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Element 111 is now Roentgenium (Rg), which is named for Wilhelm Rontgen, the German physicist who discovered X-Rays.
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Harry Gaus, a German physicist, had sued Conair for infringing his patent for a hair dryer safety switch.
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The researchers included in their model a hitherto-neglected effect proposed by a German physicist, Arnold Sommerfeld, in the 1930s.
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In 1911, Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs, German physicist who settled in Britain and spied for the Soviet Union, was born.
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For instance, a German physicist named Robert Wichard Pohl made a solid-state amplifier in 1938 using salt as the semiconductor.
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In 1919 German physicist Albert Betz published a theory that no turbine can capture more than 60 percent of the kinetic energy in wind.
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Albrecht, a German physicist who promoted the then novel idea that marital relations must fulfil the needs of both partners, not just errant males.
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The German physicist drove most of the US space programme's achievements until his death in 1977, and made three popular space films for Disney TV between 1955 and 1957.
BBC: The Moon
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They had read the same essential sources particularly the work of Philipp Reis, the German physicist who had come startlingly close to building a working telephone back in the early eighteen-sixties.
NEWYORKER: In the Air
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He puzzled out (and only later learned that 19th-century German physicist Hermann Helmholtz had gotten there before him) that when two tones are played simultaneously and loudly enough, they interact to create two new tones.
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David Strom, a German Jewish physicist recently arrived in the United States, and Delia Daley, an African-American doctor's daughter, meet at Marian Anderson's famous 1939 concert at Washington Mall.
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