The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

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Prize share: 1/3

Julian Schwinger

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Prize share: 1/3

Richard P. Feynman

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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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