List of Nobel Prize winners in Physics

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

Some famous winners are:

• Albert Einstein
• Werner Heisenberg
• Marie Curie
• Guglielmo Marconi
• Peter Higgs
• Enrico Fermi
• Ernest Lawrence
• Paul Dirac
• Roger Penrose
• Geoffrey Hinton

List of winners

Year	Image	Laureate	Nationality	Rationale	Ref
1901	75px	Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923)	German Empire German	"in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him"
1902	75px	Hendrik Lorentz (1853–1928)	Dutch	"in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena"
	75px	Pieter Zeeman (1865–1943)
1903	75px	Henri Becquerel (1852–1908)	French	"for his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity"
		Pierre Curie (1859–1906)		"for their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel"
	75px	Marie Curie (1867–1934)	Polish French
1904	75px	Lord Rayleigh (1842–1919)	British	"for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies"
1905	75px	Philipp Lenard (1862–1947)	Hungarian German	"for his work on cathode rays"
1906	75px	J. J. Thomson (1856–1940)	British	"for his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases"
1907	75px	Albert A. Michelson (1852–1931)	German American	"for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid"
1908	75px	Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921)	Luxembourgish French	"for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference"
1909	75px	Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937)	Italian	"for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"
		Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918)	German
1910		Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923)	Dutch	"for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids"
1911	75px	Wilhelm Wien (1864–1928)	German	"for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat"
1912	75px	Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937)	Swedish	"for his invention of automatic valves designed to be used in combination with gas accumulators in lighthouses and buoys"
1913	File:Kamerlingh portret.jpg	Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926)	Dutch	"for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium"
1914	75px	Max von Laue (1879–1960)	German	"For his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals", an important step in the development of X-ray spectroscopy.
1915	75px	William Henry Bragg (1862–1942)	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"
	75px	Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971)	Australian British
1916	zzzNot awarded due to World War I
1917	75px	Charles Glover Barkla (1877–1944)	British	"'For his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements', another important step in the development of X-ray spectroscopy"
1918	75px	Max Planck (1858–1947)	German	"for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta"
1919	75px	Johannes Stark (1874–1957)	German	"for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields"
1920	75px	Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861–1938)	Swiss	"for the service he has rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel-steel alloys"
1921	75px	Albert Einstein (1879–1955)	German Swiss	"for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"
1922	75px	Niels Bohr (1885–1962)	Danish	"for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them"
1923	75px	Robert Andrews Millikan (1868–1953)	American	"for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect"
1924	75px	Manne Siegbahn (1886–1978)	Swedish	"for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy"
1925	75px	James Franck (1882–1964)	German	"for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom"
	75px	Gustav Hertz (1887–1975)
1926	75px	Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870–1942)	French	"for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium"
1927	75px	Arthur Compton (1892–1962)	American	"for his discovery of the effect named after him"
	75px	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959)	British	"for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour"
1928	75px	Owen Willans Richardson (1879–1959)	British	"for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him"
1929	75px	Louis de Broglie (1892–1987)	French	"for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons"
1930	75px	C. V. Raman (1888–1970)	Indian	"for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him"
1931	zzzNot awarded
1932	75px	Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976)	German	"for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen"
1933	75px	Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961)	Austrian	"for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
	75px	Paul Dirac (1902–1984)	British
1934	zzzNot awarded
1935	75px	James Chadwick (1891–1974)	British	"for the discovery of the neutron"
1936	75px	Victor Francis Hess (1883–1964)	Template:Country data Federal State of Austria Austrian	"for his discovery of cosmic radiation"
