Nobel Prize in Physics 1965
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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
Prize share: 1/3
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Julian Schwinger
Prize share: 1/3
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Richard P. Feynman
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 was awarded jointly to Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger and Richard P. Feynman "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
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