Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This list of Nobel laureates by university affiliation shows the university affiliations of individual winners of the Nobel Prize since 1901 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences since 1969. The affiliations are those at the time of the Nobel Prize announcement. [1]
Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. [1] He received the prize for Literature in 1913.. The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences, [A ...
Reinhard Genzel ForMemRS [1] (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈɡɛntsl̩] ⓘ; born 24 March 1952) is a German astrophysicist, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a professor at LMU and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for ...
Narinder Singh Kapany (31 October 1926 – 4 December 2020) was an Indian-American physicist best known for his work on fiber optics. [2] [3] [4] Kapany is a pioneer in the field of fiber optics, known for coining and popularising the term.
Physics Poland: First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics: Organizing Committee: Competition for high school students Poland: Marian Smoluchowski Medal: Polish Physical Society: Significant contributions in physics Russia: Bogolyubov Prize for young scientists: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research: Young researchers in theoretical physics Russia ...
The oldest Nobel Prize laureate in physics was Arthur Ashkin who was 96 years old when he was awarded the prize in 2018. [ 7 ] Only five women have won the prize: Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963), Donna Strickland (2018), Andrea Ghez (2020), and Anne L'Huillier (2023). [ 8 ]
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1954, Nobel Peace Prize, 1962: California Institute of Technology, Oregon State University: Robert H. Perry (1924–1978) Author of Handbook in 1934, now Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook: University of Oklahoma: Martin Lewis Perl (1927–2014) Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the tau lepton
Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics is an award given by Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPS) to outstanding plasma physicists, started in the year 2014. [ 44 ] The Chandra Astrophysics Institute (CAI) is a program offered for high school students who are interested in astrophysics mentored by MIT scientists [ 45 ] and ...