John William Strutt Rayleigh, 3rd1904
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical and experimental investigations of electrical conduction through gases, work closely associated with the identification of the electron.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, studied crystalline structures using x-rays
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the cloud-chamber method that makes the tracks of electrically charged particles visible.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing new productive forms of atomic theory, including a relativistic quantum theory of the electron.
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the neutron, a neutral nuclear particle fundamental to understanding atomic nuclei.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially the statistical interpretation of the wavefunction.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, for work on holography
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for the theoretical discovery of the mechanism explaining the origin of mass of subatomic particles.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for showing that black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.
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