The Complete List of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics

Awarded for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat.

Awarded for discovery of automatic regulators used in lighting lighthouses and light buoys.

Awarded for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium.

Awarded for discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals.

Awarded for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.

Awarded for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta.

Awarded for discovery of Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields.

Awarded for his discoveries of anomalies in nickel-steel alloys.

Awarded for discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.

Awarded for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy.

Awarded for discovery of laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom.

Awarded for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium.

Awarded for discovery of the wave nature of electrons.

Awarded for discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory.

Awarded for the discovery of the neutron.

Awarded for discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons and for identification of new radioactivity elements.

Awarded for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements.

Awarded for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton.

Awarded for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei.

Awarded for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli principle.

Awarded 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.

Awarded for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer.

Awarded for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation.

Awarded for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces.

Awarded for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method.

Awarded for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles.

Awarded for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith.

Awarded for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope.

Awarded for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction.

Awarded for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith.

Awarded for discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum.

Awarded for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron.

Awarded for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.

Awarded for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles.

Awarded for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect.

Awarded for discovery of antiproton.

Awarded for the invention of the bubble chamber.

Awarded for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons.

Awarded for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium.

Awarded for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles.

Awarded for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure.

Awarded 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.

Awarded for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.

Awarded for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms.

Awarded for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars.

Awarded discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis.

Awarded for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.

Awarded for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics.

Awarded for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics.

Awarded for invention and development of the holographic method.

Awarded for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory.

Awarded for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively.

Awarded 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

Awarded for their observations and inventions: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars.

Awarded 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.

Awarded for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.

Awarded for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.

Awarded for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics.

Awarded for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.

Awarded 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.

Awarded for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons.

Awarded for development of laser spectroscopy.

Awarded for development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy.

Awarded for phenomena in connection with phase transitions.

Awarded for study of the structure and evolution of the stars.

Awarded for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe.

Awarded for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction.

Awarded for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect.

Awarded for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope.

Awarded for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope.

Awarded for their breakthrough in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials.

Awarded for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.

Awarded for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks.

Awarded for the development of the ion trap technique.

Awarded 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.

Awarded 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.

Awarded for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber.

Awarded for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation.

Awarded for the development of neutron spectroscopy and for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter.

Awarded for the development of the neutron diffraction technique and for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter.

Awarded for discovery of tau lepton and contribution to lepton physics.

Awarded for discovery of neutrino and contribution to lepton physics.

Awarded for discovery of superfluidity in helium-3.

Awarded for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.

Awarded for discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.

Awarded for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics.

Awarded for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed and optoelectronics.

Awarded for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit.

Awarded achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.

Awarded for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos.

Awarded for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources.

Awarded for contribution to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.

Awarded for discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.

Awarded for contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence.

Awarded for development of laser-based precision spectroscopy and the optical frequency comb technique.

Awarded for discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.

Awarded for discovery of giant magnetoresistance.

Awarded for discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry that predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.

Awarded for discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.

Awarded for achievements regarding the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication.

Awarded for discovery of an imaging semiconductor circuit – CCD sensor.

Awarded for experiments concerning the two-dimensional material graphene.

Awarded for discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.

Awarded for methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.

Awarded for theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.

Awarded for their invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.

Awarded for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.