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Show Nobel Prizes Honor Atom, Plastic Finds , QR,ST0CKH?LM' Sweden (AP) The last of the Nobel prizes for 1963, in physics and chemistry, were awarded Tuesday to two Americans, Amer-icans, two Germans and an Italian. MARIA GOEPPORT MAYER, 57, of the University of California, Dr. Eugene Wigner, 61, of Princton University, and Dr. J. Hans D. Jensen, Jen-sen, 56, of Heidelberg University share the physics prize for their research re-search into the structure of the atom and its nucleus. Two chemists who helped to usher in the age of plastics divide the chemistry prize. They are Prof. Karl Ziegler of Muelhaim Germany, Ger-many, and Dr. Giulie Natta of Italy's Polytechnic Institute of Milan. German-born Mrs. Mayer is the first woman residing in America Amer-ica to win a Nobel Prize in physics and the first woman to be so honored since Marie Curie of France shared the physics award with her husband in 1903. The United States wound up the year with three Nobel laureates. Dr. Carl Linus Pauling of the California Institute of Technology won the delayed Peace Prize for 1962 last month. The prizes for medicine and literature were also awarded last month. THE PRIZES this year amount to $51,158 each. Wigner will get half the physics prize and Mrs. Mayer and Jensen will divide the remainder. re-mainder. The chemistry prize will be split 50-50. All but the peace prize winner will receive their awards from Sweden's King Gustav VI Adolph in Stockholm on Dec 10 That is the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, whose bequest set up the prizes. Pauling will receive his prize in Oslo, Norway. Reaction of the laureate winners ranged from delight to bewilderment. |