诺贝尔物理学奖名单

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2022年诺贝尔物理学奖
2022年诺贝尔物理学奖还没有颁发。它最早将于10月4日星期二，即中国东部时间11:45宣布。

2021年诺贝尔物理学奖
"表彰对我们理解复杂系统的突破性贡献"

Syukuro Manabe和Klaus Hasselmann "表彰对地球气候的物理建模，量化变异性并可靠地预测全球变暖"

乔治-帕里西 "表彰他发现了从原子到行星尺度的物理系统中的无序和波动的相互作用"

2020年诺贝尔物理学奖
罗杰-彭罗斯 "表彰他发现黑洞的形成是广义相对论的一个可靠预测"

莱因哈德-根泽尔和安德烈亚-盖茨 "表彰在银河系中心发现了一个超大质量的紧凑物体"

2019年诺贝尔物理学奖
"表彰对我们理解宇宙演化和地球在宇宙中的地位的贡献"

詹姆斯-皮布尔斯 "表彰物理宇宙学的理论发现"

米歇尔-马约尔和迪迪埃-克洛兹 "为发现一颗围绕太阳型恒星运行的系外行星"

2018年诺贝尔物理学奖
"表彰在激光物理学领域的开创性发明"

阿瑟-阿什金 "表彰光学镊子及其在生物系统中的应用"

热拉尔-穆鲁和唐娜-斯特里克兰 "表彰他们产生高强度、超短光脉冲的方法"

2017年诺贝尔物理学奖
雷纳-韦斯、巴里-C-巴里什和基普-S-索恩 "表彰他们对LIGO探测器和引力波观测的决定性贡献"

2016年诺贝尔物理学奖
David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz "表彰对拓扑相变和物质拓扑相的理论发现"

2015年诺贝尔物理学奖
梶田孝明和阿瑟-B-麦克唐纳 "表彰中微子振荡的发现，这表明中微子具有质量"

2014年诺贝尔物理学奖
赤崎勇、天野浩和中村修二 "表彰他们发明了高效的蓝光发光二极管，使明亮和节能的白光光源成为可能"

2013年诺贝尔物理学奖
弗朗索瓦-恩格勒特和彼得-W-希格斯 "表彰在理论上发现了一种有助于我们理解亚原子粒子质量起源的机制，并且最近通过欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机的ATLAS和CMS实验发现了预测的基本粒子而得到证实"

2012年诺贝尔物理学奖
谢尔盖-哈罗什和戴维-J-温兰 "以表彰能够测量和操纵单个量子系统的开创性的实验方法"

2011年诺贝尔物理学奖
索尔-珀尔马特、布莱恩-P-施密特和亚当-G-里斯 "表彰他们通过对遥远的超新星的观测发现了宇宙的加速膨胀"

2010年诺贝尔物理学奖
安德烈-盖姆和康斯坦丁-诺沃谢洛夫 "表彰关于二维材料石墨烯的突破性实验" 。

2009年诺贝尔物理学奖
Charles Kuen Kao "表彰在光通信的纤维中传输光的突破性成就" 。

威拉德-S-博伊尔和乔治-E-史密斯 "为发明成像半导体电路--CCD传感器"

2008年诺贝尔物理学奖
南部洋一郎 "表彰在亚原子物理学中发现自发破坏对称性的机制"

小林诚和马斯川俊秀 "以表彰发现破缺对称性的起源，这预示着自然界中至少有三个夸克家族的存在"

2007年诺贝尔物理学奖
阿尔伯特-费特和彼得-格林伯格 "因发现巨大的磁阻"

2006年诺贝尔物理学奖
约翰-C-马瑟和乔治-F-斯穆特 "表彰他们发现了宇宙微波背景辐射的黑体形式和各向异性"

2005年诺贝尔物理学奖
罗伊-J-格劳博 "表彰他对光学相干性的量子理论的贡献"

约翰-L-霍尔和西奥多-W-汉斯奇 "表彰他们对基于激光的精密光谱学的发展，包括光学频率梳技术的贡献"

