All Nobel Prizes in Physics

Nobel Prizes in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 105 times to 192 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2011. John Bardeen is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. This means that a total of 191 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Click on the links to get more information.

2011
Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G. Riess

2010
Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov

2009
Charles Kuen Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George E. Smith

2008
Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa

2007
Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg

2006
John C. Mather, George F. Smoot

2005
Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch

2004
David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek

2003
Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett

2002
Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi

2001
Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman

2000
Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S. Kilby

1999
Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman

1998
Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui

1997
Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips

1996
David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson

1995
Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines

1994
Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull

1993
Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr.

1992
Georges Charpak

1991
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

1990
Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor

1989
Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul

1988
Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger

1987
J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alexander Müller

1986
Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer

1985
Klaus von Klitzing

1984
Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer

1983
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler

1982
Kenneth G. Wilson

1981
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn

1980
James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch

1979
Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg

1978
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson

1977
Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck

1976
Burton Richter, Samuel Chao Chung Ting

1975
Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Leo James Rainwater

1974
Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish

1973
Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson

1972
John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, John Robert Schrieffer

1971
Dennis Gabor

1970
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel

1969
Murray Gell-Mann

1968
Luis Walter Alvarez

1967
Hans Albrecht Bethe

1966
Alfred Kastler

1965
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman

1964
Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov

1963
Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen

1962
Lev Davidovich Landau

1961
Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer

1960
Donald Arthur Glaser

1959
Emilio Gino Segrè, Owen Chamberlain

1958
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank, Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm

1957
Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee

1956
William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain

1955
Willis Eugene Lamb, Polykarp Kusch

1954
Max Born, Walther Bothe

1953
Frits (Frederik) Zernike

1952
Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell

1951
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton

1950
Cecil Frank Powell

1949
Hideki Yukawa

1948
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

1947
Sir Edward Victor Appleton

1946
Percy Williams Bridgman

1945
Wolfgang Pauli

1944
Isidor Isaac Rabi

1943
Otto Stern

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.

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.

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.

1939
Ernest Orlando Lawrence

1938
Enrico Fermi

1937
Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson

1936
Victor Franz Hess, Carl David Anderson

1935
James Chadwick

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.

1933
Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

1932
Werner Karl Heisenberg

1931
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1930
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

1929
Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie

1928
Owen Willans Richardson

1927
Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

1926
Jean Baptiste Perrin

1925
James Franck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz

1924
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn

1923
Robert Andrews Millikan

1922
Niels Henrik David Bohr

1921
Albert Einstein

1920
Charles Edouard Guillaume

1919
Johannes Stark

1918
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

1917
Charles Glover Barkla

1916
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1915
Sir William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg

1914
Max von Laue

1913
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

1912
Nils Gustaf Dalén

1911
Wilhelm Wien

1910
Johannes Diderik van der Waals

1909
Guglielmo Marconi, Karl Ferdinand Braun

1908
Gabriel Lippmann

1907
Albert Abraham Michelson

1906
Joseph John Thomson

1905
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard

1904
Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt)

1903
Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, née Sklodowska

1902
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman

1901
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen