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• David Bohm
  {{for|the American bicycle framebuilder|David Henry Bohm}} | nationality = American
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• Max Planck
  {{Use American English|date=May 2017}} ...Berlin|Friedrich Wilhelms University]] in Berlin for a year of study with physicists [[Hermann von Helmholtz]] and [[Gustav Kirchhoff]] and mathematician [[Karl
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• James Clerk Maxwell
  ...82|p=2}}</ref> In the millennium poll – a survey of the 100 most prominent physicists – Maxwell was voted the third greatest physicist of all time, behind only ...(1831–1879); Member APS 1875 |last=Seitz |first=Frederick |publisher=[[The American Philosophical Society]] |accessdate=20 May 2011 |location=Philadelphia |dea
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• Cynthia Kolb Whitney
  Dr. Cynthia Kolb Whitney is an American Scientist specializing in physics and electrodynamics and is the Editor and ...cal Engineering, Ph.D. Mathematical Physics), and had a long career in the American defense industry, much enriched by supervising engineering thesis students
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• Vivian Pope
  ...d in <em>New Scientist</em> reporting that more than just a few mainstream physicists have come to the same conclusion (See 'Shedding Light on Light', N.S., 1/11 ...My talk was entitled 'Instantaneous Relativistic Action-at-a-Distance'. An American professor who had attended the talk insisted on my publishing it,&nbsp;whic
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• David Tombe
  ...first useful breakthrough came around about February 1982 when I found an American textbook, <em>"The Classical Electromagnetic Field"</em>, written by Leonar ...w the following March during the martial law period, and Dr. JP Wesley, an American living in the Black Forest in West Germany, who I visited on the same trip.
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• Michelson–Morley experiment
  ...ing directly a first-order 0.01% change in the speed of light. A number of physicists therefore attempted to make measurements of indirect first-order effects no ...to the properties of the aether, Michelson and Morley's article in the ''[[American Journal of Science]]'' reported the measurement to be as small as one-forti
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• History of special relativity
  ...y"? --> 60&nbsp;km/s different in the northern winter than summer). So the physicists were confronted with two seemingly contradictory experiments: the 1886-expe Other physicists besides Lorentz and Larmor also tried to develop a consistent model of elec
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• Lorentz ether theory
  ...the relative motion of matter in relation to the ether. And although most physicists had other views, Poincaré in 1900<ref group=A name=relation>Poincaré (190 ...and we had said that nothing could constrain us to abandon it. Today some physicists want to adopt a new convention. It is not that they are constrained to do s
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• Henri Poincaré
  | journal = American Journal of Physics *[[American Philosophical Society]] 1899
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• Aharonov–Bohm effect
  ...erefore, one must either abandon the [[principle of locality]], which most physicists are reluctant to do, or accept that the electromagnetic four-potential offe |journal=[[Scientific American]]
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• De Broglie–Bohm theory
  ...ley, Valentini and others to include stochastic properties. Bohm and other physicists, including Valentini, view the [[Born rule]] linking <math>R</math> to the ...nics-guest-post/|website=blogs.scientificamerican.com|publisher=Scientific American|accessdate=5 December 2016|date=November 18, 2013}}</ref>
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• Lorentz transformation
  Many physicists—including [[Woldemar Voigt]], [[George FitzGerald]], [[Joseph Larmor]], a ...avariant components]] respectively,<ref>{{cite book |title=Mathematics for Physicists |first1=Philippe |last1=Dennery |first2=André |last2=Krzywicki |publisher=
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• Hubble's law
  A decade before Hubble made his observations, a number of [[physicists]] and [[mathematicians]] had established a consistent theory of the relatio |journal=[[American Journal of Physics]]
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