List of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics and their Achievements

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The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 111 times to 207 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2017. 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 206 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Year Laureate Country Achievements
1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Germany “in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him”
1902 Hendrik Lorentz Netherlands “in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena”
  Pieter Zeeman Netherlands  
1903 Antoine Henri Becquerel France “[for] his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity
  Pierre Curie France “[for] their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel”
  Marie Curie Poland / France  
1904 John William Strutt United Kingdom “for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies”
1905 Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard Germany “for his work on cathode rays”
1906 Joseph John Thomson United Kingdom “[for] his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases”
1907 Albert Abraham Michelson United States “for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid”
1908 Gabriel Lippmann France “for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference”
1909 Guglielmo Marconi Italy “[for] their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy”
  Karl Ferdinand Braun Germany  
1910 Johannes Diderik van der Waals Netherlands “for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids”
1911 Wilhelm Wien Germany “for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat”
1912 Nils Gustaf Dalén Sweden “for his invention of automatic valves designed to be used in combination with gas accumulators in lighthouses and buoys”
1913 Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes Netherlands “for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium”
1914 Max von Laue Germany “For his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals”, an important step in the development of X-ray spectroscopy.
1915 William Henry Bragg United Kingdom “For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays”, an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography
  William Lawrence Bragg United Kingdom  
1916      
1917 Charles Glover Barkla United Kingdom “For his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements”,[23] another important step in the development of X-ray spectroscopy
1918 Max Planck Germany “[for] the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta”
1919 Johannes Stark Germany “for his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields”
1920 Charles Édouard Guillaume Switzerland “[for] the service he has rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel-steel alloys”
1921 Albert Einstein Germany “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”
1922 Niels Bohr Denmark “for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them”
1923 Robert Andrews Millikan United States “for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect”
1924 Manne Siegbahn Sweden “for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy”
1925 James Franck Germany “for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom”
Gustav Hertz Germany  
1926 Jean Baptiste Perrin France “for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium”
1927 Arthur Holly Compton United States “for his discovery of the effect named after him
  Charles Thomson Rees Wilson United Kingdom “for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour”
1928 Owen Willans Richardson United Kingdom “for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him”
1929 Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie France “for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons”
1930 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman India “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him”
1931      
1932 Werner Heisenberg Germany “for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen”
1933 Erwin Schrödinger Austria “for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory”
Paul Dirac United Kingdom  
1934      
1935 James Chadwick United Kingdom “for the discovery of the neutron”
1936 Victor Francis Hess Austria “for his discovery of cosmic radiation”
  Carl David Anderson United States “for his discovery of the positron”
1937 Clinton Joseph Davisson United States “for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”
  George Paget Thomson United Kingdom  
1938 Enrico Fermi Italy “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 United States “for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements”
1940      
1941      
1942      
1943 Otto Stern United States “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 United States “for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei”
1945 Wolfgang Pauli Austria “for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli principle
1946 Percy Williams Bridgman United States “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 Edward Victor Appleton United Kingdom “for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer
1948 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett United Kingdom “for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation”
1949 Hideki Yukawa Japan “for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces”
1950 Cecil Frank Powell United Kingdom “for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method”
1951 John Douglas Cockcroft United Kingdom “for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles”
  Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton Ireland  
1952 Felix Bloch United States “for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith”
  Edward Mills Purcell United States  
1953 Frits Zernike Netherlands “for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope
1954 Max Born United Kingdom “for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction”
  Walther Bothe West Germany “for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith”
1955 Willis Eugene Lamb United States “for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum”
  Polykarp Kusch United States “for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron”
1956 John Bardeen United States “for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect”
  Walter Houser Brattain United States  
  William Bradford Shockley United States  
1957 Tsung-Dao Lee Republic of China “for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles
Chen Ning Yang Republic of China
1958 Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov Soviet Union “for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect
  Il’ya Frank Soviet Union  
  Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm Soviet Union  
1959 Owen Chamberlain United States “for their discovery of the antiproton”
  Emilio Gino Segrè Italy
1960 Donald Arthur Glaser United States “for the invention of the bubble chamber”
1961 Robert Hofstadter United States “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 West Germany “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 Davidovich Landau Soviet Union “for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium”
1963 Eugene Paul Wigner United States “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 United States “for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure”
  J. Hans D. Jensen West Germany  
1964 Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov Soviet Union “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”
  Aleksandr Prokhorov Soviet Union  
  Charles Hard Townes United States  
1965 Richard Phillips Feynman United States “for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles”
  Julian Schwinger United States  
  Sin-Itiro Tomonaga Japan  
1966 Alfred Kastler France “for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms”
1967 Hans Albrecht Bethe United States “for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars”
1968 Luis Walter Alvarez United States “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 Murray Gell-Mann United States “for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions”
1970 Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén Sweden “for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics
Louis Néel France “for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics[71]
1971 Dennis Gabor United Kingdom “for his invention and development of the holographic method”
1972 John Bardeen United States “for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory
  Leon Neil Cooper United States  
  John Robert Schrieffer United States  
1973 Leo Esaki Japan “for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively”
  Ivar Giaever United States
Norway
 
