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Nobel Laureates

Notable Nobel Prize laureates paired with their prize category and the achievement it recognized, one laureate per card.

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

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