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Download Solution PDFWho received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962 for his ‘pioneering theory for condensed matter, especially liquid helium’?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Lev Davidovich Landau.Key Points
- Lev Davidovich Landau received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962 for his ‘pioneering theory for condensed matter, especially liquid helium.
- He was a Soviet physicist of Jewish.
- He made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.
- His accomplishments include the independent co-discovery of the density matrix method in quantum mechanics.
Additional Information
- Wolfgang Pauli:
- He was a Swiss and American theoretical physicist.
- He won the Nobel prize in Physics in 1945 for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle".
- The discovery involved spin theory, which is the basis of a theory of the structure of matter.
- Pauli made major contributions to quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and solid-state physics.
- Ernest Orlando Lawrence:
- He was an American nuclear scientist who received The Noble Prize in 1939 for his invention of the cyclotron.
- Cyclotron is a particle accelerator technology that can be used in particle therapy to treat cancer.
- John Bardeen:
- He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.
- John Bardeen received the Nobel prize for physics in 1956 for amplifying electric signals proved decisive for telephony and radio.
- He received the Nobel prize for physics in 1972 for formulating a theory based on quantum mechanics.
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