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Portrait of Myriam Sarachik

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Myriam Sarachik

American physicist

1933 – 2021aged 88

A Belgian-born experimental physicist who provided the first experimental confirmation of the Kondo effect in the 1960s, a discovery central to understanding how magnetic impurities behave in metals at low temperatures. She spent much of her career as a distinguished professor of physics at the City College of New York.

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