Nobel Prize in Physics

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The Nobel Prize in Physics (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysik) is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prize established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a German, "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has... full article at wikipedia

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year	award winner (e.g. a person or organization)	notes/description
1901	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen	In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays (or x-rays)
1902	Pieter Zeeman Hendrik Lorentz	In recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena.
1903	Marie Curie Pierre Curie	In recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel.
1903	Antione Henri Becquerel	In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity.
1904	John William Strutt	For his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies.
1905	Philipp Lenard	For his work on cathode rays.
1906	Joseph John Thomson	In recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases.
1907	Albert Abraham Michelson	For his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid". See Michelson-Morley experiment.
1908	Gabriel Lippmann	For his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference.
1909	Karl Ferdinand Braun Guglielmo Marconi	in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy
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