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Physics Nobel Winner
Nobel Physics Winners
| Year | Person(s) | What They Did |
|---|---|---|
| 1903 | Antoine Henri Becquerel w/ Pierre & Marie Curie | Becquerel - "his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity" Curies - "their joint researches on the radiation phenomena..." |
| 1904 | John William Strutt | "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies" |
| 1906 | Sir Joseph John (J.J.) Thomson | "his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases" |
| 1907 | Albert Abraham Michelson | "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid" |
| 1908 | Gabriel Lippman | "for his method of reproducing colors photographically based on the phenomenon of interference" |
| 1909 | Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Braun | "their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" |
| 1910 | Johannes Diderik van der Waals | "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids" |
| 1915 | William Henry Bragg & William Lawrence Bragg | "...analysis of crystal structure by...X-rays" |
| 1918 | Max Planck | "services rendered to advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta" |
| 1921 | Albert Einstein | "...especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" |
| 1922 | Niels Henrik David Bohr | "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them" |
| 1923 | Robert Andrews Millikan | "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect" |
| 1925 | James Franck & Gustav Hertz | "for his discovery of the effect named after him" |
| 1926 | Arthur Holly Compton | "for his discovery of the effect named after him" |
| 1929 | Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie | "for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons" |
| 1932 | Werner Karl Heisenberg | "for the creation of quantum mechanics..." |
| 1933 | Erwin Schrodinger and Paul Dirac | "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory" |
| 1935 | James Chadwick | "for the discovery of the neutron" |
| 1936 | Victore Franz Hess Carl David Anderson | Hess - "for his discovery of cosmic radiation" Anderson - "for his discovery of the positron" |
| 1937 | George Paget Thomson | "...experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals" |
| 1938 | Enrico Fermi | "for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation and his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons" |
| 1939 | Ernest Otto Lawrence | "for the invention and development of the cyclotron..." |
| 1945 | Wolfgang Pauli | "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle" |
| 1956 | John Bardeen, William Shockely, Walter Brattain | "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect" |
| 1961 | Robert Hofstadter | "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei..." |
| 1965 | Richard Feynman, Sin-Itiero Tomonaga, & Julian Schwinger | "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with ... consequences for the physics of elementary particles" |
| 1968 | Luis Alvarez | "for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis" |
| 1969 | Murray Gell-Mann | "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions" |
| 1971 | Dennis Gabor | "for his invention and development of the holographic method" |
| 1972 | John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, John Schriedffer | "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory" |
| 1975 | Aage Niels Bohr | "for his discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection" |
| 1978 | Arno Penzias & Robert Wilson | "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation" |
| 1981 | Kai Siegbahn | "...development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy" |
| 1983 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Chan - "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars" |
| 1901 | Wilhelm Rontgen | "the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him" |
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