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1937 -- Clinton Davisson for his discovery of the wave nature of matter

1956 -- John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley for the invention of the transistor

1977 -- Phillip Anderson for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems

1978 -- Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson for their discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation left over by the Big Bang

1997 -- Steven Chu for his invention of a method to cool and trap atoms using lasers

1998 -- Horst Stormer, Robert Laughlin and Daniel Tsui for their discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect

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