biography
pronunciation:
[lapaw(r)t]
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| lived:
| (1902–71)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Mainz, Germany. He went to the USA on a postgraduate fellowship to work for the National Bureau of Standards (1924–6), then became a professor at Michigan (1926–71). A pioneer in plasma physics and atomic spectroscopy, he was also a visiting professor in Japan (1928, 1937), and a science attaché with the American Embassy in Tokyo (1960–3). |
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