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Cyril Domb
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Cyril Domb FRS ( Hebrew : ציריל דומב ; 9 December 1920 – 15 February 2012) was a British-Israeli theoretical physicist , best known for his lecturing and writing on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena of fluids. He was also known in the Orthodox Jewish world for his writings on science and Judaism .
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physicist best known for his lecturing and writing on the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena of
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british-israeli theoretical physicist
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