Lawrence Pinsky is an
American physicist
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specializing in
relativistic heavy ion physics, and currently the John & Rebecca Moores
Professor
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at the
University of Houston
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.
Pinsky is also a licensed
lawyer
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The exact nature of a lawyer's work varies depending on the legal jurisdiction and the legal system, as w ...
who deals in
international patent law. He is one of the inventors of the
board game
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''
Blitzkrieg
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''.
He also designed several World War II wargames.
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21st-century American physicists
American board game designers
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
University of Houston alumni
University of Houston faculty
University of Rochester alumni
Wargame designers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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