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 → |