Nobel Prizes Flashcards
1901, Physics
“in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him”
Wilhelm RÖNTGEN
1902, Physics
“in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena”
Hendrik Antoon LORENTZ and Pieter ZEEMAN
1903, Physics
“in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity”
AND
“in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by [other 1903 Physics laureate]”
Antoine Henri BECQUEREL and Pierre and Marie CURIE (neé SKLODOWSKA)
1904, Physics
“for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies”
Lord RAYLEIGH (John William STRUTT)
1905, Physics
“for his work on cathode rays”
Philipp Eduard Anton VON LENARD
1906, Physics
“in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases”
Joseph John THOMSON
1907, Physics
“for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid”
Albert Abraham MICHELSON
1908, Physics
““for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference””
Gabriel LIPPMANN
1909, Physics
“in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy”
Guglielmo MARCONI and Karl Ferdinand BRAUN
1910, Physics
“for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids”
Johannes Diderik VAN DER WAALS
1911, Physics
“for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat”
Wilhelm WIEN
1912, Physics
“for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys”
Nils Gustaf DALÉN
1913, Physics
“for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium”
Heike Kamerlingh ONNES
1914, Physics
“for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals”
Max VON LAUE
1915, Physics
“for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays”
Sir William Henry and William Lawrence BRAGG
1917, Physics
“for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements”
Charles Glover BARKLA
1918, Physics
“in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta”
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig PLANCK
1919, Physics
“for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields”
Johannes STARK
1920, Physics
“in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys”
Charles Edouard GUILLAUME
1921, Physics
“for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”
Albert EINSTEIN
1922, Physics
“for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them”
Niels Henrik David BOHR
1923, Physics
“for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect”
Robert Andrews MILLIKAN
1924, Physics
“for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy”
Karl Manne Georg SIEGBAHN
1925, Physics
“for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom”
James FRANCK and Gustav Ludwig HERTZ
1926, Physics
“for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium”
Jean Baptiste PERRIN
1927, Physics
“for his discovery of the effect named after him”
AND
“for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour”
Arthur Holly COMPTON and Charles Thomson Rees WILSON
1928, Physics
“for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him”
Owen Willans RICHARDSON
1929, Physics
“for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons”
Price Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond DE BROGLIE
1930, Physics
“for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him”
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata RAMAN
1932, Physics
“for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen”
Werner Karl HEISENBERG
1933, Physics
“for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory”
Erwin SCHRÖDINGER and Paul Adrien DIRAC
1935, Physics
“for the discovery of the neutron”
James CHADWICK
1936, Physics
“for his discovery of cosmic radiation”
AND
“for his discovery of the positron”
Victor Franz HESS and Carl David ANDERSON
1937, Physics
“for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”
Clinton Joseph DAVISSON and George Paget THOMSON
1938, Physics
“for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons”
Enrico FERMI
1939, Physics
“for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements”
Ernest Orlando LAWRENCE
1943, Physics
“for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton”
Otto STERN
1944, Physics
“for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei”
Isidor Isaac RABI
1945, Physics
“for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the [laureate name] Principle”
Wolfgang PAULI
1946, Physics
“for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics”
Percy Williams BRIDGMAN
1947, Physics
“for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called [laureate name] layer”
Sir Edward Victor APPLETON
1948, Physics
“for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation”
Patrick Maynard Stuart BLACKETT
1949, Physics
“for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces”
Hideki YUKAWA
1950, Physics
“for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method”
Cecil Frank POWELL
1951, Physics
“for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles”
Sir John Douglas COCKCROFT and Ernest Thomas Sinton WALTON
1952, Physics
“for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith”
Felix BLOCH and Edward Mills PURCELL