{tag=Max von Laue}
{tag=X-ray diffraction}
{title2=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>.


1914 Nobel Prize in Physics

{tag=1918 Nobel Prize in Physics}
{tag=Planck constant}
{title2=Planck constant}


1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

{title2=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)>.


1921 Nobel Prize in Physics

{title2=photoelectric effect}

<Niels Bohr> for the <Bohr model>.


1922 Nobel Prize in Physics

{title2=Jean Perrin}
{title2=atomic theory}

<Atomic theory>.


1926 Nobel Prize in Physics

{title2=cloud chamber}
{title2=Compton scattering}

* <cloud chamber>
* <Compton scattering>


1927 Nobel Prize in Physics

{title2=cyclotron}

To <Ernest Lawrence> for the <cyclotron>.


1932 Nobel Prize in Physics

{title2=positron}
{title2=cosmic rays}

Discovery of:
* the <positron> by <Carl David Anderson>
* he <cosmic rays> by <Victor Francis Hess>


1936 Nobel Prize in Physics

{title2=electron diffraction}

Early <electron diffraction experiment> from 1927 that drastically confirmed the <matter wave> hypothesis.
* <Davisson-Germer experiment>
* <Diffraction of Cathode Rays by a Thin Film by Thomson and Reid (1927)>


1937 Nobel Prize in Physics

{title2=ATP synthesis in mitochondria}

To <Peter D. Mitchell> for the discovery of the mechanism of <ATP> synthesis in the <mitochondria>, a central part of <cellular respiration>.


1978 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

1978 Nobel Prize in Physics

{tag=High-temperature superconductivity}

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


1987 Nobel Prize in Physics

1996 Nobel Prize in Physics

{title2=Fractional quantum Hall effect for $\nu = 1/m$}

For <Fractional quantum Hall effect for \nu = 1 m>.


1998 Nobel Prize in Physics

19-inch rack

1D Fermi gas

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