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List of Nobel Prize winners in Physics

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The Nobel Prize in Physics is a Nobel Prize in the science of physics.

Some famous winners are:

List of winners

Year Image Laureate[a] Nationality Rationale[b] Ref
1901   Wilhelm Röntgen
(1845–1923) 		Template:Flag decoration German "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him" [1]
1902   Hendrik Lorentz
(1853–1928) 		Template:Flag decoration Dutch "in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena" [2]
  Pieter Zeeman
(1865–1943)
1903   Henri Becquerel
(1852–1908) 		Template:Flag decoration French "for his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity" [3]
  Pierre Curie
(1859–1906) 		"for their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel"
  Marie Curie
(1867–1934) 		Template:Flag decoration Polish
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1904   Lord Rayleigh
(1842–1919) 		Template:Flag decoration British "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies" [4]
1905   Philipp Lenard
(1862–1947) 		Template:Flag decoration Hungarian
Template:Flag decoration German 		"for his work on cathode rays" [5]
1906   J. J. Thomson
(1856–1940) 		Template:Flag decoration British "for his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases" [6]
1907   Albert A. Michelson
(1852–1931) 		Template:Flag decoration German
Template:Flag decoration American 		"for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid" [7]
1908   Gabriel Lippmann
(1845–1921) 		Template:Flag decoration Luxembourgish
Template:Flag decoration French 		"for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference" [8]
1909   Guglielmo Marconi
(1874–1937) 		Template:Flag decoration Italian "for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" [9]
  Karl Ferdinand Braun
(1850–1918) 		Template:Flag decoration German
1910   Johannes Diderik van der Waals
(1837–1923) 		Template:Flag decoration Dutch "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids" [10]
1911   Wilhelm Wien
(1864–1928) 		Template:Flag decoration German "for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat" [11]
1912   Gustaf Dalén
(1869–1937) 		Template:Flag decoration Swedish "for his invention of automatic valves designed to be used in combination with gas accumulators in lighthouses and buoys" [12]
1913   Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
(1853–1926) 		Template:Flag decoration Dutch "for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium" [13]
1914   Max von Laue
(1879–1960) 		Template:Flag decoration German "For his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals", an important step in the development of X-ray spectroscopy. [14]
1915   William Henry Bragg
(1862–1942) 		Template:Flag decoration British "'For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays', an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography" [15]
  Lawrence Bragg
(1890–1971) 		Template:Flag decoration Australian
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1916 Not awarded due to World War I
1917   Charles Glover Barkla
(1877–1944) 		Template:Flag decoration British "'For his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements', another important step in the development of X-ray spectroscopy" [16]
1918   Max Planck
(1858–1947) 		Template:Flag decoration German "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta" [17]
1919   Johannes Stark
(1874–1957) 		Template:Flag decoration German "for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields" [18]
1920   Charles Édouard Guillaume
(1861–1938) 		Template:Flag decoration Swiss "for the service he has rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel-steel alloys" [19]
1921   Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) 		Template:Flag decoration German
Template:Flag decoration Swiss 		"for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" [20]
1922   Niels Bohr
(1885–1962) 		Template:Flag decoration Danish "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them" [21]
1923   Robert Andrews Millikan
(1868–1953) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect" [22]
1924   Manne Siegbahn
(1886–1978) 		Template:Flag decoration Swedish "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy" [23]
1925   James Franck
(1882–1964) 		Template:Flag decoration German "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom" [24]
  Gustav Hertz
(1887–1975)
1926   Jean Baptiste Perrin
(1870–1942) 		Template:Flag decoration French "for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium" [25]
1927   Arthur Compton
(1892–1962) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his discovery of the effect named after him" [26]
  Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
(1869–1959) 		Template:Flag decoration British "for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour"
1928   Owen Willans Richardson
(1879–1959) 		Template:Flag decoration British "for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him" [27]
