Nobel Prize in Physics/Catalogs
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| 1901 | Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | Germany | For the discovery of X-rays |
| 1902 | Hendrik A. Lorentz | Netherlands | For the discovery of influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena |
| Pieter Zeeman | Netherlands | ||
| 1903 | Henri Becquerel | France | For researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel |
| Pierre Curie | France | ||
| Marie Curie | France | ||
| 1904 | Lord Rayleigh | UK | For investigations of the densities of gases and for discovery of argon |
| 1905 | Philipp Lenard | Germany | For for his work on cathode rays |
| 1906 | J.J. Thomson | UK | For work on the conduction of electricity by gases |
| 1907 | Albert A. Michelson | USA | For optical precision instruments and spectroscopic and metrological investigations |
| 1908 | Gabriel Lippmann | France | For method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference |
| 1909 | Guglielmo Marconi | Italy | For the development of wireless telegraphy |
| Ferdinand Braun | Germany | ||
| 1910 | Johannes Diderik van der Waals | Netherlands | For work on the equation of state for gases and liquids |
| 1911 | Wilhelm Wien | Germany | For discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat |
| 1912 | Gustaf Dalén | Sweden | For automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys |
| 1913 | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | Netherlands | For investigations of matter at low temperatures which led to the production of liquid helium |
| 1914 | Max von Laue | Germany | For discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals |
| 1915 | William Bragg | UK | For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays |
| Lawrence Bragg | UK | ||
| 1916 | No award | – | |
| 1917 | Charles Glover Barkla | UK | For discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements |
| 1918 | Max Planck | Germany | For the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta |
| 1919 | Johannes Stark | Germany | For discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields |
| 1920 | Charles Edouard Guillaume | Switzerland | For precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys |
| 1921 | Albert Einstein | Germ.+Switz. | For services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect |
| 1922 | Niels Bohr | Denmark | For investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them |
| 1923 | Robert A. Millikan | USA | For work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect |
| 1924 | Manne Siegbahn | Sweden | For discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy |
| 1925 | James Franck | Germany | For discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom |
| Gustav Hertz | Germany | ||
| 1926 | Jean Baptiste Perrin | France | For work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for discovery of sedimentation equilibrium |
| 1927 | Arthur H. Compton | USA | For discovery of Compton scattering; for paths of charged particles made visible by condensation of vapour |
| Charles T.R. Wilson | UK | ||
| 1928 | Owen Willans Richardson | UK | For work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of Richardson's law |
| 1929 | Louis de Broglie | France | For his discovery of the wave nature of electrons |
| 1930 | Sir Venkata Raman | India | For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the Raman effect |
| 1931 | No award | – | |
| 1932 | Werner Heisenberg | Germany | For the creation of quantum mechanics |
| 1933 | Erwin Schrödinger | Austria | For the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory |
| Paul A.M. Dirac | UK | ||
| 1934 | No award | – | |
| 1935 | James Chadwick | UK | For the discovery of the neutron |
| 1936 | Victor F. Hess | Austria | For for discovery of cosmic radiation; for discovery of the positron |
| Carl D. Anderson | USA | ||
| 1937 | Clinton Davisson | USA | For experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals |
| George Paget Thomson | UK | ||
| 1938 | Enrico Fermi | Italy | For new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and nuclear reactions |
| 1939 | Ernest Lawrence | USA | For the cyclotron and artificial radioactive elements |
| 1940 | No award | – | |
| 1941 | No award | – | |
| 1942 | No award | – | |
| 1943 | Otto Stern | USA | For molecular ray method and discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton |
| 1944 | Isidor Isaac Rabi | USA | For resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei |
| 1945 | Wolfgang Pauli | Austria | For the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle |
| 1946 | Percy W. Bridgman | USA | For apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and discoveries in the field of high pressure physics |
| 1947 | Edward V. Appleton | UK | For physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the Appleton layer |
