Albert Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics primarily for his discovery of what law?

The theory of general relativity

The law of the photoelectric effect

The theory of special relativity

The 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson for their discovery of what faint signal from the early universe?

Cosmic microwave background radiation

Niels Bohr received the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and what else?

The radiation emanating from them

The 2017 Nobel Prize was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne for their decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of what?

The accelerating expansion of the universe

For which discovery did C. V. Raman win the Nobel Prize in 1930, making him the first person from Asia to receive a Nobel in any science?

The theory of black body radiation

The discovery of electron diffraction

The invention of the bubble chamber

Peter Higgs and François Englert were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of what?

The charge of subatomic particles

The spin of subatomic particles

The mass of subatomic particles

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Landmark Discoveries in Nobel Physics History

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01Who received the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for the discovery of X-rays?
02Albert Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics primarily for his discovery of what law?
03In 1932, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the neutron?
04The 1956 Nobel Prize was awarded to Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain for their research on semiconductors and their discovery of what?
05Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, shared the 1903 Physics prize for joint research on what phenomenon discovered by Henri Becquerel?
06The 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson for their discovery of what faint signal from the early universe?
07Niels Bohr received the Nobel Prize in 1922 for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and what else?
08The 2017 Nobel Prize was awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne for their decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of what?
09Max Planck, a founder of quantum theory, won the 1918 Nobel Prize for his discovery of what?
10For which discovery did C. V. Raman win the Nobel Prize in 1930, making him the first person from Asia to receive a Nobel in any science?
11The 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman for their fundamental work in what field?
12Peter Higgs and François Englert were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of what?