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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954

"for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction"
"for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"
Max Born Walther Bothe
Max Born Walther Bothe
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
United Kingdom Federal Republic of Germany
Edinburgh University
Edinburgh, United Kingdom		 University of Heidelberg; Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung
Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
b. 1882
(in Breslau, then Germany)
d. 1970		 b. 1891
d. 1957
 
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