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Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann
American physicist
Henry Way Kendall
American physicist
David Gross
American physicist
Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek
American physicist
H. David Politzer
American physicist
Hooft, Gerardus 't
Gerardus ’t Hooft
Dutch physicist
Jerome Isaac Friedman
American physicist
Richard E. Taylor
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