Nobel Prizes for Research with X-Rays

  1. 1901 -W. C. Roentgen in Physics for the discovery of x-rays.
  2. 1914 - M. von Laue in Physics for x-ray diffraction from crystals.
  3. 1915 - W. H. Bragg and W. L. Bragg in Physics for crystal structure derived from x-ray diffraction.
  4. 1917 - C. G. Barkla in Physics for characteristic radiation of elements.
  5. 1924 - K. M. G. Siegbahn in Physics for x-ray spectroscopy.
  6. 1927 - A. H. Compton in Physics for scattering of x-rays by electrons.
  7. 1936 - P. Debye in Chemistry for diffraction of x-rays and electrons in gases.
  8. 1962 - M. Perutz and J. Kendrew in Chemistry for the structure of hemoglobin.
  9. 1962 - J. Watson, M. Wilkins, and F. Crick in Medicine for the structure of DNA.
  10. 1979 - A. McLeod Cormack and G. Newbold Hounsfield in Medicine for computed axial tomography.
  11. 1981 - K. M. Siegbahn in Physics for high resolution electron spectroscopy.
  12. 1985 - H. Hauptman and J. Karle in Chemistry for direct methods to determine x-ray structures.
  13. 1988 - J. Deisenhofer, R. Huber, and H. Michel in Chemistry for the structures of proteins that are crucial to photosynthesis.
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