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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989

"for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks"
"for the development of the ion trap technique"
Norman F. Ramsey Hans G. Dehmelt Wolfgang Paul
Norman F. Ramsey Hans G. Dehmelt Wolfgang Paul
half 1/2 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize quarter 1/4 of the prize
USA USA Federal Republic of Germany
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA		 University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA		 University of Bonn
Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany
b. 1915 b. 1922
(in Görlitz, Germany)		 b. 1913
d. 1993
 
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