1929   Louis de Broglie
(1892–1987) 		Template:Flag decoration French "for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons" [28]
1930   C. V. Raman
(1888–1970) 		Template:Flag decoration Indian "for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him" [29]
1931 Not awarded
1932   Werner Heisenberg
(1901–1976) 		Template:Flag decoration German "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen" [30]
1933   Erwin Schrödinger
(1887–1961) 		Template:Flag decoration Austrian "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory" [31]
  Paul Dirac
(1902–1984) 		Template:Flag decoration British
1934 Not awarded
1935   James Chadwick
(1891–1974) 		Template:Flag decoration British "for the discovery of the neutron" [32]
1936   Victor Francis Hess
(1883–1964) 		Template:Flag decoration Austrian "for his discovery of cosmic radiation" [33]
  Carl David Anderson
(1905–1991) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his discovery of the positron"
1937   Clinton Davisson
(1881–1958) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals" [34]
  George Paget Thomson
(1892–1975) 		Template:Flag decoration British
1938   Enrico Fermi
(1901–1954) 		Template:Flag decoration Italian "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" [35]
1939   Ernest Lawrence
(1901–1958) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements" [36]
1940 Not awarded due to World War II
1941 Not awarded due to World War II
1942 Not awarded due to World War II
1943   Otto Stern
(1888–1969) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton" [37]
1944   Isidor Isaac Rabi
(1898–1988) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei" [38]
1945   Wolfgang Pauli
(1900–1958) 		Template:Flag decoration Austrian "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli principle" [39]
1946   Percy Williams Bridgman
(1882–1961) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made there within the field of high pressure physics" [40]
1947   Edward Victor Appleton
(1892–1965) 		Template:Flag decoration British "for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer" [41]
1948   Patrick Blackett
(1897–1974) 		Template:Flag decoration British "for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation" [42]
1949   Hideki Yukawa
(1907–1981) 		Template:Flag decoration Japanese "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces" [43]
1950   C. F. Powell
(1903–1969) 		Template:Flag decoration British "for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method" [44]
1951   John Cockcroft
(1897–1967) 		Template:Flag decoration British "for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles" [45]
  Ernest Walton
(1903–1995) 		Template:Flag decoration Irish
1952   Felix Bloch
(1905–1983) 		Template:Flag decoration Swiss
Template:Flag decoration American 		"for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith" [46]
  Edward Mills Purcell
(1912–1997) 		Template:Flag decoration American
1953   Frits Zernike
(1888–1966) 		Template:Flag decoration Dutch "for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope" [47]
1954   Max Born
(1882–1970) 		Template:Flag decoration West German
Template:Flag decoration British 		"for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction" [48]
  Walther Bothe
(1891–1957) 		Template:Flag decoration West German "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"
1955   Willis Lamb
(1913–2008) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum" [49]
  Polykarp Kusch
(1911–1993) 		"for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"
1956   John Bardeen
(1908–1991) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect" [50]
  Walter Houser Brattain
(1902–1987)
  William Shockley
(1910–1989)
1957   Lee Tsung-Dao
(1926–2024) 		Template:Flag decoration Chinese "for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles" [51]
  Yang Chen-Ning
(b. 1922)
1958   Pavel Cherenkov
(1904–1990) 		Template:Flag decoration Soviet "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect" [52]
  Ilya Frank
(1908–1990)
  Igor Tamm
(1895–1971)
1959   Emilio Segrè
(1905–1989) 		Template:Flag decoration Italian
Template:Flag decoration American 		"for their discovery of the antiproton" [53]
  Owen Chamberlain
(1920–2006) 		Template:Flag decoration American
1960 Donald A. Glaser
(1926–2013) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for the invention of the bubble chamber" [54]
1961   Robert Hofstadter
(1915–1990) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons" [55]
  Rudolf Mössbauer
(1929–2011) 		Template:Flag decoration West German "for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name"
1962   Lev Landau
(1908–1968) 		Template:Flag decoration Soviet "for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium" [56]
1963   Eugene Wigner
(1902–1995) 		Template:Flag decoration Hungarian
Template:Flag decoration American 		"for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles" [57]
  Maria Goeppert-Mayer
(1906–1972) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure" [57]
  J. Hans D. Jensen
