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Hans Dehmelt
March 21, 2017
Hans Dehmelt — Nobel laureate and UW professor emeritus — has died at age 94
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Hans Georg Dehmelt, Nobel physics laureate and professor emeritus at the University of Washington, died in Seattle on March 7, 2017 at age 94. Dehmelt was a celebrated scientist who, in a research career spanning more than half a century, developed methods to isolate atoms and subatomic particles and measure their fundamental properties with high accuracy.