List of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics – Current Affairs
Nobel Prize is the most honoured award in the world that is being given to the person(s) who have conferred the greatest benefit to the mankind. Nobel Prizes are announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences every year in the memory of Alfred Nobel. Every Prize shall be given to the person who made important discovery/invention/improvement in the field of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and who produced outstanding work in the field of literature and for promotion of peace/fraternity between the nations.
List of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics :
Year
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Name of the Noble Laureate
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Year
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Name of the Noble Laureate
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1901
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Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
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1958
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Pavel Alekseyevich Cheren-Kov, Ilja Mikhailovich Franck and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
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1902
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Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman
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1959
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Emilio Gino Segre and Owen Chamberlain
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1903
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Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, nee Sklodowska
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1960
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Donald Arthur Glaser
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1904
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Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt)
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1961
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Robert Hofstadter & Rudolf Ludwig Mossbauer
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1905
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Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
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1962
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Lev Davidovich Landau
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1906
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Joseph John Thomson
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1963
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Eugene Paul Wigner & Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen
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1907
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Albert Abraham Michelson
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1964
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Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennediyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
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1908
|
Gabriel Lippmann
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1965
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Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger and Richard P. Feynman
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1909
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Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun
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1966
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Alfred Kastler
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1910
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals
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1967
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Hans Albrecht Bethe
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1911
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Wilhelm Wien
|
1968
|
Luis Walter Alvarez
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1912
|
Nils Gustaf Dalen
|
1969
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Murray Gell-Mann
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1913
|
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
|
1970
|
Hanees Olof Gosto Alfven & Louis Eugene Felix Neel
|
1914
|
Max von Laue
|
1971
|
Dennis Gabor
|
1915
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Sir William Henry Bragg & William Lawrence Bragg
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1972
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John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer
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1916
|
No prize was awarded this year
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1973
|
Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever & Brian David Josephson
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1917
|
Charles Glover Barkla
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1974
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Sir Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish
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1918
|
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
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1975
|
Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson & Leo James Rainwater
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1919
|
Johannes Stark
|
1976
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Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting
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1920
|
Charles Edouard Guillaume
|
1977
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Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck van Vleck
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1921
|
Albert Einstein
|
1978
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Pyotr Leonidovich Kapista
|
1922
|
Niels Henrik David Bohr
|
1979
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Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg
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1923
|
Robert Andrews Millikan
|
1980
|
James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch
|
1924
|
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
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1981
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Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Kai M. Siegbahn
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1925
|
James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz
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1982
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Kenneth G. Wilson
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1926
|
Jean Baptiste Perrin
|
1983
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Subramanyan Chandrasekhar & William Alfred Fowler
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1927
|
Arthur Holly Compton & Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
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1984
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Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer
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1928
|
Owen Willans Richardson
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1985
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Klaus von Klitzing
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1929
|
Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
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1986
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Ernst Ruska & Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer
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1930
|
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
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1987
|
J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alexander Muller
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1931
|
No prize was awarded this year.
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1988
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Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger
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1932
|
Werner Karl Heisenberg
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1989
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Norway F. Ramsey & Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul
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1933
|
Erwin Schrodinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
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1990
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Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall and Richard E. Taylor
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1934
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No prize was awarded this year.
|
1991
|
Pierre-Gilles de Gannes
|
1935
|
James Chadwick
|
1992
|
Georges Charpak
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1936
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Victor Franz Hess & Carl David Anderson
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1993
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Russell A.Hulse and Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
|
1937
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Clinton Joseph Davission and George Paget Thomson
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1994
|
Bertram N. Brockhouse & Clifford G. Shull
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1938
|
Enrico Fermi
|
1995
|
Martin L.Perl & Frederick Reines
|
1939
|
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
|
1996
|
David M. Lee, Doughlas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson
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1940
|
No prize was awarded
|
1997
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Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips
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1941
|
No prize was awarded
|
1998
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Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Stormer and Daniel C. Tsui
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1942
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No prize was awarded
|
1999
|
Gerardus ‘t Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman
|
1943
|
Otto Stern
|
2000
|
Zhores I. Alferov and Herbert Kroemer & Jack S. Kilby
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1944
|
Isidor Issac Rabi
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2001
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Eric A. Cornell, Wolfganf Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman
|
1945
|
Wolfgang Pauli
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2002
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Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba & Riccardo Giacconi
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1946
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Percy Williams Bridgman
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2003
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Alexi A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. GInzburg & Anthony J. Leggett
|
1947
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Sir Edward Victor Appleton
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2004
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David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek
|
1948
|
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
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2005
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Roy J. Glauber & John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hansch
|
1949
|
Hideki Yukawa
|
2006
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John C. Mather and George F. Smoot
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1950
|
Cecil Frank Powell
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2007
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Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg
|
1951
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
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2008
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Yoichiro Nambu & Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa
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1952
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Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell
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2009
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Charles Kuen Kao & Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith
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1953
|
Frits (Frederik) Zernike
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2010
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Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov
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1954
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Max Born & Walther Bothe
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2011
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Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess
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1955
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Willis Eugene Lamb & Polykarp Kusch
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2012
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Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland
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1956
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William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain
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2013
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Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs
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1957
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Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee
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