Polykarp+Kusch-1955



Polykarp Kusch was born on January 26, 1911. He lived to be 82 when he died on March 20, 1993. 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. While this doesn't have too much specifically to do with the atom, the atom still is the basis for this theory.