| 1948 | Patrick M.S. Blackett | UK | For development of the Wilson cloud chamber and discoveries in nuclear physics and cosmic radiation |
| 1949 | Hideki Yukawa | Japan | For prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces |
| 1950 | Cecil Powell | UK | For development of photographic method of studying nuclear processes and discoveries regarding mesons |
| 1951 | John Cockcroft | UK | For their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles |
| Ernest T.S. Walton | Ireland | ||
| 1952 | Felix Bloch | USA | For development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements |
| E. M. Purcell | USA | ||
| 1953 | Frits Zernike | Netherlands | For phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope |
| 1954 | Max Born | UK | For research in quantum mechanics, for statistical interpretation of wavefunction; for the coincidence method |
| Walther Bothe | Germany | ||
| 1955 | Willis E. Lamb | USA | For the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum; the magnetic moment of the electron |
| Polykarp Kusch | USA | ||
| 1956 | William B. Shockley | USA | For semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect |
| John Bardeen | USA | ||
| Walter H. Brattain | USA | ||
| 1957 | Chen Ning Yang | China | For parity laws in elementary particle physics |
| Tsung-Dao Lee | China | ||
| 1958 | Pavel A. Cherenkov | USSR | For discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect |
| Il'ja M. Frank | USSR | ||
| Igor Y. Tamm | USSR | ||
| 1959 | Emilio Segrè | USA | For their discovery of the antiproton |
| Owen Chamberlain | USA | ||
| 1960 | Donald A. Glaser | USA | For the invention of the bubble chamber |
| 1961 | Robert Hofstadter | USA | For electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for the structure of the nucleons; resonance absorption of γ radiation and discovery the Mössbauer effect |
| Rudolf Mössbauer | Germany | ||
| 1962 | Lev Landau | USSR | For theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium |
| 1963 | Eugene Wigner | USA | For theory of atomic nucleus, elementary particles, discovery of symmetry principles; for nuclear shell structure |
| Maria Goeppert-Mayer | USA | ||
| J. Hans D. Jensen | Germany | ||
| 1964 | Charles H. Townes | USA | For quantum electronics, oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle |
| Nicolay G. Basov | USSR | ||
| Aleksandr M. Prokhorov | USSR | ||
| 1965 | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga | Japan | For quantum electrodynamics, with consequences for the physics of elementary particles |
| Julian Schwinger | USA | ||
| Richard P. Feynman | USA | ||
| 1966 | Alfred Kastler | France | For discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms |
| 1967 | Hans Bethe | USA | For theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars |
| 1968 | Luis Alvarez | USA | For elementary particle physics, discovery of resonance states, hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis |
| 1969 | Murray Gell-Mann | USA | For discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions |
| 1970 | Hannes Alfvén | Sweden | For magnetohydro-dynamics and applications plasma physics; antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism, applications in solid state physics |
| Louis Néel | France | ||
| 1971 | Dennis Gabor | UK | For the holographic method |
| 1972 | John Bardeen | USA | For theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory |
| Leon N. Cooper | USA | ||
| Robert Schrieffer | USA | ||
| 1973 | Leo Esaki | Japan | For tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors; supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, the Josephson effects |
| Ivar Giaever | USA | ||
| Brian D. Josephson | UK | ||
| 1974 | Martin Ryle | UK | For radio astrophysics: Ryle for the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for role in the discovery of pulsars |
| Antony Hewish | UK | ||
| 1975 | Aage N. Bohr | Denmark | For collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus |
| Ben R. Mottelson | Denmark | ||
| James Rainwater | USA | ||
| 1976 | Burton Richter | USA | For work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind |
| Samuel C.C. Ting | USA | ||
| 1977 | Philip W. Anderson | USA | For theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems |
| Sir Nevill F. Mott | UK | ||
| John H. van Vleck | USA | ||
| 1978 | Pyotr Kapitsa | USSR | For discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics; discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation |
| Arno Penzias | USA | ||
| Robert Woodrow Wilson | USA | ||
| 1979 | Sheldon Glashow | USA | For theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, the prediction of the weak neutral current |
| Abdus Salam | Pakistan | ||
| Steven Weinberg | USA | ||
| 1980 | James Cronin | USA | For discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons |
