Date of Birth: August 31, 1962
Place of Birth: Providence, RI
Thesis: Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Comet Austin (1989C1)
Using A Two-Dimensional Diode Array Detector
School: The Johns Hopkins University
Advisor: Paul Feldman
Year: 1992
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Date of Birth: November 04, 1939
Place of Birth: New York, NY
Thesis: An Investigation of Metastable Autoionizing Atomic Energy
Levels in the Alkali Elements
School: Columbia University
Advisor: Robert Novick (confirmed by Paul Feldman and Robert Novick)
Year: 1964
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Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Thesis: The Fine Structure of Singly Ionized Helium School: Columbia University Advisor: Willis Lamb (confirmed by Robert Novick and Willis Lamb) Year: 1953
Date of Birth: July 12, 1913
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA
Thesis: I. On the Capture of Slow Neutrons in Hydrogenous Substances
II. Electromagnetic Properties of Nuclear Systems
School: University of California at Berkeley
Advisor: Robert Oppenheimer (confirmed by Willis Lamb)
Year: 1938
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1955, Hydrogen fine structure
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Date of Birth: April 22, 1904 Place of Birth: New York, NY Thesis: Zur Quantentheorie kontinuierlicher Spektren School: University of Göttingen, Germany Advisor: Max Born (from Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections, pages 98,102,103) Year: 1927On the web:
Date of Birth: December 11, 1882
Place of Birth: Breslau, Germany
Thesis: Untersuchungen über die Stabilität der elastischen Linie in
Ebene und Raum unter verschiedenen Grenzbedingungen
School: University of Göttingen, Germany
Advisor: Carl Runge (from My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate, pages 100-101)
Year: 1907
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1954, Fundamental research in quantum mechanics
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Date of Birth: August 30, 1856 Place of Birth: Bremen, Germany Thesis: related to differential geometry School: University of Berlin Advisor: Karl Weierstrass (from Dictionary of Scientific Biography) Year: 1880On the web:
Date of Birth: October 31,1815 Place of Birth: Ostenfelde, Bavaria (now Germany) teaching degree: Thesis: related to elliptic functions School: Theological and Philosophical Academy at Münster Advisor: Christof Gudermann (from Dictionary of Scientific Biography) Year: 1839 honorary doctorate: School: University of Königsberg Year: 1854On the web:
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