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| | Jews in Physics |
 | | Jews such as Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch, Niels Bohr*, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, Sir Rudolf Peierls, Hans Bethe*, Victor Weisskopf, John von Neumann, Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Stanislaw Ulam, Hyman Rickover, Yuli Khariton, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Yakov Zeldovich (the latter three in the Soviet Union) played a dominant role in the development of nuclear power. |
 | | Michelson, who won the Nobel Prize in 1907, performed critical experiments on the speed of light in the late 1880s that proved crucial to the later acceptance of Einsteinian relativity. |
 | | The technology that underpins the emerging post-industrial "information age" is based on semiconductor microelectronics and photonics. |
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