• John Zeleny (March 26, 1872 – June 19, 1951) was an American physicist who, in 1911, invented the Zeleny electroscope. He also studied the effect of an...
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  • Look up zelený in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zeleny or Zelenyi (in Czech: Zelený or Ukrainian: Зелений, meaning "green") is a surname. The feminine...
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  • and genetics. Zeleny was born in Hutchinson, Minnesota, the son of Czech immigrants from Křídla. He was the younger brother of John Zeleny. He died in Urbana...
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    rejuvenation of astrophysical research in the United States in the 1950s, mainly by John A. Wheeler. Oppenheimer's papers were considered difficult to understand...
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    John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008) was an American theoretical physicist. He was largely responsible for reviving interest in general...
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    resulted in the award of the 2006 Nobel Prize, shared by George Smoot and John Mather). Alvarez proposed muon tomography in 1965 to search the Egyptian...
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    John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist and mathematician. He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics...
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    earned his PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with John Van Vleck in 1934. He married Charlotte Leof (26 Jul 1911 – 1967), the daughter...
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    radioactive isotope easily produced in the cyclotron that Lawrence and his brother John H. Lawrence were evaluating for use in cancer treatment and as a radioactive...
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    Sir Joseph John Thomson OM FRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of...
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    Paul Dirac, Walter Heitler, Fritz London, Francis Wheeler Loomis, John von Neumann, John Slater, Leó Szilárd and Eugene Wigner. On March 26, 1929, Rabi received...
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    civic work. He served as science advisor to Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was president of the American Physical...
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    The other members of the team were Herbert L. Anderson, Eugene T. Booth, John R. Dunning, G. Norris Glasoe, and Francis G. Slack. The next day, the Fifth...
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    John Robert Schrieffer (/ˈʃriːfər/; May 31, 1931 – July 27, 2019) was an American physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of...
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    Harrison M. Randall (1937) Lyman James Briggs (1938) John Torrence Tate Sr. (1939) John Zeleny (1940) George B. Pegram (1941) George Stewart (1941) Percy...
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    Urbana–Champaign from Francis Wheeler Loomis, and Harvard University from John Hasbrouck Van Vleck. Gibbs moved to prevent Bethe from being poached by having...
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  • John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative neural network in 1982. It is...
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    Harrison M. Randall (1937) Lyman James Briggs (1938) John Torrence Tate Sr. (1939) John Zeleny (1940) George B. Pegram (1941) George Stewart (1941) Percy...
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    John Bardeen (/bɑːrˈdiːn/; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the...
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  • Austria (born 1945) Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich – Russia (1914–1987) John Zeleny – United States (1872–1951) Frits Zernike – Netherlands (1888–1960) Nobel...
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    Harrison M. Randall (1937) Lyman James Briggs (1938) John Torrence Tate Sr. (1939) John Zeleny (1940) George B. Pegram (1941) George Stewart (1941) Percy...
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  • William Alfred Fowler (category Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge)
    On 9 August 1911, Fowler was born in Pittsburgh. Fowler's parents were John MacLeod Fowler and Jennie Summers Watson. Fowler was the eldest of his siblings...
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  • mathematician Rudolf Zahradník, chemist František Záviška, physicist John Zeleny, physicist and the inventor of the electroscope Vladimír Zoubek, geologist...
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    research university. In 2022 Gates rejoined the University of Maryland as the John S. Toll Professor of Physics, Clark Leadership Chair in Science in the department...
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    Eugène (1900–1988), in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "George Uhlenbeck", MacTutor History of Mathematics...
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    only for the short period he was a member of the 21st lodge in Washington. John D. Barrow (2002). The Book of Nothing: Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas...
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    Harrison M. Randall (1937) Lyman James Briggs (1938) John Torrence Tate Sr. (1939) John Zeleny (1940) George B. Pegram (1941) George Stewart (1941) Percy...
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    Harrison M. Randall (1937) Lyman James Briggs (1938) John Torrence Tate Sr. (1939) John Zeleny (1940) George B. Pegram (1941) George Stewart (1941) Percy...
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    neighboring University of Zürich. A fellow student in these seminars was John von Neumann. Bloch graduated in 1927, and was encouraged by Debye to go to...
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    Harrison M. Randall (1937) Lyman James Briggs (1938) John Torrence Tate Sr. (1939) John Zeleny (1940) George B. Pegram (1941) George Stewart (1941) Percy...
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