The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955
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Willis Eugene Lamb
Prize share: 1/2
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Polykarp Kusch
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 was divided equally between Willis Eugene Lamb "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum" and Polykarp Kusch "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"
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