biography
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Schiff, Leonard I(saac)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1915–71)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA. He performed research at the University of California, Berkeley (1937–40), the University of Pennsylvania (1940–5), and Los Alamos (1945–7), before joining Stanford (1947–66). A major contributor to research in theoretical nuclear physics, relativity, and gravitation, he was a proponent of extensive experimental testing of Einsteinian theory. |
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