2004年诺贝尔物理学奖
大卫-J-格罗斯、H-大卫-波利策和弗兰克-威尔切克 "表彰在强相互作用理论中发现渐进自由"

2003年诺贝尔物理学奖
阿列克谢-A-阿布里科索夫、维塔利-L-金兹伯格和安东尼-J-莱格特 "表彰对超导体和超流体理论的开创性贡献"

2002年诺贝尔物理学奖
小雷蒙德-戴维斯和小柴昌俊 "表彰对天体物理学的开创性贡献，特别是对宇宙中微子的探测"

Riccardo Giacconi "表彰对天体物理学的开拓性贡献，导致发现了宇宙X射线源"

2001年诺贝尔物理学奖
埃里克-A-康奈尔、沃尔夫冈-凯特勒和卡尔-E-维曼 "表彰在碱原子的稀薄气体中实现了玻色-爱因斯坦凝结，以及对凝结物特性的早期基础研究"

2000年诺贝尔物理学奖
"表彰在信息和通信技术方面的基础工作"

Zhores I. Alferov和Herbert Kroemer "因开发用于高速和光电子的半导体异质结构" 。

杰克-S-基尔比（Jack S. Kilby）"表彰他在发明集成电路方面的贡献"

1999年诺贝尔物理学奖
杰拉尔杜斯-特霍夫特和马蒂纳斯-J.G.韦尔特曼 "表彰他阐明了物理学中电弱相互作用的量子结构"

1998年诺贝尔物理学奖
Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer和Daniel C. Tsui "以表彰他们发现了一种具有分数电荷激发的新形式量子流体"

1997年诺贝尔物理学奖
朱棣文、克劳德-科恩-塔努吉和威廉-D-菲利普斯 "表彰他们开发了用激光冷却和捕获原子的方法" 。

1996年诺贝尔物理学奖
大卫-M-李、道格拉斯-D-奥谢罗夫和罗伯特-C-理查森 "表彰他们发现氦-3的超流性"

1995年诺贝尔物理学奖
"以表彰对轻子物理学的开创性实验贡献

马丁-L-珀尔 "因发现陶氏轻子"

弗雷德里克-赖因斯 "表彰对中微子的探测"

1994年诺贝尔物理学奖
"以表彰对发展中子散射技术研究凝聚态物质的开创性贡献

Bertram N. Brockhouse "表彰中子光谱学的发展"

Clifford G. Shull "为发展中子衍射技术"

1993年诺贝尔物理学奖
Russell A. Hulse和Joseph H. Taylor "表彰发现了一种新型的脉冲星，这一发现为引力的研究提供了新的可能性"

1992年诺贝尔物理学奖
乔治-查尔帕克 "表彰他对粒子探测器的发明和发展，特别是多线比例室"

1991年诺贝尔物理学奖
皮埃尔-吉列-德-热内 "表彰他发现为研究简单系统中的秩序现象而开发的方法可以推广到更复杂的物质形式，特别是液晶和聚合物"

1990年诺贝尔物理学奖
杰罗姆-I-弗里德曼、亨利-W-肯德尔和理查德-E-泰勒 "表彰他们对电子在质子和束缚中子上的深层非弹性散射的开拓性研究，这对粒子物理学中夸克模型的发展具有至关重要的意义"

1989年诺贝尔物理学奖
诺曼-F-拉姆齐 "因为发明了分离振荡场方法，并将其用于氢气测定仪和其他原子钟"

汉斯-G-德梅尔特和沃尔夫冈-保罗 "以表彰离子阱技术的发展"

1988年诺贝尔物理学奖
莱昂-M-莱德曼、梅尔文-施瓦茨和杰克-斯坦伯格 "以表彰中微子束方法和通过发现μ介子中微子来证明轻子的双子结构"

1987年诺贝尔物理学奖
J. Georg Bednorz和K. Alexander Müller "以表彰他们在发现陶瓷材料的超导性方面取得的重要突破"

