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He was a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Institute for Advanced Study, University of California, Berkeley, Indiana University, and the California Institute of Technology.","summary_more":["Jensen was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Eugene Wigner and Maria Goeppert Mayer, sharing one half of the Prize with the latter \"for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure.\""],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"25 June 1907","date":"1907-06-25"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76797#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Hamburg","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1055"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76797#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"11 February 1973","date":"1973-02-11"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76797#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Heidelberg","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2966"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76797#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"West Germany","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q713750","start":"1949"},{"text":"German Reich","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1206012","end":"1949"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76797#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"physicist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169470"},{"text":"university teacher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1622272"},{"text":"nuclear physicist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16742096"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76797#P106"}},{"key":"party","label":"Political party","values":[{"text":"Nazi Party (since 1 May 1937)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7320","start":"1937-05-01"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76797#P102"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"University of Hamburg","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156725"},{"text":"Kiel University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156737"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76797#P69"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Nobel Prize in Physics","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38104","date":"1963"},{"text":"Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10905171","date":"1965"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76797#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Hans_D._Jensen","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76797"],"faq":[{"q":"When was J. 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