| Val Fitch | USA | ||
| 1981 | Nicolaas Bloembergen | USA | For laser spectroscopy; for high-resolution electron spectroscopy |
| Arthur L. Schawlow | USA | ||
| Kai M. Siegbahn | Sweden | ||
| 1982 | Kenneth G. Wilson | USA | For his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions |
| 1983 | Subramanyan Chandrasekhar | USA | For physical processes in the structure and evolution of the stars; nuclear reactions in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe |
| William A. Fowler | USA | ||
| 1984 | Carlo Rubbia | Italy | For 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 | Netherlands | ||
| 1985 | Klaus von Klitzing | Germany | For the discovery of the quantized Hall effect |
| 1986 | Ernst Ruska | Germany | For electron optics, and the first electron microscope; the scanning tunneling microscope |
| Gerd Binnig | Germany | ||
| Heinrich Rohrer | Switzerland | ||
| 1987 | J. Georg Bednorz | Germany | For break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials |
| K. Alex Müller | Switzerland | ||
| 1988 | Leon M. Lederman | USA | For neutrino beam method, the doublet structure of the leptons, and the discovery of the muon neutrino |
| Melvin Schwartz | USA | ||
| Jack Steinberger | USA | ||
| 1989 | Norman F. Ramsey | USA | For separated oscillatory fields method, the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks; ion trap technique |
| Hans G. Dehmelt | USA | ||
| Wolfgang Paul | Germany | ||
| 1990 | Jerome I. Friedman | USA | For deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, the quark model in particle physics |
| Henry W. Kendall | USA | ||
| Richard E. Taylor | Canada | ||
| 1991 | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | France | For generalization of methods for simple systems to more complex forms of matter, to liquid crystals and polymers |
| 1992 | Georges Charpak | France | For particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber |
| 1993 | Russell A. Hulse | USA | For the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation |
| Joseph H. Taylor Jr. | USA | ||
| 1994 | Bertram N. Brockhouse | Canada | For neutron spectroscopy; for neutron diffraction technique |
| Clifford G. Shull | USA | ||
| 1995 | Martin L. Perl | USA | For the discovery of the tau lepton; detection of the neutrino |
| Frederick Reines | USA | ||
| 1996 | David M. Lee | USA | For discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 |
| Douglas D. Osheroff | USA | ||
| Robert C. Richardson | USA | ||
| 1997 | Steven Chu | USA | For methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light |
| Claude Cohen-Tannoudji | France | ||
| William D. Phillips | USA | ||
| 1998 | Robert B. Laughlin | USA | For discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations |
| Horst L. Störmer | Germany | ||
| Daniel C. Tsui | USA | ||
| 1999 | Gerardus 't Hooft | Netherlands | For elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics |
| Martinus J.G. Veltman | Netherlands | ||
| 2000 | Zhores I. Alferov | Russia | For work on information and communication technology, semiconductor heterostructures opto-electronics; invention of the integrated circuit |
| Herbert Kroemer | Germany | ||
| Jack S. Kilby | USA | ||
| 2001 | Eric A. Cornell | USA | For Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates |
| Wolfgang Ketterle | Germany | ||
| Carl E. Wieman | USA | ||
| 2002 | Raymond Davis Jr. | USA | For astrophysics, for the detection of cosmic neutrinos; for astrophysics and the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources |
| Masatoshi Koshiba | Japan | ||
| Riccardo Giacconi | USA | ||
| 2003 | Alexei A. Abrikosov | USA+Russia | For theory of superconductors and superfluids |
| Vitaly L. Ginzburg | Russia | ||
| Anthony J. Leggett | UK+USA | ||
| 2004 | David J. Gross | USA | For discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction |
| H. David Politzer | USA | ||
| Frank Wilczek | USA | ||
| 2005 | Roy J. Glauber | USA | For quantum theory of optical coherence; laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique |
| John L. Hall | USA | ||
| Theodor W. Hänsch | Germany | ||
| 2006 | John C. Mather | USA | For discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation |
| George F. Smoot | USA | ||
| 2007 | Albert Fert | France | For the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance |
| Peter Grünberg | Germany | ||
| 2008 | Yoichiro Nambu | Japan | For mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics; origin of the broken symmetry, existence of three families of quarks |
| Makoto Kobayashi | Japan | ||
| Toshihide Maskawa | Japan | ||
| 2009 | Charles K. Kao | China+UK | For transmission of light in fibers for optical communication; invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor |
| Willard S. Boyle | USA | ||
| George E. Smith | USA |