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Landmark Discoveries in Nobel Physics History: Multiple Choice
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- 01The 1956 Nobel Prize was awarded to Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain for their research on semiconductors and their discovery of what?
- 02Albert Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics primarily for his discovery of what law?
- 03Who received the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for the discovery of X-rays?
- 04The 2017 Nobel Prize was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne for their decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of what?
- 05The 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman for their fundamental work in what field?
- 06Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, shared the 1903 Physics prize for joint research on what phenomenon discovered by Henri Becquerel?
- 07For which discovery did C. V. Raman win the Nobel Prize in 1930, making him the first person from Asia to receive a Nobel in any science?
- 08Peter Higgs and François Englert were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of what?
- 09In 1932, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the neutron?
- 10Niels Bohr received the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and what else?
- 11The 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson for their discovery of what faint signal from the early universe?
- 12Max Planck, a founder of quantum theory, won the 1918 Nobel Prize for his discovery of what?