In 1997 he shared the Nobel Prize for physics for his work on cooling and trapping atoms using laser light.
Abdus Salam, the first Muslim scientist to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979, reflected upon this parting of ways.
He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 and headed the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab before becoming energy secretary in 2009.
When embarking on the project 18 months ago, its members (including Saul Perlmutter, who won the Nobel prize for physics this month for his work on dark energy) were mostly new to climate science.
Even as Adam Riess was regaling the media with an amusing, self-depreciating, anecdote about his early morning wake-up call from Oslo, deep in the bowels of UCL's Department of Physics and Astronomy researchers were putting the finishing touches to a camera that could finally shed some light on the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize for Physics.
The detection of the electron neutrino by Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines gave Reines the 1995 Nobel Prize for physics.
They won the 2007 Nobel prize in physics for uncovering this so-called giant magnetoresistance effect.
He shared the Nobel prize in Physics last year for this discovery.
Three American scientists were just awarded the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for the discovery of just how fast the universe is expanding.
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In addition, four of the nuclear scientists who came to the United States from Europe in the 1930s later received a Nobel Prize for physics: Felix Bloch, born in Switzerland, won it in 1952, Emilio Segre (Italy) won in 1959, and Maria Mayer (Poland) and Eugene Wigner (Hungary) won the award in 1963.
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Nomination forms for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics were due back in February 2012.
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He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1992 for his inventions, the proportional chambers used in particle physics.
So, I hope that the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 is awarded for the prediction of the Higgs boson.
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Off the playing fields, Princeton professor Daniel Tsui Chye won the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with two colleagues, for a breakthrough in understanding how subatomic particles behave.
Perhaps the next Nobel prize involving noble gases will be for medicine, not physics.
Chu, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, has been an evangelist for energy efficiency, and not just for vehicles.
The first-ever Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Wilhelm Roentgen of Germany for his discovery of X-rays, and with this year's winners the total number of recipients has reached 194.
Get a Nobel and get a knighthood as well: as the two Russian immigrants who got the Physics Prize this year for graphene have just found out (a full list of the New Year Honours is here).
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