1940's Science and Technology | Awards

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1940

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1941

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1942

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1943

German American chemist Otto Stern wins the Nobel Prize for physics for outstanding achievements including development of the molecular-beam method, co-discovery of the quantization of space, measurement of atomic magnetic moments, demonstration of the wave nature of atoms and molecules, and discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton.

1944

Isidor Isaac Rabi of the United States wins the Nobel Prize for physics for his discovery and measurement of the radio-frequency spectra of atomic nuclei by using the resonance method.

1945

Austrian American physicist Wolfgang Pauli wins the Nobel Prize for physics for his 1925 discovery of the Pauli Exclusion Principle in quantum mechanics, in which no two electrons in an atom may be in the same quantum state.

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