Nobel Prize in Physics

All Nobel Prize in Physics laureates since 1901.

Laureate(s)

119
 

Start

1901
 

Latest edition

2025
 

Not awarded

6
 
Year Laureate(s)
2025
  • John Clarke
  • Michel H. Devoret
  • John M. Martinis
2024
  • John J. Hopfield
  • Geoffrey E. Hinton
2023
  • Pierre Agostini
  • Ferenc Krausz
  • Anne L'Huillier
2022
  • Alain Aspect
  • John F. Clauser
  • Anton Zeilinger
2021
  • Syukuro Manabe
  • Klaus Hasselmann
  • Giorgio Parisi
2020
  • Roger Penrose
  • Reinhard Genzel
  • Andrea Ghez
2019
  • James Peebles
  • Michel Mayor
  • Didier Queloz
2018
  • Arthur Ashkin
  • Gérard Mourou
  • Donna Strickland
2017
  • Rainer Weiss
  • Barry C. Barish
  • Kip S. Thorne
2016
  • David J. Thouless
  • F. Duncan M. Haldane
  • J. Michael Kosterlitz
2015
  • Takaaki Kajita
  • Arthur B. McDonald
2014
  • Isamu Akasaki
  • Hiroshi Amano
  • Shuji Nakamura
2013
  • François Englert
  • Peter W. Higgs
2012
  • Serge Haroche
  • David J. Wineland
2011
  • Saul Perlmutter
  • Brian P. Schmidt
  • Adam G. Riess
2010
  • Andre Geim
  • Konstantin Novoselov
2009
  • Charles K. 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
  • 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
  • Nikolay 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
  • Owen Chamberlain
  • Emilio Gino Segrè
1958
  • Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
  • Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank
  • Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
1957
  • Chen Ning Yang
  • Tsung-Dao Lee
1956
  • William Bradford Shockley
  • John Bardeen
  • Walter Houser Brattain
1955
  • Willis Eugene Lamb
  • Polykarp Kusch
1954
  • Max Born
  • Walther Bothe
1953 Frits Zernike
1952
  • Felix Bloch
  • Edward Mills Purcell
1951
  • John Douglas Cockcroft
  • Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
1950 Cecil Frank Powell
1949 Hideki Yukawa
1948 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
1947 Edward Victor Appleton
1946 Percy Williams Bridgman
1945 Wolfgang Pauli
1944 Isidor Isaac Rabi
1943 Otto Stern
1942 Not awarded
1941 Not awarded
1940 Not awarded
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 Not awarded
1933
  • Erwin Schrödinger
  • Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
1932 Werner Heisenberg
1931 Not awarded
1930 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
1929 Louis de Broglie
1928 Owen Willans Richardson
1927
  • Arthur Holly Compton
  • Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
1926 Jean Baptiste Perrin
1925
  • James Franck
  • Gustav Hertz
1924 Manne Siegbahn
1923 Robert Andrews Millikan
1922 Niels Bohr
1921 Albert Einstein
1920 Charles Edouard Guillaume
1919 Johannes Stark
1918 Max Planck
1917 Charles Glover Barkla
1916 Not awarded
1915
  • William Henry Bragg
  • William Lawrence Bragg
1914 Max von Laue
1913 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1912 Nils Gustaf Dalén
1911 Wilhelm Wien
1910 Johannes van der Waals
1909
  • Guglielmo Marconi
  • Karl Ferdinand Braun
1908 Gabriel Lippmann
1907 Albert Michelson
1906 J.J. Thomson
1905 Philipp Lenard
1904 Lord Rayleigh
1903
  • Henri Becquerel
  • Pierre Curie
  • Marie Curie
1902
  • Hendrik Lorentz
  • Pieter Zeeman
1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen