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Nobel Prizes-Physics
Nobel Prizes in Physics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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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