biography
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| lived:
| (1911–93)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Blankenburg, Germany. Taken to the USA in 1912, he was naturalized in 1922. He taught at Columbia University (1937–41, 1946–72), performing military research during World War 2. He shared the 1955 Nobel Prize for Physics (with Willis Lamb) for his precise determination of the magnetic moment of the electron. His last academic position was at the University of Texas (1972–82). |
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