Nobel Laureates in Physics Published in ACS journals
14 out of the 180 persons awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics have published in ACS journals
1999 - Gerardus 't Hooft - for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics
1997 - Steven Chu - for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light
1991 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes - for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers
1981 - Nicolaas Bloembergen - for his contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy
1973 - Ivar Giaever - for experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively
1972 - John Bardeen - for developing the theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory
1963 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer - for her discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure
1946 - Percy W. Bridgman - for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics
1945 - Wolfgang Pauli - for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle
1923 - Robert A. Millikan - for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect
1925 - James Franck - for his discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom
1924 - Manne Siegbahn - for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy
1915 - William Lawrence Bragg - for his services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays
1903 - Antoine Henri Becquerel - in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity
