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# 2.1: Nobel Prizes in Particle Physics

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 1903 1922 BECQUEREL, ANTOINE HENRI, France, École Polytechnique, Paris, b. 1852, d. 1908: ”in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity”; CURIE, PIERRE, France, cole municipale de physique et de chimie industrielles, (Municipal School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry), Paris, b. 1859, d. 1906; and his wife CURIE, MARIE, née SKLODOWSKA, France, b. 1867 (in Warsaw, Poland), d. 1934: ”in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel” BOHR, NIELS, Denmark, Copenhagen University, b. 1885, d. 1962: ”for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them” COMPTON, ARTHUR HOLLY, U.S.A., University of Chicago b. 1892, d. 1962: ”for his discovery of the eﬀect named after him”; and WILSON, CHARLES THOMSON REES, Great Britain, Cambridge University, b. 1869 (in Glencorse, Scotland), d. 1959: ”for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour” HEISENBERG, WERNER, Germany, Leipzig University, b. 1901, d. 1976: ”for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen” SCHRÖDINGER, ERWIN, Austria, Berlin University, Germany, b. 1887, d. 1961; and DIRAC, PAUL ADRIEN MAURICE, Great Britain, Cambridge University, b. 1902, d. 1984: ”for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory” CHADWICK, Sir JAMES, Great Britain, Liverpool University, b. 1891, d. 1974: ”for the discovery of the neutron” HESS, VICTOR FRANZ, Austria, Innsbruck University, b. 1883, d. 1964: ”for his discovery of cosmic radiation”; and ANDERSON, CARL DAVID, U.S.A., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, b. 1905, d. 1991: ”for his discovery of the positron” FERMI, ENRICO, Italy, Rome University, b. 1901, d. 1954: ”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” LAWRENCE, ERNEST ORLANDO, U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1901, d. 1958: ”for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artiﬁcial radioactive elements” STERN, OTTO, U.S.A., Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburg, PA, b. 1888 (in Sorau, then Germany), d. 1969: ”for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton” RABI, ISIDOR ISAAC, U.S.A., Columbia University, New York, NY, b. 1898, (in Rymanow, then Austria-Hungary) d. 1988: ”for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei” PAULI, WOLFGANG, Austria, Princeton University, NJ, U.S.A., b. 1900, d. 1958: ”for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle” BLACKETT, Lord PATRICK MAYNARD STUART, Great Britain, Victoria University, Manchester, b. 1897, d. 1974: ”for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the ﬁelds of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation” YUKAWA, HIDEKI, Japan, Kyoto Imperial University and Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A., b. 1907, d. 1981: ”for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces” POWELL, CECIL FRANK, Great Britain, Bristol University, b. 1903, d. 1969: ”for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method” COCKCROFT, Sir JOHN DOUGLAS, Great Britain, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Didcot, Berks., b. 1897, d. 1967; and WALTON, ERNEST THOMAS SINTON, Ireland, Dublin University, b. 1903, d. 1995: ”for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artiﬁcially accelerated atomic particles” LAMB, WILLIS EUGENE, U.S.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, b. 1913: ”for his discoveries concerning the ﬁne structure of the hydrogen spectrum”; and KUSCH, POLYKARP, U.S.A., Columbia University, New York, NY, b. 1911 (in Blankenburg, then Germany), d. 1993: ”for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron” YANG, CHEN NING, China, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., b. 1922; and LEE, TSUNG-DAO, China, Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A., b. 1926: ”for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles” SEGRÉ, EMILIO GINO, U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1905 (in Tivoli, Italy), d. 1989; and CHAMBERLAIN, OWEN, U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1920: ”for their discovery of the antiproton” GLASER, DONALD A., U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1926: ”for the invention of the bubble chamber” HOFSTADTER, ROBERT, U.S.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, b. 1915, d. 1990: ”for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the stucture of the nucleons”; and MÖSSBAUER, RUDOLF LUDWIG, Germany, Technische Hochschule, Munich, and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A., b. 1929: ”for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the eﬀect which bears his name” WIGNER, EUGENE P., U.S.A., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, b. 1902 (in Budapest, Hungary), d. 1995: ”for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles”; GOEPPERT-MAYER, MARIA, U.S.A., University of California, La Jolla, CA, b. 1906 (in Kattowitz, then Germany), d. 1972; and JENSEN, J. HANS D., Germany, University of Heidelberg, b. 1907, d. 1973: ”for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure” TOMONAGA, SIN-ITIRO, Japan, Tokyo, University of Education, Tokyo, b. 1906, d. 1979; SCHWINGER, JULIAN, U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1918, d. 1994; and FEYNMAN, RICHARD P., U.S.A., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, b. 1918, d. 1988: ”for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles” BETHE, HANS ALBRECHT, U.S.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, b. 1906 (in Strasbourg, then Germany): ”for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars” ALVAREZ, LUIS W., U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1911, d. 1988: ”for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis” GELL-MANN, MURRAY, U.S.A., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, b. 1929: ”for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classiﬁcation of elementary particles and their interactions” BOHR, AAGE, Denmark, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, b. 1922; MOTTELSON, BEN, Denmark, Nordita, Copenhagen, b. 1926 (in Chicago, U.S.A.); and RAINWATER, JAMES, U.S.A., Columbia University, New York, NY, b. 1917, d. 1986: ”for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection” RICHTER, BURTON, U.S.A., Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA, b. 1931; TING, SAMUEL C. C., U.S.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, (European Center for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland), b. 1936: ”for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind” GLASHOW, SHELDON L., U.S.A., Lyman Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1932; SALAM, ABDUS, Pakistan, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, and Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, Great Britain, b. 1926, d. 1996; and WEINBERG, STEVEN, U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1933: ”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” CRONIN, JAMES, W., U.S.A., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, b. 1931; and FITCH, VAL L., U.S.A., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, b. 1923: ”for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons” CHANDRASEKHAR, SUBRAMANYAN, U.S.A., University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, b. 1910 (in Lahore, India), d. 1995: ”for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars” FOWLER, WILLIAM A., U.S.A., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, b. 1911, d. 1995: ”for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe” RUBBIA, CARLO, Italy, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, b. 1934; and VAN DER MEER, SIMON, the Netherlands, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, b. 1925: ”for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the ﬁeld particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction” LEDERMAN, LEON M., U.S.A., Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, b. 1922; SCHWARTZ, MELVIN, U.S.A., Digital Pathways, Inc., Mountain View, CA, b. 1932; and STEINBERGER, JACK, U.S.A., CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, b. 1921 (in Bad Kissingen, FRG): ”for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino” FRIEDMAN, JEROME I., U.S.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, b. 1930; KENDALL, HENRY W., U.S.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, b. 1926; and TAYLOR, RICHARD E., Canada, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, U.S.A., b. 1929: ”for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics” CHARPAK, GEORGES, France, École Supèrieure de Physique et Chimie, Paris and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, b. 1924 ( in Poland): ”for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber” ”for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics” PERL, MARTIN L., U.S.A., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, U.S.A., b. 1927, ”for the discovery of the tau lepton” REINES, FREDERICK, U.S.A., University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, U.S.A., b. 1918, d. 1998: ”for the detection of the neutrino”