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Lord Rayleigh, engraving by R. Cottot.
Lord Rayleigh
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Chen Ning Yang
Chen Ning Yang
American physicist
J. Willard Gibbs
J. Willard Gibbs
American scientist
Werner Kuhn
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Paul Ehrenfest
Austrian theoretical physicist
Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist
Tsung-Dao Lee
Tsung-Dao Lee
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Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
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