Carl David Anderson
"for his discovery of the positron"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935
James Chadwick
"for the discovery of the neutron"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1934
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933
Erwin Schr?dinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
"for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932
Werner Karl Heisenberg
"for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1931
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
"for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929
Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
"for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928
Owen Willans Richardson
"for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927
Arthur Holly Compton
"for his discovery of the effect named after him"
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
"for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926
Jean Baptiste Perrin
"for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925
James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz
"for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1924
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
"for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1923
Robert Andrews Millikan
"for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922
Niels Henrik David Bohr
"for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921
Albert Einstein
"for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1920
Charles Edouard Guillaume
"in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys"