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• Tesla: Man Out of Time
  ...t goes entirely to Tesla. A long-running battle between the two ended when American courts essentially invalidated Marconi's radio patent, and awarded credit f ...many of which are in use today. Others are yet to be understood by modern scientists.
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• Dael L Wolfe
  Dael Wolfle was the executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., in 1960 whe ...attle World?s Fair, 1962," Murray Morgan said that without the help of the scientists, Seattle might have had just a "good regional fair."
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• Halton Arp
  |nationality = American ...alton Christian "Chip" Arp''' (March 21, 1927 – December 28, 2013) was an American [[astronomer]]. He was known for his 1966 ''[[Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies]]
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• Albert A. Michelson
  ...]. In 1907 he received the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]. He became the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in sciences. ...chelson/Michelson.html |title=Albert Abraham Michelson 1852–1931|publisher=American Institute of Physics}}</ref> He moved to the US with his parents in 1855, a
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• John Stewart Bell
  ...hanics|quantum theory]]. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1987.<ref name=AAAS> |publisher=[[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]
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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}} ...n the Planck home became a social and cultural center. Numerous well-known scientists, such as [[Albert Einstein]], [[Otto Hahn]] and [[Lise Meitner]] were frequ
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• James Clerk Maxwell
  ...ard Maxwell as the 19th-century scientist having the greatest influence on 20th-century physics. His contributions to the science are considered by many to be of t ...rchiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006063943/http://digital.nls.uk/scientists/biographies/james-clerk-maxwell/index.html |archivedate=6 October 2013 }}</
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• Henri Poincaré
  | journal = American Journal of Physics ...They can have one only as the result of a convention." He also argued that scientists have to set the constancy of the speed of light as a [[postulate]] to give
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• Robert J Heaston
  ...Mexico in Albuquerque, NM in April 2008. This group involves a few hundred scientists from four continents. I also gave talks on psychology and philosophy at som
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• Thomas Edison
  {{Use American English|date=March 2015}} | nationality = [[Americans|American]]
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• Phonograph
  [[File:Gramofon 1 ubt.jpeg|thumb|right|A late 20th-century turntable and record]] In [[American English]], "phonograph", properly specific to machines made by Edison, was
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• Lorentz ether theory
  ...Max Born]] later said, it was natural (though not logically necessary) for scientists of that time to identify the rest frame of the Lorentz aether with the abso Many scientists now believed that the entire mass and all forms of forces were electromagne
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• Expansion tectonics
  ...s Earth model has never been done before. Because of this lack of inquiry, scientists and industry have been deprived of a valuable scientific basis to thoroughl Many scientists have demonstrated that an Earth increasing its size over time is perfectly
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• History of special relativity
  ...eed,<ref>Whittaker (1951), 128ff</ref> but after considerable work by many scientists, including [[Michael Faraday]] and [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin|Lord Some scientists and philosophers of science were critical of Newton's definitions of absolu
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