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1993 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor

1988 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel

1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser)

1968 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)

1968 Lise Meitner, Austria/Swedish physics (protactinium), dies at 89

1967 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe

1958 Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939, dies at 57

1956 Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen

1955 Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany

1954 Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe

1953 Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke

1951 E Purcell and EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab

1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg

1940 Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78

1939 Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron

1937 Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson

1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics

1910 JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics

1905 Carl David Anderson, New York City, physicist, 1936 Nobel Prize for physics

1905 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 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie

1901 Ernest Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939

1893 Earnest Julius pik, Estonian astronomer, Physics of meteor flight

1885 Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics, Nobel 1922

1882 Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer, Solar physics

1879 Carl Ramsauer, born in Oldenburg, Germany, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect

1862 Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics, Emden-polytroop


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