Hans G. Dehmelt

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Year
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Hans G.
Dehmelt

Professor of Physics

University of Washington
1995
Physics

For his pioneering achievements in perfecting elecromagnetic traps for precision studies of single ions, electrons, and positrons, culminating in the measurement to unprecedented accuracy of the magnetism of the free electron and positron.

Awarded by President Clinton at a White House ceremony on October 18, 1995.
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1989