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A physicist who researched magnetism and became a professor at Leiden in 1924.[ref]
Wander Johannes de Haas, 1878–1960 by H. B. G. Casimir. Career paragraphs: PTR research staff 1913–1915; Delft, Groningen and Leiden professorships
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Portrait of Wander Johannes de Haas
. Unknown photographer; Huygens Laboratorium, Universiteit Leiden; reproduced in Dirk van Delft, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes: Een biografie (2005), p. 529. Public domain (author life plus 70 years; published before 1931). Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist appointed professor at Uppsala in 1858, whose research included spectroscopy.[ref]
Anders Ångström by Uppsala University. Anders Ångström: optical spectroscopy research and appointment as professor of physics in 1858
Portrait of Anders Jonas Ångström
. Hulda Schenson; Vetenskapsakademiens porträttsamling. Public domain (PD-Art / Public Domain Mark 1.0, as stated on Commons). Source usage terms, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.A physicist.[ref]
Mathilde Hugbart. CV, physics education and employment; Publications explicitly says names Hugbart or Fouché
Portrait of Robin Kaiser
. External portrait hosted by Université Côte d’Azur, Institut de Physique de Nice. Source.A physicist whose route into research included a telephone-company job when he could not afford to continue at Chicago. He later worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, retiring in 1946 after 29 years, and taught physics at Virginia in 1947–1949.[ref]
Clinton Davisson – Biographical. Biography: financial interruption, laboratory employment and visiting professorship
The Davisson–Germer experiment connects that industrial-laboratory work to electron diffraction and matter waves.
Portrait of Clinton Davisson
. Source. A physicist appointed to Dresden in 1911 to establish an institute for electrical engineering.[ref]
Uni-Gebäude und ihre Namen: Barkhausen-Bau by Jörg Zaun. Heinrich Barkhausen biography: physicist; Dresden professorship and institute founded in 1911
A physicist responsible for magnetism, materials and spintronics research at INRiM in 2023.[ref]
Settori scientifici omogenei by INRiM. January 2023 scientific sectors, ML5: Magnetismo, materiali e spintronica — Gianfranco Durin
A physicist and professor of theoretical physics of matter at Milan.[ref]
Stefano Zapperi: university profile. Description, Professional positions: professor of theoretical physics of matter, University of Milan, from 2015
Portrait of Stefano Zapperi
. Francesc Font Clos (explicit caption credit on the official FAU article). External portrait hosted by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Source.A physicist who held a theoretical-physics professorship at Rostock from 1923 to 1927.[ref]
Walter Schottky by Stiftung Werner-von-Siemens-Ring. Werdegang: professor of theoretical physics at Rostock, 1923–1927; subsequent Siemens research
Portrait of Walter Schottky
. Source. A physicist listed as professor of physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, in its 1927–1928 faculty announcement.[ref]
Announcement of the University of California at Los Angeles for the Academic Year 1927–28 by University of California, Los Angeles. Officers and Faculty, p. 15: Professor of Physics (1927–1928)
A physicist listed among the academic teaching staff of the physics department at the Czech Technical University in Prague.[ref]
Lidé na katedře – podle zařazení by Czech Technical University in Prague, Department of Physics. Odborní asistenti: Sieger Ladislav; Department of Physics staff table
A physicist studying correlated electrons and emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.[ref]
Hohe Auszeichnung für Frank Steglich by Einstein Stiftung Berlin. Opening paragraph: physicist in correlated-electron physics; founding director and director emeritus of MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids
Portrait of Frank Steglich
. MPI CPfS (photo credit on the named institutional article; individual photographer unspecified). External portrait hosted by Einstein Stiftung Berlin. Source. Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
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