1986年诺贝尔物理学奖
恩斯特-罗斯卡 "表彰他在电子光学方面的基本工作，以及设计了第一台电子显微镜"

格尔德-宾尼格和海因里希-罗勒 "表彰他们设计的扫描隧道显微镜"

1985年诺贝尔物理学奖
克劳斯-冯-克里琴 "因为发现了量子化霍尔效应"

1984年诺贝尔物理学奖
卡洛-鲁比亚和西蒙-范德梅尔 "表彰他们对大型项目的决定性贡献，该项目导致发现了场粒子W和Z，弱相互作用的传播者"

1983年诺贝尔物理学奖
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar "以表彰他对恒星结构和演变的重要物理过程的理论研究"

威廉-阿尔弗雷德-福勒 "表彰他对宇宙中化学元素形成的重要核反应的理论和实验研究"

1982年诺贝尔物理学奖
肯尼思-G-威尔逊 "表彰他对与相变有关的临界现象的理论"

1981年诺贝尔物理学奖
尼古拉斯-布卢姆贝根和阿瑟-伦纳德-肖洛 "以表彰他们对激光光谱学发展的贡献"

凯-M-西格巴恩 "表彰他对高分辨率电子光谱学发展的贡献"

1980年诺贝尔物理学奖
詹姆斯-沃森-克罗宁和瓦尔-洛格斯顿-菲奇 "表彰在中性K介子的衰变中发现了对基本对称原理的违反"

1979年诺贝尔物理学奖
谢尔顿-李-格拉肖、阿卜杜斯-萨拉姆和史蒂文-温伯格 "以表彰他们对基本粒子之间统一的弱相互作用和电磁相互作用理论的贡献，其中包括对弱中性电流的预测"

1978年诺贝尔物理学奖
皮奥特-列昂尼多维奇-卡皮察 "表彰他在低温物理学领域的基本发明和发现"

阿诺-艾伦-彭齐亚斯和罗伯特-伍德罗-威尔逊 "表彰他们发现了宇宙微波背景辐射"

1977年诺贝尔物理学奖
菲利普-沃伦-安德森、内维尔-弗朗西斯-莫特爵士和约翰-哈斯布拉克-范-弗莱克 "以表彰他们对磁性和无序系统的电子结构的基本理论研究"

1976年诺贝尔物理学奖
伯顿-里希特和塞缪尔-赵忠庭 "以表彰他们在发现一种新的重质基本粒子方面的开创性工作"

1975年诺贝尔物理学奖
玻尔（Aage Niels Bohr）、本-罗伊-莫特森（Ben Roy Mottelson）和利奥-詹姆斯-雷恩沃特（Leo James Rainwater）"表彰他们发现了原子核中集体运动和粒子运动之间的联系，并根据这种联系发展了原子核的结构理论"

1974年诺贝尔物理学奖
马丁-赖尔爵士和安东尼-休伊什 "表彰他们在射电天体物理学方面的开创性研究。莱尔因为他的观察和发明，特别是光圈合成技术，休伊什因为他在发现脉冲星方面的决定性作用"

1973年诺贝尔物理学奖
Leo Esaki和Ivar Giaever "以表彰他们分别在半导体和超导体中的隧道现象方面的实验发现"

布莱恩-戴维-约瑟夫森 "以表彰他对通过隧道屏障的超级电流特性的理论预测，特别是那些通常被称为约瑟夫森效应的现象"

1972年诺贝尔物理学奖
约翰-巴丁、莱昂-尼尔-库珀和约翰-罗伯特-施里弗 "以表彰他们共同开发的超导理论，通常称为BCS理论"

1971年诺贝尔物理学奖
丹尼斯-加博 "表彰他发明和发展了全息方法"

1970年诺贝尔物理学奖
汉内斯-奥洛夫-戈斯塔-阿尔芬 "表彰他在磁流体动力学方面的基本工作和发现，并在等离子体物理学的不同部分中得到了富有成效的应用"

路易-尤金-费利克斯-内尔 "表彰他在反铁磁性和铁磁性方面的基本工作和发现，从而在固态物理学中得到了重要的应用"

