Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1930s
The top 3 according to 84 votes from people: Victor Franz Hess · Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman · Erwin Schrödinger. (Updated Oct 17, 2018.)
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?
Top 11
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Victor Franz Hess
1936. For his discovery of cosmic radiation.
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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
1930. For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.
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Erwin Schrödinger
1933. For the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
1933. For the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.
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Werner Karl Heisenberg
1932. For the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen.
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James Chadwick
1935. For the discovery of the neutron.
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George Paget Thomson
1937. For their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals.
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Enrico Fermi
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.
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Carl David Anderson
1936. For his discovery of the positron.
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Clinton Joseph Davisson
1937. For their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals.
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Ernest Orlando Lawrence
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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Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Dirac, the quantum mechanics dream team.