# Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1970s

Every Nobel Prize in Physics laureate between 1970 and 1979, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?

- 41 votes · 25 items
- Dec 4, 2022 · Daniela Ospina Rodríguez
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## Top 25

1. **Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1970. For fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro-dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics.
2. **Dennis Gabor** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1971. For his invention and development of the holographic method.
3. **Martin Ryle** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1974. For their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars.
4. **Louis Eugène Félix Néel** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1970. For fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics.
5. **Leo Esaki** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1973. For their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively.
6. **Antony Hewish** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1974. For their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars.
7. **Ben Roy Mottelson** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1975. For the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection.
8. **Philip Warren Anderson** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1977. For their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
9. **Robert Woodrow Wilson** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1978. For their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.
10. **Sheldon Lee Glashow** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1979. For their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current.
11. **John Bardeen** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1972. For their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.
12. **Leon Neil Cooper** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1972. For their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.
13. **John Robert Schrieffer** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1972. For their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.
14. **Ivar Giaever** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1973. For their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively.
15. **Brian David Josephson** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1973. For his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects.
16. **Burton Richter** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1976. For their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.
17. **Samuel Chao Chung Ting** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1976. For their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.
18. **Nevill Francis Mott** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1977. For their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
19. **John Hasbrouck Van Vleck** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1977. For their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
20. **Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1978. For his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics.
21. **Arno Allan Penzias** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1978. For their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.
22. **Steven Weinberg** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1979. For their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current.
23. **Abdus Salam** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1979. For their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current.
24. **Aage Niels Bohr** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1975. For the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection.
25. **Leo James Rainwater** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1975. For the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection.

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