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List of Nobel laureates in Physics

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List of Nobel laureates in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysik) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel (who died in 1896), awarded for outstanding contributions in physics. As dictated by Nobel's will, the award is administered by the Nobel Foundation and awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years.

Tables

· Laureates
Image
Image
Year
Image
Laureate
Name
1901
1901
Year
1901
Laureate
Laureate
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Country
Germany
Citation
"In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him."
1902
1902
Year
1902
Laureate
Laureate
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Country
Netherlands
Citation
"In recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena."
1903
1903
Year
1903
Laureate
Laureate
Antoine Henri Becquerel
Country
France
Citation
"In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity."
1904
1904
Year
1904
Laureate
Laureate
Lord Rayleigh
Country
United Kingdom
Citation
"For his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies."
1905
1905
Year
1905
Laureate
Laureate
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
Country
Germany
Citation
"For his work on cathode rays."
1906
1906
Year
1906
Laureate
Laureate
Joseph John Thomson
Country
United Kingdom
Citation
"In recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases."
1907
1907
Year
1907
Laureate
Laureate
Albert Abraham Michelson
Country
United States
Citation
"For his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid."
1908
1908
Year
1908
Laureate
Laureate
Gabriel Lippmann
Country
France
Citation
"For his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference."
1909
1909
Year
1909
Laureate
Laureate
Guglielmo Marconi
Country
United Kingdom
Citation
"In recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy."
1910
1910
Year
1910
Laureate
Laureate
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Country
Netherlands
Citation
"For his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids."
1911
1911
Year
1911
Laureate
Laureate
Wilhelm Wien
Country
Germany
Citation
"For his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat."
1912
1912
Year
1912
Laureate
Laureate
Nils Gustaf Dalén
Country
Sweden
Citation
"For his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys."
1913
1913
Year
1913
Laureate
Laureate
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Country
Netherlands
Citation
"For his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium."
1914
1914
Year
1914
Laureate
Laureate
Max von Laue
Country
Germany
Citation
"For his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals."
1915
1915
Year
1915
Laureate
Laureate
William Henry Bragg
Country
United Kingdom
Citation
"For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays."
1916
1916
Year
1916
Laureate
No award
1917
1917
Year
1917
Laureate
Laureate
Charles Glover Barkla
Country
United Kingdom
Citation
"For his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements."
1918
1918
Year
1918
Laureate
Laureate
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
Country
Germany
Citation
"In recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta."
1919
1919
Year
1919
Laureate
Laureate
Johannes Stark
Country
Germany
Citation
"For his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields."
1920
1920
Year
1920
Laureate
Laureate
Charles Édouard Guillaume
Country
France
Citation
"In recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys."
1921
1921
Year
1921
Laureate
Laureate
Albert Einstein
Country
Germany
Citation
"For his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."
1922
1922
Year
1922
Laureate
Laureate
Niels Henrik David Bohr
Country
Denmark
Citation
"for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them."
1923
1923
Year
1923
Laureate
Laureate
Robert Andrews Millikan
Country
United States
Citation
"For his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect."
1924
1924
Year
1924
Laureate
Laureate
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
Country
Sweden
Citation
"For his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy."
1925
1925
Year
1925
Laureate
Laureate
James Franck
Country
Germany
Citation
"For their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."
1926
1926
Year
1926
Laureate
Laureate
Jean Baptiste Perrin
Country
France
Citation
"For his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium."
1927
1927
Year
1927
Laureate
Laureate
Arthur Holly Compton
Country
United States
Citation
"For his discovery of the effect named after him."
1928
1928
Year
1928
Laureate
Laureate
Owen Willans Richardson
Country
United Kingdom
Citation
"For his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him."
1929
1929
Year
1929
Laureate
Laureate
Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
Country
France
Citation
"For his discovery of the wave nature of electrons."
1930
1930
Year
1930
Laureate
Laureate
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Country
India
Citation
"For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him."
1931
1931
Year
1931
Laureate
No award
1932
1932
Year
1932
Laureate
Laureate
Werner Karl Heisenberg
Country
Germany
Citation
"For the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen."
1933
1933
Year
1933
Laureate
Laureate
Erwin Schrödinger
Country
Germany
Citation
