Awarded to Johannes Stark for the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields. The Stark canal-ray experiment follows the measurement.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1919 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: Stark, canal-ray Doppler effect and electric-field splitting
Awarded to Charles-Édouard Guillaume for precision measurement through anomalous properties of nickel–steel alloys. The Guillaume thermal expansion experiment explains how a reference comparison reveals low thermal expansion.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1920 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: Guillaume and precision measurement with nickel–steel alloys
Awarded to Albert Einstein for theoretical physics, with particular recognition of the law of the photoelectric effect. He received the award in 1922.[ref]
The Millikan photoelectric experiment makes the stopping-voltage test and its experimental limitations explicit.
Awarded to Niels Bohr for atomic structure and radiation from chemical atoms. The Bohr model explains the connection to discrete spectral lines.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: Bohr, atomic structure and radiation
Awarded to Robert Andrews Millikan for the elementary charge and photoelectric effect. The oil drop experiment and Millikan photoelectric experiment follow the two measurements.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1923 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: Millikan, elementary charge and photoelectric effect
Awarded to Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn for X-ray spectroscopy. He received the prize in 1925. The Siegbahn precision X-ray wavelength spectroscopy article describes its calibration problems.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1924 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: Manne Siegbahn, X-ray spectroscopy and deferred receipt in 1925
Awarded jointly to James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz for electron-impact laws in chemical atoms. They received the prize in 1926; the Franck-Hertz experiment explains the evidence.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: Franck and Hertz, electron impact and deferred receipt in 1926
Awarded to Jean Baptiste Perrin for the discontinuous structure of matter, especially sedimentation equilibrium. The Perrin sedimentation experiment describes the measurements.[ref]
Jean Baptiste Perrin - Facts by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award facts: Perrin, 1926 and sedimentation equilibrium
Awarded in equal shares to Arthur Holly Compton for the Compton effect and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson for making charged-particle paths visible by condensation. The Compton scattering experiment of 1923 and Wilson cloud-chamber experiment explain the two experimental methods.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: Compton and Wilson, half shares and their distinct experimental subjects
Awarded to Owen Willans Richardson for thermionic emission and its emission law. He received the prize in 1929.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: thermionic emission, Richardson and deferred receipt in 1929
Awarded to Louis de Broglie for the wave nature of electrons. The de Broglie wavelength connects momentum to observable diffraction.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: de Broglie and electron matter waves
Awarded to Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman for light scattering and the effect bearing his name. The Raman and Krishnan light-scattering experiment includes the work of Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, who shared the original paper.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 by Nobel Foundation. Official award record: Raman and light scattering; collaborator attribution from the separately cited original experiment
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
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