Nobel Prizes in Physics
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| 1906-conduction of electricity in gases; Cathode ray tube |
Joseph J. Thomson |
| 1910--molecular forces |
Johann D. van der Waals |
| 1901--discovery of X rays |
Rontgen |
| 1903--Radioactivity |
Becquerel, Marie and Pierre Curie |
| 1911--Heat Radiation |
Wilhelm Wien |
| 1909--Wireless Telegraphy |
Braun and Marconi |
| 1914--diffraction and interference of X rays by the arrangement of atoms in crystals |
Max von Laue |
| 1915--father and son winners; crystal structures and X ray spectroscopy |
Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg |
| 1921--photoelectric effect |
Einstein |
| 1929--studies on wave mechanics |
de Broglie |
| 1932--Quantum Theory |
Heisenburg |
| 1933--Quantum theory, wave mechanics |
Schrodinger, Dirac |
| 1922---atomic model |
Bohr |
| 1919--splitting of spectral lines in electrical fields |
Stark |
| 1935--discovery of neutron |
Chadwick |
| 1938--discovery of nuclear transformations by irradiation with neutrons |
Fermi |
| 1939--cyclotron |
Lawrence |
| 1943--Molecular rays, magnetic properties of the proton |
Stern |
| 1952--development of a novel precision method of nuclear magnetism |
Bloch and Purcell |
| 1949--prediction of the existence of mesons |
Yukawa |
| 1956--transistor |
Bardeen, Brattain, Shockley |
| 1964--Laser |
Basov, Prokhorov, Townes |
| 1972--superconductivity |
Bardeen, Cooper, Schrieffer |
| 1983--importance of nuclear reaction for the formation of chemical elements in the universe |
Chandrasekhar and Fowler |
| 1984--Particle Physics |
Rubbia, van der Meer |
| 1985--discovery of quantum Hall effect |
Klitzing |
| 1987--high temperature superconductors |
Bednorz, Muller |
| 1995--discovery of tau lepton |
Perl |
| 1995--detection of neutrino |
Reines |
| 1992--invention of detectors for the detection of rare interaction of elementary particles |
Charpak |
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