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Nobel Prize in Physics

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

9Records
1958–2003Date range
9Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1958

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov10 December 1958

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize for discovering and interpreting Cherenkov radiation.

Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm10 December 1958

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize for the theoretical interpretation of Cherenkov radiation.

1962

Lev Davidovich Landau10 December 1962

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Receives the Nobel Prize for pioneering theories of condensed matter.

1964

Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov10 December 1964

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize for fundamental work in quantum electronics.

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov10 December 1964

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize for research leading to masers and lasers.

1978

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa10 December 1978

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Receives the Nobel Prize for discoveries in low-temperature physics.

2000

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov10 December 2000

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize for developing semiconductor heterostructures.

2003

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov10 December 2003

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize for theories explaining superconductors and superfluids.

Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg10 December 2003

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize for pioneering contributions to superconductivity theory.

Names involved

Alexander Mikhailovich ProkhorovAlexei Alexeyevich AbrikosovIgor Yevgenyevich TammLev Davidovich LandauNikolay Gennadiyevich BasovPavel Alekseyevich CherenkovPyotr Leonidovich KapitsaVitaly Lazarevich GinzburgZhores Ivanovich Alferov

Provenance

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