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Nobel Prize in Physics

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1921–2024Date range
3Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1921

Albert Einstein1921

Berlin · Science / Physics

Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for theoretical physics, especially the law of the photoelectric effect.

2022

John F Clauser10 December 2022

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the physics prize for experiments with entangled photons and tests of Bell inequalities.

2024

John J Hopfield10 December 2024

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the physics prize for foundational work enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.

Names involved

Albert EinsteinJohn F ClauserJohn J Hopfield

Provenance

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