The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933

Erwin Schrödinger

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Prize share: 1/2

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

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Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 was awarded jointly to Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"

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