Nobel Prize

Nobel Laureates affiliated with LANL during their careers

The Nobel is awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economics.

The Nobel Prize is widely considered the world's most prestigious award. It is awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economics.

The people listed below have received Nobel Prizes in Physics, unless otherwise noted with the following asterisks.

*Nobel Prize in Chemistry

**Nobel Peace Prize

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2005

Roy Glauber

Awarded for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence.

1995

Joseph Rotblat**

Awarded for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.

1995

Frederick Reines

Awarded for the detection of the neutrino and for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics.

1989

Norman Ramsey

Awarded for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks.

1983

William Fowler

American nuclear astrophysicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions responsible for the formation of the chemical elements in the universe; worked on war-related research and spent time at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

1980

Val Fitch

Awarded for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons.

1975

Aage Bohr

Awarded for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection.

1968

Luis Alvarez

Awarded for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis.

1967

Hans Bethe

Awarded for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars.

1965

Richard Feynman

Awarded for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.

1963

Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Awarded for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure.

1959

Emilio Segre & Owen Chamberlain

Awarded for their discovery of the antiproton.

1952

Felix Bloch

Awarded for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith.

1951

Edwin McMillan*

Awarded for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements.

1944

I.I. Rabi

Awarded for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei.

1938

Enrico Fermi

Awarded for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons.

1935

Sir James Chadwick

Awarded for the discovery of the neutron.

1922

Niels Bohr

Awarded for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them.