# Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1910s

Every Nobel Prize in Physics laureate between 1910 and 1919, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?

- 79 votes · 10 items
- Jun 18, 2019 · Neha P.
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## Top 10

1. **Johannes Diderik van der Waals** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — 1910. For his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
2. **Wilhelm Wien** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — 1911. For his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat.
3. **William Lawrence Bragg** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — 1915. For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.
4. **William Henry Bragg** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — 1915. For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.
5. **Charles Glover Barkla** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — 1917. For his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements.
6. **Nils Gustaf Dalén** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 1912. For his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys.
7. **Heike Kamerlingh Onnes** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — 1913. For his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium.
8. **Max von Laue** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 1914. For his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.
9. **Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — 1918. In recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta.
10. **Johannes Stark** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — 1919. For his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.

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