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Belfast street named after physics giant

Michael Banks

Published Apr 1, 2015• 0 citations
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A street in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the city's Titanic Quarter has been named after the physicist John Stewart Bell, who died in 1990 at the age of 62.
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10.1088/2058-7058/28/4/12

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