Physics Nobel Laureates 1925

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien) is responsible for deciding about the anual award of the Nobel price. The first Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen in 1901.

Physics 1925

The prize for 1924:

SIEGBAHN, KARL MANNE GEORG, Sweden, Uppsala University, * 1886, + 1978:

"for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy".

The prize for 1925: Reserved.

Physics 1926

The prize for 1925 was awarded jointly to:

FRANCK, JAMES, Germany, Goettingen University, * 1882, + 1964; and

HERTZ, GUSTAV, Germany, Halle University, * 1887, + 1975:

"for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom".

The prize for 1926:

PERRIN, JEAN BAPTISTE, France, Sorbonne University, Paris, * 1870, + 1942:

"for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium".

Physics 1927

The prize was divided equally between:

COMPTON, ARTHUR HOLLY, U.S.A., Chicago University, * 1892, + 1962:

"for his discovery of the effect named after him";

and

WILSON, CHARLES THOMSON REES, Great Britain, Cambridge University, * 1869 (in Glencorse, Scotland), + 1959:

"for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour".

Physics 1928

Reserved.

Physics 1929

The prize for 1928:

RICHARDSON, Sir OWEN WILLANS, Great Britain, London University, * 1879, + 1959:

"for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him".

The prize for 1929:

DE BROGLIE, Prince LOUIS-VICTOR, France, Sorbonne University, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, * 1892, + 1987:

"for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons".

Physics 1930

RAMAN, Sir CHANDRASEKHARA VENKATA, India, Calcutta University, * 1888, + 1970:

"for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him".

Physics 1931

Reserved.

Physics 1932

The prize money for 1931 was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The prize for 1932: Reserved.

Physics 1933

The prize for 1932:

HEISENBERG, WERNER, Germany, Leipzig University, * 1901, + 1976:

"for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen".

The prize for 1933 was awarded jointly to:

SCHRÖDINGER, ERWIN, Austria, Berlin University, Germany, * 1887, + 1961; and

DIRAC, PAUL ADRIEN MAURICE, Great Britain, Cambridge University, * 1902, + 1984:

"for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".

Physics 1934

Reserved.

Physics 1935

The prize money for 1934 was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

The prize for 1935:

CHADWICK, Sir JAMES, Great Britain, Liverpool University, * 1891, + 1974:

"for the discovery of the neutron".

Physics 1936

The prize was divided equally between:

HESS, VICTOR FRANZ, Austria, Innsbruck University, * 1883, + 1964:

"for his discovery of cosmic radiation";

and

ANDERSON, CARL DAVID, U.S.A., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, * 1905, + 1991:

"for his discovery of the positron".

Physics 1937

The prize was awarded jointly to:

DAVISSON, CLINTON JOSEPH, U.S.A., Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York, NY, * 1881, + 1958; and

THOMSON, Sir GEORGE PAGET, Great Britain, London University, * 1892, + 1975:

"for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals".

Physics 1938

FERMI, ENRICO, Italy, Rome University, * 1901, + 1954:

"for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons".

Physics 1939

LAWRENCE, ERNEST ORLANDO, U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, * 1901, + 1958:

"for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artifi cial radioactive elements".

Physics 1940

The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics 1941

The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics 1942

The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics 1943

Reserved.

Physics 1944

The prize for 1943:

STERN, OTTO, U.S.A., Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburg, PA, * 1888 (in Sorau, then Germany), + 1969:

"for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton".

The prize for 1944:

RABI, ISIDOR ISAAC , U.S.A., Columbia University, New York, NY, * 1898, (in Rymanow, then Austria-Hungary) + 1988:

"for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei".

Physics 1945

PAULI, WOLFGANG , Austria, Princeton University, NJ, U.S.A., * 1900, + 1958:

"for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle".

Physics 1946

BRIDGMAN, PERCY WILLIAMS, U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, * 1882, + 1961:

"for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics".

Physics 1947

APPLETON, Sir EDWARD VICTOR, Great Britain, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, London, * 1892, + 1965:

"for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer".

Physics 1948

BLACKETT, Lord PATRICK MAYNARD STUART, Great Britain, Victoria University, Manchester, * 1897, + 1974:

"for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation".

Physics 1949

YUKAWA, HIDEKI, Japan, Kyoto Imperial University and Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A., * 1907, + 1981:

"for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces".