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The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 113 times to 213 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2019. 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 212 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Click on the links to get more information.

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 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 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”

“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 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”

Kenneth G. Wilson “for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions”

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 1971 Dennis Gabor “for his invention and development of the holographic method”

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 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”

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 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”

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 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 1928 Owen Willans Richardson “for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him”

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 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 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 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 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 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”