The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906 "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases"   Joseph John Thomson United Kingdom University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom b. 1856 d. 1940

			The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid"   Albert Abraham Michelson USA University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA b. 1852 (in Strelno, then Germany) d. 1931

			The Nobel Prize in Physics 1908 "for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference"   Gabriel Lippmann France Sorbonne University Paris, France b. 1845 (in Hollerich, Luxembourg) d. 1921

			The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"   Guglielmo Marconi Karl Ferdinand Braun 1/2 of the prize 1/2 of the prize Italy Germany Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. London, United Kingdom Strasbourg University Strasbourg, Alsace, then Germany b. 1874 d. 1937 b. 1850 d. 1918

			The Nobel Prize in Physics 1910 "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids"   Johannes Diderik van der Waals   the Netherlands   Amsterdam University Amsterdam, the Netherlands b. 1837 d. 1923