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 Wilhelm Conrad
Röntgen
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901

Born: 27 March 1845, Lennep, Prussia (now Remscheid,

Germany)

Died: 10 February 1923, Munich, Germany

Affiliation at the time of the award: Munich University,

Munich, Germany

Prize motivation: “in recognition of the extraordinary

services he has rendered by the discovery of the
remarkable rays subsequently named after him” 2
J.J.
Joseph John Thomson
Thomson
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906

Born: 18 December 1856, Cheetham Hill, United

Kingdom

Died: 30 August 1940, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of

Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Prize motivation: “in recognition of the great merits of his

theoretical and experimental investigations on the
conduction of electricity by gases” 3
 Lord
Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt)

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1904

Born: 12 November 1842, Langford Grove, Maldon,

Essex, United Kingdom

Died: 30 June 1919, United Kingdom

Affiliation at the time of the award: Royal Institution of

Great Britain, London, United Kingdom

Prize motivation: “for his investigations of the densities

of the most important gases and for his discovery of
argon in connection with these studies” 4
Max von
Laue
Max von Laue

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1914

Born: 9 October 1879, Pfaffendorf, Germany

Died: 23 April 1960, Berlin, West Germany (now

Germany)

Affiliation at the time of the award: Frankfurt-on-the-

Main University, Frankfurt-on-the-Main, Germany

Prize motivation: “for his discovery of the diffraction

of X-rays by crystals”
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 Philipp
Lenard
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1905

Born: 7 June 1862, Pressburg, Hungary (now

Bratislava, Slovakia)

Died: 20 May 1947, Messelhausen, Germany

Affiliation at the time of the award: Kiel

University, Kiel, Germany

Prize motivation: “for his work on cathode rays”

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Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922

Born: 7 October 1885, Copenhagen, Denmark

Died: 18 November 1962, Copenhagen, Denmark

Affiliation at the time of the award: Copenhagen

University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Prize motivation: “for his services in the investigation of

the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from
them” 7
 Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

Born: 8 August 1931, Colchester, United

Kingdom

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of

Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Prize motivation: “for the discovery that black

hole formation is a robust prediction of the
general theory of relativity”
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Robert A.
Millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1923

Born: 22 March 1868, Morrison, IL, USA

Died: 19 December 1953, San Marino, CA, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: California

Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA,
USA

Prize motivation: “for his work on the elementary

charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect”
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 Riccardo
Giacconi
Riccardo Giacconi

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002

Born: 6 October 1931, Genoa, Italy

Died: 16 December 2018, La Jolla, CA, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: Associated Universities

Inc., Washington, D.C., USA

Prize motivation: “for pioneering contributions to

astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-
ray sources”
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Jack Kilby
Jack S. Kilby

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000

Born: 8 November 1923, Jefferson City, MO, USA

Died: 20 June 2005, Dallas, TX, USA

Affiliation at the time of the award: Texas Instruments,

Dallas, TX, USA

Prize motivation: “for his part in the invention of the

integrated circuit”
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