Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 1990s
The top 3 according to 39 votes from people: Henry W. Kendall · Georges Charpak · Jerome I. Friedman. (Updated Nov 8, 2022.)
Every Nobel Prize in Physics laureate between 1990 and 1999, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?
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Top 22
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Henry W. Kendall
1990. For their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics.
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Georges Charpak
1992. For his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber.
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Jerome I. Friedman
1990. For their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics.
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Richard E. Taylor
1990. For their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics.
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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1991. For discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers.
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Russell A. Hulse
1993. For the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation.
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Bertram N. Brockhouse
1994. For the development of neutron spectroscopy.
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Martin L. Perl
1995. For the discovery of the tau lepton.
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Steven Chu
1997. For development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
1997. For development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
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Robert C. Richardson
1996. For their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.
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Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
1993. For the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation.
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Clifford G. Shull
1994. For the development of the neutron diffraction technique.
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William D. Phillips
1997. For development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
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Robert B. Laughlin
1998. For their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.
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Gerardus 't Hooft
1999. For elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics.
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Frederick Reines
1995. For the detection of the neutrino.
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David M. Lee
1996. For their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.
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Douglas D. Osheroff
1996. For their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.
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Horst L. Störmer
1998. For their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.
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Daniel C. Tsui
1998. For their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.
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Martinus J. G. Veltman
1999. For elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics.
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Comments (8)
't Hooft y Veltman cerrando la década.
Hulse y Taylor, el púlsar binario que confirmó las ondas gravitacionales.
Charpak y sus detectores de partículas.
Buena lista, muy útil para clase.
Reines y el neutrino, cuarenta años después.
De Gennes, el «Newton de nuestro tiempo», según el comité.
Laughlin, Störmer y Tsui, el efecto Hall fraccionario.
Chu, Cohen-Tannoudji y Phillips, enfriar átomos con láser.