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    Sir John Theodore Houghton CBE FRS FLSW (30 December 1931 – 15 April 2020) was a Welsh atmospheric physicist who was the co-chair of the Intergovernmental...
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  • constituency) John Houghton (Manx politician) John Houghton (Zimbabwean politician) John Houghton (physicist) (1931–2020), Welsh atmospheric physicist John Houghton...
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    and the political philosopher John Gray. Past students and fellows in the sciences include John Houghton (physicist) and Nobel Laureate Peter J. Ratcliffe...
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    John Trowbridge (August 5, 1843 – February 18, 1923) was an American physicist, noted for his research into electricity and magnetism, and for his innovations...
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  • Laura Mersini-Houghton (born 1969), Albanian theoretical physicist-cosmologist Michael Houghton (born 1949), British scientist Nick Houghton (born 1954)...
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    Brian Edward Cox CBE FRS (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist and musician who is a professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and...
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  • Electricians: This chapter covers physicists from the 18th century onward including J.J. Thomson, a physicist, and John Dalton, and Dmitri Mendeleev both...
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    Frank Oppenheimer (category Accelerator physicists)
    Oppenheimer (14 August 1912 – 3 February 1985) was an American particle physicist, cattle rancher, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and...
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    Jonathan Richard "John" Ellis CBE FRS HonFInstP (born 1 July 1946) is a British-Swiss theoretical physicist. After completing his secondary education...
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    botanist John Albery (1936–2013), physical chemist John Arderne (1307-1392), physician and surgeon Francis William Aston (1877–1945), physicist David Attenborough...
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  • Hopfield network. Hopfield was born in 1933 to Polish physicist John Joseph Hopfield and physicist Helen Hopfield. Helen was the older Hopfield's second...
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    John Charlton Polkinghorne KBE FRS (16 October 1930 – 9 March 2021) was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent...
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    Theodore Hall (category 20th-century American physicists)
    Theodore Alvin Hall (October 20, 1925 – November 1, 1999) was an American physicist and an atomic spy for the Soviet Union, who, during his work on United...
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  • For other people named John Platt, see John Platt. John Rader Platt (June 29, 1918 – June 17, 1992) was an American physicist and biophysicist, professor...
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    Ali Javan (category American physicists)
    Javān); December 26, 1926 – September 12, 2016) was an Iranian American physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser...
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    Paul Charles William Davies AM (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor in Arizona State University and director...
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  • of Houghton-le-Spring, Archdeacon of Durham Sir William Herschel, composer and astronomer, discoverer of Uranus William Reid Clanny, Irish physicist Charlie...
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    Poet and Nobel laureate in literature T. S. Eliot (AB, 1909; AM, 1910) Physicist and leader of the Manhattan Project J. Robert Oppenheimer (AB, 1925) Economist...
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  • Techniques. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 16–20, 75–81. ISBN 9781883249120. Bass, Thomas A. (April 26, 1999). "Black Box: What Happens when maverick physicists in New...
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    Edwin Hall (category American physicists)
    Edwin Herbert Hall (November 7, 1855 – November 20, 1938) was an American physicist, who discovered the eponymous Hall effect. Hall conducted thermoelectric...
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  • and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a 2005 biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the leader of the Manhattan Project which produced...
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    Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz...
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    Eugene Parker (category People from Houghton, Michigan)
    Parker (June 10, 1927 – March 15, 2022) was an American solar and plasma physicist. In the 1950s he proposed the existence of the solar wind and that the...
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    Klaus Fuchs (category British nuclear physicists)
    Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and...
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  • mathematical transformations that identify one physical theory with another. Physicists studying string theory have discovered a number of these dualities between...
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    Lee Smolin (category 21st-century American physicists)
    Lee Smolin (/ˈsmoʊlɪn/; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,...
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    Charles S. (1916). "The Tragedy at Buffalo". The Life of William McKinley. Houghton Mifflin Company. pp. 313–33. McKnight, Ray A. "The Battleground Shootout—Arizona...
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  • (1831–1879), physicist; electromagnetism William George Penney (1909–1991), nuclear physicist John Polkinghorne (1930–2021), physicist, religious thinker...
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    between John Ellis (physicist), Frank Close and Nicholas Maxwell. Why The World Exists, a discussion between physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton, cosmologist...
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    Alan Nunn May (category English physicists)
    Nunn May (sometimes Allan) (2 May 1911 – 12 January 2003) was a British physicist and a confessed and convicted Soviet spy who supplied secrets of British...
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