Hanging on the wall of my museum is a large “Map of Physics” published by the Central Scientific Company in 1938. On it is a list of the Nobel Prizes in physics, starting with Roentgen in 1901 and ending with Fermi in 1938. I can recognize every name except the one for 1912: Nils Gustav Dalén. Perhaps you have had the same experience when looking through the updated list.
Topics
Awards and Prizes
REFERENCES
1.
Mikael Hard in The Nobel Prize Winners/Physics, Vol. 1, edited by Frank N. Magill (Salem Press, Pasadena, CA, 1989), pp. 167–176.
2.
Thomas B.
Greenslade
Jr., “Fresnel's lighthouse lenses
,” Phys. Teach.
45
, 550
–551
(Dec. 2007
).
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