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Personalities Blog Celebrating the life and work of John Bell Fiftieth anniversary of Bell's proof of entanglement is marked by new public exhibition in Belfast
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Personalities Blog Who was the real Abdus Salam? Delegates at the 50th-anniversary conference of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste pay tribute to a great man
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