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The Nobel Prize in

Physics 1961

Prize Amount: 250,233 SEK

Laureates

Robert Hofstadter

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"for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"

Rudolf Mössbauer

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"for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name"