Famous Nobel Prize winners in Physics (Part 2)

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Albert A. Michelson is the first American to win a Nobel Prize, The people of Denmark are known as Danes, Photoelectric Effect : When light shines on a metal, electrons can be ejected from the surface of the metal in a phenomenon known as the photoelectric effect

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Guglielmo Marconi (Italy) and Karl Ferdinand Braun (Germany), 1909, in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy

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Johannes Diderik van der Waals (Netherlands), 1910, for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.

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Max Plank (Germany), 1918, discovery of energy quanta

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Albert Einstein (Germany), 1921, discovery of photoelectric effect

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Neils Bohr (Denmark), 1922, for his work on the structure of atoms and the radiation they emit

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Robert Andrews Millikan (United States), 1923, for his famous oil drop experiment helped to precisely determine the charge of an electron (1.602 × 10^-19 C)

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Jean Baptiste Perrin (France), 1926, his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium