Nobel Prize Winners

James Watson Cronin won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1980.

The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970 was awarded to Hannes Alfvén and Louis Néel. Hannes Alfvén received half of the prize for his work in magnetohydrodynamics and theories on plasma physics, while Louis Néel was awarded the other half for his discoveries regarding antiferromagnetism.

The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 was awarded jointly to Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard P. Feynman for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.

Emilio Gino Segr won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959.

Chen Ning Yang won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957.

In 1956, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain for their invention of the transistor. This invention revolutionized the field of electronics and paved the way for the development of modern technology.

Max Born won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954.

Edward Mills Purcell won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1952.

Sir Edward Victor Appleton won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947.

The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945 was awarded jointly to Wolfgang Pauli for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, and to the late Sin-Itiro Tomonaga and Julian Schwinger for their contributions to quantum electrodynamics.

Isidor Isaac Rabi won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944.

The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939 was awarded to Ernest O. Lawrence for the invention and development of the cyclotron, a device used to accelerate nuclear particles to high energies for use in nuclear research and medicine.

Clinton Joseph Davisson won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937.

Erwin Schrodinger won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933.

In 1925, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to James Franck and Gustav Hertz for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom. This work was foundational in the development of quantum mechanics.

Charles Edouard Guillaume won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920.

The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 was awarded jointly to Charles Glover Barkla for his work on X-ray scattering and Max Planck for his contributions to theoretical physics, particularly the field of quantum mechanics.

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1913.

Wilhelm Wien won The Nobel Prize in Physics in 1911.

Steven Chu won the Nobel prize in 1997 for his work on cooling atoms with lasers. He later became the United States Secretary of Energy. He is a strong advocate of alternative energy and had managed to double renewable energy use in the U.S. during his time in office.

Marie Curie was the first person to discover radioactive elements, including radium and polonium. She won two Nobel Prizes, one in Physics in 1903 and another in Chemistry in 1911, for her groundbreaking work in radioactivity.

Marie Curie is the only person to have been awarded Nobel Prizes in both chemistry and physics. She received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her groundbreaking research in radioactivity.

Albert Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics

for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

Ernest Rutherford received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 for his investigations into the disintegration of elements and the chemistry of radioactive substances. His work led to the discovery of radioactive decay and the concept of nuclear structure, pioneering the field of nuclear physics.

Some famous Assamese scientists include Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (film maker, playwright, and composer), Dr. Anil Kakodkar (nuclear scientist and former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India), and Dr. Bibha Chowdhuri (physicist known for her work on cosmic rays).