biography
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Fairbank, William M(artin), Sr
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| lived:
| (1917–89)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He taught at Amherst College (1947–52), Duke (1952–9), and Stanford (1959–85). He made major contributions to studies of low-temperature superconductivity, was the first to provide experimental evidence of the existence of quarks (1977), and devised a gyroscopic method of testing Einstein's theory of general relativity during space-shuttle missions. |
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