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Famous Physics Nobels

Name the details of these famous Nobel Prize in Physics wins
Rationale is paraphrased from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Physics
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Year
Laureate
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1903
Marie Curie
for the development of research on radioactivity
Individual
1921
Albert Einstein
for his discovery of the photoelectric effect
Individual
1932
Werner Heisenberg
for the creation of quantum mechanics
Individual
1935
James Chadwick
for his discovery of the neutron
Individual
1938
Enrico Fermi
for the discovery of transuranic elements
Individual
1939
Ernest Lawrence
for the development of a cyclical particle accelerator
Individual
1945
Wolfgang Pauli
for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli principle
Individual
1948
Patrick Blackett
for the development of the particle-visualizing cloud chamber
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1956
John Bardeen
for the invention of the transistor and semiconductor research
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1965
Richard Feynman
for the development of quantum electrodynamics (QED)
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2013
Peter Higgs
for the theoretical discovery of a particle that generates mass
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2014
Shuji Nakamura
for the invention of efficient blue LEDs
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2017
Kip Thorne
for the observation of gravitational waves
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2020
Roger Penrose
for the discovery that black hole formation predicts general relativity
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