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List of Nobel Prizes in Physics

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2018 Nobel Prize in Physics

2009 Nobel Prize in Physics

This one took a while! Major developments were from the 70s! Perhaps it took the Internet revolution to make its importance clear.

2007 Nobel Prize in Physics

2006 Nobel Prize in Physics

1998 Nobel Prize in Physics (Fractional quantum Hall effect for $ν = 1 / m$ )

For Fractional quantum Hall effect for

ν = 1 / m

.

1996 Nobel Prize in Physics

1987 Nobel Prize in Physics

This was so hot (no pun intended) and reproducible that the prize was awarded one year after discovery. Quite rare in those days already.

1978 Nobel Prize in Physics

1973 Nobel Prize in Physics

To Brian Josephson for the prediction of the Josephson effect.

1972 Nobel Prize in Physics

1965 Nobel Prize in Physics (Feynman, Schwinger and Tomonaga)

1965 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate

1960 Nobel Prize in Physics

1955 Nobel Prize in Physics (QED experiments, Lamb and Kusch)

The key initial quantum electrodynamics experiments:

Willis Lamb for the Lamb-Retherford experiment
Polykarp Kusch for the anomalous magnetic dipole moment of the electron, key publication: The Magnetic Moment of the Electron by Kusch and Foley (1948)

1944 Nobel Prize in Physics (Nuclear magnetic resonance, Rabi)

nuclear magnetic resonance work:

Isidor Isaac Rabi

1937 Nobel Prize in Physics (electron diffraction)

Early electron diffraction experiment from 1927 that drastically confirmed the matter wave hypothesis.

1936 Nobel Prize in Physics (positron, cosmic rays)

Discovery of:

the positron by Carl David Anderson
he cosmic rays by Victor Francis Hess

1932 Nobel Prize in Physics (cyclotron)

To Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron.

1927 Nobel Prize in Physics (cloud chamber, Compton scattering)

1926 Nobel Prize in Physics (Jean Perrin, atomic theory)

1922 Nobel Prize in Physics (photoelectric effect)

Niels Bohr for the Bohr model.

1921 Nobel Prize in Physics (photoelectric effect)

Einstein for the theoretical explanation of the photoelectric effect from 1905, notably published as on a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light by Einstein (1905).

1918 Nobel Prize in Physics (Planck constant)

1914 Nobel Prize in Physics (X-ray diffraction)

Not only did this open the way for X-ray crystallography, it more fundamentally clarified the nature of X-rays as being electromagnetic radiation, and helped further establish the atomic theory.

1902 Nobel Prize in Physics (Zeeman effect)

Pieter Zeeman for the Zeeman effect.

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