johannes v. jensen

noun

J. Hans D

[hahns] , 1907–73, German physicist: Nobel prize 1963.

Jo·han·nes Vil·helm

[yaw-hah-nuh

s vil-helm] , 1873–1950, Danish poet and novelist: Nobel prize 1944.

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Jensen (Danish ˈjɛnsən)

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	Johannes Vilhelm (joˈhanəs ˈvɪlhelm). 1873--1950, Danish novelist, poet, and essayist: best known for his novel sequence about the origins of mankind The Long Journey (1908--22). Nobel prize for literature 1944

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Jensen

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German physicist who, with Maria Goeppert-Mayer, developed a model of the atomic nucleus that explained why certain nuclei were stable and had an unusual number of stable isotopes. For this work, Jensen and Goeppert-Mayer shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for physics with American physicist Eugene Wigner.

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