Nobel Prize in Physics, 1900s
| Year
| Name
| Topics
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| 1901
| Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
| "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him"
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| 1902
| Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman
| "in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena"
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| 1903
| Antoine Henri Becquerel
| "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity"
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| Pierre and Marie Curie
| "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel"
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| 1904
| John William Strutt, 3rd Baron RayleighJohn William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh ( November 12, 1842 June 30, 1919) was a British physicist who (with William Ramsay) discovered the element argon, an achievement that earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomeno
| "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argonArgon was also a codename used for the KH-5 reconnaissance satellite. Argon is the chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Ar and atomic number 18. The third noble gas, in period 8, argon makes up about 1% of the Earth's atmosphere. in connection with these studies"
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| 1905Events January-April January 22 Massacre of Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, one of the triggers of the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905. January 26 The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier
| Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
| "for his work on cathode rayCathode rays are a phenomenon that is observed in vacuum tubes, i. evacuated glass tubes which are equipped with at least two electrodes, a cathode (negative electrode) and an anode (positive electrode), a configuration known as a diode. When the cathodes"
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| 1906Events January 8 Landslide in Haverstraw, New York kills 20 January 31 Earthquake in Ecuador (8. 6 in Richter scale) February 11 Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos''. February 15 Representatives of the Labour Representation Committee in t
| Sir Joseph John ThomsonSir Joseph John Thomson ( 18 December 1856 30 August 1940), often known as J. Thomson was an English physicist, the discoverer of the electron. Thomson was born in 1856 near Manchester in England, of Scottish parentage. He studied engineering at Owen's Co
| "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases"
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| 1907Events January events January 6 Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000 January 23 Charles Curtis
| Albert Abraham Michelson
| "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid"
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| 1908
| Gabriel Lippmann
| "for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference"
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| 1909
| Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun
| "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"
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