2014 Event The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Hiroshi Amano, Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for developing the blue light-emitting diode (LED), which emits low-energy white light that can replace incandescents and mercury-containing fluorescents 2013 Event Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics include theoretical physicists Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain 2012 Event Physics professor Enzo Di Fabrizio, of Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro, Italy, successfully takes the first direct photograph of DNA 2012 Event The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for their work on quantum optics 2011 Event The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess, for their work on the accelerating expansion of the universe 1993 Event Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor 1988 Event 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel 1981 Event Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser) 1968 Event Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber) 1968 Death Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89 1967 Event Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe 1958 Death Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939, dies at 57 1956 Event Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen 1955 Death Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany 1954 Event Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe 1953 Event Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke 1951 Event E Purcell and EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab 1945 Event Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg 1940 Death Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78 1939 Event Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron 1937 Event Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson 1913 Event Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics 1910 Event JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics 1905 Birthday Carl David Anderson, New York City, physicist, 1936 Nobel Prize for physics 1905 Birthday Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki 1903 Event Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie 1901 Birthday Ernest Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 1893 Birthday Earnest Julius pik, Estonian astronomer, Physics of meteor flight 1885 Birthday Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics, Nobel 1922 1882 Birthday Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer, Solar physics 1879 Birthday Carl Ramsauer, born in Oldenburg, Germany, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect 1862 Birthday Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics, Emden-polytroop
