List of second-generation physicists

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The following is a list of parent-child pairs who were both notable for their contribution in physics. The list is in alphabetical order by the father's last name.

Four parent-child pairs have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics: J. J. and George Paget Thomson (1906, 1937), William H. and Lawrence Bragg (1915), Niels and Aage Bohr (1922,1975), Manne and Kai Siegbahn (1924,1981).[1][2] Marie and Pierre Curie won together the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, Marie also won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and their daughter Irène and her husband Frédéric Joliot-Curie won together the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.[1]

## List

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Parent | Notable for | Child | Notable for

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John Bardeen | BCS theory

Transistor

| William A. Bardeen | Top quark condensate
Antoine César Becquerel | Photovoltaics | Edmond Becquerel | Thermionic emission

Photovoltaics

Edmond Becquerel | Thermionic emission

Photovoltaics

| Henri Becquerel | Radioactivity
Jan Beenakker | Senftleben–Beenakker effect | Carlo Beenakker |
Johann Bernoulli | Catenary
brachistochrone curve | Daniel Bernoulli | Bernoulli's principle
Marcel Brillouin |  | Léon Brillouin | Brillouin zone

WKB approximation

Niels Bohr | Bohr model

Complementarity

Correspondence principle

| Aage Bohr | Liquid drop model
Claude Bouchiat |  | Vincent Bouchiat |
Marie-Anne Bouchiat |  | Hélène Bouchiat |
William Henry Bragg | Bragg's law | Lawrence Bragg | Bragg's law
Blas Cabrera |  | Nicolás Cabrera | BCF theory for crystal growth
Nicolás Cabrera | BCF theory  | Blas Cabrera Navarro |
Lord Charles Cavendish |  | Henry Cavendish | Measuring the gravitational constant
Marie Curie | Radioactivity | Irène Joliot-Curie | Induced radioactivity
Pierre Curie | Curie's law

Radioactivity

Irène Joliot-Curie | Induced radioactivity | Hélène Langevin-Joliot |
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
George Darwin | Darwin symbols | Charles Galton Darwin | Darwin drift

Darwin term

Sidney Drell | Drell–Yan process | Persis Drell |
Paul Erman |  | Georg Adolf Erman |
Werner Heisenberg | Uncertainty principle

Matrix mechanics

| Jochen Heisenberg |
John J. Hopfield | Hopfield bands in oxygen  | John Hopfield | Hopfield network

Hopfield dielectric

Robert Karplus |  | Beverly Karplus Hartline |
Hendrik Lorentz | Lorentz transformation

Lorentz ether theory

| Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz | Brownian noise
Franz Ernst Neumann | Neumann's law

Magnetic vector potential

| Carl Neumann | Neumann boundary condition
Jean Baptiste Perrin | Confirming Brownian motion

Avogadro constant

| Francis Perrin |
Robert Wichard Pohl | Pohl's pendulum  | Robert Otto Pohl | 3ω-method
Karl Schwarzschild | Schwarzschild metric | Martin Schwarzschild |
Manne Siegbahn | Siegbahn notation | Kai Siegbahn | Photoemission spectroscopy
Hans Thirring |  | Walter Thirring | Thirring model
J. J. Thomson | Discovery of the electron | George Paget Thomson | Electron diffraction
Harold Urey | Discovery of deuterium | Elizabeth Baranger |
Louis Witten | Electrovacuum solution | Edward Witten | M-theory
Gregor Wentzel | WKB approximation | Donat Wentzel |

## See also

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* List of second-generation mathematicians

## References

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1. ^ a b Rydén, Jenny (2025-03-18). "Family matters: Meet the families with Nobel Prizes". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
2. ^ "4 Father-Son Nobel Prize Winners In Physics". Retrieved 2025-04-04.