Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1960s
The top 3 according to 1,659 votes from people: Donald Arthur Glaser · Robert Hofstadter · Lev Davidovich Landau. (Updated Feb 18, 2019.)
Every Nobel Prize in Physics laureate between 1960 and 1969, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?
Top 17
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Donald Arthur Glaser
1960. For the invention of the bubble chamber.
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Robert Hofstadter
1961. For his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons.
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Lev Davidovich Landau
1962. For his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium.
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Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
1961. For his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name.
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Eugene Paul Wigner
1963. For his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles.
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Maria Goeppert Mayer
1963. For their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure.
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Charles Hard Townes
1964. For fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle.
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J. Hans D. Jensen
1963. For their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure.
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Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov
1964. For fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle.
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Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
1964. For fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle.
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Julian Schwinger
1965. For their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.
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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
1965. For their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.
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Hans Albrecht Bethe
1967. For his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars.
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Richard P. Feynman
1965. For their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.
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Alfred Kastler
1966. For the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms.
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Luis Walter Alvarez
1968. For his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis.
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Murray Gell-Mann
1969. For his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.
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Comments (7)
Landau's Course of Theoretical Physics is still the bible.
Townes, Basov and Prokhorov for the maser and laser.
Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga in 1965, the QED trio.
Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga for QED in 1965.
Maria Goeppert Mayer, only the second woman to win in physics after Curie.
Gell-Mann and the quarks closing the decade.
Landau's car accident and he still got the prize in 1962.