Famous Nobel Prize winners in Physics (Part 3)

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The ionosphere is the layer of the earth's atmosphere which contains a high concentration of ions and free electrons and is able to reflect radio waves, Quantum Electrodynamics (QED - explains how light and matter interact

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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 ร— 10^-19 C)

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Manne Siegbahn, 1924, for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy

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James Franck and Gustav Hertz (Germany), 1925, for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom

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

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C.V Raven (India), 1930, for his discovery of the Raman effect

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Werner Heisenberg (Germany), 1932, for the creation of quantum mechanics

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James Chadwick (United Kingdom), 1935, for the discovery of the neutron

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Enrico Fermi (Italy), 1938, for his work on induced radioactivity

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Cecil Frank Powell (United Kingdom) , 1950, development of the photographic emulsion method