Harvard Physics Nobel Laureates

Percy W. Bridgman

1946 Nobel Prize in Physics

"For the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics"

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Edward Mills Purcell

1952 Nobel Prize in Physics

"For their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith" (shared with Felix Bloch)

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Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg

1979 Nobel Prize in Physics

"For their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current" (with Abdus Salam)

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Carlo Rubbia

1984 Nobel Prize in Physics

"For decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction" (shared with Simon van der Meer)

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