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Max Planck
1918, in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta
James Clerk Maxwell
Did not receive a Nobel Prize, but is notable for his formulation of the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation
Steven Weinberg
1979, for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current
Guglielmo Marconi
1909, in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy
Albert Einstein
1921, for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect
Peter Higgs
2013, for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Paul Dirac
1933, for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory
Richard P. Feynman
1965, for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles
Niels Bohr
1922, for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them
Erwin Schrödinger
1933, for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory
Wolfgang Pauli
1945, for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle
Marie Curie
1903, in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel
Werner Heisenberg
1932, for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has led, inter alia, to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen
Enrico Fermi
1938, 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
Chen Ning Yang
1957, for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles
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