Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 2026-10-18
One half went to Eugene Paul Wigner for theories of atomic nuclei and elementary particles, particularly symmetry principles; the other half jointly to Maria Goeppert Mayer and Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen for discoveries about the nuclear shell model.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Reproduced individual official Nobel record: Wigner one-half for nuclear/particle theory and symmetry; Mayer and Jensen one-quarter each for nuclear shell structure.