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    Nicholas Constantine Christofilos (Greek: Νικόλαος Χριστοφίλου; December 16, 1916 – September 24, 1972) was a Greek physicist. The Christofilos effect...
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  • in the Earth's magnetic field. It was first predicted in 1957 by Nicholas Christofilos, who suggested the effect had defensive potential in a nuclear war...
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    principle independently discovered by Ernest Courant et al. and Nicholas Christofilos allowed the complete separation of the accelerator into components...
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    from the bomb. These auroral effects were partially anticipated by Nicholas Christofilos, a scientist who had earlier worked on the Operation Argus high-altitude...
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    The Astron is a type of fusion power device pioneered by Nicholas Christofilos and built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the 1960s...
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  • which persisted for four weeks. Kristian Birkeland, Carl Størmer, Nicholas Christofilos, and Enrico Medi had investigated the possibility of trapped charged...
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    directions. Strong focusing was first conceived by Nicholas Christofilos in 1949 but not published (Christofilos opted instead to patent his idea). In 1952,...
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    events as purely scientific endeavors. The tests were proposed by Nicholas Christofilos in an unpublished paper of what was then the Livermore branch of...
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    but also from heavy ions. The concept goes back to the work of Nicholas Christofilos. Its realization is highly dependent on progress in the development...
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  • Chkareuli – Georgia (born 1940) Ernst Chladni – Germany (1756–1827) Nicholas Christofilos – Greece (1916–1972) Steven Chu – United States (born 1948) Nobel...
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