Nobel Prize in Physics 1954
Photo: Lotte Meitner-Graf. Nobel Foundation archive
Max Born
Prize share: 1/2
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Walther Bothe
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 was divided equally between Max Born "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction" and Walther Bothe "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"
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