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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963

"for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"
"for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"
Eugene Paul Wigner Maria Goeppert-Mayer J. Hans D. Jensen
Eugene Paul Wigner Maria Goeppert-Mayer J. Hans D. Jensen
half 1/2 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize
USA USA Federal Republic of Germany
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
University of California
La Jolla, CA, USA
University of Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
b. 1902
(in Budapest, Hungary)
d. 1995
b. 1906
(in Kattowitz, then Germany)
d. 1972
b. 1907
d. 1973
 

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