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gptkb:Carl_David_Anderson
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for his discovery of the positron
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gptkb:Adam_G._Riess
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for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae
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gptkb:Heinz_Otto_Wieland
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for his investigations of the constitution of bile acids and related substances
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gptkb:Ernst_Ruska
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for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope
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gptkb:Alan_J._Heeger
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for the discovery and development of conductive polymers
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gptkb:Nevill_F._Mott
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for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems
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gptkb:Walter_Nernst
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for his theory of affinity and the third law of thermodynamics
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gptkb:Daniel_Tsui
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for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations
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gptkb:Kenneth_Wilson
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for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions
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gptkb:M._Stanley_Whittingham
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for the development of lithium-ion batteries
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gptkb:Richard_Frederick_Heck
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for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis
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gptkb:Roy_J._Glauber
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for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence
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gptkb:T.D._Lee
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for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles
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gptkb:Reinhard_Genzel
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for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy
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gptkb:Rudolph_A._Marcus
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for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems
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gptkb:E._M._Purcell
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for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith
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gptkb:Friedrich_W._Aston
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for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule
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gptkb:Alexander_Todd
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work on nucleotides and nucleotide co-enzymes
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gptkb:Stanley_Prusiner
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for his discovery of Prions – a new biological principle of infection
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gptkb:William_Giauque
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for his contributions in the field of chemical thermodynamics, particularly concerning the behavior of substances at extremely low temperatures
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