	75px	Carl David Anderson (1905–1991)	American	"for his discovery of the positron"
1937	75px	Clinton Davisson (1881–1958)	American	"for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
	75px	George Paget Thomson (1892–1975)	British
1938	75px	Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)	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"
1939		Ernest Lawrence (1901–1958)	American	"for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements"
1940	zzzNot awarded due to World War II
1941	zzzNot awarded due to World War II
1942	zzzNot awarded due to World War II
1943		Otto Stern (1888–1969)	American	"for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton"
1944		Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988)	American	"for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei"
1945	75px	Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958)	Austrian	"for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli principle"
1946	75px	Percy Williams Bridgman (1882–1961)	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"
1947	75px	Edward Victor Appleton (1892–1965)	British	"for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer"
1948	75px	Patrick Blackett (1897–1974)	British	"for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation"
1949	75px	Hideki Yukawa (1907–1981)	Japanese	"for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces"
1950	75px	C. F. Powell (1903–1969)	British	"for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method"
1951	75px	John Cockcroft (1897–1967)	British	"for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles"
	75px	Ernest Walton (1903–1995)	Irish
1952		Felix Bloch (1905–1983)	Swiss American	"for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith"
		Edward Mills Purcell (1912–1997)	American
1953	75px	Frits Zernike (1888–1966)	Dutch	"for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope"
1954	75px	Max Born (1882–1970)	West German British	"for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction"
	File:Bothe.jpg	Walther Bothe (1891–1957)	West German	"for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"
1955	75px	Willis Lamb (1913–2008)	American	"for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"
	File:Polykarp Kusch.jpg	Polykarp Kusch (1911–1993)		"for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"
1956	75px	John Bardeen (1908–1991)	American	"for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
	75px	Walter Houser Brattain (1902–1987)
	75px	William Shockley (1910–1989)
1957		Lee Tsung-Dao (1926–2024)	Chinese	"for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
		Yang Chen-Ning (b. 1922)
1958		Pavel Cherenkov (1904–1990)	Soviet	"for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
		Ilya Frank (1908–1990)
	File:Igor Tamm.jpg	Igor Tamm (1895–1971)
1959		Emilio Segrè (1905–1989)	Italian American	"for their discovery of the antiproton"
		Owen Chamberlain (1920–2006)	American
1960		Donald A. Glaser (1926–2013)	American	"for the invention of the bubble chamber"
1961		Robert Hofstadter (1915–1990)	American	"for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"
		Rudolf Mössbauer (1929–2011)	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	File:Landau.jpg	Lev Landau (1908–1968)	Soviet	"for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium"
1963		Eugene Wigner (1902–1995)	Hungarian 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"
	75px	Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906–1972)	American	"for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"
	75px	J. Hans D. Jensen (1907–1973)	West German
1964	75px	Nikolay Basov (1922–2001)	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"
	75px	Alexander Prokhorov (1916–2002)
		Charles H. Townes (1915–2015)	American
1965		Richard Feynman (1918–1988)	American	"for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
		Julian Schwinger (1918–1994)
		Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906–1979)	Japanese
1966	75px	Alfred Kastler (1902–1984)	French	"for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms"
1967	75px	Hans Bethe (1906–2005)	American	"for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars"
1968	75px	Luis Alvarez (1911–1988)	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"
1969	75px	Murray Gell-Mann (1929–2019)	American	"for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions"
1970	75px	Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995)	Swedish	"for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics"
	75px	Louis Néel (1904–2000)	French	"for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics"
1971	75px	Dennis Gabor (1900–1979)	Hungarian British	"for his invention and development of the holographic method"
1972	75px	John Bardeen (1908–1991)	American	"for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory"
	75px	Leon Cooper (b. 1930)
