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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961

"for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"
"for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name"
Robert Hofstadter Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
Robert Hofstadter Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA Federal Republic of Germany
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
Technical University
Munich, Federal Republic of Germany; California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Pasadena, CA, USA
b. 1915
d. 1990
b. 1929
 
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