Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1910s
The top 3 according to 79 votes from people: Johannes Diderik van der Waals · Wilhelm Wien · William Lawrence Bragg. (Updated Jun 18, 2019.)
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?
Top 10
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals
1910. For his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
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Wilhelm Wien
1911. For his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat.
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William Lawrence Bragg
1915. For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.
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William Henry Bragg
1915. For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.
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Charles Glover Barkla
1917. For his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements.
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Nils Gustaf Dalén
1912. For his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys.
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1913. For his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium.
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Max von Laue
1914. For his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.
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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
1918. In recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta.
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Johannes Stark
1919. For his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.
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Comments (4)
Kamerlingh Onnes and superconductivity in 1913.
Max von Laue and X-ray diffraction, brilliant.
The Braggs, father and son sharing the prize, Lawrence was only 25.
Planck and the quantum, the start of modern physics.