(1907–1973) 		Template:Flag decoration West German
1964   Nikolay Basov
(1922–2001) 		Template:Flag decoration Soviet "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" [58]
  Alexander Prokhorov
(1916–2002)
Charles H. Townes
(1915–2015) 		Template:Flag decoration American
1965 Richard Feynman
(1918–1988) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles" [59]
  Julian Schwinger
(1918–1994)
  Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
(1906–1979) 		Template:Flag decoration Japanese
1966   Alfred Kastler
(1902–1984) 		Template:Flag decoration French "for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms" [60]
1967   Hans Bethe
(1906–2005) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars" [61]
1968   Luis Alvarez
(1911–1988) 		Template:Flag decoration American "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" [62]
1969   Murray Gell-Mann
(1929–2019) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions" [63]
1970   Hannes Alfvén
(1908–1995) 		Template:Flag decoration Swedish "for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics" [64]
  Louis Néel
(1904–2000) 		Template:Flag decoration French "for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics"
1971   Dennis Gabor
(1900–1979) 		Template:Flag decoration Hungarian
Template:Flag decoration British 		"for his invention and development of the holographic method" [65]
1972   John Bardeen
(1908–1991) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory" [66]
  Leon Cooper
(b. 1930)
  John Robert Schrieffer
(1931–2019)
1973   Leo Esaki
(b. 1925) 		Template:Flag decoration Japanese "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively" [67]
  Ivar Giaever
(b. 1929) 		Template:Flag decoration Norwegian
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Brian Josephson
(b. 1940) 		Template:Flag decoration British "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 effect"
1974 Martin Ryle
(1918–1984) 		Template:Flag decoration British "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" [68]
  Antony Hewish
(1924–2021)
1975   Aage Bohr
(1922–2009) 		Template:Flag decoration Danish "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" [69]
  Ben Roy Mottelson
(1926–2022) 		Template:Flag decoration American
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  James Rainwater
(1917–1986) 		Template:Flag decoration American
1976   Samuel C. C. Ting
(b. 1936) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind" [70]
  Burton Richter
(1931–2018)
1977   Philip Warren Anderson
(1923–2020) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems" [71]
  Nevill Francis Mott
(1905–1996) 		Template:Flag decoration British
  John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
(1899–1980) 		Template:Flag decoration American
1978   Pyotr Kapitsa
(1894–1984) 		Template:Flag decoration Soviet "for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics" [72]
  Arno Allan Penzias
(1933–2024) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"
  Robert Woodrow Wilson
(b. 1936)
1979   Sheldon Glashow
(b. 1932) 		Template:Flag decoration American "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" [73]
  Abdus Salam
(1926–1996) 		Template:Flag decoration Pakistani
  Steven Weinberg
(1933–2021) 		Template:Flag decoration American
1980   James Cronin
(1931–2016) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons" [74]
  Val Logsdon Fitch
(1923–2015)
1981   Nicolaas Bloembergen
(1920–2017) 		Template:Flag decoration Dutch
Template:Flag decoration American 		"for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy" [75]
  Arthur Leonard Schawlow
(1921–1999) 		Template:Flag decoration American
  Kai Siegbahn
(1918–2007) 		Template:Flag decoration Swedish "for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy" [75]
1982 Kenneth G. Wilson
(1936–2013) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions" [76]
1983   Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
(1910–1995) 		Template:Flag decoration Indian
Template:Flag decoration American 		"for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars" [77]
  William Alfred Fowler
(1911–1995) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe"
1984   Carlo Rubbia
(b. 1934) 		Template:Flag decoration Italian "for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction" [78]
Simon van der Meer
(1925–2011) 		Template:Flag decoration Dutch
1985   Klaus von Klitzing
(b. 1943) 		Template:Flag decoration West German "for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect" [79]
1986 Ernst Ruska
(1906–1988) 		Template:Flag decoration West German "for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope" [80]
  Gerd Binnig
(b. 1947) 		"for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope" [80]
  Heinrich Rohrer
(1933–2013) 		Template:Flag decoration Swiss
1987   Georg Bednorz
(b. 1950) 		Template:Flag decoration West German "for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials" [81]
  K. Alex Müller
(1927–2023) 		Template:Flag decoration Swiss
1988   Leon M. Lederman
