NobelPrizeMotivation

P4388 predicate

Indicates the specific reason or citation for which a Nobel Prize was awarded to a recipient.

Aliases (3)
  • NobelPrizeFor ×8
  • NobelPrizeInPhysicsFor ×6
  • nobelPrizeReason ×1

Sample triples (51)
Subject Object
Alain Aspect experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science
C. N. Yang for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles
Carl E. Wieman for the achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates
Carlo Rubbia for their decisive contributions to the large project which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction
Charles K. Kao for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication
Donna Strickland for method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses
Elinor Ostrom analysis of economic governance, especially the commons
Emil Fischer work on sugar and purine syntheses ("NobelPrizeFor")
Emilio Segrè discovery of the antiproton ("NobelPrizeInPhysicsFor")
Enrico Fermi demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons ("NobelPrizeInPhysicsFor")
Eugene Wigner for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles
Felix Bloch for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith
Frank Wilczek for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction
Friends Service Council for their pioneering work in the international peace movement and humanitarian service inspired by Quaker principles ("nobelPrizeReason")
George A. Olah for his contribution to carbocation chemistry
George F. Smoot discoveries of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation ("NobelPrizeInPhysicsFor")
Harold Urey for his discovery of heavy hydrogen
Herbert A. Simon for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations
Hideki Yukawa for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces
J. J. Thomson theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases ("NobelPrizeInPhysicsFor")
James Chadwick discovery of the neutron ("NobelPrizeInPhysicsFor")
James Franck discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom ("NobelPrizeFor")
Jean-Marie Lehn development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity
John Polanyi contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes
Joseph Stiglitz for analyses of markets with asymmetric information
Julian Schwinger for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles
Kenzaburō Ōe for creating an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today
Leo Esaki for experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors
Lev Landau pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium ("NobelPrizeFor")
Lord Rayleigh investigations of the densities of the most important gases and discovery of argon in connection with these studies ("NobelPrizeInPhysicsFor")
Masatoshi Koshiba for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos
Max Born for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction
Max Delbrück discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses ("NobelPrizeFor")
Odd Hassel for his work on conformations of organic molecules and their bearing on chemical reactions
Peter Kapitza for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics
Phillip A. Sharp for discoveries of split genes
Robert A. Millikan work on the elementary charge of electricity ("NobelPrizeFor")
Robert A. Millikan work on the photoelectric effect ("NobelPrizeFor")
Roger Penrose discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity
Salvador Luria discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses ("NobelPrizeFor")
Serge Haroche for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems
Steven Weinberg for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars
Svante Pääbo discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution
Syukuro Manabe for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming
Toshihide Maskawa for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature
Vitaly Ginzburg for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids
Walter Gilbert for contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids
Wolfgang Pauli discovery of the Exclusion Principle ("NobelPrizeFor")
Yoichiro Nambu for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics
Zhores Alferov for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics

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