First person to be presented Twice with the Nobel Prize in Physics was in 1972 (first time was in 1956)
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First Pugwash Conference held in Canada
Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, an international conference of Atomic Scientists was first held at the estate of the American Philanthropist by the name of Cyrus Eaton, located in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada. Continue reading
Hideki Yukawa, first Asian to receive Nobel Prize in Physics
William Lawrence Bragg, first Oceanian to receive Nobel Prize in Physics
First Oceanian presented the Nobel Prize in Physics was in 1915
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Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie (/ˈkjʊri, kjʊˈriː/;[2] French: [kyʁi]; Polish: [kʲiˈri]; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), born Maria Salomea Skłodowska ([ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska]), was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. Continue reading
Marie Curie, first Woman to receive Nobel Prize Twice in her life time
First Woman to be presented with two Nobel Prizes in her lifetime.
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Albert Abraham Michelson, first North American to receive Nobel Prize in Physics
First North American presented the Nobel Prize in Physics was in 1907
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Marie Curie, first Woman to receive Nobel Prize in Physics
First Woman presented the Nobel Prize in Physics was in 1903
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The Theory that Light has particles…
On December 4, 1900, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck theorized that light radiates not as waves (as Isaac Newton claimed), but that light was made of particles or packets called quanta. Continue reading
Discovery of Antimatter
Physicist Carl David Anderson discovered antimatter in 1932 in a magnetic cloud chamber at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. Continue reading