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What did Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger win the Nobel Prize for?

  • Discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory

  • Invention of the transistor

  • Discovery of the Higgs boson

  • Development of nuclear energy

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Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for their discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory. Their work led to the development of quantum mechanics, which is the fundamental theory of how matter and energy behave at the atomic and subatomic level.
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