Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1970s
The top 3 according to 41 votes from people: Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén · Dennis Gabor · Martin Ryle. (Updated Dec 4, 2022.)
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?
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Top 25
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Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
1970. For fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro-dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics.
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Dennis Gabor
1971. For his invention and development of the holographic method.
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Martin Ryle
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.
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Louis Eugène Félix Néel
1970. For fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics.
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Leo Esaki
1973. For their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively.
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Antony Hewish
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.
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Ben Roy Mottelson
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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Philip Warren Anderson
1977. For their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
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Robert Woodrow Wilson
1978. For their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.
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Sheldon Lee Glashow
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.
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John Bardeen
1972. For their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.
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Leon Neil Cooper
1972. For their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.
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John Robert Schrieffer
1972. For their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.
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Ivar Giaever
1973. For their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively.
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Brian David Josephson
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.
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Burton Richter
1976. For their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.
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Samuel Chao Chung Ting
1976. For their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.
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Nevill Francis Mott
1977. For their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
1977. For their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.
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Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
1978. For his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics.
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Arno Allan Penzias
1978. For their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.
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Steven Weinberg
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.
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Abdus Salam
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.
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Aage Niels Bohr
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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Leo James Rainwater
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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Comments (4)
Penzias y Wilson descubrieron el fondo de microondas por casualidad.
Bardeen, Cooper y Schrieffer, la superconductividad (teoría BCS).
Dennis Gabor y la holografía, maravilloso.
Esaki, el diodo túnel, y luego Josephson con apenas 33 años.