Robert Millikan1923
Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the elementary electric charge and the photoelectric effect.
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Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the elementary electric charge and the photoelectric effect.
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 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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