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4 1930s

**Nobel Prize in Physics, 1930s**
Year	Name	Topics
1930	Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman	"for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him"
1931		(The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.)
1932	Werner Karl Heisenberg	"for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen"
1933	Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac	"for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
1934		(The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.)
1935	James Chadwick	"for the discovery of the neutron"
1936	Victor Franz Hess	"for his discovery of cosmic radiation"
1936	Carl David Anderson	"for his discovery of the positron"
1937	Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson	"for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
1938	Enrico Fermi	"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"
1939	Ernest Orlando Lawrence	"for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements"

5 1940s

**Nobel Prize in Physics, 1940s**
Year	Name	Topics
1940		The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1941
1942
1943	Otto Stern	"for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton"
1944	Isidor Isaac Rabi	"for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei"
1945	Wolfgang Pauli	"for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli principle"
1946	Percy Williams Bridgman	"for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics "
1947	Sir Edward Victor Appleton	"for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer "
1948	Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett	"for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation"
1949	Hideki Yukawa (湯川秀樹)	"for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces"

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