"For the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory."
1934
1934
Year
1934
Laureate
No award
1935
1935
Year
1935
Laureate
Laureate
James Chadwick
Country
United Kingdom
Citation
"For the discovery of the neutron."
1936
1936
Year
1936
Laureate
Laureate
Victor Franz Hess
Country
Austria
Citation
"For his discovery of cosmic radiation."
1937
1937
Year
1937
Laureate
Laureate
Clinton Joseph Davisson
Country
United States
Citation
"For their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals."
1938
1938
Year
1938
Laureate
Laureate
Enrico Fermi
Country
Italy
Citation
"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."
1939
1939
Year
1939
Laureate
Laureate
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
Country
United States
Citation
"For the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements."
1940
1940
Year
1940
Laureate
No award
1941
1941
Year
1941
Laureate
No award
1942
1942
Year
1942
Laureate
No award
1943
1943
Year
1943
Laureate
Laureate
Otto Stern
Country
United States
Citation
"For his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton."
1944
1944
Year
1944
Laureate
Laureate
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Country
United States
Citation
"For his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei."
1945
1945
Year
1945
Laureate
Laureate
Wolfgang Pauli
Country
United States
Citation
"For the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle."
1946
1946
Year
1946
Laureate
Laureate
Percy Williams Bridgman
Country
United States
Citation
"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."
1947
1947
Year
1947
Laureate
Laureate
Edward Victor Appleton
Country
United Kingdom
Citation
"For his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called Appleton layer."
1948
1948
Year
1948
Laureate
Laureate
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Country
United Kingdom
Citation
"For his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation."
1949
1949
Year
1949
Laureate
Laureate
Hideki Yukawa
Country
United States  Japan
Citation
"For his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces."
1950
1950
Year
1950
Laureate
Laureate
Cecil Frank Powell
Country
United Kingdom
Citation
"For his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method."
1951
1951
Year
1951
Laureate
Laureate
John Douglas Cockcroft
Country
United Kingdom
Citation
"For their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles."
1952
1952
Year
1952
Laureate
Laureate
Felix Bloch
Country
United States
Citation
"For their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith."
1953
1953
Year
1953
Laureate
Laureate
Frits Zernike
Country
Netherlands
Citation
"For his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope."
1954
1954
Year
1954
Laureate
Laureate
Max Born
Country
United Kingdom
Citation
"For his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction."
1955
1955
Year
1955
Laureate
Laureate
Willis Eugene Lamb
Country
United States
Citation
"For his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum."
1956
1956
Year
1956
Laureate
Laureate
William Bradford Shockley
Country
United States
Citation
"For their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect."
1957
1957
Year
1957
Laureate
Laureate
Chen Ning Yang
Country
Republic of China
Citation
"For their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles."
1958
1958
Year
1958
Laureate
Laureate
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
Country
Soviet Union
Citation
"For the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect."
1959
1959
Year
1959
Laureate
Laureate
Emilio Gino Segrè
Country
United States
Citation
"For their discovery of the antiproton."
Year
Laureate
Country
Citation
Ref.
Image
Name
1901
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Germany
"In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him."
1902
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Netherlands
"In recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena."
Pieter Zeeman
1903
Antoine Henri Becquerel
France
"In recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity."
Pierre Curie
"In recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel."
Marie Curie
1904
Lord Rayleigh
United Kingdom
"For his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies."
1905
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
Germany
"For his work on cathode rays."
1906
Joseph John Thomson
United Kingdom
"In recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases."
1907
Albert Abraham Michelson
United States
"For his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid."
1908
Gabriel Lippmann
France
"For his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference."
1909
Guglielmo Marconi
United Kingdom
"In recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy."
Karl Ferdinand Braun
Germany
1910
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Netherlands
"For his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids."
1911
Wilhelm Wien
Germany
"For his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat."
1912
Nils Gustaf Dalén
Sweden
"For his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys."
1913
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Netherlands
"For his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium."
1914
Max von Laue
Germany
"For his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals."
1915
William Henry Bragg
United Kingdom
"For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays."
