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Fritz London

American physicist

Died when: 54 years 23 days (648 months)
Star Sign: Pisces

 

Fritz London

Fritz Wolfgang London (March 7, 1900 – March 30, 1954) was a German physicist and professor at Duke University.His fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces (London dispersion forces) are today considered classic and are discussed in standard textbooks of physical chemistry.

With his brother Heinz London, he made a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetic properties of superconductors with the London equations and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on five separate occasions.


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