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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955

"for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"
"for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"
Willis Eugene Lamb Polykarp Kusch
Willis Eugene Lamb Polykarp Kusch
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA USA
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA		 Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
b. 1913
d. 2008		 b. 1911
(in Blankenburg, then Germany)
d. 1993
 
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