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Nobel Prizes in Physics

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