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The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to 226 individuals as of 2024. [ 5 ] The first prize in physics was awarded in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, of Germany, who received 150,782 SEK. John Bardeen is the only laureate to win the prize twice—in 1956 and 1972. William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest Nobel laureate in physics; he won ...
The Nobel Prize is an international prize awarded annually since 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. An associated prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded since 1969. [1] Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 800 individuals. [2]
Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint recipient (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 ...
Abdulrazak Gurnah FRSL (born 20 December 1948) is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. [ 1 ] His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the ...
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
Barry C. Barish at Nobel Prize press conference in Stockholm, Sweden (December 2017) In 2002, he received the Klopsteg Memorial Award [ 25 ] of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Barish was honored by the University of Bologna (2006) [ 26 ] and University of Florida ( 2007) where he received honorary doctorates.
Shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics [bw] with J.H.D.Jensen and M.Goeppert-Mayer [329] Willard Libby: December 17, 1908 Grand Valley, United States September 8, 1980 Los Angeles, United States 1953, 1956, 1957, 1960 Won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. [330] Edwin Hubble: November 20, 1889 Marshfield, Missouri, United States September 28, 1953
Yang Chen-Ning on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, 11 December 1957 The Law of Parity Conservation and Other Symmetry Laws of Physics; The Shaw Prize, Structure Archived 31 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine (homepage – Shaw Prize) Symmetries and Reflections (C.N. Yang retirement symposium at Stony Brook University)