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• David Gross:

  I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons.

• James Prescott Joule:

  After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something o

• Shuji Nakamura:

  I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because ba

• Lisa Randall:

  Physicists have yet to understand why the Higgs boson's mass is what it is.

• Ernest Walton:

  The discovery that light elements could be disintegrated by artificially accelerated particles gave

• Willard Boyle:

  It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty a

• Murray Gell-Mann:

  As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figur

• Neil Turok:

  Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next gran

• Andre Geim:

  Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

• Cecil Frank Powell:

  Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of o