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It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel (who died in 1896), awarded for outstanding contributions in physics. [1] As dictated by Nobel's will, the award is administered by the Nobel Foundation and awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. [ 2 ]
Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics: American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics: Scholarly achievements in the history of physics [1] United States: Andrei Sakharov Prize: American Physical Society: Leadership and/or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights United States: Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational ...
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, 1984 [14] Fellow of the American Physical Society, elected 1985 [15] Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, elected 1987 [16] Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 1991 [17] Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, 1998; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1998
Charles Édouard Guillaume (French: [ʃaʁl edwaʁ gijom]; 15 February 1861 – 13 May 1938) was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 "for the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys". [1]
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 ...
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysik) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists who have made outstanding contributions in Physics. [1] It is one of the five Nobel Prizes which were established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895.
The 1995 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. [1] Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Dutch: [ˈɦɛikə ˈkaːmərlɪŋ ˈɔnəs]; 21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch physicist.After studying in Groningen and Heidelberg, he became professor of experimental physics at the University of Leiden where he taught from 1882 to 1923.