Nobel Prizes involving Visualization
Physics
- 1901, Röntgen: X-rays
- 1902, Lorentz and Zeeman: influence of magnetism upon radiation
- 1903, Becquerel, Curie, and Curie radioactivity
- 1908, Lippmann: reproducing colors photographically with interference
- 1914, von Laue: X-ray diffraction
- 1915, Bragg and Bragg: X-rays crystallography
- 1927, Compton: Compton effect; Wilson: cloud chamber
- 1933, Schrödinger and Dirac: quantum mechanics
- 1939, Lawrence: the cyclotron and artificial radioactive elements
- 1936, Hess: cosmic rays; Anderson: positron
- 1952, Bloch and Purcell: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
- 1953, Zernike: phase contrast microscope
- 1958, Cherenkov, Frank, and Tamm: Cherenkov effect
- 1959, Segrè and Chamberlain "for their discovery of the antiproton"
- 1960, Glaser: the bubble chamber
- 1965, Tomonaga, Schwinger and Feynman: quantum electrodynamics
- 1969, Gell-Mann: quarks
- 1971, Gabor, holographic method
- 1974,
Ryle: radio astronomy; Hewish: pulsars
- 1986, Ruska: electron microscope"; Binnig and Rohrer:scanning tunneling microscope
- 2002, Davis and Koshiba: "detection of cosmic neutrinos"; Giacconi: cosmic X-ray sources
- 2006, Mather and Smoot: blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation
- 2009, Kao: fiber optics; Boyle and Smith: CCD sensor
- 2011, Perlmutter, Schmidt, and Riess: accelerating expansion of the Universe
Chemistry
- 1925, Zsigmondy "for his demonstration of the heterogenous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry"
- 1946, Sumner "for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized"; Northrop and Stanley "for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form".
- 1954, Pauling: the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances
- 1995, Crutzen, Molina, Rowland "for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone".
Physiology and Medicine
- 1933, Morgan "for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity".
- 1962, Crick, Watson, and Wilkins: structure of DNA
- 1979, Cormack and Hounsfield "for the development of computer assisted tomography"
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