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Born January 29, 1888 • England
Died June 16, 1970 (aged 82) • BoulderColorado
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1964)
Subjects Of Study Chapman-Ferraro current systemgeomagnetic fieldkinetic theory of gases

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