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César Lattes
2005Mar, 8

César Lattes

César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic (b. 1924)
Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes (11 July 1924 – 8 March 2005), also known as César Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark.

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