Some Nobel Laureates in Condensed Matter Physics



1914: Max von Laue [diffraction of X-rays by crystals]

1915: W H Bragg and W L Bragg [analysis of crsytal structure by X-ray]

1956: W B Shockley, J Bardeen and W H Brattain [semiconductors and discovery of the transistor effect]

1962: L D Landau [theories of condensed matter, esp. liquid helium]

1970: L E F Neel [antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism]

1972: J Bardeen, L N Cooper and J R Schrieffer [BCS theory of superconductivity]

1973: L Esaki, I Giaever [tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors] and B D Josephson [Josephson effects]

1977: P W Anderson, N F Mott and J H van Vleck [electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems]

1982: K G Wilson [theory of critical phenomena]

1985: K von Klitzing [quantum Hall effect]

1986: E Ruska [electron microscope], G Binning and H Rohrer [scanning tunneling microscope]

1987: J G Bednorz and K A Muller [high-Tc superconductors]

1991: P G de Gennes [theory of liquid crystals and polymers]

1994: B N Brockhouse and C G Shull [neutron scattering techniques]

1996: D M Lee, D D Osheroff and R C Richardson [superfluidity in helim-3]

1998: R B Laughlin, H L Stormer and D C Tsui [fractional charged excitations]