Great Physicists of the 20th Century
Enrico Fermi
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Nobel prize, 1938, for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons.
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Richard Feynman
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Nobel prize, 1965, for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.
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Yoichiro Nambu
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Reknowned for his deep insights into the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking, for his discovery of the SU(3) gauge theory of the strong interactions*, now known as Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), and for his co-discovery of the "Nambu-Goto" string action.
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This page will be extended from time to time to incorporate other great physicists born in the 20th century. Nominations together with digitized pictures may be sent to lclavell@bama.ua.edu.
