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Kip Thorne
American physicist
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
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Rainer Weiss
American physicist
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Robert H. Dicke
American physicist
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock
Russian mathematical physicist
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Roy Kerr
New Zealand mathematician
Sir Frank Dyson, 1927.
Sir Frank Dyson
British astronomer