Physicists And Chemists Of The 20Th Century Codexery — Data & Quality

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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-01 · 5 entries checked · 3 flagged · 3 issues confirmed · 3 corrected · 0 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Maria Goeppert Mayer — Eugene Wigner did not share the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Mayer and Jensen; the prize was awarded to Wigner (one half) and jointly to Mayer and Jensen (the other half).

Maurice Wilkins — The claim that graduate student Raymond Gosling handed over Franklin's high-resolution Photo 51 to Wilkins on his own initiative is not supported by canonical sources and is a factual error.

Nicolaas Bloembergen — The entry incorrectly states that Kai Siegbahn's half of the 1981 Nobel Prize was for laser spectroscopy; Siegbahn was cited for high-resolution electron spectroscopy.

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