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Nobel Prize in Physics

yearly physics award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

90 dated entries naming Nobel Prize in Physics, drawn from 61 separate years between 1837 CE and 1976 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1837November 23 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)source
  • 1850June 6 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1918)source
  • 1852December 15 – Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)source
  • 1852December 19 – Albert A. Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)source
  • 1853July 18 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)source
  • 1853September 21 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)source
  • 1856December 18 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)source
  • 1858April 23 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)source
  • 1862July 2 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)source
  • 1862June 7 – Philipp Lenard, Hungarian–German physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1947)source
  • 1865May 25 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)source
  • 1867November 7 – Marie Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and physics (d. 1934)source
  • 1868March 22 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)source
  • 1870September 30 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)source
  • 1874April 15 – Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)source
  • 1879October 9 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)source
  • 1882December 11 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)source
  • 1885October 7 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)source
  • 1891January 8 – Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1957)source
  • 1891October 20 – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)source
  • 1892August 15 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)source
  • 1892September 10 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)source
  • 1892September 6 – Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)source
  • 1897May 27 – John Cockcroft, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)source
  • 1897November 18 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)source
  • 1898July 29 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)source
  • 1899January 26 – German inventor Karl Ferdinand Braun, who will later share the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi, receives a British patent for his wireless radio invention "Telegraphy without directly connected wire".source
  • 1900April 25 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)source
  • 1900June 5 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-born British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)source

20th century

  • 1901August 8 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)source
  • 1901December 5 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)source
  • 1901September 29 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1954)source
  • 1902August 8 – Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)source
  • 1902February 10 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)source
  • 1902November 17 – Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)source
  • 1903December 5 – C. F. Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)source
  • 1903October 6 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)source
  • 1915August 27 – Norman Ramsey Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)source
  • 1915July 28 – Charles H. Townes, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)source
  • 1916October 4 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)source
  • 1918February 12 – Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)source
  • 1918March 16 – Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)source
  • 1918May 11 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)source
  • 1919June 30 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1842)source
  • 1920March 11 – Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)source
  • 1921May 25 – Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)source
  • 1922July 15 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)source
  • 1922October 1 – Yang Chen-Ning, Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2025)source
  • 1922September 2 – Arthur Ashkin, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)source
  • 1923December 13 – Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)source
  • 1923March 8 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)source
  • 1926February 21 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)source
  • 1926January 29 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)source
  • 1928February 4 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)source
  • 1929May 29 – Peter Higgs, British theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2024)source
  • 1931August 8 – Roger Penrose, English mathematical physicist, Nobel Prize laureatesource
  • 1931May 9 – Albert A. Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)source
  • 1932September 29 – Rainer Weiss, German-born American gravitational physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2025)source
  • 1933May 3 – Steven Weinberg, American physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2021)source
  • 1933November 4 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese electrical engineer, physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2018)source
  • 1934July 4 – Marie Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and physics (b. 1867)source
  • 1935April 25 – Jim Peebles, Canadian-born theoretical cosmologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physicssource
  • 1940August 30 – J. J. Thomson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)source
  • 1940June 1 – Kip Thorne, American gravitational physicist, Nobel Prize laureatesource
  • 1942March 12 – Sir William Henry Bragg, British physicist, chemist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)source
  • 1943October 9 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)source
  • 1945May 20 – Anton Zeilinger, Austrian quantum physicist, Nobel Prize laureatesource
  • 1947May 20 – Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)source
  • 1947October 4 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)source
  • 1953December 19 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)source
  • 1954November 28 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)source
  • 1957February 8 – Walther Bothe, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)source
  • 1958August 27 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)source
  • 1958December 15 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)source
  • 1959November 15 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)source
  • 1960April 24 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)source
  • 1962March 15 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)source
  • 1962May 17 – Ferenc Krausz, Hungarian-born attosecond physicist, Nobel Prize laureatesource
  • 1962November 18 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)source
  • 1964May 21 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)source
  • 1965April 21 – Sir Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)source
  • 1965June 16 – Andrea M. Ghez, American astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physicssource
  • 1968April 1 – Lev Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)source
  • 1969August 9 – C. F. Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)source
  • 1970January 5 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)source
  • 1971July 1 – Sir Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)source
  • 1972February 20 – Maria Goeppert Mayer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)source
  • 1974July 13 – Patrick Blackett, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)source
  • 1974July 24 – Sir James Chadwick, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)source
  • 1976February 1 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)source

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