Nobel Prize in Physics laureates from 1940 to 1959
The top 3 according to 37 votes from people: Otto Stern · Isidor Isaac Rabi · Frits Zernike. (Updated Jun 29, 2020.)
Every Nobel Prize in Physics laureate between 1940 and 1959, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?
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Top 27
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Otto Stern
1943. For his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton.
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Isidor Isaac Rabi
1944. For his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei.
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Frits Zernike
1953. For his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope.
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Percy Williams Bridgman
1946. 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.
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Hideki Yukawa
1949. For his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces.
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Cecil Frank Powell
1950. For his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method.
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Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
1951. For their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles.
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Willis Eugene Lamb
1955. For his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum.
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Walter Houser Brattain
1956. For their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
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Wolfgang Pauli
1945. For the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle.
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Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
1948. For his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation.
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Edward Mills Purcell
1952. For their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith.
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Max Born
1954. For his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction.
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Walther Bothe
1954. For the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith.
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Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
1958. For the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect.
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John Douglas Cockcroft
1951. For their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles.
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Felix Bloch
1952. For their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith.
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Polykarp Kusch
1955. For his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron.
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John Bardeen
1956. For their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
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Chen Ning Yang
1957. For their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles.
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Tsung-Dao Lee
1957. For their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles.
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Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
1958. For the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect.
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Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank
1958. For the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect.
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Owen Chamberlain
1959. For their discovery of the antiproton.
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Edward Victor Appleton
1947. For his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer.
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William Bradford Shockley
1956. For their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
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Emilio Gino Segrè
1959. For their discovery of the antiproton.
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Comments (8)
Bardeen ganaría otra vez en 1972, el único con dos en Física.
Yang y Lee, rompiendo la paridad, eran jovencísimos.
Shockley, Bardeen y Brattain, el transistor, el invento del siglo.
Lista muy completa, gracias.
Max Born esperó años para su Nobel.
Pauli y el principio de exclusión, genio con muy mal carácter.
Yukawa, el primer japonés en ganar un Nobel.
Cherenkov y la luz azul de los reactores.