Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas. (Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell Didcot, Great Britain). Awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1951 with Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Pauli, Wolfgang. (Princeton University, Princeton, USA). Awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1945 for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Lawrence, Ernest Orlando. (University of California, Berkeley, USA). Awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1939 for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Fermi, Enrico. (Rome University, Rome, Italy). Awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 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
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: George Paget Thomson. (London University, London, Great Britain). Awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1937 with Clinton Joseph Davisson for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Davisson, Clinton Joseph. (Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York, USA). Awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1937 with George Paget Thomson for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Chadwick, James. (Liverpool University, Liverpool, Great Britain). Awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1935 for the discovery of the neutron
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Schrö dinger, Erwin. (Berlin University, Berlin, Germany). Awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1933 with Erwin Schrö dinger for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice. (Cambridge University, Cambridge, Great Britain). Awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1933 with Erwin Schrö dinger for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons
Biography Nobel Prize Winner: Heisenberg, Werner Karl. (Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany). Awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1932 for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen