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| Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Weber, Robert L., 1913- Pioneers of science. Bristol : Institute of Physics, c1980 (OCoLC)647337314 |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert L Weber; J M A Lenihan |
| ISBN: | 0854980369 9780854980369 |
| OCLC Number: | 8347509 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xviii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1901: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (German) -- 1902: Pieter Zeeman (Dutch), Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Dutch) -- 1903: Antoine Henri Becquerel (French) Pierre Curie (French) / Marie Sklodowska Curie (French, Polish-born) -- 1904: John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh (British) -- 1905: Philipp Lenard (German, Hungarian-born)-- 1906: Sir Joseph John Thomson (British) -- 1907: Albert Abraham Michelson (American, German-born) -- 1908: Gabriel Lippmann (French, Luxembourg-born) -- 1909: Guglielmo Marconi (Italian), Carl Ferdinand Braun (German) -- 1910: Johannes Diderik van der Waals (Dutch) -- 1911: Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien (German) -- 1912: Nils Gustaf Dalén (Swedish) -- 1913: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Dutch) -- 1914: Max Theodor Felix von Laue (German) -- 1915: Sir William Henry Bragg (British), Sir William Lawrence Bragg (British) -- 1916: No award -- 1917: Charles Glover Barkla (British) -- 1918: Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (German) -- 1919: Johannes Stark (German) -- 1920: Charles-Edouard Guillaume (French) -- 1921: Albert Einstein (German) -- 1922: Niels Hendrik David Bohr (Danish) -- 1923: Robert Andrews Millikan (American) -- 1924: Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (Swedish) -- 1925: James Franck (German), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (German) -- 1926: Jean Baptiste Perrin (French) -- 1927: Arthur Holly Compton (American) / Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (British) -- 1928: Sir Owen Willans Richardson (British) -- 1929: Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond, Prince de Broglie (French) -- 1930: Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (Indian)-- 1931: No award -- 1932: Werner Karl Heisenberg (German) -- 1933: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (British), Erwin Schrödinger (Austrian) -- 1934: No award -- 1935: Sir James Chadwick (British) -- 1936: Victor Franz Hess (Austrian) / Carl David Anderson (American) -- 1937: Clinton Joseph Davisson (American), Sir George Paget Thomson (British) -- 1938: Enrico Fermi (American, Italian-born) -- 1939: Ernest Orlando Lawrence (American) -- 1940-42: No awards -- Otto Stern (American, German-born) -- Isidor Isaac Rabi (American, Austrian-born) -- 1945: Wolfgang Pauli (American, Austrian-born) -- 1946: Percy Williams Bridgman (American) -- 1947: Sir Edward Victor Appleton (British) -- 1948: Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (British) -- 1949: Hideki Yukawa (Japanese) -- 1950: Cecil Frank Powell (British) -- 1951: Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (British), Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (Irish) -- 1952: Felix Bloch (American, Swiss-born), Edward Mills Purcell (American) -- 1953: Frits Zernike (Dutch) -- 1954: Max Born (British, German-born) / Walther Wilhelm George Bothe (German) -- 1955: Willis Eugene Lamb Jr (American) / Polykarp Kusch (American, German-born) -- 1956: John Bardeen (American), Walter Houser Brattain (American), William Shockley (American) -- 1957: Chen Ning Yang (American, Chinese-born), Tsung Dao Lee (American, Chinese-born) -- 1958: Pavel Alekseivich Cherenkov (Russian), Ilya Mikhailovich Frank (Russian), Igor Evgenievich Tamm (Russian) -- 1959: Owen Chamberlain (American), Emilio Gino Segrè (American, Italian-born) -- 1960: Donald Arthur Glaser (American) -- 1961: Robert Hofstadter (American) / Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (German) -- 1962: Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian) -- 1963: Eugene Paul Wigner (American, Hungarian-born) / Maria Goeppert-Mayer (American, German-born), J. Hans D. Jenson (German) -- 1964: Charles Hard Townes (American), Nikolai Gennadievich Basov (Russian), Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov (Russian) -- 1965: Richard Phillips Feynman (American), Julian Seymour Schwinger (American), Sin-itiro Tomonaga (Japanese) -- 1966: Alfred Kastler (French) -- 1967: Hans Albrecht Bethe (American, German-born) -- 1968: Luis Walter Alvarez (American) -- 1969: Murray Gell-Mann (American) -- 1970: Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (Swedish) / Louis Eugène Félix Néel (French) -- 1971: Dennis Gabor (British, Hungarian-born) -- 1972: Leon N. Cooper (American), John Robert Schreiffer (American), John Bardeen (American) -- 1973: Leo Esaki (Japanese) / Ivar Giaever (American, Norwegian-born) / Brian David Josephson (British) -- 1974: Antony Hewish (British), Martin Ryle (British) -- 1975: Aage Niels Bohr (Danish), Ben Roy Mottelson (Danish, American-born), Leo James Rainwater (American) -- 1976: Burton Richter (American), Samuel Chao Chung Ting (American) -- 1977: John Hasbrouck van Vleck (American) / Sir Nevill Francis Mott (British), Philip Warren Anderson (American) -- 1978 Peter Leonidovich Kapitza (Russian) / Arno A. Penzias (American, German-born), Robert Woodrow Wilson (American) -- 1979: Steven Weinberg (American), Abdus Salam (Pakistani), Sheldon Lee Glashow (American). |
| Responsibility: | Robert L. Weber ; edited by J.M.A. Lenihan. |
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