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John Van Vleck, Nobel Laureate Known for Work on Magnetism; Earned Three Degrees - The New York Times
Scientific Life - John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician. He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977, for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior
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