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5 - Nobel prize winners in physics

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K. A. Tsokos
K. A. Tsokos
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American Community Schools, Athens
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No awards were made in years not listed.

2006: The prize was awarded jointly to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot (both USA) for their discovery of the black-body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.

2005: Half the prize was awarded to Roy J. Glauber (USA) for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence, and the other half was awarded jointly to John L. Hall (USA) and Theodor W. Hänsch (Germany) for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique.

2004: The prize was awarded jointly to D. J. Gross, H. D. Politzer and F. Wilczek (all USA) for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics

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Physics for the IB Diploma , pp. 782 - 787
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010

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