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.