1969年诺贝尔物理学奖
默里-盖尔-曼 "表彰他在基本粒子及其相互作用的分类方面的贡献和发现"

1968年诺贝尔物理学奖
路易斯-沃尔特-阿尔瓦雷斯 "以表彰他对基本粒子物理学的决定性贡献，特别是发现了大量的共振状态，通过他开发的氢泡室和数据分析技术使之成为可能"

1967年诺贝尔物理学奖
汉斯-阿尔布雷希特-贝特 "表彰他对核反应理论的贡献，特别是他对恒星中能量产生的发现"

1966年诺贝尔物理学奖
阿尔弗雷德-卡斯特勒 "表彰他发现并发展了用于研究原子中赫兹共振的光学方法"

1965年诺贝尔物理学奖
友永信一郎、朱利安-施温格和理查德-P-费曼 "表彰他们在量子电动力学方面的基本工作，对基本粒子的物理学产生了深远的影响"

1964年诺贝尔物理学奖
查尔斯-哈德-汤斯、尼古拉-根纳季耶维奇-巴索夫和亚历山大-米哈伊洛维奇-普罗霍罗夫 "以表彰他们在量子电子学领域的基础工作，导致了基于激光器原理的振荡器和放大器的制造"

1963年诺贝尔物理学奖
尤金-保罗-维格纳 "以表彰他对原子核和基本粒子理论的贡献，特别是通过发现和应用基本的对称性原理"

玛丽亚-戈珀特-迈尔和J-汉斯-D-延森 "以表彰他们对核壳结构的发现"

1962年诺贝尔物理学奖
列夫-达维多维奇-朗道 "表彰他对凝聚态物质，特别是液态氦的开创性理论"

1961年诺贝尔物理学奖
罗伯特-霍夫斯塔特 "表彰他对原子核中电子散射的开创性研究，以及他由此获得的关于核子结构的发现"

鲁道夫-路德维希-默斯鲍尔 "表彰他对伽马射线的共振吸收的研究，以及他在这方面发现的以他名字命名的效应"

1960年诺贝尔物理学奖
唐纳德-阿瑟-格拉塞 "因发明了气泡室"

1959年诺贝尔物理学奖
埃米利奥-吉诺-塞格雷和欧文-张伯伦 "因为他们发现了反质子"

1958年诺贝尔物理学奖
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank 和 Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm "为发现和解释切伦科夫效应" 。

1957年诺贝尔物理学奖
杨振宁和李宗道（T.D.）"以表彰他们对所谓奇偶性定律的深入研究，从而导致关于基本粒子的重要发现"

1956年诺贝尔物理学奖
威廉-布拉德福德-肖克利、约翰-巴丁和沃尔特-豪泽-布拉坦 "以表彰他们对半导体的研究和对晶体管效应的发现"

1955年诺贝尔物理学奖
威利斯-尤金-拉姆 "以表彰他对氢气光谱精细结构的发现

Polykarp Kusch "以表彰他对电子磁矩的精确测定"

1954年诺贝尔物理学奖
马克斯-博恩 "表彰他在量子力学方面的基本研究，特别是他对波函数的统计解释"

瓦尔特-博特 "表彰他的巧合法及其发现"

1953年诺贝尔物理学奖
弗里茨-泽尼克 "以表彰他对相位对比法的证明，特别是他对相位对比显微镜的发明"

1952年诺贝尔物理学奖
费利克斯-布洛赫和爱德华-米尔斯-珀塞尔 "以表彰他们开发了核磁精密测量的新方法以及与此相关的发现" 。

1951年诺贝尔物理学奖
约翰-道格拉斯-考克罗夫特爵士和欧内斯特-托马斯-辛顿-沃尔顿 "表彰他们在用人工加速的原子粒子进行原子核嬗变方面的开创性工作"

1950年诺贝尔物理学奖
塞西尔-弗兰克-鲍威尔 "表彰他开发了研究核过程的照相法，以及他用这种方法对介子的发现"

1949年诺贝尔物理学奖
汤川秀树 "表彰他在核力理论工作的基础上预测了介子的存在"

1948年诺贝尔物理学奖
帕特里克-梅纳德-斯图尔特-布莱克特 "以表彰他对威尔逊云室方法的开发，以及他在核物理和宇宙辐射领域的发现"

1947年诺贝尔物理学奖
爱德华-维克多-阿普尔顿爵士 "表彰他对高层大气物理学的研究，特别是发现了所谓的阿普尔顿层"

1946年诺贝尔物理学奖
珀西-威廉斯-布里奇曼 "以表彰他发明了一种产生极高压力的仪器，以及他由此在高压物理学领域的发现"

1945年诺贝尔物理学奖
沃尔夫冈-鲍里 "为发现排他性原理，又称鲍里原理"

1944年诺贝尔物理学奖
伊西多尔-艾萨克-拉比 "表彰他用共振方法记录原子核的磁性"

1943年诺贝尔物理学奖
奥托-斯特恩 "表彰他对发展分子射线法的贡献以及他发现质子的磁矩"

1942年诺贝尔物理学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金的1/3分配给主基金，2/3分配给该奖项的特别基金。

1941年诺贝尔物理学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金的1/3分配给主基金，2/3分配给该奖项的特别基金。

1940年诺贝尔物理学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金的1/3分配给主基金，2/3分配给该奖项的特别基金。

1939年诺贝尔物理学奖
欧内斯特-奥兰多-劳伦斯 "为发明和发展回旋加速器以及用它取得的成果，特别是在人造放射性元素方面"。

1938年诺贝尔物理学奖
恩里科-费米 "因为他证明了由中子辐照产生的新放射性元素的存在，以及他对慢中子带来的核反应的相关发现"

1937年诺贝尔物理学奖
克林顿-约瑟夫-戴维森和乔治-佩吉特-汤姆森 "因为他们在实验中发现了晶体对电子的衍射"

1936年诺贝尔物理学奖
维克多-弗朗茨-赫斯 "因其发现了宇宙辐射"

卡尔-戴维-安德森 "因其发现了正电子"

1935年诺贝尔物理学奖
詹姆斯-查德威克 "因发现中子"

1934年诺贝尔物理学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金的1/3分配给主基金，2/3分配给该奖项的特别基金。

1933年诺贝尔物理学奖
薛定谔和保罗-阿德里安-莫里斯-狄拉克 "因发现新的原子理论的生产形式"。

1932年诺贝尔物理学奖
维尔纳-卡尔-海森堡 "因为创造了量子力学，其应用特别导致了氢的各向异性形式的发现"

1931年诺贝尔物理学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金被分配给本奖部的特别基金。

1930年诺贝尔物理学奖
钱德拉塞卡拉-文卡塔-拉曼爵士 "表彰他在光的散射方面的工作和发现以他名字命名的效应"

1929年诺贝尔物理学奖
路易-维克多-皮埃尔-雷蒙德-德-布罗格利亲王 "表彰他发现了电子的波性"

1928年诺贝尔物理学奖
欧文-威兰斯-理查森 "表彰他在热离子现象方面的工作，特别是发现了以他名字命名的规律"

1927年诺贝尔物理学奖
阿瑟-霍利-康普顿 "表彰他发现了以他名字命名的效应"

查尔斯-汤姆森-里斯-威尔逊 "以表彰他通过蒸汽的凝结使带电粒子的路径可见的方法"

1926年诺贝尔物理学奖
让-巴蒂斯特-佩兰 "以表彰他在物质的不连续结构方面的工作，特别是他对沉降平衡的发现"

1925年诺贝尔物理学奖
詹姆斯-弗兰克和古斯塔夫-路德维希-赫兹 "以表彰他们发现了电子对原子的影响规律"

1924年诺贝尔物理学奖
卡尔-曼恩-乔治-西格巴恩 "因其在X射线光谱学领域的发现和研究"

