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Polykarp Kusch 1911-1993 Country of origin: Germany, but grew up in the U.S. Achievements: Nobel Prize for Physics in 1955

He received his B.S. degree in physics from the Case Institue of Technology in Cleveland in 1931. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1936. After 1949, he tought as a professor of physics at Columbia University. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1956. He had three daughters with a wife who died in 1959 and remarried in 1960.

In 1955, Kusch was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value, which led to quantum electrodynamics. Quantum electrodynamics is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics. It deals with the interactions between electrons, positrons, and photons. []