biography
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Marshak, Robert E(ugene)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1916–92)
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| biography:
| Physicist and educator, born in New York City, New York, USA. He taught at Rochester (1939–70), was president of City College, NY (1970–9), then became a Distinguished Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1979–87). He proposed his pioneering meson theory in 1947, and published his discovery of a universal weak force in subatomic particle behaviour in 1957. After observing the effects of the atomic bomb he helped design, he worked to promote international peace. |
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