  Brian David Josephson United Kingdom “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 United Kingdom “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”
Antony Hewish United Kingdom  
1975 Aage Bohr Denmark “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 Denmark  
  Leo James Rainwater United States  
1976 Burton Richter United States “for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind”
  Samuel Chao Chung Ting United States
1977 Philip Warren Anderson United States “for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems”
  Nevill Francis Mott United Kingdom  
  John Hasbrouck Van Vleck United States  
1978 Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa Soviet Union “for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics”
  Arno Allan Penzias United States “for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation”
  Robert Woodrow Wilson United States  
1979 Sheldon Lee Glashow United States “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
  Abdus Salam Pakistan  
  Steven Weinberg United States  
1980 James Watson Cronin United States “for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons
Val Logsdon Fitch United States  
1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen United States “for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy”
  Arthur Leonard Schawlow United States  
  Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn Sweden “for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy”
1982 Kenneth G. Wilson United States “for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions”
1983 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar India, United States “for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars”
  William Alfred Fowler United States “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 Italy “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 Netherlands  
1985 Klaus von Klitzing West Germany “for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect”
1986 Ernst Ruska West Germany “for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope”
  Gerd Binnig West Germany “for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope”
  Heinrich Rohrer Switzerland  
1987 Johannes Georg Bednorz West Germany “for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials”
  Karl Alexander Müller Switzerland  
1988 Leon Max Lederman United States “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”
  Melvin Schwartz United States  
  Jack Steinberger United States  
1989 Norman Foster Ramsey United States “for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks”
  Hans Georg Dehmelt United States “for the development of the ion trap technique”
  Wolfgang Paul West Germany  
1990 Jerome I. Friedman United States “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”
  Henry Way Kendall United States  
  Richard E. Taylor Canada  
1991 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes France “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 Georges Charpak France “for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber
1993 Russell Alan Hulse United States “for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation”
  Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. United States  
1994 Bertram Brockhouse Canada “for the development of neutron spectroscopy” and “for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter
  Clifford Glenwood Shull United States “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 United States “for the discovery of the tau lepton” and “for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics”
  Frederick Reines United States “for the detection of the neutrino” and “for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics”
1996 David Morris Lee United States “for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3”
  Douglas D. Osheroff United States  
  Robert Coleman Richardson United States  
1997 Steven Chu United States “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.”
  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji France  
  William Daniel Phillips United States  
1998 Robert B. Laughlin United States “for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations”
  Horst Ludwig Störmer Germany  
  Daniel Chee Tsui United States  
1999 Gerardus ‘t Hooft Netherlands “for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics”
  Martinus J. G. Veltman Netherlands
2000 Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Russia “for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and optoelectronics”
  Herbert Kroemer Germany
  Jack St. Clair Kilby United States “for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit”
2001 Eric Allin Cornell United States “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 Edwin Wieman United States  
  Wolfgang Ketterle Germany  
2002 Raymond Davis, Jr. United States “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos”
  Masatoshi Koshiba Japan  
  Riccardo Giacconi United States “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources”
2003 Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov Russia
United States
“for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids”
  Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg Russia  
  Anthony James Leggett United Kingdom
United States
 
2004 David J. Gross United States “for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction”
  H. David Politzer United States  
  Frank Wilczek United States  
2005 Roy J. Glauber United States “for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence”
  John L. Hall United States “for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique”
  Theodor W. Hänsch Germany  
2006 John C. Mather United States “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”
  George F. Smoot United States  
2007 Albert Fert France “for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance”
  Peter Grünberg Germany
2008 Makoto Kobayashi Japan “for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”
  Toshihide Maskawa Japan
  Yoichiro Nambu United States “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”[109]
2009 Charles K. Kao Hong Kong
United Kingdom
United States
“for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication”
  Willard S. Boyle Canada
United States
“for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor”
  George E. Smith United States  
2010 Andre Geim Netherlands “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”
  Konstantin Novoselov Russia
United Kingdom
 

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