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Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (23) |
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| complete name: |
Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen |
| nobel prize: |
physics |
| award year: |
1963 |
| together with: |
Maria Goeppert Mayer |
| together with: |
Eugene Wigner |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/4 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 was divided, one half awarded to Eugene Paul Wigner "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles", the other half jointly to Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| birth name: |
Hans Daniel Jensen |
| given name: |
Hans |
| family name: |
Jensen |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
nuclear scientist |
| field of work: |
physics |
| work location: |
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany |
| description: |
Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen was a German nuclear physicist. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, known as the Uranium Club, in which he made contributions to the separation of uranium isotopes. After the war Jensen was a professor at the University of Heidelberg. He was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, and the California Institute of Technology. Jensen shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1963/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1907 |
| date death: |
1973 |
| usual name: |
Johannes Jensen |
