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John B. Goodenough
American physicist
Pierre Curie
Pierre Curie
French chemist
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
Soviet physicist
Plücker, Julius
Julius Plücker
German mathematician and physicist
Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt
French scientist
Louis-Eugène-Félix Néel
French physicist
Franz Maria Ulrich Theodor Hoch Aepinus
German physicist
Pierre-Ernest Weiss
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Gilbert, William
William Gilbert
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John H. Van Vleck
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John Canton
British physicist