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Awarded jointly to John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton for pioneering nuclear reactions of atomic nuclei using artificially accelerated particles.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official motivation, printed p. 161; PDF page 160, followed by presentation pp. 163–166
Awarded jointly to Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell for new methods of precise nuclear magnetic measurement and related discoveries. The nuclear magnetic resonance article explains their distinct experiments.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official motivation, printed p. 197; PDF page 195, followed by presentation pp. 199–202
Awarded to Frits Zernike for the phase-contrast microscopy method, particularly the phase-contrast microscope.[ref]
Awarded in equal shares to Max Born for fundamental quantum mechanics research, especially the statistical interpretation of the wave function, and Walther Bothe for the coincidence circuit and discoveries made with it.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Award year, both laureates, equal shares and separate prize motivations
Awarded in equal shares to Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. for discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum and Polykarp Kusch for precision determination of the electron magnetic moment.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official motivation, printed p. 281; PDF page 273, followed by presentation pp. 283–285
Awarded jointly to William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain for research on semiconductors and discovery of the transistor effect.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 by Nobel Prize Outreach. All three laureates, equal shares and semiconductor/transistor motivation
Awarded jointly to Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee for investigating parity conservation laws, leading to discoveries about elementary particles.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Both laureates, equal shares and parity-law investigation motivation
Awarded jointly to Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Ilya Mikhailovich Frank and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm for discovering and interpreting Cherenkov radiation.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official award motivation and presentation, printed pp. 419, 421–425; presentation closing names all three recipients
Awarded jointly to Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain for discovering the antiproton.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Both laureates, equal shares and antiproton-discovery motivation
Awarded to Donald Arthur Glaser for inventing the bubble chamber.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Award year, laureate and bubble-chamber invention motivation
Awarded in equal shares to Robert Hofstadter for electron scattering studies of atomic nuclei and discoveries about nucleon structure, and Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer for resonance absorption of gamma rays and the Mössbauer effect.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Both laureates, equal shares and separate prize motivations
Awarded to Lev Davidovich Landau for pioneering theories of condensed matter, especially liquid helium.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official award summary: sole laureate and condensed-matter/liquid-helium theory motivation.
One half went to Eugene Paul Wigner for theories of atomic nuclei and elementary particles, particularly symmetry principles; the other half jointly to Maria Goeppert Mayer and Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen for discoveries about the nuclear shell model.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Reproduced individual official Nobel record: Wigner one-half for nuclear/particle theory and symmetry; Mayer and Jensen one-quarter each for nuclear shell structure.
One half went to Charles Hard Townes; the other half jointly to Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, for quantum-electronics work leading to oscillators and amplifiers using the maser-laser principle.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official award summary: Townes one-half; Basov and Prokhorov one-quarter each; common quantum-electronics motivation.
Awarded in equal shares to Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Seymour Schwinger and Richard Feynman for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with consequences for elementary particles.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official award summary: all three laureates, one-third shares, and common quantum-electrodynamics motivation.
Awarded to Alfred Kastler for discovering and developing optical methods for studying radiofrequency resonances in chemical atoms.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1966 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official award summary: sole laureate and optical methods for Hertzian resonances in atoms.
Awarded to Hans Albrecht Bethe for contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially explaining energy production in stars.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1967 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Slide 13: reproduced individual official 1967 Nobel record; sole laureate and nuclear-reaction/stellar-energy motivation.
Awarded to Luis Walter Alvarez for discoveries in elementary particle physics, especially particle resonances identified using hydrogen bubble chambers and analysis of their records.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1968 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Reproduced individual official 1968 record: sole laureate, resonance discoveries using hydrogen bubble chambers and data analysis.
Awarded to Murray Gell-Mann for discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1969 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Reproduced individual official 1969 record: sole laureate, classification of elementary particles and their interactions.
Awarded in equal shares to Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén for work in magnetohydrodynamics and its applications in plasma physics, and Louis Eugène Félix Néel for discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism and their applications in solid-state physics.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1970 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official summary: equal halves; magnetohydrodynamics/plasma and antiferromagnetism/ferrimagnetism motivations distinct.
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