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Nobel Prize

France · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

8Records
1903–2025Date range
8Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1903

Henri Becquerel10 December 1903

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering spontaneous radioactivity.

Pierre Curie10 December 1903

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for research on radiation phenomena discovered by Henri Becquerel.

1908

Gabriel Lippmann1908

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for devising a method of reproducing colours photographically through interference phenomena.

1929

Louis de Broglie1929

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the wave nature of electrons and establishing the concept of matter waves.

2012

Serge Haroche2012

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental methods enabling measurement and manipulation of individual quantum systems.

2018

Gérard Mourou2018

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for a method of generating high-intensity, ultrashort optical pulses.

2022

Alain Aspect2022

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments with entangled photons, Bell inequality violations and pioneering quantum information science.

2025

Michel H. Devoret2025

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.

Names involved

Alain AspectGabriel LippmannGérard MourouHenri BecquerelLouis de BroglieMichel H. DevoretPierre CurieSerge Haroche

Provenance

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