Many discoveries in physics, chemistry and medicine have been made using X-rays. The most important ones awarded with the Nobel Prize are the following.
1901
W. C. Röntgen, in physics, for the
discovery of X-rays.
1914
M. von Laue, in physics, for the discovery of
X-rays by crystals.
1915
W. H. Bragg and W. L. Bragg, in physics, for the
determination of crystal structures using
X-rays.
1917
C. G. Barkla, in physics, for the discovery of the
characteristic X-ray radiation of the
elements.
1924
M. Siegbahn, in physics, for discoveries in the field
of X-ray spectroscopy.
1927
A. H. Compton, in physics, for revealing the particle
nature of X-rays in scattering experiments on
electrons.
1936
P. Debye, in chemistry, for determining molecular
structures by X-ray diffraction in gases.
1962
M. F. Perutz and J. C. Kendrew, in chemistry, for
determining the structure of hemoglobin and
myoglobin.
1962
F. Crick, J. Watson and M. Wilkins, in medicine, for their discoveries
concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance
for information transfer in living material.
1964
D. Crowfoot Hodgkin, in chemistry, for the determination of
the structure of penicillin and other important
biochemical substances.
1976
W. N. Lipscomb, in chemistry, for the determination
of boranes.
1979
A. M. Cormack and G. N. Hounsfield, in medicine, for the
development of computerized tomography.
1981
M. Siegbahn, in physics, for developing high
resolution electron spectroscopy.
1985
H. A. Hauptman and J. Karle, in chemistry, for the
development of direct methods for X-ray
crystallographic structure determination.
1988
J. Deisenhofer, R. Huber and H. Michel, in chemistry,
for the determination of protein structures crucial to
photosynthesis.
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