Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 2026-10-18
Awarded to Ernest Orlando Lawrence for the cyclotron and results obtained with it, connecting repeated acceleration to nuclear experiments.[ref]
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1940 2026-10-18
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1941 2026-10-18
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1942 2026-10-18
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1943 2026-10-18
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]
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 2026-10-18
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]
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945 2026-10-18
Awarded to Wolfgang Pauli for the Pauli exclusion principle, connecting atomic spectroscopy with allowed arrangements of fermions.[ref]
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1946 2026-10-18
Awarded to Percy Williams Bridgman for high-pressure apparatus and discoveries made with it. The pressure article develops the associated measurement problems.[ref]
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 2026-10-18
Awarded to Edward Victor Appleton for upper-atmosphere investigations, especially the Appleton layer. The ionosphere connects this work to radio propagation.[ref]
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1948 2026-10-18
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]
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 2026-10-18
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1950 2026-10-18
Awarded to Cecil Frank Powell for developing the photographic method for studying nuclear reactions and discoveries about mesons made with it.[ref]
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951 2026-10-18
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
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952 2026-10-18
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
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 2026-10-18
Awarded to Frits Zernike for the phase-contrast microscopy method, particularly the phase-contrast microscope.[ref]
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 2026-10-18
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]
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-10-20
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
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 2026-10-18
Awarded jointly to William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain for research on semiconductors and discovery of the transistor effect.[ref]
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Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 2026-10-18
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
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958 2026-10-18
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
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