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The 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics

DEC 01, 1963
Physics Today

The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences has announced that the 1963 Nobel Prize in physics is to be given jointly to Eugene P. Wigner of Princeton University, who will receive half of the cash award of $51 000, and to Maria Goeppert Mayer of the University of California and J. Hans D. Jensen of the University of Heidelberg, who will share the other half.

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