William Lawrence Bragg
1916
No award
1917
Charles Glover Barkla
United Kingdom
"For his discovery of the characteristic Röntgen radiation of the elements."
1918
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
Germany
"In recognition of the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta."
1919
Johannes Stark
Germany
"For his discovery of the Doppler effect in canal rays and the splitting of spectral lines in electric fields."
1920
Charles Édouard Guillaume
France
"In recognition of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys."
1921
Albert Einstein
Germany
"For his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."
1922
Niels Henrik David Bohr
Denmark
"for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them."
1923
Robert Andrews Millikan
United States
"For his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect."
1924
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
Sweden
"For his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy."
1925
James Franck
Germany
"For their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
1926
Jean Baptiste Perrin
France
"For his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium."
1927
Arthur Holly Compton
United States
"For his discovery of the effect named after him."
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
United Kingdom
"For his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour."
1928
Owen Willans Richardson
United Kingdom
"For his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him."
1929
Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
France
"For his discovery of the wave nature of electrons."
1930
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
India
"For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him."
1931
No award
1932
Werner Karl Heisenberg
Germany
"For the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen."
1933
Erwin Schrödinger
Germany
"For the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory."
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
United Kingdom
1934
No award
1935
James Chadwick
United Kingdom
"For the discovery of the neutron."
1936
Victor Franz Hess
Austria
"For his discovery of cosmic radiation."
Carl David Anderson
United States
"For his discovery of the positron."
1937
Clinton Joseph Davisson
United States
"For their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals."
George Paget Thomson
United Kingdom
1938
Enrico Fermi
Italy
"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."
· Laureates › Number of Nobel laureates in Physics by country
United States
United States
Country
United States
Number
113
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Country
United Kingdom
Number
28
Germany
Germany
Country
Germany
Number
23
France
France
Country
France
Number
16
Switzerland
Switzerland
Country
Switzerland
Number
10
Russia /  Soviet Union
Russia /  Soviet Union
Country
Russia /  Soviet Union
Number
9
Japan
Japan
Country
Japan
Number
8
Netherlands
Netherlands
Country
Netherlands
Number
7
Sweden
Sweden
Country
Sweden
Number
5
Canada
Canada
Country
Canada
Number
3
Denmark
Denmark
Country
Denmark
Number
3
Italy
Italy
Country
Italy
Number
3
Austria
Austria
Country
Austria
Number
2
Republic of China
Republic of China
Country
Republic of China
Number
2
Australia
Australia
Country
Australia
Number
1
Belgium
Belgium
Country
Belgium
Number
1
China
China
Country
China
Number
1
India
India
Country
India
Number
1
Ireland
Ireland
Country
Ireland
Number
1
Country
Number
United States
113
United Kingdom
28
Germany
23
France
16
Switzerland
10
Russia / Soviet Union
9
Japan
8
Netherlands
7
Sweden
5
Canada
3
Denmark
3
Italy
3
Austria
2
Republic of China
2
Australia
1
Belgium
1
China
1
India
1
Ireland
1

References

  1. The country in which the laureate's academic affiliation is based, according to the Nobel Prize website.
    https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes-in-physics/
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    http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/
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    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/
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  10. "Nobel Prize in Physics 1914"
    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1914/index.html
  11. "Nobel Prize in Physics 1917"
    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1917/index.html
  12. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918"
    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1918/index.html
  13. "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921"
    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/index.html
  14. "Nobel Prize in Physics 1924"
    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1924/index.html
  15. "Nobel Prize in Physics 1925"
    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1925/index.html
  16. "Nobel Prize in Physics 1928"
    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1928/index.html
  17. "Nobel Prize in Physics 1932"
    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1932/index.html
  18. "Nobel Prize in Physics 1943"
    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1943/index.html
  19. PLOS ONE
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7390258
  20. "Nobel Prize in Physics 1901"
    http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1901/index.html
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