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July 2, 2014
Manuel Cardona, Spanish physicist and academic (born 1934)
Manuel Cardona
Manuel Cardona Castro was a condensed matter physicist. According to the ISI Citations web database, Cardona was one of the eight most cited physicists since 1970. He specialized in solid state physics. Cardona's main interests were in the fields of: Raman scattering as applied to semiconductor microstructures, materials with tailor-made isotopic compositions, and high Tc superconductors, particularly investigations of electronic and vibronic excitations in the normal and superconducting state.
July 2
July 2 is the 183rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 182 days remain until the end of the year.