Polykarp Kusch
 Polykarp Kusch | |
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| Born | 26 Januar 1911 Blankenburg, Destrict o Blankenburg, Duchy o Brunswick, German Empire |
| Dee'd | 20 Mairch 1993 (aged 82) Dallas, Texas, Unitit States |
| Alma mater | Varsity o Illinois, Case Western Reserve Varsity |
| Kent for | Meisurt the magnetic moment o the electron |
| Awairds | Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1955) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Varsity o Texas at Dallas Columbia Varsity |
| Doctoral advisor | Francis Wheeler Loomis |
| Notable students | Gordon Gould |
Polykarp Kusch (Januar 26, 1911 – Mairch 20, 1993) wis a German-American pheesicist. In 1955, the Nobel Committee gae a dividit Nobel Prize for Pheesics, wi ane hauf tae going tae Kusch for his accurat determination that the magnetic moment o the electron wis greater nor its theoretical value, sicweys leadin tae reconseederation o—an innovations in—quantum electrodynamics.
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