Nobel Prize in Physics - 1906

Joseph John Thomson: discovery of the electron.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 1908

Ernest Rutherford: discovery of the nucleus.

Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921

Albert Einstein: quantum explanation of the photoelectric effect.

Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923

Millikan (1923): precise measurements that confirmed Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric effect photoelectric effect.

Nobel Prize in Physics - 1926

Erwin Schrödinger: association of a probability wave with each particle, the wave function.

Nobel Prize in Physics - 1927

Werner Heisenberg: Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

Nobel Prize in Physics - 1929

Louis De Broglie: suggestion of wave-particle duality.

Nobel Prize in Physics - 1937

Clinton Davisson and George Paget Thomson: demonstration of the electron as a wave.

Nobel Prize in Physics - 1943

Otto Stern: broader contributions to atomic and molecular physics, which included the discovery of electron spin.