1923年诺贝尔物理学奖
罗伯特-安德鲁斯-米利肯 "表彰他在电的基本电荷和光电效应方面的工作"

1922年诺贝尔物理学奖
尼尔斯-亨利克-戴维-玻尔 "以表彰他在研究原子的结构和从原子中发出的辐射方面的贡献"

1921年诺贝尔物理学奖
阿尔伯特-爱因斯坦 "表彰他对理论物理学的贡献，特别是表彰他发现了光电效应的规律"

1920年诺贝尔物理学奖
查尔斯-爱德华-纪尧姆 "以表彰他通过发现镍钢合金中的异常现象对物理学的精确测量所做的贡献"

1919年诺贝尔物理学奖
约翰内斯-斯塔克 "表彰他发现了运河射线的多普勒效应和电场中光谱线的分裂"

1918年诺贝尔物理学奖
马克斯-卡尔-恩斯特-路德维希-普朗克 "以表彰他通过发现能量量子为物理学的发展所作出的贡献"

1917年诺贝尔物理学奖
查尔斯-格洛弗-巴克拉 "表彰他发现了元素的伦琴辐射特性"

1916年诺贝尔物理学奖
这一年没有颁发诺贝尔奖。奖金被分配给本奖区的特别基金。

1915年诺贝尔物理学奖
威廉-亨利-布拉格爵士和威廉-劳伦斯-布拉格 "表彰他们在用X射线分析晶体结构方面的贡献"

1914年诺贝尔物理学奖
马克斯-冯-劳埃 "因其发现晶体对X射线的衍射"

1913年诺贝尔物理学奖
海克-卡默林格-昂内斯 "因其对低温下的物质特性的研究，特别是导致了液态氦的产生"

1912年诺贝尔物理学奖
尼尔斯-古斯塔夫-达伦 "表彰他发明了自动调节器，与用于照明灯塔和浮标的气体蓄压器一起使用"

1911年诺贝尔物理学奖
威廉-维恩 "因为他发现了有关热辐射的规律"

1910年诺贝尔物理学奖
约翰内斯-迪德里克-范德瓦尔斯 "因其在气体和液体状态方程方面的工作"

1909年诺贝尔物理学奖
古列尔莫-马可尼和卡尔-费迪南-布劳恩 "以表彰他们对发展无线电报的贡献"

1908年诺贝尔物理学奖
加布里埃尔-李普曼 "表彰他根据干涉现象用照片再现色彩的方法"

1907年诺贝尔物理学奖
阿尔伯特-亚伯拉罕-迈克尔逊 "表彰他的光学精密仪器以及在其帮助下进行的光谱学和计量学调查"

1906年诺贝尔物理学奖
约瑟夫-约翰-汤姆森 "以表彰他对气体导电的理论和实验研究的巨大功绩"

1905年诺贝尔物理学奖
菲利普-爱德华-安东-冯-莱纳德 "表彰他在阴极射线方面的工作"

1904年诺贝尔物理学奖
雷利勋爵（John William Strutt）"表彰他对最重要的气体密度的研究，以及他在这些研究中发现了氩气"

1903年诺贝尔物理学奖
安托万-亨利-贝克勒尔（Antoine Henri Becquerel）"以表彰他通过发现自发的放射性而做出的非凡贡献"

皮埃尔-居里和玛丽-居里(Marie Sklodowska) "以表彰他们对亨利-贝克勒尔教授发现的辐射现象的共同研究所作出的非凡贡献"

1902年诺贝尔物理学奖
亨德里克-安东-洛伦茨和彼得-泽曼 "以表彰他们通过研究磁力对辐射现象的影响所作出的特殊贡献"

1901年诺贝尔物理学奖
威廉-康拉德-伦琴 "以表彰他通过发现后来以他的名字命名的杰出射线所作出的非凡贡献"



The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 has not been awarded yet. It will be announced on Tuesday 4 October, 11:45 CEST at the earliest.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
“for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems”

Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”

Giorgio Parisi “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”

Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
“for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”

James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”

Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
“for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”

Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”

Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”

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 CERN’s 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 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”