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  2. Edward Mills Purcell - Wikipedia

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    Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. [2]

  3. Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - Wikipedia

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    In 1978, Penzias and Wilson were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint measurement. There had been a prior measurement of the cosmic background radiation (CMB) by Andrew McKellar in 1941 at an effective temperature of 2.3 K using CN stellar absorption lines observed by W. S. Adams. [5]

  4. Pyotr Kapitsa - Wikipedia

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    This was the body of work for which he was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, "basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics". [11] In 1939 he developed a new method for liquefaction of air with a low-pressure cycle using a special high-efficiency expansion turbine.

  5. George Smoot - Wikipedia

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    Smoot is one of the 20 American recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President George W. Bush in May 2008, urging him to "reverse the damage done to basic science research in the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill" by requesting additional emergency funding for the Department of Energy's Office of ...

  6. Robert Woodrow Wilson - Wikipedia

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    The pair won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for its discovery. [ 2 ] While doing tests and experiments with the Holmdel Horn Antenna at Bell Labs in Holmdel Township, New Jersey , Wilson and Penzias discovered a source of noise in the atmosphere that they could not explain. [ 3 ]

  7. List of physics awards - Wikipedia

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    Physics Poland: First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics: Organizing Committee: Competition for high school students Poland: Marian Smoluchowski Medal: Polish Physical Society: Significant contributions in physics Russia: Bogolyubov Prize for young scientists: Joint Institute for Nuclear Research: Young researchers in theoretical physics Russia ...

  8. Wolfgang Ketterle - Wikipedia

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    Ketterle is one of the 20 American recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics to sign a letter addressed to President George W. Bush in May 2008, urging him to "reverse the damage done to basic science research in the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill" by requesting additional emergency funding for the Department of Energy's Office of ...

  9. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes - Wikipedia

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    The apparatus he used to first liquefy helium is on display in the lobby of the physics department at Leiden University, where the low-temperature lab is also named in his honor. His student and successor as director of the lab Willem Hendrik Keesom was the first person who was able to solidify helium, in 1926. The former Kamerlingh Onnes ...