Nobel Laureates In Physics 1951-1975

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1951 "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles"

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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton

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1952 "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith"

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Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell

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1953 "for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope"

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Frits (Frederik) Zernike

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1954 "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction"

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Max Born

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1954 "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"

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Walther Bothe

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1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum".

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Willis Eugene Lamb

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1955 "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"

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Polykarp Kusch

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1956 "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"

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William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser Brattain

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1957 "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"

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Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee

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1958 "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov-Vavilov effect"

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Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il'ia Frank, and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm

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1959 "for their discovery of the antiproton"

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Emilio Gino Segrè and Owen Chamberlain

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1960 "for the invention of the bubble chamber"

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Donald Arthur Glaser

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1961 "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"

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Robert Hofstadter

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1961 "for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name".

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Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer

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1962 "for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium"

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Lev Davidovich Landau

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1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"

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Eugene Paul Wigner

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1963 "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"

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Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen

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1964 "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle"

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Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov, and Aleksandr Prokhorov

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1965 "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"

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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard Phillips Feynman

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1966 "for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms"

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Alfred Kastler

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1967 "for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars"

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Hans Albrecht Bethe

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1968 "for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis"

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Luis Walter Alvarez

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1969 "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions".

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Murray Gell-Mann

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1970 "for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics"

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Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén

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1970 "for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics"

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Louis Eugene Félix Néel

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1971 "for his invention and development of the holographic method"

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Dennis Gabor

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1972 "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"

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John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, and John Robert Schrieffer

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1973 "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively"

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Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever

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1973 "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effect"

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Brian David Josephson

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1974 "for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars"

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Sir Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish

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1975 "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection"

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Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, and Leo James Rainwater