All Nobel Prizes in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 107 times to 196 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2013. John Bardeen is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. This means that a total of 195 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Click on the links to get more information. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 François Englert and Peter W. Higgs for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERNs Large Hadron Collider The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 Charles Kuen Kao for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 Yoichiro Nambu for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 John C. Mather and George F. Smoot for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 Roy J. Glauber for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos Riccardo Giacconi for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000 for basic work on information and communication technology Zhores I. Alferov and Herbert Kroemer for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics Jack S. Kilby for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 Gerardus t Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998 Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics Martin L. Perl for the discovery of the tau lepton Frederick Reines for the detection of the neutrino The Nobel Prize in Physics 1994 for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter Bertram N. Brockhouse for the development of neutron spectroscopy Clifford G. Shull for the development of the neutron diffraction technique The Nobel Prize in Physics 1993 Russell A. Hulse and Joseph H. Taylor Jr. for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 Georges Charpak for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber The Nobel Prize in Physics 1991 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall and Richard E. Taylor for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989 Norman F. Ramsey for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul for the development of the ion trap technique The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino The Nobel Prize in Physics 1987 J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alexander Müller for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 Ernst Ruska for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope The Nobel Prize in Physics 1985 Klaus von Klitzing for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984 Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 Subramanyan Chandrasekhar for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars William Alfred Fowler for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe The Nobel Prize in Physics 1982 Kenneth G. Wilson for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions The Nobel Prize in Physics 1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Leonard Schawlow for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy Kai M. Siegbahn for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980 James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977 Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck van Vleck for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind The Nobel Prize in Physics 1975 Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson and Leo James Rainwater for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection The Nobel Prize in Physics 1974 Sir Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively Brian David Josephson for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory The Nobel Prize in Physics 1971 Dennis Gabor for his invention and development of the holographic method The Nobel Prize in Physics 1970 Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén for fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro- dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics Louis Eugène Félix Néel for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics The Nobel Prize in Physics 1969 Murray Gell-Mann for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions The Nobel Prize in Physics 1968 Luis Walter Alvarez for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis The Nobel Prize in Physics 1967 Hans Albrecht Bethe for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars The Nobel Prize in Physics 1966 Alfred Kastler for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger and Richard P. Feynman for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 Eugene Paul Wigner for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure The Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 Lev Davidovich Landau for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961 Robert Hofstadter for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960 Donald Arthur Glaser for the invention of the bubble chamber The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959 Emilio Gino Segrè and Owen Chamberlain for their discovery of the antiproton The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958 Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 Willis Eugene Lamb for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum Polykarp Kusch for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 Max Born for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction Walther Bothe for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith The Nobel Prize in Physics 1953 Frits (Frederik) Zernike for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952 Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950 Cecil Frank Powell for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method The Nobel Prize in Physics 1949 Hideki Yukawa for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces The Nobel Prize in Physics 1948 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation The Nobel Prize in Physics 1947 Sir Edward Victor Appleton for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer The Nobel Prize in Physics 1946 Percy Williams Bridgman for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics The Nobel Prize in Physics 1945 Wolfgang Pauli for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle The Nobel Prize in Physics 1944 Isidor Isaac Rabi for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei The Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 Otto Stern for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton The Nobel Prize in Physics 1942 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1941 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1940 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 Ernest Orlando Lawrence for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 Enrico Fermi for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937 Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936 Victor Franz Hess for his discovery of cosmic radiation Carl David Anderson for his discovery of the positron The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935 James Chadwick for the discovery of the neutron The Nobel Prize in Physics 1934 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 Werner Karl Heisenberg for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen The Nobel Prize in Physics 1931 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929 Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928 Owen Willans Richardson for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 Arthur Holly Compton for his discovery of the effect named after him Charles Thomson Rees Wilson for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926 Jean Baptiste Perrin for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom The Nobel Prize in Physics 1924 Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy The Nobel Prize in Physics 1923 Robert Andrews Millikan for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 Niels Henrik David Bohr for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 Albert Einstein for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect The Nobel Prize in Physics 1920 Charles Edouard Guillaume in recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys The Nobel Prize in Physics 1919 Johannes Stark for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck in recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta The Nobel Prize in Physics 1917 Charles Glover Barkla for his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements The Nobel Prize in Physics 1916 No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays The Nobel Prize in Physics 1914 Max von Laue for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals The Nobel Prize in Physics 1913 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium The Nobel Prize in Physics 1912 Nils Gustaf Dalén for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys The Nobel Prize in Physics 1911 Wilhelm Wien for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat The Nobel Prize in Physics 1910 Johannes Diderik van der Waals for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy The Nobel Prize in Physics 1908 Gabriel Lippmann for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 Albert Abraham Michelson for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906 Joseph John Thomson in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases The Nobel Prize in Physics 1905 Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard for his work on cathode rays The Nobel Prize in Physics 1904 Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt) for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 Antoine Henri Becquerel in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, née Sklodowska in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel The Nobel Prize in Physics 1902 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him
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