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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
1/2 of the prize
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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