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Nobel Prize

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

4Records
1909–2021Date range
4Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1909

Guglielmo Marconi1909

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy and long-distance radio communication.

1938

Enrico Fermi1938

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating neutron-induced radioactivity and for discoveries concerning nuclear reactions produced by slow neutrons.

1984

Carlo Rubbia10 December 1984

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries leading to the W and Z particles, carriers of the weak interaction.

2021

Giorgio Parisi2021

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.

Names involved

Carlo RubbiaEnrico FermiGiorgio ParisiGuglielmo Marconi

Provenance

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