The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963
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Eugene Paul Wigner
Prize share: 1/2
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Maria Goeppert Mayer
Prize share: 1/4
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
J. Hans D. Jensen
Prize share: 1/4
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 was divided, one half awarded to Eugene Paul Wigner "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles", the other half jointly to Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"
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