(1922–2018) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino" [82]
Melvin Schwartz
(1932–2006)
  Jack Steinberger
(1921–2020)
1989   Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.
(1915–2011) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks" [83]
Hans Georg Dehmelt
(1922–2017) 		"for the development of the ion trap technique"
Wolfgang Paul
(1913–1993) 		Template:Flag decoration West German
1990   Jerome I. Friedman
(b. 1930) 		Template:Flag decoration American "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" [84]
  Henry Way Kendall
(1926–1999)
  Richard E. Taylor
(1929–2018) 		Template:Flag decoration Canadian
1991   Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
(1932–2007) 		Template:Flag decoration French "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" [85]
1992   Georges Charpak
(1924–2010) 		Template:Flag decoration French "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber" [86]
1993   Russell Alan Hulse
(b. 1950) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation" [87]
  Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
(b. 1941)
1994   Bertram Brockhouse
(1918–2003) 		Template:Flag decoration Canadian "for the development of neutron spectroscopy" and "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter" [88]
  Clifford Shull
(1915–2001) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for the development of the neutron diffraction technique" and "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter"
1995   Martin Lewis Perl
(1927–2014) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for the discovery of the tau lepton" and "for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics" [89]
  Frederick Reines
(1918–1998) 		"for the detection of the neutrino" and "for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics"
1996   David Lee
(b. 1931) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3" [90]
  Douglas D. Osheroff
(b. 1945)
  Robert Coleman Richardson
(1937–2013)
1997   Steven Chu
(b. 1948) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light." [91]
  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
(b. 1933) 		Template:Flag decoration French
  William Daniel Phillips
(b. 1948) 		Template:Flag decoration American
1998   Robert B. Laughlin
(b. 1950) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" [92]
  Horst Ludwig Störmer
(b. 1949) 		Template:Flag decoration German
  Daniel C. Tsui
(b. 1939) 		Template:Flag decoration American
1999   Gerard 't Hooft
(b. 1946) 		Template:Flag decoration Dutch "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics" [93]
  Martinus J. G. Veltman
(1931–2021)
2000   Zhores Alferov
(1930–2019) 		Template:Flag decoration Russian "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and optoelectronics" [94]
  Herbert Kroemer
(1928–2024) 		Template:Flag decoration German
  Jack Kilby
(1923–2005) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit"
2001   Eric Allin Cornell
(b. 1961) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for the achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates" [95]
  Carl Wieman
(b. 1951)
  Wolfgang Ketterle
(b. 1957) 		Template:Flag decoration German
2002   Raymond Davis Jr.
(1914–2006) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos" [96]
  Masatoshi Koshiba
(1926–2020) 		Template:Flag decoration Japanese
  Riccardo Giacconi
(1931–2018) 		Template:Flag decoration Italian
Template:Flag decoration American 		"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
2003   Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
(1928–2017) 		Template:Flag decoration Russian
Template:Flag decoration American 		"for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids" [97]
  Vitaly Ginzburg
(1916–2009) 		Template:Flag decoration Russian
  Anthony James Leggett
(b. 1938) 		Template:Flag decoration British
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2004   David Gross
(b. 1941) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction" [98]
Hugh David Politzer
(b. 1949)
  Frank Wilczek
(b. 1951)
2005   Roy J. Glauber
(1925–2018) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence" [99]
  John L. Hall
(b. 1934) 		"for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique"
  Theodor W. Hänsch
(b. 1941) 		Template:Flag decoration German
2006   John C. Mather
(b. 1946) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation" [100]
  George Smoot
(b. 1945)
2007   Albert Fert
(b. 1938) 		Template:Flag decoration French "for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance" [101]
  Peter Grünberg
(1939–2018) 		Template:Flag decoration German
2008   Makoto Kobayashi
(b. 1944) 		Template:Flag decoration Japanese "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature" [102]
  Toshihide Maskawa
(1940–2021)
  Yoichiro Nambu
(1921–2015) 		Template:Flag decoration Japanese
Template:Flag decoration American 		"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
2009   Charles K. Kao
(1933–2018) 		Template:Flag decoration Chinese
Template:Flag decoration British
 "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication" [103]
