she worked at the Nobel Physical Institute in Stockholm. She continued her research there, and, ...
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Jeno Pal Wigner
Jeną P l Wigner (1901 - 1995) Hungarian-born American physicist, joint winner, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963. He received the prize for his many contributions to nuclear physics, which ...
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Walther Bothe
Walther Bothe (1891 - 1957) during the First World War was taken prisoner by the Russians and spent a year in captivity in Siberia. This year he devoted to mathematical studies and to learning the ...
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac was born on 8th August, 1901, at Bristol, England. His work was concerned with the mathematical and theoretical aspects of quantum mechanics and he began work on the new ...
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