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Awarded to Werner Heisenberg for creating quantum mechanics, including its application to forms of hydrogen. The Heisenberg uncertainty relation is one route into the resulting theory.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: laureate, year and stated scientific subject
Awarded jointly to Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Dirac for developments in atomic theory.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Joint award: Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, each receiving one half
The Schrödinger equation and relativistic theory of the electron are two routes through that work. The Davisson–Germer experiment supplies related experimental evidence for matter waves.
Awarded to James Chadwick for discovering the neutron. The Chadwick neutron discovery experiment follows the recoil measurements and competing interpretations.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: Chadwick and neutron discovery
Awarded in equal shares to Victor Franz Hess for cosmic rays and Carl David Anderson for the Positron. The Hess cosmic-ray balloon experiment and Anderson positron track experiment explain the measurements.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: Hess and Anderson, half shares, cosmic radiation and positron
Clinton Davisson and George Paget Thomson shared the award equally for demonstrating electron diffraction by crystals.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official summary: laureates, prize shares and motivation
The Davisson–Germer experiment and Thomson electron transmission diffraction experiment connect different apparatus geometries to the matter waves.Awarded to Enrico Fermi for neutron-induced radioactivity and reactions brought about by slow neutrons. The neutron article follows the activation experiments and their interpretation.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: laureate, year and stated scientific subject
Awarded to Ernest Orlando Lawrence for the cyclotron and results obtained with it, connecting repeated acceleration to nuclear experiments.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: laureate, year and stated scientific subject
Awarded to Otto Stern for the molecular beam method and discovery of the proton magnetic moment. The molecular beam article develops direct measurements of particle speeds.[ref]
Otto Stern - Facts by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: laureate, year and stated scientific subject
Awarded to Isidor Isaac Rabi for the resonance method of recording magnetic properties of atomic nuclei. The Rabi cycle article explains a driven-state model and the beam experiment.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1944 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: laureate, year and stated scientific subject
Awarded to Wolfgang Pauli for the Pauli exclusion principle, connecting atomic spectroscopy with allowed arrangements of fermions.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1945 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: laureate, year and stated scientific subject
Awarded to Percy Williams Bridgman for high-pressure apparatus and discoveries made with it. The pressure article develops the associated measurement problems.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1946 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: laureate, year and stated scientific subject
Awarded to Edward Victor Appleton for upper-atmosphere investigations, especially the Appleton layer. The ionosphere connects this work to radio propagation.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1947 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: laureate, year and stated scientific subject
Awarded to Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett for developing the cloud chamber method and discoveries in nuclear physics and cosmic ray research. The Blackett-Occhialini triggered cloud-chamber experiment follows one of those methods.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1948 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: laureate, year and stated scientific subject
Awarded to Cecil Frank Powell for developing the photographic method for studying nuclear reactions and discoveries about mesons made with it.[ref]
Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
Intro to OurBigBook
. Source. We have two killer features:
- topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculusArticles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 2. You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either OurBigBook.com or as a static website.
Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.
Figure 5. . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally. Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension. 
- Infinitely deep tables of contents:
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
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