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Matthew Sands

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American accelerator physicist (1919-2014)

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Matthew Linzee Sands was an American physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the Feynman Lectures on Physics. A graduate of Rice University, Sands served with the Naval Ordnance Laboratory and the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.

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1998Robert R. Wilson Prize
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1919 to 2014 · aged 94
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