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William Happer

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American physicist

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William Happer is an American physicist born in Vellore in 1939. He was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has worked at Princeton University and Columbia University. His field of work is atomic physics.

Happer is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and JASON. He has received the Herbert P. Broida Prize, the Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics, and a Sloan Fellowship.

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Instance of
human
Given name
William
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Vellore
Occupation
physicist
Field of work
atomic physics
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date of birth
1939-07-27
member of
JASON
Commons category
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affiliation
JASON
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