The Nobel Prize in Physics 1923 "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect" [millikan.jpg] Robert Andrews Millikan USA California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, USA b. 1868 d. 1953 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 "for his discovery of the effect named after him" "for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour" [compton.jpg] [wilson.jpg] Arthur Holly Compton Charles Thomson Rees Wilson [half.gif] 1/2 of the prize [half.gif] 1/2 of the prize USA United Kingdom University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom b. 1892 d. 1962 b. 1869 (in Glencorse, Scotland) d. 1959 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929 "for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons" [broglie.jpg] Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie France Sorbonne University, Institut Henri Poincaré Paris, France b. 1892 d. 1987 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936 "for his discovery of cosmic radiation" "for his discovery of the positron" [hess.jpg] [anderson.jpg] Victor Franz Hess Carl David Anderson [half.gif] 1/2 of the prize [half.gif] 1/2 of the prize Austria USA Innsbruck University Innsbruck, Austria California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, USA b. 1883 d. 1964 b. 1905 d. 1991 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 "for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons" [fermi.jpg] Enrico Fermi Italy Rome University Rome, Italy b. 1901 d. 1954 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton" [stern.jpg] Otto Stern USA Carnegie Institute of Technology Pittsburgh, PA, USA b. 1888 (in Sorau, then Germany) d. 1969 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1945 "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle" [pauli.jpg] Wolfgang Pauli Austria Princeton University Princeton, NJ, USA b. 1900 d. 1958 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1948 "for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation" [blackett.jpg] Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett United Kingdom Victoria University Manchester, United Kingdom b. 1897 d. 1974 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950 "for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method" [powell.jpg] Cecil Frank Powell United Kingdom Bristol University Bristol, United Kingdom b. 1903 d. 1969 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum" "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron" [lamb.jpg] [kusch.jpg] Willis Eugene Lamb Polykarp Kusch [half.gif] 1/2 of the prize [half.gif] 1/2 of the prize USA USA Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA Columbia University New York, NY, USA b. 1913 b. 1911 (in Blankenburg, then Germany) d. 1993 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959 "for their discovery of the antiproton" [segre.jpg] [chamberlain.jpg] Emilio Gino Segrè Owen Chamberlain [half.gif] 1/2 of the prize [half.gif] 1/2 of the prize USA USA University of California Berkeley, CA, USA University of California Berkeley, CA, USA b. 1905 (in Tivoli, Italy) d. 1989 b. 1920 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960 "for the invention of the bubble chamber" [glaser.jpg] Donald Arthur Glaser USA University of California Berkeley, CA, USA b. 1926 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles" [tomonaga.jpg] [schwinger.jpg] [feynman.jpg] Sin-Itiro Tomonaga Julian Schwinger Richard P. Feynman [third.gif] 1/3 of the prize [third.gif] 1/3 of the prize [third.gif] 1/3 of the prize Japan USA USA Tokyo University of Education Tokyo, Japan Harvard University Cambridge, MA, USA California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA, USA b. 1906 d. 1979 b. 1918 d. 1994 b. 1918 d. 1988 The Nobel Prize in Physics 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" [alvarez.jpg] Luis Walter Alvarez USA University of California Berkeley, CA, USA b. 1911 d. 1988 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980 "for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons" [cronin.jpg] [fitch.jpg] James Watson Cronin Val Logsdon Fitch [half.gif] 1/2 of the prize [half.gif] 1/2 of the prize USA USA University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA Princeton University Princeton, NJ, USA b. 1931 b. 1923 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984 "for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction" [rubbia.jpg] [meer.jpg] Carlo Rubbia Simon van der Meer [half.gif] 1/2 of the prize [half.gif] 1/2 of the prize Italy the Netherlands CERN Geneva, Switzerland CERN Geneva, Switzerland b. 1934 b. 1925 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino" [lederman.jpg] [schwartz.jpg] [steinberger.jpg] Leon M. Lederman Melvin Schwartz Jack Steinberger [third.gif] 1/3 of the prize [third.gif] 1/3 of the prize [third.gif] 1/3 of the prize USA USA USA Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia, IL, USA Digital Pathways, Inc. Mountain View, CA, USA CERN Geneva, Switzerland b. 1922 b. 1932 b. 1921 (in Bad Kissingen, Germany) The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber" [charpak.jpg] Georges Charpak France École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Paris, France; CERN Geneva, Switzerland b. 1924 (in Dabrovica, Poland)