In 1948 George Gamow, a fellow pioneer of nuclear physics, added Mr Bethe's name without asking to a paper that explained how chemical elements had been made in the Big Bang.

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This use of nuclear physics to find art forgeries is a great example of those applications.

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On May 25, fusion power research startup Lawrenceville Plasma Physics announced that it had signed a contract for research collaboration in nuclear fusion with the Plasma Physics Research Center of I.

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He is a professor of nuclear and high-energy physics in Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

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Lowell and I had a monthlong no-holds-barred nuclear-physics battle.

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The current U.S. Secretary of Energy and winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, Steven Chu, is a vocal advocate of nuclear energy.

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They are known as fermions, after Enrico Fermi, the physicist who built the first nuclear reactor, and who also gave his name to Fermilab, a particle-physics laboratory near Chicago.

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In addition, four of the nuclear scientists who came to the United States from Europe in the 1930s later received a Nobel Prize for physics: Felix Bloch, born in Switzerland, won it in 1952, Emilio Segre (Italy) won in 1959, and Maria Mayer (Poland) and Eugene Wigner (Hungary) won the award in 1963.

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