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Interesting facts about the Nobel prize in physics :

1. Youngest Nobel Prize in Physics winner

The youngest ever is Lawrence Bragg, who won at age 25 (1915).
Fun fact: He shared it with his father — the only father–son pair to win together.

2. Einstein did NOT get it for relativity
Many people think Albert Einstein won for Relativity, but actually he won in 1921 to explain the photoelectric effect, which started quantum physics.

3. Only 4 women have won so far

Marie Curie

Maria Goeppert Mayer

Donna Strickland

Anne L’Huillier
Marie Curie is the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes (Physics & Chemistry).

4. The prize can be skipped

If the committee thinks there’s no worthy discovery that year, they simply don’t award it.
Example: No physics Nobel in 1916, 1931, and several others.

5. A maximum of 3 people can share

Even if a discovery has 100 contributors, Nobel rules allow only up to 3 winners, which is why many big collaborations (like LHC or LIGO) can’t all be awarded.

6. The "Nobel Prize" isn't given for mathematics

That’s why physics often rewards deep mathematical theories that change how we describe nature.

7. Marie Curie had to be added later

Initially, the nomination of Curie for 1903 Physics was only for her husband Pierre and Henri Becquerel.
When a committee member pointed out the unfairness, she was added.

8. First Physics Nobel (1901) was for X-rays

Wilhelm Roentgen won the first-ever prize for discovering X-rays, which changed medicine forever.

9. Some proved the theory decades later

Many Nobel Prizes in physics are given after 20–40+ years of discovery to ensure it's correct.

10. Neutrinos → 3 Nobel Prizes

Neutrinos are so mysterious they have earned three separate Nobel Prizes:

I)Discovery of the neutrino

II)Detection of solar neutrinos

III)Discovery of neutrino oscillation

The WKB approximation is based on an expansion of the wavefunction in powers of what fundamental constant?

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