FamousPeopleFacts - Heinrich Rohrer
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Heinrich Rohrer

Date of Birth: June 6, 1933 Zodiac Sign: Gemini Date of Death: May 16, 2013 Biography Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist renowned for his pioneering work in the field of nanotechnology. Born in Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Rohrer co-invented the scanning tunneling microscope (STM)…
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Hans Adolf Krebs

Date of Birth: August 25, 1900 Zodiac Sign: Virgo Date of Death: November 22, 1981 Biography Hans Adolf Krebs was a German-born British biochemist renowned for his groundbreaking work in cellular respiration. Born on August 25, 1900, in Hildesheim, Germany, Krebs was the son of…
FamousPeopleFacts - Gregory Benford
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Gregory Benford

Date of Birth: January 30, 1941 Zodiac Sign: Aquarius Biography Gregory Benford is an acclaimed American author and astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to both hard science fiction and scientific thought. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Benford grew up with a twin brother, Jim Benford,…
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Gordon Gould

Date of Birth: July 17, 1920 Zodiac Sign: Cancer Date of Death: September 16, 2005 Biography Gordon Gould was an American physicist best known for his contributions to the development of the laser. Born on July 17, 1920, in New York City, Gould’s journey into…
FamousPeopleFacts - Gerhard Herzberg
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Gerhard Herzberg

Date of Birth: December 25, 1904 Zodiac Sign: Capricorn Date of Death: March 3, 1999 Biography Gerhard Herzberg was a renowned German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist, best known for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Herzberg made significant contributions to the…
FamousPeopleFacts - George Gamow
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George Gamow

Date of Birth: March 4, 1904 Zodiac Sign: Pisces Date of Death: August 19, 1968 Biography George Gamow was a pioneering physicist and cosmologist, best known for his work on radioactive decay, stellar nucleosynthesis, and the Big Bang theory. Born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now…
FamousPeopleFacts - Geoffrey West
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Geoffrey West

Date of Birth: December 15, 1940 Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius Biography Geoffrey Brian West is a British theoretical physicist and former president of the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit theoretical research institute located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Born in Taunton, Somerset, England, West is…
FamousPeopleFacts - Francois Englert
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Francois Englert

Date of Birth: November 6, 1932 Zodiac Sign: Scorpio Biography François Englert is a renowned Belgian theoretical physicist born on November 6, 1932. He is best known for his work on the mechanism that explains the origin of mass of subatomic particles. This work, done…
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Fabiola Gianotti

Date of Birth: October 29, 1960 Zodiac Sign: Scorpio Biography Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian experimental particle physicist and the first woman to be appointed as Director-General of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, a position she has held since January 2016. She was…
FamousPeopleFacts - Eugene Wigner
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Eugene Wigner

Date of Birth: November 17, 1902 Zodiac Sign: Scorpio Date of Death: January 1, 1995 Biography Eugene Paul Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and mathematician who played a significant role in the development of quantum mechanics and the theory of atomic nuclei. Born in…