The Nobel Prize
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Nobel Prizes in Physics
- 1901: Wilhelm Röntgen
- 1902: Hendrik Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman
- 1903: Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, and Marie Curie
- 1904: Lord Rayleigh
- 1905: Philipp Lenard
- 1906: J. J. Thomson
- 1907: Albert Michelson
- 1908: Gabriel Lippmann
- 1909: Guglielmo Marconi and Ferdinand Braun
- 1910: Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- 1911: Wilhelm Wien
- 1912: Gustaf Dalén
- 1913: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
- 1914: Max von Laue
- 1915: William Bragg and Lawrence Bragg
- 1917: Charles Barkla
- 1918: Max Planck
- 1919: Johannes Stark
- 1920: Charles Edouard Guillaume
- 1921: Albert Einstein
- 1922: Niels Bohr
- 1923: Robert Millikan
- 1924: Manne Siegbahn
- 1925: James Franck and Gustav Hertz
- 1926: Jean Baptiste Perrin
- 1927: Arthur Compton and C. T. R. Wilson
- 1928: Owen Willans Richardson
- 1929: Louis de Broglie
- 1930: C. Venkata Raman
- 1932: Werner Heisenberg
- 1933: Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Dirac
- 1935: James Chadwick
- 1936: Victor F. Hess and Carl Anderson
- 1937: Clinton Davisson and George Thomson
- 1938: Enrico Fermi
- 1939: Ernest Lawrence
- 1943: Otto Stern
- 1944: I. I. Rabi
- 1945: Wolfgang Pauli
- 1946: Percy Bridgman
- 1947: Edward Appleton
- 1948: Patrick Blackett
- 1949: Hideki Yukawa
- 1950: Cecil Powell
- 1951: John Cockroft and Ernest Walton
- 1952: Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell
- 1953: Frits Zernike
- 1954: Max Born and Walther Bothe
- 1955: Willis Lamb and Polykarp Kusch
- 1956: William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain
- 1957: Chen-Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee
- 1958: Pavel Cherenkov, Il'ja Frank, and Igor Tamm
- 1959: Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain
- 1960: Donald Glaser
- 1961: Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Mössbauer
- 1962: Lev Landau
- 1963: Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert Mayer, and J. Hans D. Jensen
- 1964: Charles Townes, Nicolay Basov, and Aleksandr Prokhorov
- 1965: Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard Feynman
- 1966: Alfred Kastler
- 1967: Hans Bethe
- 1968: Luis Alvarez
- 1969: Murray Gell-Mann
- 1970: Hannes Alfvén and Louis Néel
- 1971: Dennis Gabor
- 1972: John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer
- 1973: Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, and Brian Josephson
- 1974: Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish
- 1975: Aage Bohr, Ben Mottelson, and James Rainwater
- 1976: Burton Richter and Samuel Ting
- 1977: Philip Anderson, Nevill Mott, and John Van Vleck
- 1978: Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias, and Robert W. Wilson
- 1979: Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven Weinberg
- 1980: James Cronin and Val Fitch
- 1981: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Schawlow, and Kai Siegbahn
- 1982: Kenneth Wilson
- 1983: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and William Fowler
- 1984: Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer
- 1985: Klaus von Klitzing
- 1986: Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, and Heinrich Rohrer
- 1987: J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller
- 1988: Leon Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, and Jack Steinberger
- 1989: Norman Ramsey, Hans Dehmelt, and Wolfgang Paul
- 1990: Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, and Richard Taylor
- 1991: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
- 1992: Georges Charpak
- 1993: Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor Jr.
- 1994: Bertram Brockhouse and Clifford Shull
- 1995: Martin Perl and Frederick Reines
- 1996: David Lee, Douglas Osheroff, and Robert Richardson
- 1997: Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, and William Phillips
- 1998: Robert Laughlin, Horst Störmer, and Daniel Tsui
- 1999: Gerard 't Hooft and Martinus Veltman
- 2000: Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, and Jack Kilby
- 2001: Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman
- 2002: Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, and Riccardo Giacconi
- 2003: Alexei Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginzburg, and Anthony Leggett
- 2004: David Gross, H. David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek
- 2005: Roy Glauber, John Hall, and Theodor Hänsch
- 2006: John Mather and George Smoot
- 2007: Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg
- 2008: Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa
- 2009: Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George E. Smith
- 2010: Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov
- 2011: Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess
- 2012: Serge Haroche and David Wineland
