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List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. 177 awards have been given as of 2005. Winners 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s | Year | Name | Topics |
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| 1940 | | The prize money was with ? allocated to the Main Fund and with ? to the Special Fund of this prize section. | | 1941 | | 1942 | | 1943 | Otto Stern | "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 | "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei" | | 1945 | Wolfgang Pauli | "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli principle" | | 1946 | Percy Williams Bridgman | "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 | Sir Edward Victor Appleton | "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 | "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 | "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces". See: Yukawa potential | |
1950s | Year | Name | Topics |
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| 1950 | Cecil Frank Powell | "for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method" | | 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" | | 1952 | Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell | "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith" | | 1953 | Frits Zernike | "for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope" | | 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" | | 1955 | Willis Eugene Lamb | "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". See: Lamb shift | | Polykarp Kusch | "for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron" | | 1956 | William Bradford Shockley , John Bardeen , and Walter Houser Brattain | "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect" | | 1957 | Chen Ning Yang |"for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles" | | 1958 | Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov , Il'ia Frank , and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm | "for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov-Vavilov effect" | | 1959 | Emilio Gino Segre and Owen Chamberlain | "for their discovery of the antiproton" | |
1960s | Year | Name | Topics |
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| 1960 | Donald Arthur Glaser | "for the invention of the bubble chamber" | | 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". See:Mossbauer effect | | 1962 | Lev Davidovich Landau | "for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium" | | 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" | | 1964 | Charles Hard Townes , Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov , and Aleksandr 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" | | 1965 | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga , Julian Schwinger , and Richard Phillips Feynman | "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles" | | 1966 | Alfred Kastler | "for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms" | | 1967 | Hans Albrecht Bethe | "for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars" | | 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" | | 1969 | Murray Gell-Mann | "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions". See: Eightfold way | |
1970s | Year | Name | Topics |
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| 1970 | Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén | "for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics" | | Louis Eugene Félix Néel | "for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics" | | 1971 | Dennis Gabor | "for his invention and development of the holographic method" | | 1972 | John Bardeen , Leon Neil Cooper , and John Robert Schrieffer | "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory" | | 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 effect" | | 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" | | 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" | | 1976 | Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting | "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind". In other words: for discovery of the J/? particle as it confirmed the idea that baryonic matter is made out of quarks. | | 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" | | 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" | | 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" | |
1980s | Year | Name | Topics |
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| 1980 | James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch | "for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons". See: CP-violation | | 1981 | Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Leonard Schawlow | "for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy" | | Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn | "for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy" | | 1982 | Kenneth G. Wilson | "for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions" | | 1983 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars". See Chandrasekhar limit | | 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" | | 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" | | 1985 | Klaus von Klitzing | "for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect" | | 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" | | 1987 | Johannes Georg Bednorz and Karl Alexander Müller | "for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials" | | 1988 | Leon Max 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" | | 1989 | Norman Foster Ramsey | "for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks" | | Hans Georg Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul | "for the development of the ion trap technique" | |
1990s | Year | Name | Topics |
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| 1990 | Jerome Isaac Friedman , Henry Way Kendall , and Richard Edward 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" | | 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" | | 1992 | Georges Charpak | "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber" | | 1993 | Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. | "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation" | 1994
| Both | "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter" | | Bertram Neville Brockhouse | "for the development of neutron spectroscopy" | | Clifford Glenwood Shull | "for the development of the neutron diffraction technique" | 1995
| Both | "for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics" | | Martin Lewis Perl | "for the discovery of the tau lepton" | | Frederick Reines | "for the detection of the neutrino" | | 1996 | David Morris Lee , Douglas Dean Osheroff , and Robert Coleman Richardson | "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3" | | 1997 | Steven Chu , Claude Cohen-Tannoudji , and William Daniel Phillips | "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light" | | 1998 | Robert B. Laughlin , Horst Ludwig Störmer , and Daniel Chee Tsui | "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations". See: Quantum Hall effect | | 1999 | Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman | "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics" | |
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