Academic Team - Nobel Prize Winners (Physics)

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1975 "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."

Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson and Leo James Rainwater

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 "For his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid."

Albert Abraham Michelson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 "For his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."

Albert Einstein

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 "For the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance."

Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 "For pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids."

Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1966 "For the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms."

Alfred Kastler

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 "For groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene."

Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 "In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity." "In recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."

Antoine Henri Becquerel Pierre Curie and Marie Curie

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 "For his discovery of the effect named after him." "For his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by the condensation of vapor."

Arthur Holly Compton Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1994 "For pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter." "For the development of neutron spectroscopy." "For the development of the neutron diffraction technique."

Bertram N. Brockhouse Clifford G. Shull

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 "For their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind."

Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984 "For their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction."

Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950 "For his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method."

Cecil Frank Powell

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1920 "In recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys."

Charles Edouard Guillaume

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1917 "For his discovery of the characteristic Rontgen radiation of the elements."

Charles Glover Barkla

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 "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."

Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 "For groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication." "For the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor."

Charles Kuen Kau William S. Boyle and George E. Smith

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 "For their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles."

Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937 "For their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals."

Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thompson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 "For the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction."

David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 "For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter."

David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 "For their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3."

David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1971 "For his invention and development of the holographic method."

Dennis Gabor

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960 "For the invention of the bubble chamber"

Donald Arthur Glaser

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959 "For their discovery of the antiproton."

Emilio Gino Segre and Own Chamberlain

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 "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."

Enrico Fermi

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 "For the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates."

Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 "For the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements."

Ernest Orlando Lawrence

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 "For his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope." "For their design of the scanning tunneling microscope."

Ernest Ruska Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 "For the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory."

Erwin Schrodinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 "For his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles." "For their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure."

Eugene Paul Wigner Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952 "For their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith."

Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 "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."

Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1953 "For his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope."

Frits Zernike

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1908 "For his method of reproducing colors photographically based on the phenomenon of interference."

Gabriel Lippmann

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 "For his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber."

Georges Charpak

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 "For elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics."

Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 "In recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy."

Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1970 "For fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro-dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics." "For fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important application in solid state physics."

Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven Louis Eugene Felix Neel

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1967 "For his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars."

Hans Albrecht Bethe

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1913 "For his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium."

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1902 "In recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena."

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1949 "For his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces."

Hideki Yukawa

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 "For the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources."

Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1944 "For his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei."

Isidor Isaac Rabi

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1987 "For their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials."

J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alexander Muller

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935 "For the discovery of the neutron."

James Chadwick

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 "For their discoveries of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."

James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980 "For the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons."

James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926 "For his work on the discontinuous structure of matter and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium."

Jean Baptiste Perrin

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 "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."

Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall and Richard E. Taylor

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1910 "For his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids."

Johannes Diderik van der Waals

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1919 "For his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields."

Johannes Stark

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 "For their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory."

John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 "For their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation."

John C. Mather and George F. Smoot

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906 "In recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases."

Joseph John (J.J.) Thompson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1924 "For his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy."

Karl Manne George Siegbahn

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1982 "For his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions."

Kenneth G. Wilson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1985 "For the discovery of the quantized Hall effect."

Klaus von Klitzing

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 "For their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively." "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."

Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever Brian David Josephson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 "For the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino."

Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 "For his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium."

Lev Davidovich Landau

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1904 "For his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies."

Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt)

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1968 "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."

Luis Walter Alvarez

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 "For pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics." "For the discovery of the tau lepton." "For the detection of the neutrino."

Martin L. Perl Frederick Reines

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 "For his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction." "For the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith."

Max Born Walther Bothe

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 "In recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta."

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1914 "For his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals"

Max von Laue

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1969 "For his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions."

Murray Gell-Mann

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1981 "For their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy." "For his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy."

Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Leonard Schawlow Kai M. Siegbahn

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 "For his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them."

Niels Henrik David Bohr

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1912 "For his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys."

Nils Gustaf Dalén

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989 "For the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks." "For the development of the ion trap technique."

Norman F. Ramsey Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 "For his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton."

Otto Stern

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928 "For his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him."

Owen Willans Richardson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1948 "For his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation."

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958 "For the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect."

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1946 "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."

Percy Williams Bridgman

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977 "For their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems."

Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck van Vleck

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1905 "For his work on cathode rays."

Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1991 "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."

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929 "For his discovery of the wave nature of electrons"

Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 "For his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics." "For their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation."

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 "For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves."

Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 "For pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos." "For pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources."

Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba Riccardo Giacconi

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1923 "For his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect."

Robert Andrews Millikan

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998 "For their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations."

Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Stormer and Daniel C. Tsui

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961 "For his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons."

Robert Hofstadter

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 "For his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence." "For their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique."

Roy J. Glauber John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hansch

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1993 "For the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation."

Russell A. Hulse and Joseph H. Taylor Jr.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 "For the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."

Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 "For ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."

Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 "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."

Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 "For their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles."

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 "For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him."

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1947 "For his investigation of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer."

Sir Edward Victor Appleton

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 "For their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles."

Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1974 "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."

Sir Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 "For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays."

Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 "For the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light."

Stephen Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Philips

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 "For his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars." "For his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe."

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar William Alfred Fowler

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015 "For the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass."

Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936 "For his discovery of cosmic radiation." "For his discovery of the positron."

Victor Franz Hess Carl David Anderson

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 "For the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen."

Werner Karl Heisenberg

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 "In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him."

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1911 "For his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat."

Wilhelm Wien

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 "For their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect."

William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 "For his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum." "For his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron."

Willis Eugene Lamb Polykarp Kusch

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1945 "For his discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle."

Wolfgang Pauli

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 "For the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics." "For the discovery of the origin of broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."

Yoichiro Nambu Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000 "For basic work on information and communication technology." "For developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics." "For his part in the invention of the integrated circuit."

Zhores I. Alferov and Herbert Kroemer Jack S. Kilby