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This X-ray tube became a frequently used instrument in medicine after this discovery. </p> <p class="figcaption__attribution"> © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud </p> </div> </section> <section class="nomination-intro"> <article class="content"> <header class="sub-section-header border-top"> <h4> About the prize </h4> </header> <div class="text"> <p><em>“The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: /- - -/ one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics ...”</em> (Excerpt from the will of Alfred Nobel)</p> <p>Physics was the prize area which Alfred Nobel mentioned first in his will from 1895. At the end of the nineteenth century, many people considered physics as the foremost of the sciences, and perhaps Nobel saw it this way as well. His own research was also closely tied to physics.</p> <p>The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/about/the-royal-swedish-academy-of-sciences-3/">The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences</a>, Stockholm, Sweden.</p> <p>See <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/uncategorized/all-nobel-prizes-in-physics/">all physics laureates</a> or learn more about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/nomination-and-selection-of-physics-laureates/">the nomination process</a>.</p> </div> </article> <aside class="quick-facts"> <header class="sub-section-header border-top"> <h4> Quick facts </h4> </header> <ul class="factlist"> <li style="list-style-type: none"> <ul class="factlist"> <li>Physics prizes: 113</li> <li>Physics laureates: 213</li> <li>Awarded women: 3</li> <li>Youngest laureate: 25</li> <li>Oldest laureate: 96</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/facts/facts-on-the-nobel-prize-in-physics-2/">More facts and figures</a></p> </aside> </section> <section class="article-grid var-half-width-a"> <header class="section-header border-top"> <h3>The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019</h3> </header> <article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" class="article -halfwidth-a"> <div class="content-wrapper"> <header class="content"> <div class="title"> <h2 class="headline h1" itemprop="headline"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/"> New perspectives on our place in the universe </a> </h2> </div> </header> <div class="text"> <p>The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 rewards new understanding of the universe’s structure and history, and the first discovery of a planet orbiting a solar-type star outside our solar system. This year’s Laureates have contributed to answering fundamental questions about our existence. What happened in the early infancy of the universe and what happened next? Could there be other planets out there, orbiting other suns?</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/press-release/">Read the press release</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/advanced-information/">Read the scientific background</a><br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/popular-information/">Learn more in the popular information</a></p> </div> </div> <figure class="featuredimage"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/"><picture><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2019/10/phy-carrier-image-812x656.jpg" media="(min-width: 220px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2019/10/phy-carrier-image.jpg" media="(min-width: 900px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2019/10/phy-carrier-image.jpg" media="(min-width: 1400px)"/><img class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt=""/><noscript><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2019/10/phy-carrier-image-812x676.jpg" alt=""/></noscript></picture></a><figcaption class="figcaption"><p class="figcaption__attribution">© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences</p></figcaption> </figure> </article> </section> <section class="article-grid var-half-width-a"> <article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" class="article -halfwidth-a"> <div class="content-wrapper"> <header class="content"> <div class="title"> <h2 class="headline h1" itemprop="headline"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/"> The 2019 Physics Laureates </a> </h2> </div> </header> <div class="text"> <p>The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics are awarded ”for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”, with one half to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/peebles/facts/">James Peebles</a> “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and the other half jointly to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/mayor/facts/">Michel Mayor</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/queloz/facts/">Didier Queloz</a> “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”</p> </div> </div> <figure class="featuredimage"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/"><picture><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2019/10/peebles-mayor-queloz-3_2-992x656.jpg" media="(min-width: 220px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2019/10/peebles-mayor-queloz-3_2-1520x1008.jpg" media="(min-width: 900px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2019/10/peebles-mayor-queloz-3_2-2048x1352.jpg" media="(min-width: 1400px)"/><img class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt=""/><noscript><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2019/10/peebles-mayor-queloz-3_2-1024x676.jpg" alt=""/></noscript></picture></a><figcaption class="figcaption"><p class="figcaption__attribution">Ill. 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data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/einstein-12923-portrait-mini-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 220px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/einstein-12923-portrait-small-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 900px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/einstein-12923-portrait-medium-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 1400px)"/><img class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="Albert Einstein"/><noscript><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/einstein-12923-portrait-medium.jpg" alt="Albert Einstein"/></noscript></picture> </a> </figure> <div class="content"> <h4 itemprop="name"> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/einstein/" title="Albert Einstein" itemprop="url"> Albert Einstein </a> </h4> <span> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/einstein/"> The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 </a> </span> <q itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation">for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.