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Nobel prizes go to scientists harnessing odd phenomena

Superconductivity, superfluidity, imaging with magnetism, and membrane chemistry

By Nathan Seppa, Peter Weiss and Kate Ramsayer

- More than 2 years ago

The 2003 Nobel prizes in the sciences were announced early this week.

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