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Quantum theory.

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Aharonov, Yakir, 1932-

Bargmann, V. (Valentine), 1908-1989

Baym, Gordon

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005

Bloch, Felix, 1905-

Bohm, David, 1917-1992

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

Brillouin, Léon, 1889-1969

Broglie, Louis de, 1892-1987

Clauser, John F. (John Francis), 1942-

Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974

Cornell, Eric Allin, 1961-

Courant, Richard, 1888-1972

Dalgarno, A.

Davis, J. C. Séamus

Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966

Dennison, David M. (David Mathias), 1900-1976

Eckart, Carl, 1902-1973

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-

Epstein, Paul S. (Paul Sophus), 1883-1966

Feenberg, Eugene

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988

Foote, Paul D. (Paul Darwin), 1888-1971

Franck, James, 1882-1964

Gabrielse, Gerald

Gamow, George, 1904-1968

Gell-Mann, Murray

Griffiths, R. B. (Robert Budington)

Guth, Alan H.

Gutzwiller, M. C. (Martin C.)

Hall, J. L. (John L.), 1934-

Hellwarth, Robert Willis, 1930-2021

Herzfeld, Karl F. (Karl Ferdinand), 1892-

Hill, Edward Lee, 1904-1974

Holstein, Theodore David, 1915-1985

Horowitz, Gary T., 1955-

Iachello, F.

Jaffe, Arthur, 1937-

Jain, Jainendra K.

Jin, Deborah S.

Kadanoff, Leo P.

Kemble, Edwin C. (Edwin Crawford), 1889-

Kimble, H. Jeff (Harry Jeffrey), 1949-

Kittel, Charles

Klein, Martin J.

Laporte, Otto, 1902-1971

Lax, Melvin J.

Linde, A. D.

Loeb, Leonard B. (Leonard Benedict), 1891-

Mackey, George W. (George Whitelaw), 1916-2006

Mandel, Leonard

Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

Orlov, Yuri, 1924-

Pake, G. E. (George Edward)

Schiff, Leonard I. (Leonard Isaac), 1915-1971

Segal, Irving Ezra

Seitz, Frederick, 1911-2008

Shankland, Robert S., 1908-

Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976

Stern, Otto, 1888-1969

Tate, John T. (John Torrence), 1889-1950

Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988

Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980

Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957

Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002

Wentzel, Gregor, 1898-1978

Weyl, Hermann, 1885-1955

Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008

Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995

Wineland, David J.

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