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331 |
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Wallace Clement Sabine
1868-1919 USA Physique
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founded the science of architectural acoustics
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332 |
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Paul Ehrenfest
1880-1933 L'Autriche Physique
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applied quantum mechanics to rotating bodies; helped develop the modern statistical theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics
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333 |
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Walther Meissner
1882-1974 Allemagne Physique
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co-discovered the ``Meissner effect'', whereby a superconductor expells a magnetic field
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334 |
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Hermann Weyl
1885-1955 Allemagne Physique
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attempted to incorporate electromagnetism into general relativity; evolved the concept of continuous groups using matrix representations and applied group theory to quantum mechanics
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335 |
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Arthur Jeffrey Dempster
1886-1950 Du Canada Physique
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discovered the isotope uranium-235
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336 |
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Robert Watson-Watt
1892-1973 Royaume-Uni Physique
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developed radar
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337 |
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Satyendra Bose
1894-1974 L'Inde Physique
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worked out statistical method of handling bosons (a group of particles named in his honor)
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338 |
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Vladimir A. Fock
1898-1974 La Russie Physique
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made fundamental contributions to quantum theory; invented the Hartree-Fock approximation method and the notion of Fock space
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339 |
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Leo Szilard
1898-1964 La Hongrie Physique
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first suggested possibility of a nuclear chain reaction
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340 |
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Pierre Auger
1899-1993 France Physique
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discovered the Auger effect whereby an electron is ejected from an atom without the emission of an x-ray or gamma-ray photon as the result of the de-excitation of an excited electron within the atom; discovered cosmic-ray air showers
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