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2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks

Geoffrey Hinton

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

John Hopfield

United States of America

2023 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter

Anne L'Huillier

Sweden, France

Ferenc Krausz

Austria, Hungary

Pierre Agostini

United States of America, France

2022 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science

Alain Aspect

France

Anton Zeilinger

Austria

John F. Clauser

United States of America

2021 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming

Klaus Hasselmann

Germany

Syukuro Manabe

United States of America, Japan

2021 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales

Giorgio Parisi

Italy

2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity

Roger Penrose

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

2020 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy

Andrea M. Ghez

United States of America

Reinhard Genzel

Germany

2019 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology

Jim Peebles

United States of America, Canada

2019 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star

Didier Queloz

Switzerland

Michel Mayor

Switzerland

2018 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the development of optical tweezers and their application to biological systems

Arthur Ashkin

United States of America

2018 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the development of a method for generating high-intensity, ultra-short laser pulses

Donna Strickland

Canada

Gérard Mourou

France

2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves

Barry Barish

United States of America

Kip Thorne

United States of America

Rainer Weiss

United States of America, Germany

2016 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter

David J. Thouless

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America

Duncan Haldane

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Slovenia

Michael Kosterlitz

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America

2015 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass (Nucl. Phys. B-Proc. Suppl. 77 (1999) 123 〈Kajita〉, 43 〈McDonald〉)

Arthur B. McDonald

Canada

Takaaki Kajita

Japan

2014 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which have enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources

Hiroshi Amano

Japan

Isamu Akasaki

Japan

Shuji Nakamura

United States of America, Japan

2013 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

For the theoretical discovery of the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism, proposed in 1964, which explains how elementary particles acquire mass and was later confirmed by the observation of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The award cites the seminal papers Phys. Rev. Lett. 13 (1964) 321 (Englert & Brout), Phys. Rev. Lett. 13 (1964) 508 (Higgs), and Phys. Rev. 145 (1966) 1156 (Higgs).

François Englert

Belgium

Peter Higgs

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

2012 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems

David J. Wineland

United States of America

Serge Haroche

France, Morocco

2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae (Astrophys. J.: 517 (1999) 565-586; Astrophys. J.: 507 (1998) 46-63; Astron. J.: 116 (1998) 1009-1038)

Adam Riess

United States of America

Brian Schmidt

Australia, United States of America

Saul Perlmutter

United States of America

2010 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene

Andre Geim

Netherlands, Russian Federation

Konstantin Novoselov

Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

2009 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication

Charles K. Kao

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Taiwan, Province of China

2009 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor

George E. Smith

United States of America

Willard Boyle

United States of America, Canada

2008 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics (Phys. Rev. 117 (1960) 648; Phys. Rev. 122 (1961) 345-358; Phys. Rev. 124 (1961) 246-254)

Yoichiro Nambu

United States of America, Japan

2008 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature (Progress of Theoretical Physics 49 (1973) 652-657)

Makoto Kobayashi

Japan

Toshihide Maskawa

Japan

2007 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

Discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR). Key papers: M.N. Baibich et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 61 (1988) 2472–2475 (Fert group) and G. Binasch et al., Phys. Rev. B 39 (1989) 4828–4830 (Grünberg group).

Albert Fert

France

Peter Grünberg

Germany

2006 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the discovery of the black-body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation (Astrophys. J. 420 (1994) 439-444; Astrophys. J. 464 (1996) L1-L4)

George F. Smoot

United States of America

John C. Mather

United States of America

2005 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

For his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence. In a series of papers, including Phys. Rev. Lett. 10 (1963) 84-86, Phys. Rev. 130 (1963) 2529-2539, and Phys. Rev. 131 (1963) 2766-2788, he created a consistent framework that treats light as both particles and waves.

Roy J. Glauber

United States of America

2005 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

For their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique. Through papers such as Science 288 (2000) 635-639, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 72 (2001) 3749-3771, and Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 270801, they connected optical frequencies across the visible and infrared ranges to absolute references.

John L. Hall

United States of America

Theodor W. Hänsch

Germany

2004 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for the theoretical discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction, as reported in a series of papers (Phys. Rev. Lett. 30 (1973) 1343–1346; Phys. Rev. D 8 (1973) 3633–3652; Phys. Rev. D 9 (1974) 980–993; Phys. Rev. Lett. 30 (1973) 1346–1349; Phys. Rep. 14 (1974) 129–180).

David J. Gross

United States of America

Frank Wilczek

United States of America

H. David Politzer

United States of America

2003 Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Physics

for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids (Sov. Phys. JETP 5 (1957) 1174–1182; Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 32 (1957) 1442–1452; Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 20 (1950) 1064–1082; Phys. Rev. 140 (1965) A1869–A1888; Phys. Rev. 147 (1966) 119–130; Phys. Rev. Lett. 29 (1972) 1227–1230; Phys. Rev. Lett. 31 (1973) 352–355; Rev. Mod. Phys. 47 (1975) 331–414; Phys. Rev. Lett. 46 (1981) 211–214)