	File:John Robert Schrieffer.jpg	John Robert Schrieffer (1931–2019)
1973	File:Leo Esaki 1959.jpg	Leo Esaki (b. 1925)	Japanese	"for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively"
	75px	Ivar Giaever (b. 1929)	Norwegian American
		Brian Josephson (b. 1940)	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)	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"
	File:26. Tagung 1976 Physiker; Gruppen beim Bayrischen Frühstück Antony Hewish - W134Nr.106841b - Willy Pragher (cropped).jpg	Antony Hewish (1924–2021)
1975	75px	Aage Bohr (1922–2009)	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"
		Ben Roy Mottelson (1926–2022)	American Danish
	75px	James Rainwater (1917–1986)	American
1976		Samuel C. C. Ting (b. 1936)	American	"for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind"
	75px	Burton Richter (1931–2018)
1977		Philip Warren Anderson (1923–2020)	American	"for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems"
	75px	Nevill Francis Mott (1905–1996)	British
	File:JH van Vleck 1974.jpg	John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899–1980)	American
1978	75px	Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984)	Soviet	"for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics"
	75px	Arno Allan Penzias (1933–2024)	American	"for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation"
	75px	Robert Woodrow Wilson (b. 1936)
1979	75px	Sheldon Glashow (b. 1932)	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"
	75px	Abdus Salam (1926–1996)	Pakistani
	75px	Steven Weinberg (1933–2021)	American
1980	75px	James Cronin (1931–2016)	American	"for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons"
	File:Val Fitch.jpg	Val Logsdon Fitch (1923–2015)
1981	75px	Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–2017)	Dutch American	"for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy"
	File:Artur Schawlow, Stanford University.jpg	Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921–1999)	American
	75px	Kai Siegbahn (1918–2007)	Swedish	"for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy"
1982		Kenneth G. Wilson (1936–2013)	American	"for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions"
1983		Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995)	Indian American	"for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars"
	75px	William Alfred Fowler (1911–1995)	American	"for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe"
1984	75px	Carlo Rubbia (b. 1934)	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"
		Simon van der Meer (1925–2011)	Dutch
1985	75px	Klaus von Klitzing (b. 1943)	West German	"for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect"
1986		Ernst Ruska (1906–1988)	West German	"for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope"
	75px	Gerd Binnig (b. 1947)		"for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope"
	75px	Heinrich Rohrer (1933–2013)	Swiss
1987	75px	Georg Bednorz (b. 1950)	West German	"for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials"
	75px	K. Alex Müller (1927–2023)	Swiss
1988	75px	Leon M. Lederman (1922–2018)	American	"for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino"
		Melvin Schwartz (1932–2006)
		Jack Steinberger (1921–2020)
1989	File:Norman Foster Ramsey 1970 (cropped).jpg	Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915–2011)	American	"for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks"
		Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922–2017)		"for the development of the ion trap technique"
		Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993)	West German
1990		Jerome I. Friedman (b. 1930)	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"
	75px	Henry Way Kendall (1926–1999)
	File:Richard E. Taylor (3x4 cropped).jpg	Richard E. Taylor (1929–2018)	Canadian
1991	75px	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932–2007)	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"
1992	75px	Georges Charpak (1924–2010)	French	"for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber"
1993	75px	Russell Alan Hulse (b. 1950)	American	"for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"
	75px	Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (b. 1941)
1994		Bertram Brockhouse (1918–2003)	Canadian	"for the development of neutron spectroscopy" and "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter"
		Clifford Shull (1915–2001)	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	75px	Martin Lewis Perl (1927–2014)	American	"for the discovery of the tau lepton" and "for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics"
		Frederick Reines (1918–1998)		"for the detection of the neutrino" and "for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics"
1996		David Lee (b. 1931)	American	"for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"
	75px	Douglas D. Osheroff (b. 1945)
		Robert Coleman Richardson (1937–2013)
1997	75px	Steven Chu (b. 1948)	American	"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light."
	75px	Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (b. 1933)	French
	75px	William Daniel Phillips (b. 1948)	American
1998	75px	Robert B. Laughlin (b. 1950)	American	"for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"
	75px	Horst Ludwig Störmer (b. 1949)	German
	75px	Daniel C. Tsui (b. 1939)	American
1999	75px	Gerard 't Hooft (b. 1946)	Dutch	"for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics"
	75px	Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931–2021)
2000	75px	Zhores Alferov (1930–2019)	Russian	"for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and optoelectronics"
	75px	Herbert Kroemer (1928–2024)	German
	75px	Jack Kilby (1923–2005)	American	"for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit"
2001	75px	Eric Allin Cornell (b. 1961)	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"
		Carl Wieman (b. 1951)
	75px	Wolfgang Ketterle (b. 1957)	German
2002		Raymond Davis Jr. (1914–2006)	American	"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
		Masatoshi Koshiba (1926–2020)	Japanese
		Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)	Italian American	"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
2003		Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928–2017)	Russian American	"for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
		Vitaly Ginzburg (1916–2009)	Russian
		Anthony James Leggett (b. 1938)	British American
2004	75px	David Gross (b. 1941)	American	"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
		Hugh David Politzer (b. 1949)
	75px	Frank Wilczek (b. 1951)
2005	File:Roy Glauber Dec 10 2005.jpg	Roy J. Glauber (1925–2018)	American	"for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence"
	75px	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)	German
2006		John C. Mather (b. 1946)	American	"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
	75px	George Smoot (b. 1945)
2007	75px	Albert Fert (b. 1938)	French	"for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance"
	75px	Peter Grünberg (1939–2018)	German
2008	75px	Makoto Kobayashi (b. 1944)	Japanese	"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
	75px	Toshihide Maskawa (1940–2021)
	75px	Yoichiro Nambu (1921–2015)	Japanese American	"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
2009	75px	Charles K. Kao (1933–2018)	Chinese British	"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication"
	75px	Willard S. Boyle (1924–2011)	Canadian	"for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor"
	75px	George E. Smith (b. 1930)	American
2010	75px	Andre Geim (b. 1958)	Russian British	"for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene"
	File:Konstantin Novoselov at MIPT.jpg	Konstantin Novoselov (b. 1974)
2011	75px	Saul Perlmutter (b. 1959)	American	"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"
	75px	Brian P. Schmidt (b. 1967)	Australian
	File:Adam Riess.jpg	Adam G. Riess (b. 1969)	American
2012		Serge Haroche (b. 1944)	French	"for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."
		David J. Wineland (b. 1944)	American
2013		François Englert (b. 1932)	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"
		Peter Higgs (1929–2024)	British
2014	75px	Isamu Akasaki (1929–2021)	Japanese	"for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources"
		Hiroshi Amano (b. 1960)
		Shuji Nakamura (b. 1954)	Japanese American
2015		Takaaki Kajita (b. 1959)	Japanese	"for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"
		Arthur B. McDonald (b. 1943)	Canadian
2016		David J. Thouless (1934–2019)	British	"for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter"
		Duncan Haldane (b. 1951)
		John M. Kosterlitz (b. 1943)	British American
2017		Rainer Weiss (b. 1932)	American	"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
		Kip Thorne (b. 1940)
		Barry Barish (b. 1936)
2018	75px	Arthur Ashkin (1922–2020)	American	"for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems"
		Gérard Mourou (b. 1944)	French	"for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses"
	75px	Donna Strickland (b. 1959)	Canadian
2019		James Peebles (b. 1935)	Canadian American	"for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology"
		Michel Mayor (b. 1942)	Swiss	"for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star"
		Didier Queloz (b. 1966)
2020		Roger Penrose (b. 1931)	British	"for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity"
	75px	Reinhard Genzel (b. 1952)	German	"for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy"
	75px	Andrea M. Ghez (b. 1965)	American
2021	75px	Syukuro Manabe (b. 1931)	Japanese American	"for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming"
		Klaus Hasselmann (b. 1931)	German
	75px	Giorgio Parisi (b. 1948)	Italian	"for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales"
2022	File:Alain-Aspect-ForMemRS (cropped).jpg	Alain Aspect (b. 1947)	French	"for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science"
	File:JohnClauser.jpg	John Clauser (b. 1942)	American
	75px	Anton Zeilinger (b. 1945)	Austrian
2023	75px	Anne L'Huillier (b. 1958)	French	"for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
	File:Ferenc Krausz (cropped).jpg	Ferenc Krausz (b. 1962)	Hungarian
	75px	Pierre Agostini (b. 1941)	French
2024	96x96px	John Hopfield (b. 1933)	American	"for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”
	File:Geoffrey Hinton at UBC (cropped).jpg	Geoffrey Hinton (b. 1947)	British 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
22x20px (1912–1949)	2
Hungary	2
22x20px (Taiwan)	2
Australia	1
Norway	1
Poland	1
22x20px Ireland	1
Pakistan	1
Belgium	1
India	1

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