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1954 Nobel Laureate in Physics

...for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction

1882-1970
Place of Birth: Breslau, then Germany
Residence: Great Britain
Affiliation: Edinburgh University

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1946 Nobel Laureate in Physics

... for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics.

1882-1961
Residence: U.S.A
Affiliation: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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ALBERT EINSTEIN

1921 Nobel Laureate in Physics

...for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.

1879-1955
Residence: Germany and Switzerland
Affiliation: Kaiser-WilhelmInstitut now Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, Berlin

• Albert Einstein On Line
• A short biographical sketch
• A rather large collection of photographs
• Another photograph collection
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• Out from the Shadows of 'Great Men'

Background

1898-1968
Residence: Poland
Affiliation: Hoza University, Warsaw.

Theoretical physisist - co-worker with Albert Einstein, specialist in the field of theory of relativity. was before WW II an associate professor at Jan Kazimierz University in Lwow. After the war he returned in 1950 from Canada to communist Poland. Famous for his collaboration with Albert Einstein, he deftly used his prestige among the authorities to further the cause of Physics in those difficult times

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1935 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

... in recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements.

1900-1958
Residence: France
Affiliation: Institut du Radium, Paris

• Prize Co-recipient: Irene Joliot-Curie
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1946 Nobel Laureate in Medicine

...for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation.

1890-1967
Residence: U.S.A.
Affiliation: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

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1954 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

...for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.

1962 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

1901-1994
Residence: U.S.A.
Affiliation: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

• A biographical article by M. F. Perutz
• Short profiles in German and in English.
• The Ava Helen & Linus Pauling Papers
• Another short biography
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• Obituary
• Vitamin C Helps Fight Heart Ills, Pauling Says
• Pauling is Still Taking on the 'Old Guys'
• Vitamin C and Cancer
• Study: Large Doses of Vitamin C Don't Combat Cancer (1985)
• Brown Hears Linus Pauling Discuss Nutrition

1950 Nobel Laureate in Physics

...for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method.

1903-1969
Residence: Great Britain
Affiliation: Bristol University

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JOSEPH ROTBLAT

1995 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

...for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and in the longer run to eliminate such arms.

Born: 1908
Place of Birth: Poland
Residence: Great Britain, London

• Books by Joseph Rotblat

• Prize co-recipient: the Pugwash Conferences
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EARL BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL

1950 Nobel Laureate in Literature

... in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought.

1872-1970
Residence: Great Britain

• Books by Bertrand Russell
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• Dora Russell's Obituary

1949 Nobel Laureate in Physics

... for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces.

1907-1981
Residence: Japan
Affiliations:
Kyoto Imperial University
Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A.

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• Obituary

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