  Willard S. Boyle
(1924–2011) 		Template:Flag decoration Canadian "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor"
  George E. Smith
(b. 1930) 		Template:Flag decoration American
2010   Andre Geim
(b. 1958) 		Template:Flag decoration Russian
Template:Flag decoration British 		"for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene" [104]
  Konstantin Novoselov
(b. 1974)
2011   Saul Perlmutter
(b. 1959) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" [105]
  Brian P. Schmidt
(b. 1967) 		Template:Flag decoration Australian
  Adam G. Riess
(b. 1969) 		Template:Flag decoration American
2012   Serge Haroche
(b. 1944) 		Template:Flag decoration French "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems." [106]
  David J. Wineland
(b. 1944) 		Template:Flag decoration American
2013   François Englert
(b. 1932) 		Template:Flag decoration Belgian "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 CERN's Large Hadron Collider" [107]
  Peter Higgs
(1929–2024) 		Template:Flag decoration British
2014   Isamu Akasaki
(1929–2021) 		Template:Flag decoration Japanese "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources" [108]
  Hiroshi Amano
(b. 1960)
  Shuji Nakamura
(b. 1954) 		Template:Flag decoration Japanese
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2015   Takaaki Kajita
(b. 1959) 		Template:Flag decoration Japanese "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass" [109]
  Arthur B. McDonald
(b. 1943) 		Template:Flag decoration Canadian
2016   David J. Thouless
(1934–2019) 		Template:Flag decoration British "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter" [110]
  Duncan Haldane
(b. 1951)
  John M. Kosterlitz
(b. 1943) 		Template:Flag decoration British
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2017   Rainer Weiss
(b. 1932) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves" [111]
  Kip Thorne
(b. 1940)
  Barry Barish
(b. 1936)
2018   Arthur Ashkin
(1922–2020) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems" [112]
  Gérard Mourou
(b. 1944) 		Template:Flag decoration French "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses"
  Donna Strickland
(b. 1959) 		Template:Flag decoration Canadian
2019   James Peebles
(b. 1935) 		Template:Flag decoration Canadian
Template:Flag decoration American 		"for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology" [113]
  Michel Mayor
(b. 1942) 		Template:Flag decoration Swiss "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star"
  Didier Queloz
(b. 1966)
2020   Roger Penrose
(b. 1931) 		Template:Flag decoration British "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity" [114]
  Reinhard Genzel
(b. 1952) 		Template:Flag decoration German "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy"
  Andrea M. Ghez
(b. 1965) 		Template:Flag decoration American
2021   Syukuro Manabe
(b. 1931) 		Template:Flag decoration Japanese
Template:Flag decoration American[115]		 "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming" [116]
Klaus Hasselmann
(b. 1931) 		Template:Flag decoration German
  Giorgio Parisi
(b. 1948) 		Template:Flag decoration Italian "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales"
2022   Alain Aspect
(b. 1947) 		Template:Flag decoration French "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science" [117]
  John Clauser
(b. 1942) 		Template:Flag decoration American
  Anton Zeilinger
(b. 1945) 		Template:Flag decoration Austrian
2023   Anne L'Huillier
(b. 1958) 		Template:Flag decoration French "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter" [118]
  Ferenc Krausz
(b. 1962) 		Template:Flag decoration Hungarian
  Pierre Agostini
(b. 1941) 		Template:Flag decoration French
2024   John Hopfield
(b. 1933) 		Template:Flag decoration American "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks” [119]
  Geoffrey Hinton
(b. 1947) 		Template:Flag decoration British
Template:Flag decoration Canadian

Number of Nobel laureates in Physics by country

Main page: List of Nobel laureates by country#Nobel Prizes by category/country of birth
Country Number of Nobel laureates
  United States 90
  Germany 26
  United Kingdom 24
  France 16
  Russia/  Soviet Union 10
  Netherlands 9
  Japan 9
  Canada 6
  Switzerland 6
  Austria 5
  Italy 6
  Sweden 4
  Denmark 3
  (1912–1949) 2
  Hungary 2
  (Taiwan) 2
  Australia 1
  Norway 1
  Poland 1
  Ireland 1
  Pakistan 1
  Belgium 1
  India 1

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Notes

  1. ↑ The form and spelling of the names are taken from the official website of the Nobel Foundation. Alternative spellings and name forms, where they exist, are given at the articles linked from this column. Where available, an image of each Nobel laureate is provided. For the official pictures provided by the Nobel Foundation, see the pages for each Nobel laureate at nobelprize.org.
  2. ↑ The citation for each award is quoted (not always in full) from the official website of the Nobel Foundation.

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