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J. 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"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#October", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Deaths › October"}}, {"year": 1953, "year_label": "1953 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 19", "text": "December 19 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310369#December", "title": "1953", "revid": 1371310369, "section": "Deaths › December"}}, {"year": 1954, "year_label": "1954 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369212684#November", "title": "1954", "revid": 1369212684, "section": "Deaths › November"}}, {"year": 1957, "year_label": "1957 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 8", "text": "February 8 – Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371361971#February", "title": "1957", "revid": 1371361971, "section": "Deaths › February"}}, {"year": 1958, "year_label": "1958 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 27", "text": "August 27 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371827125#August", "title": "1958", "revid": 1371827125, "section": "Deaths › August"}}, {"year": 1958, "year_label": "1958 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 15", "text": "December 15 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371827125#December", "title": "1958", "revid": 1371827125, "section": "Deaths › December"}}, {"year": 1959, "year_label": "1959 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)", 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"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373095518#May", "title": "1962", "revid": 1373095518, "section": "Births › May"}}, {"year": 1962, "year_label": "1962 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 18", "text": "November 18 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373095518#November", "title": "1962", "revid": 1373095518, "section": "Deaths › November"}}, {"year": 1964, "year_label": "1964 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 21", "text": "May 21 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371069587#May", "title": "1964", "revid": 1371069587, "section": "Deaths › May"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 21", "text": "April 21 – Sir Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)", "cite": {"url": 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