Facts on Nobel laureates in Physics

Albert Einstein

Was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity.

10 facts about Albert Einstein

Neils Bohr

Was a world renowned Danish physicist born in the year 1885.

10 facts about Neils Bohr

Werner Heisenberg

Was a German theoretical physicist and amongst the key creators of quantum mechanics.

10 facts about Werner Heisenberg

Erwin Schrodinger

Was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution in the field of quantum theory.

10 facts about Erwin Schrodinger

Paul Dirac

Was an English theoretical physicist known for his contributions in quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics

10 facts about Paul Dirac

Max Planck

Was a German theoretical physicist.

10 facts about Max Planck

Marie Curie

Was a Polish-French physicist and chemist.

10 facts about Marie Curie

Joseph J. Thomson

Was a British physicist.

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Max Born

Was a German-British mathematician and physicist.

10 facts about Max Born

Enrico Fermi

Was an Italian experimental and theoretical physicist.

10 facts about Enrico Fermi

Murray Gell-Mann

Is an American physicist who is credited with the introduction of the concept of quarks.

10 facts about Murray Gell-Mann

Sheldon Glashow

Was an American theoretical physicist who made an important contribution to the unification of elementary particles and forces.

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John Bardeen

Was an eminent American physicist who revolutionized the fields of electronics and magnetic resonance imaging.

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Richard Feynman

Was an American Theoretical Physicist known for his contributions to the development of quantum electro dynamics.

10 facts about Richard Feynman

Max von Laue

Was a German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of X-ray crystallography which helps in determining the arrangement of atoms in some substances.

10 facts about Max von Laue

Hans Bethe

Was a German-born American theoretical physicist who is credited as one fo the founders of quantum physics.

10 facts about Hans Bethe

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Was a Dutch scientist and Nobel laureate who was renowned for development of liquid helium.

10 facts about Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

Louis Victor de Broglie

was a French physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory.

10 facts about Louis Victor de Broglie

Albert Abraham Michelson

Albert Abraham Michelson was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment

10 facts about Albert Abraham Michelson

Antony Hewish

Antony Hewish FRS is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars

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C. V. Raman

was an Indian physicist whose ground breaking work in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics

10 facts about C. V. Raman

Guglielmo Marconi

An Italian inventor and electrical engineer.

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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

A Dutch physicist.

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Henri Becquerel

A French physicist and discoverer of radioactivity.

10 facts about Henri Becquerel

James Chadwick

An English physicist who discovered the neutron.

10 facts about James Chadwick

Kip S. Thorne

An American theoretical physicist.

10 facts about Kip S. Thorne

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

A German born American theoretical physicist.

10 facts about Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Mohammad Abdus Salam

A Pakistani theoretical physicist.

10 facts about Mohammad Abdus Salam

Pierre Curie

A French physicist and husband of Marie Curie.

10 facts about Pierre Curie

Steven Chu

An American physicist.

10 facts about Steven Chu

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli

An Austrian theoretical physicist.

10 facts about Wolfgang Ernst Pauli




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