Nobel prizes awarded in the field of quantum physics
I always wonder how many Nobel prizes were awarded to scientists in the field of quantum physics which is the cornerstone in understanding the laws of the universe.
The following list is not exclusive and does not include scientists who discovered
matter particles and anti-matter partciles
1918 - Max Planck - in recognition of the services rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta.
1921 Albert Einstein - for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
1922 Niels Bohr - for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them.
1923 Robert Andrew Millikan - for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect.
1927 Arthur Holly Compton for his discovery of the effect named after him (co-winner CTR Wilson)
1929 Prince L-V De Broglie - for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons.
1932 Werner Heisenberg for the creation of quantum mechanics
1933 Erwin Schr๖dinger and Paul Dirac - for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.
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.
1945 Wolfgang Pauli - for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle.
1949 Hideki Yukawa - for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces.
1954 Max Born - for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction (co-winner Walther Bothe)
1964 - Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle (co-winner Charles H Townes)
1965 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger and Richard P. Feynman - for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.
