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