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  1. Polykarp Kusch (January 26, 1911 – March 20, 1993) was a German-born American physicist. In 1955, the Nobel Committee gave a divided Nobel Prize for Physics , with one half going to Kusch for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and ...

  2. Polykarp Kusch was a German-American physicist who, with Willis E. Lamb, Jr., was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955 for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron is greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of and innovations in quantum.

  3. Mar 20, 1993 · Kusch has been a Professor of Physics at Columbia University since 1949. From his first days at Columbia, he has been intimately associated with Professor I.I. Rabi in his programme of research on atomic, molecular and nuclear properties and phenomena by the method of molecular beams.

  4. Mar 20, 1993 · Polykarp Kusch. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955. Born: 26 January 1911, Blankenburg, Germany. Died: 20 March 1993, Dallas, TX, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Prize motivation: “for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron” Prize share: 1/2. Work.

  5. polykarp kusCh, a great physicist, teacher, and nobel laure- ate, died in dallas, texas, at age 82 on march 20, 1993. kusch was a pioneer in molecular beam magnetic resonance experiments; he and his associates, with unprecedented high accuracy, measured many atomic and nuclear spins, magnetic dipole moments, electric quadrupole moments, and ...

  6. Kusch, Polykarp ( b . 26 January 1911 in Blankenburg, Germany; d . 20 March 1993 in Dallas, Texas), experimental physicist, educator, and academic administrator who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1955 for his precision measurement of the magnetic moment of the electron that, along with related discoveries, furnished a fundamental piece of ...

  7. Mar 23, 1993 · Dr. Polykarp Kusch, winner of a Nobel Prize in physics for his contributions to knowledge of the atom, died Saturday at his home in Dallas. He was 82. He had suffered a series of strokes and had...