Notable Nobel Prize laureates paired with their prize category and the achievement it recognized, one laureate per card.
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- Albert Einstein
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Physics (1921). Discovered the photoelectric effect.- Marie Curie
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Physics (1903). Pioneered research on radioactivity.- Marie Curie (Chemistry Prize)
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Chemistry (1911). Discovered and isolated radium.- Niels Bohr
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Physics (1922). Investigated atomic structure and quantum theory.- Max Planck
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Physics (1918). Discovered the quantum of action, establishing quantum theory.- Werner Heisenberg
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Physics (1933). Developed the uncertainty principle and matrix mechanics.- Erwin Schrodinger
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Physics (1933). Developed the wave equation governing quantum systems.- Paul Dirac
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Physics (1933). Advanced quantum mechanics and predicted antimatter.- Richard Feynman
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Physics (1965). Developed quantum electrodynamics.- Enrico Fermi
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Physics (1938). Discovered new radioactive isotopes and nuclear reactions caused by neutrons.- Wolfgang Pauli
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Physics (1945). Discovered the exclusion principle in atomic physics.- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Physics (1983). Discovered the Chandrasekhar limit, setting the maximum mass of white dwarfs.- Chen Ning Yang
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Physics (1957). Discovered parity violation in weak nuclear interactions.- Steven Weinberg
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Physics (1979). Unified the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces.- Peter Higgs
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Physics (2013). Theorized the Higgs boson mechanism of mass generation.
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