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Background
- Born in
- Vienna
- Educated at
- Akademisches GymnasiumHarvard UniversityUniversity of Toronto
- Awards
- 🏆 Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics🏆 Three Physicists Prize🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Feenberg Medal🏆 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Julian Schwinger
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Joseph Rudnick
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1923
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