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Nobel Prize

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

4Records
1905–2021Date range
4Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1905

Philip Lenard1905

Science / Physics

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, for photoelectric effects & cathode rays

1914

Max Theodore Felix von Laue1914

Science / Physics

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics

2020

Reinhard Genzel2020

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering a supermassive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way.

2021

Klaus Hasselmann2021

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming.

Names involved

Klaus HasselmannMax Theodore Felix von LauePhilip LenardReinhard Genzel

Provenance

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