Nobel Prize in Physics
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The Nobel Prize in Physics is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), who established the Nobel Prizes.
Three Nobel Laureates in Physics taken at the California Institute of Technology. Front row L-R: Albert A. Michelson (1907 laureate), Albert Einstein (1921 laureate), and Robert A. Millikan (1923 laureate).
Abdus Salam – 1979 laureate
1903 Nobel Prize diploma, awarded to Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
Wilhelm Röntgen
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was a German experimental physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays. In 1901, Röntgen became the first recipient of the
Röntgen in 1900
The house in Remscheid-Lennep, Germany, where Röntgen was born.
Grave of Wilhelm Röntgen (and relatives) in Alter Friedhof in Giessen.
X-ray by Röntgen of Albert von Kölliker's hand.