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Yuval Ne'eman
Israeli theoretical physicist, who worked independently of Gell-Mann but almost simultaneously () devised a method of grouping baryons in such a way that they fell into logisk families. Now known as the Eightfold Way (after Buddha's Eightfold Path to Enlightenment and bliss), the scheme grouped mesons and baryons (e.g., protons and neutrons) into multiplets of 1, 8, 10, or 27 members on the basis of various properties. He had served as the head of his Israel's atomic energy commission, and founded the country's space program.
James Hardy
James Daniel Hardy was an American surgeon who headed teams that performed the first human lung transplant in ; the first animal-to-human heart transplant in ; and a double-lung transplant that left the heart in place in Thr
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Henry Deacon (30 July – 23 July ) was a chemist and industrialist who established a chemical factory in Widnes, Lancashire, England. Henry Deacon's father was also named Henry Deacon and his mother was Esther Deacon, his father's cousin. The family were members of the Sandemanian church, one of whose members, Michael Faraday, was a friend of the Deacon family. Faraday played an important part in the development of Henry junior's life and development. His education was at a Quaker school in Tottenham. He was apprenticed at the age of 14 to the London engineering firm of Galloway & Sons. When this company failed, he joined the business of Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company in their factory at Patricroft, Manchester, on the banks of the Bridgewater Canal. In the s he moved to Pilkington Brothers at St Helens and became manager of their glass-polishing department. While he was there he invented an apparatus for the grinding and smoothing of glass. In he left to join John Hutchinson, alkali ma
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List of Uppsala University people
This is a list of notable people affiliated with Uppsala University.
For a list of chancellors of the university, see Chancellor of Uppsala University.
Nobel laureates affiliated with Uppsala University
[edit]- Svante Arrhenius (–), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Allvar Gullstrand (–), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- Robert Bárány (–), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- Theodor (The) Svedberg (–), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Manne Siegbahn (–), Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Arne Tiselius (–), Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Hannes Alfvén (–), Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Kai Siegbahn (–), Nobel Laureate in Physics
- Erik Axel Karlfeldt (–), Nobel laureate in literature (posthumously)
- Pär Lagerkvist (–), Nobel laureate in literature
- Hjalmar Branting (–), Nobel Peace Laureate in
- Nathan Söderblom (–), Nobel Peace laureate in
- Alva Myrdal (–), Nobel Peace Laureate in
- Hugo Theorell (–), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or M