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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1975

"for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection"
Aage Niels Bohr Ben Roy Mottelson Leo James Rainwater
Aage Niels Bohr Ben Roy Mottelson Leo James Rainwater
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
Denmark Denmark USA
Niels Bohr Institute
Copenhagen, Denmark		 Nordita
Copenhagen, Denmark		 Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
b. 1922 b. 1926
(in Chicago, IL, USA)		 b. 1917
d. 1986
 
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