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Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel , who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. These prizes were first given in 1901. The ... Read more |
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Aage Niels Bohr
Aage Niels Bohr , 1922-, Danish physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Copenhagen, 1954. He worked with his father Niels Bohr (who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922) in the 1940s on the development of the atomic bomb and succeeded (1963) him as director of the Niels Bohr Institute of Theoretical Physics.... Read more |
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John Bardeen
John Bardeen , 1908-91, American physicist, b. Madison, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin (B.S. 1928, M.S. 1929), Ph.D. Princeton, 1936. He was a research physicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1945 to 1951. In 1951 he became professor of electrical engineering and physics at the Univ. of... Read more |
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Richard Zsigmondy
ZSIGMONDY, RICHARD ADOLF(b. Vienna Austria, 1 April 1865;d. Göttingen, Germany, 24 September 1929)colloidal chemistry.Zsigmondy was a figure of paramount importance on colloid chemistry during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1925, for invention of the... Read more |
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Gabriel Lippmann
Gabriel Lippmann French physicist Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921) is the inventor of an early process that yielded the first permanent color photograph. Though his system was too unwieldy to be used commercially at the time, Lippmann was awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in physics for his... Read more |
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Ernst Ruska
Ruska, Ernst (1906-1988) German physicist The inventor of the electron microscope , Ernst Ruska, combined an academic career in physics and electrical engineering with work in private industry at several of Germany's top electrical corporations. He was associated with the Siemens Company from... Read more |
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James Rainwater
James Rainwater 1917-86, American physicist, Ph.D. Columbia, 1946. After working on the Manhattan Project as a student during World War II, he became a professor of physics at Columbia in 1952. His theory that not all atomic nuclei are spherical was verified experimentally by Danish physicists... Read more |
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Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven
ALFVéN, HANNES OLOF GOSTA(b. Norrkorping, Sweden, 30 May 1908; d. Stockholm, Sweden, 2 April 1995)physics, plasma state of matter, magnetohydrodynamics, plasma cosmogony, plasma cosmology.Alfvén, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics, is acknowledged as one of the greatest creative and intuitive... Read more |
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Norman Foster Ramsey
Norman Foster Ramsey 1915-, American physicist, b. Washington, D.C., Ph.D. Columbia Univ., 1940. A physics professor at Harvard after 1950, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel... Read more |
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Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki Leo Esaki (born 1925) was one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973. Esaki was honored for his 1957 pioneering work in electron tunneling in semiconducting materials, which led to his creation of the Esaki diode, or tunnel diode. This technology helped advance research... Read more |
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Nobel Prizes
...Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–96...distributed in annual prizes for the most...discoveries in physics, chemistry, and...nations’ (the Nobel Peace Prize), and to the...tendency’.For a list of Nobel ... |
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List of recent winners of Nobel prize in physics
List of recent winners of Nobel prize in physics EDS: Repeats to fix the headline...awarded here Tuesday this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Following is a list of the ... |
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List of recent winners of the Nobel prize for physics
List of recent winners of the Nobel prize for physics STOCKHOLM, Oct. 9 (Xinhua...Grunberg of Germany won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for the...magnetoresistance.The following is a ... |
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(embargoed) List of recent winners of Nobel prize in physics
(embargoed) List of recent winners of Nobel prize in physics STOCKHOLM, Oct. 8 (Xinhua...awarded here Tuesday this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. Following is a list of the ... |
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List of Recent Nobel Physics Winners
The Associated Press AP Online 10-09-2001 List of Recent Nobel Physics Winners Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics: -- 2001: Eric A. Cornell and Carl E. Wieman, United States; and U... |
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Science: Four men who shook the world They are the Oscars of science. This...
...was Gunter Blobel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine...research," says the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska...aim of gene therapy. Physics GERARDUS 'T HOOFT MARTINUS...energies. This year's Nobel ... |
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List of the winners of the 2004 Nobel Prizes
...12-10-2004 A list of the recipients of the 2004 Nobel Prizes._ Kenyan Wangari Maathai received the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in promoting...Jelinek received the Nobel Prize in literature...the ... |
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Secretariat plan in quest to put Malaysians on Nobel Prize winners' list
...Malaysians on Nobel Prize winners' listByline...Malaysians on the Nobel Prize winners' list by 2020. Speaking...announcement of the Nobel Prize Centennial...entitled the ... |
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DOE-Supported Physicists are Co-Winners of 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics
...Gross for winning the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics," said Secretary of Energy...remarkably long and distinguished list of Nobel Prize winners supported by DOE." Dr. Raymond...The award of this year's ... |
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Backgrounder: Recent winners of Nobel Prize in physics
Backgrounder: Recent winners of Nobel Prize in physics STOCKHOLM, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- The following is a list of winners of the Nobel Prize in physics since 2000: 2009: ... |
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Backgrounder: Latest winners of Nobel Prize in Physics
Backgrounder: Latest winners of Nobel Prize in Physics STOCKHOLM, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The following is a list of winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics since 2001: 2011: Saul ... |
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