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    Fritz Wolfgang London (March 7, 1900 – March 30, 1954) was a German born physicist and professor at Duke University. His fundamental contributions to...
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    the van der Waals forces. The LDF is named after the German physicist Fritz London. They are the weakest intermolecular force. The electron distribution...
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    Alan T. Waterman Award, 1997 Carl Zeiss Award, Ernst Abbe Fund, 1996 Fritz London Prize in Low Temperature Physics, 1996 Department of Commerce Gold Medal...
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  • 2012-01-05. "Fritz London Memorial Prize". Phy.duke.edu. Retrieved 2014-04-15. Brickwedde, F. G. (1958-03-01). "Introducing the Fritz London Award". Physics...
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  • The London moment (after Fritz London) is a quantum-mechanical phenomenon whereby a spinning superconductor generates a magnetic field whose axis lines...
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    labelled polar Interactions. Dispersion (usually named London dispersion interactions after Fritz London), which is the attractive interaction between any...
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    Science in 2005 in the field of life sciences. In 2007, he gave the Fritz London Memorial Lecture at Duke University, titled "How Do We Think So Fast...
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  • monopoles The phenomenon of flux quantization was predicted first by Fritz London then within the Aharanov-Bohm effect and later discovered experimentally...
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  • composer Fritz London (1900–1954), German physicist, brother of Heinz London Gene London (1931–2020), American television presenter George London (1920–1985)...
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    in Stockholm. Bardeen gave much of his Nobel Prize money to fund the Fritz London Memorial Lectures at Duke University. In the late 1960s, Bardeen felt...
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  • Heinz London (Bonn, Germany 7 November 1907 – 3 August 1970) was a German-British physicist. Together with his brother Fritz London he was a pioneer in...
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  • The Fritz London Memorial Lectures at Duke University invites scientists who impinge at one or more points upon the various fields of physics and chemistry...
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    director. Among Laue's notable students at the university were Leó Szilárd, Fritz London, Max Kohler, and Erna Weber. He published the second volume of his book...
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    theory of particle rotation in the liquid phase. In 1927, the physicists Fritz London and Walter Heitler applied the new quantum mechanics to the deal with...
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    a magnetic field. Abrikosov was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1966, the Fritz London Memorial Prize in 1972, and the USSR State Prize in 1982. In 1989 he...
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    the structures and properties of simple molecules. Walter Heitler and Fritz London are credited with the first successful quantum mechanical explanation...
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    Abrikosov. In 1935 Fritz London published a very closely related work on magnetic flux quantization in superconductors. London's fluxoid can also be...
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    observation of type-II superconductivity was also reported by Zavaritskii. Fritz London demonstrated that a magnetic flux can penetrate a superconductor via...
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    Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian-born American violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters...
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    Fritz Haber (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁɪt͡s ˈhaːbɐ] ; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry...
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    Fritz X was a German guided anti-ship glide bomb used during World War II. Fritz X was the world's first precision guided weapon deployed in combat and...
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    University of Cambridge. In 1990, Dyson taught at Duke University as a Fritz London Memorial Lecturer. Dyson published a number of collections of speculations...
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    successful model was developed already in 1927, by Walter Heitler and Fritz London, who derived, quantum-mechanically, how hydrogen molecules are formed...
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  • exchange terms, to form a covalent bond. He then called up his associate Fritz London and they worked out the details of the theory over the course of the...
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  • on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and Their Applications. "Fritz London Memorial Prize". phy.duke.edu. Retrieved 21 April 2020. "John Stewart...
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    Frederick "Fritz" Joubert Duquesne (/djuːˈkeɪn/ dew-KAYN; sometimes Du Quesne; 21 September 1877 – 24 May 1956) was a South African Boer and German soldier...
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  • Fritz the Cat is a 1972 American adult animated black comedy film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi in his directorial debut. Based on the comic strip...
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  • quantum field theory, to the theory of phase transitions, and - with Fritz London - to chemical bonding in hydrogen-like molecules. Heidler This page lists...
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    approach was put forward in the same year by Walter Heitler and Fritz London. The Heitler–London method forms the basis of what is now called valence bond theory...
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  • hydrogen atom. However, a 1927 article of Walter Heitler (1904–1981) and Fritz London is often recognized as the first milestone in the history of quantum...
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