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Wilhelm Wien received the award for discoveries concerning the laws of thermal radiation.[ref]
All Nobel Prizes in Physics by Nobel Prize Outreach. Physics 1911: laureate and award motivation
Wien's displacement law connects a blackbody spectrum's peak wavelength to its temperature.Awarded to Gustaf Dalén for automatic regulators used with gas accumulators for lighthouse and buoy lighting. The sun valve and Dalén light connect the award to mechanical engineering.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1912 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: automatic regulators and marine lighting
Awarded to Heike Kamerlingh Onnes for investigations of matter at low temperatures, including helium liquefaction. The award's scope includes the experimental means of reaching those conditions.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1913 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: low-temperature properties and liquid-helium production
Awarded to Max von Laue for the discovery of X-ray diffraction by crystals.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1914 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: laureate and diffraction subject
Awarded jointly to William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg for methods of determining crystal structures using X-rays. Bragg's law connects measured angles to lattice-plane spacings.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: laureates and crystal-structure subject
No award was made that year.[ref]
Facts on the Nobel Prize in Physics by Nobel Prize Outreach. Years without an award: 1916 is one of the six listed
Awarded to Charles Glover Barkla for characteristic X-rays of the chemical elements; he received it in 1918. The Barkla characteristic X-ray experiment describes the experimental separation of components.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1917 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: Barkla, characteristic radiation and deferred receipt in 1918
Awarded to Max Planck for the discovery of energy quanta; he received it in 1919. Planck's law connects quantization with the measured spectrum of black-body radiation.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Official award record: Planck, energy quanta and deferred receipt in 1919
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
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