What mass limit for white dwarfs is named after Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar?
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The Chandrasekhar limit
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What mass limit for white dwarfs is named after Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar?
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The Chandrasekhar limit
What method did Kary Mullis help develop, earning him the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
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Polymerase chain reaction
Which particle was predicted by Peter Higgs and confirmed by the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics?
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The Higgs boson
What phenomenon earned C. V. Raman the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics?
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The Raman effect
For what discovery did Albert Einstein receive the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics?
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The photoelectric effect
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What method did Kary Mullis help develop, earning him the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
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What phenomenon earned C. V. Raman the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics?
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For what discovery did Albert Einstein receive the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics?
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