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Nobel Prizes

  • Nobel 2004: To David J. Gross, H. David Politzer i Frank Wilczek, for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.

  • Nobel 1999: To Gerardus 't Hooft i Martinus J.G. Veltman, for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics.

  • Nobel 1995: To Martin L. Perl i Frederick Reines, for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics.

  • Nobel 1992: To George Charpak, for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber.


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