</q> </div> </article> <article class="laureate border-top" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <figure class="content-img"> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/"> <picture><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/marie-curie-12879-portrait-mini-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 220px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/marie-curie-12879-portrait-small-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 900px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/marie-curie-12879-portrait-medium-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 1400px)"/><img class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="Marie Curie, née Sklodowska"/><noscript><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/marie-curie-12879-portrait-medium.jpg" alt="Marie Curie, née Sklodowska"/></noscript></picture> </a> </figure> <div class="content"> <h4 itemprop="name"> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/" title="Marie Curie, née Sklodowska" itemprop="url"> Marie Curie, née Sklodowska </a> </h4> <span> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1911/marie-curie/"> The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 </a> </span> <q itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation">in recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element.</q> <br/> <br/> <span> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/"> The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 </a> </span> <q itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation">in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel.</q> </div> </article> <article class="laureate border-top" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <figure class="content-img"> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1922/bohr/"> <picture><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/bohr-12929-portrait-mini-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 220px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/bohr-12929-portrait-small-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 900px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/bohr-12929-portrait-medium-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 1400px)"/><img class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="Niels Henrik David Bohr"/><noscript><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/bohr-12929-portrait-medium.jpg" alt="Niels Henrik David Bohr"/></noscript></picture> </a> </figure> <div class="content"> <h4 itemprop="name"> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1922/bohr/" title="Niels Henrik David Bohr" itemprop="url"> Niels Henrik David Bohr </a> </h4> <span> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1922/bohr/"> The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 </a> </span> <q itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation">for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them.</q> </div> </article> <article class="laureate border-top" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <figure class="content-img"> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1935/chadwick/"> <picture><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/chadwick-12999-portrait-mini-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 220px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/chadwick-12999-portrait-small-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 900px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/chadwick-12999-portrait-medium-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 1400px)"/><img class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="James Chadwick"/><noscript><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/chadwick-12999-portrait-medium.jpg" alt="James Chadwick"/></noscript></picture> </a> </figure> <div class="content"> <h4 itemprop="name"> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1935/chadwick/" title="James Chadwick" itemprop="url"> James Chadwick </a> </h4> <span> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1935/chadwick/"> The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935 </a> </span> <q itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation">for the discovery of the neutron.</q> </div> </article> <article class="laureate border-top" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <figure class="content-img"> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1906/thomson/"> <picture><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/thomson-12853-portrait-mini-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 220px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/thomson-12853-portrait-small-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 900px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/thomson-12853-portrait-medium-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 1400px)"/><img class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="Joseph John Thomson"/><noscript><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/thomson-12853-portrait-medium.jpg" alt="Joseph John Thomson"/></noscript></picture> </a> </figure> <div class="content"> <h4 itemprop="name"> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1906/thomson/" title="Joseph John Thomson" itemprop="url"> Joseph John Thomson </a> </h4> <span> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1906/thomson/"> The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906 </a> </span> <q itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation">in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases.</q> </div> </article> <article class="laureate border-top" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <figure class="content-img"> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1901/rontgen/"> <picture><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/rontgen-13540-portrait-mini-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 220px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/rontgen-13540-portrait-small-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 900px)"/><source data-srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/rontgen-13540-portrait-medium-2x.jpg" media="(min-width: 1400px)"/><img class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" alt="Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen"/><noscript><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030im_/https://www.nobelprize.org/images/rontgen-13540-portrait-medium.jpg" alt="Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen"/></noscript></picture> </a> </figure> <div class="content"> <h4 itemprop="name"> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1901/rontgen/" title="Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen" itemprop="url"> Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen </a> </h4> <span> <a href="/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1901/rontgen/"> The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 </a> </span> <q itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Quotation">in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him.</q> </div> </article> </section> <section class="article-grid var-one-third"> <header class="section-header border-top"> <h3>Discover more</h3> </header> <article itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" class="article -one-third"> <div class="content-wrapper"> <header class="content"> <div class="title"> <h2 class="headline h3" itemprop="headline"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200526154030/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2016/kosterlitz/auto-biography/"> Read about Michael Kosterlitz' battle with MS </a> </h2> </div> </header> <div class="text"> <p>“I want to take this space to tell any budding scientist that, however bleak the future may seem due to illness or other problems, one cannot say you will not be successful.” Kosterlitz was diagnosed with MS in 1978.</p> </div> </div> <figure class="featuredimage"> <a 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