# Nobel Prize A set of international awards recognizing outstanding contributions in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics. [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] produced nine Nobel Prizes in Physics — an unprecedented concentration for any corporate laboratory — including awards for electron diffraction, the [[wiki/Transistor|transistor]], the [[wiki/Laser|laser]], [[wiki/Cosmic Microwave Background|cosmic microwave background radiation]], localization theory, the [[wiki/Fractional Quantum Hall Effect|fractional quantum Hall effect]], and [[wiki/Charge-Coupled Device|charge-coupled devices]]. This record is documented in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].