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Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions for mankind in the field of physics.

Shull was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for the neutron diffraction technique he and Ernest Wollan developed nearly five decades earlier

Wigner won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 for his work in the fundamental mathematics and physics of quantum mechanics.