Albert Abraham Michelson1907
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing precision optical instruments and for spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with them.
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Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing precision optical instruments and for spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with them.
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to theoretical physics, particularly his explanation of the law governing the photoelectric effect.
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the elementary electric charge and the photoelectric effect.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the change in wavelength that occurs when X-rays scatter from electrons, demonstrating the particle-like properties of radiation.
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing and developing the cyclotron and for results obtained with artificially produced radioactive elements.
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for the resonance method used to measure magnetic properties of atomic nuclei.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the antiproton.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to nuclear and particle theory, especially symmetry principles.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam for contributions to electroweak unification.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the ion trap technique used in high-precision spectroscopy.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in atomic precision measurements.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for experimental methods enabling measurement and manipulation of individual quantum systems.
Barish receives the Nobel Prize for leadership and decisive contributions to LIGO
Thorne receives the Nobel Prize for decisive contributions to LIGO and gravitational wave observation
Weiss receives the Nobel Prize for decisive contributions to LIGO and gravitational wave observation
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for optical tweezers and their application to biological systems.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the supermassive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments with entangled photons, Bell inequality violations and pioneering quantum information science.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering macroscopic quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.
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