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Norman Alexander

Physicist · New Zealand · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1907 to 1997 · aged 89

Sir Norman Stanley Alexander was a New Zealand physicist instrumental in the establishment of many Commonwealth universities, including Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, and the Universities of the West Indies, the South Pacific and Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. He was knighted in 1966.

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New Zealand
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Scientists
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Lived 1907 to 1997 · aged 89