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January 20

Birthdays of Nobel Prize Winners

• 1931: David M. Lee
  • Nobel Prize in 1996 "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"
  • Bio from the Nobel website

Other Birthdays

• 1775: Andre-Marie Ampere
  • A key person in the development of electromagnetic theory
  • More: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Ampere.html
• 1948: Natan Sharansky
  • A graduate from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology he became a famous dissident
  • More: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/sharansky.html

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