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Nobel Prize in Physics

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

2Records
1904–2024Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1904

John William Strutt Rayleigh, 3rd10 December 1904

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for gas-density research and the discovery of argon.

2024

Geoffrey Hinton10 December 2024

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the physics prize for foundational work enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.

Names involved

Geoffrey HintonJohn William Strutt Rayleigh, 3rd

Provenance

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