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Nobel Prize

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

6Records
1902–1999Date range
6Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1902

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz1902

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for research on the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena and for developing the electron theory used to explain the Zeeman effect.

Pieter Zeeman1902

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that magnetic fields split spectral lines, providing experimental evidence for the interaction between magnetism and light.

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 HooftHendrik Antoon LorentzJohannes Diderik van Der WaalsMartinus VeltmanPieter ZeemanSimon van der Meer

Provenance

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