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James Chadwick – U.K. (1891–1974) Nobel laureate. Owen Chamberlain – United States (1920–2006) Nobel laureate. Moses H. W. Chan – Hong Kong (born 1946) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – India, United States (1910–1995) Nobel laureate. Tsao Chang - Chinese (born 1942) Georges Charpak – France (1924–2010) Nobel laureate.
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to 224 individuals as of 2023. [5] The first prize in physics was awarded in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, of Germany, who received 150,782 SEK. John Bardeen is the only laureate to win the prize twice—in 1956 and 1972. William Lawrence Bragg was the youngest Nobel laureate in physics; he won the ...
The following is a partial list of notable theoretical physicists. Arranged by century of birth, then century of death, then year of birth, then year of death, then alphabetically by surname. For explanation of symbols, see Notes at end of this article.
A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. [1] [2] Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate causes of phenomena, and usually frame their understanding in mathematical terms.
The Nobel Prize in Physics ( Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901, the others being ...
Richard Phillips Feynman (⫽ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n ⫽; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model.
Adolf Hitler forbade four Germans, Richard Kuhn (Chemistry, 1938), Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939), Gerhard Domagk (Physiology or Medicine, 1939) and Carl von Ossietzky (Peace, 1936) from accepting their Nobel Prizes. The Chinese government forbade Liu Xiaobo from accepting his Nobel Prize (Peace, 2010) [9] and the government of the Soviet ...
J.Bardeen shared 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics with L.Cooper and J.R.Schrieffer too W.H.Brattain nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too [336] Shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics [bz]