The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963

Eugene Paul Wigner

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Prize share: 1/2

Maria Goeppert Mayer

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Prize share: 1/4

J. Hans D. Jensen

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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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