# Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1930s

Every Nobel Prize in Physics laureate between 1930 and 1939, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?

- 84 votes · 11 items
- Oct 17, 2018 · Neha P.
- https://even.best/en/l/1210/nobel-prize-in-physics-laureates-of-the-1930s

## Top 11

1. **Victor Franz Hess** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — 1936. For his discovery of cosmic radiation.
2. **Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — 1930. For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.
3. **Erwin Schrödinger** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — 1933. For the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.
4. **Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — 1933. For the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.
5. **Werner Karl Heisenberg** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — 1932. For the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen.
6. **James Chadwick** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — 1935. For the discovery of the neutron.
7. **George Paget Thomson** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — 1937. For their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals.
8. **Enrico Fermi** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — 1938. 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.
9. **Carl David Anderson** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — 1936. For his discovery of the positron.
10. **Clinton Joseph Davisson** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — 1937. For their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals.
11. **Ernest Orlando Lawrence** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — 1939. For the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements.

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