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Nobel Prize

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

4Records
1910–1999Date range
4Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1910

Johannes Diderik van Der Waals1910

Science / Physics

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics

1984

Simon van der Meer10 December 1984

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions enabling discovery of the W and Z particles.

1999

Geradus 't Hooft1999

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions.

Martinus Veltman1999

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions.

Names involved

Geradus 't HooftJohannes Diderik van Der WaalsMartinus VeltmanSimon van der Meer

Provenance

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