Who should have been the 4th laureate in the Nobel Prize in Physics?

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This post to is to find those who deserved a Nobel Prize in Physics but did not receive it with the rest because they were either dead, unable to receive the prize due to the three-man rule, or dismissed for another reason.

If you want to add more please try to specify the year, topic and reasons.

Here I start:
  • 1932 matrix mechanics: Heisenberg and: Pascual Jordan (??)
  • 1943 molecular beams (spin) and magnetic moment of proton: Stern and: Walter Gerlach (??) Immanuel Estermann (??), Otto Frisch (??)
  • 1954 coincidence experiment (1/2): Bothe and: Hans Geiger (dead)
  • 1957 parity violation: Lee, Yang and: Chien-Shiung Wu (not theoretical?)
  • 1965 quantum electrodynamics: Feynman, Schwinger, Tomonaga and: Freeman Dyson (3>)
  • 1969 quarks: Gell-Mann and: George Zweig (??) and Yuval Ne'eman (??)
  • 1970 antiferromagnetism (1/2): Néel and: Lev Shubnikov (dead)
  • 1972 BCS theory: Bardeen, Cooper, Schrieffer and: David Pines (3>)
  • 1974 radio astrophysics and pulsars : Ryles and Hewish and : Jocelyn Bell Burner (???)
  • 1983 stellar nucleosynthesis (1/2): Fowler and: Fred Hoyle (?)
  • 1990 deep inelastic scattering: Friedman, Kendall, Taylor and: James Bjorken (3>)
  • 2005 quantum optics (1/2): Roy Glauber and: E. C. G. Surdashan (3>)
  • 2013 Higgs boson: Englert, Higgs and: Brout (dead), Guralnik, Hagen, and Kibble (3>)
  • 2016 topological phase transitions: Thouless, Kosterlitz, Haldane and: Vadim Berezinskii (dead)
  • 2020 black holes singularity theorems (1/2): Penrose and: Stephen Hawking (dead)
  • 2022 Bell inequalities: Aspect, Clauser, Zeilinger and: John S. Bell (dead)
  • 2023 attosecond physics: Agostini, Krausz, L'Huillier and: Paul Corkum (3>)
Honorable mentions:
  • Arnold Sommerfeld (??) and Paul Langevin (??) for a lot of things
  • 1938 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for fission: Hahn and: Lise Meitner (??)
  • 1962: Nobel Prize in Medicine for DNA: Crick, Watson, Wilkins and: Rosalind Franklin (dead)
Did I miss somebody? Do you agree?

Edited for typos.
 
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pines-demon said:
  • 1912: Nobel Prize in Medicine for DNA: Crick, Watson, Wilkins and: Rosalind Franklin (dead)
Correction: 1962
 
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I thought Alphard and Gamow should have won for predicting the CMB.
 
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