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=== Physics me nobel prize jiite waala<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/ Nobel.org]</ref> jiske Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decide kare hae ===
 
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! Year
 
! colspan=2|Laureate{{ref|1|[A]}}
!width="20%"|Year!!width= "40%"|Name
! Country{{ref|2|[B]}}
! Rationale{{ref|3|[C]}}
|-
|1901
|[[1901]]||[[Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen]]
|[[Image:WilhelmRöntgen.JPG|75px]]
|[[Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen]]
|[[Germany]]
|"[for] the discovery of the remarkable [[Röntgen ray|rays]] subsequently named after him"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1901/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1902
|[[1902]]||[[Hendrik A. Lorentz]]''' + '''[[Pieter Zeeman]]
|[[Image:Hendrik Antoon Lorentz.jpg|75px]]
|[[Hendrik Lorentz]]
|[[Netherlands]]
|rowspan=2|"[for] their researches into the influence of [[magnetism]] upon radiation phenomena"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1902 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1902/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Pieter Zeeman.jpg|75px]]
|[[1903]]||[[Henri Becquerel]]''' + '''[[Pierre Curie]]''' + '''[[Marie Curie]]
| [[Pieter Zeeman]]
| Netherlands
|-
|rowspan=3|1903
|[[1904]]||[[Lord Rayleigh]]
|[[Image:Becquerel Henri photograph.jpg|75px]]
|[[Henri Becquerel|Antoine Henri Becquerel]]
| [[France]]
|"[for] his discovery of spontaneous [[radioactivity]]"<ref name=N1903>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Pierrecurie2.jpg|75px]]
|[[1905]]||[[Philipp Lenard]]
|[[Pierre Curie]]
| France
|rowspan=2|"[for] their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]"<ref name=N1903/>
|-
|[[Image:Mariecurie.jpg|75px]]
|[[1906]]||[[J.J. Thomson]]
|[[Marie Curie]]
| Poland / France
|-
|1904
|[[1907]]||[[Albert A. Michelson]]
|[[Image:John William Strutt.jpg|75px]]
|[[John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh|John William Strutt]]
| [[United Kingdom]]
|"for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of [[argon]] in connection with these studies"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1904 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1904/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1905
|[[1908]]||[[Gabriel Lippmann]]
|[[Image:Phillipp Lenard in 1900.jpg|75px]]
|[[Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard]]
| Germany
|"for his work on [[cathode ray]]s"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1905 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1905/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1906
|[[1909]]||[[Guglielmo Marconi]]''' + '''[[Ferdinand Braun]]
|[[File:Jj-thomson3.jpg|75px]]
|[[J. J. Thomson|Joseph John Thomson]]
| United Kingdom
|"[for] his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1906 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1906/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1907
|[[1910]]||[[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]]
|[[File:Albert Abraham Michelson2.jpg|75px]]
|[[Albert Abraham Michelson]]
| [[United States]]
|"for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1907/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1908
|[[1911]]||[[Wilhelm Wien]]
|[[File:G lippmann.jpg|75px]]
|[[Gabriel Lippmann]]
| France
|"for [[Lippmann plate|his method of reproducing colours photographically]] based on the phenomenon of [[Interference (wave propagation)|interference]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1908 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1908/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1909
|[[1912]]||[[Gustaf Dalén]]
|[[Image:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|75px]]
|[[Guglielmo Marconi]]
| [[Italy]]
|rowspan=2|"[for] their contributions to the [[Invention of radio|development of wireless telegraphy]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1909/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Ferdinand Braun.jpg|75px]]
|[[1913]]||[[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]]
|[[Karl Ferdinand Braun]]
| Germany
|-
|1910
|[[1914]]||[[Max von Laue]]
|[[Image:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg|75px]]
|[[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]]
| Netherlands
|"for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1910 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1910/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1911
|[[1915]]||[[William Bragg]]''' + '''[[Lawrence Bragg]]
|[[File:Wilhelm Wien 1911.jpg|75px]]
|[[Wilhelm Wien]]
| Germany
|"for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1911 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1911/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1912
|[[1916]]||''No prize awarded''
|[[Image:Nils Gustaf Dalén.jpg|75px]]
|[[Gustaf Dalén|Nils Gustaf Dalén]]
| [[Sweden]]
|"for his invention of [[Sun valve|automatic valves]] designed to be used in combination with gas accumulators in [[lighthouses]] and buoys"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1912 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1912/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1913
|[[1917]]||[[Charles Glover Barkla]]
|[[Image:Kamerlingh portret.jpg|75px]]
|[[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes|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]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1913 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1913/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1914
|[[1918]]||[[Max Planck]]
|[[Image:Max von Laue.jpg|75px]]
|[[Max von Laue]]
| Germany
|"For his discovery of the [[X-ray crystallography|diffraction of X-rays]] by crystals"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1914 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1914/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>, an important step in the development of [[X-ray spectroscopy]].
|-
|rowspan=2|1915
|[[1919]]||[[Johannes Stark]]
|[[Image:William Henry Bragg 2.jpg|75px]]
|[[William Henry Bragg]]
| United Kingdom
|rowspan=2|"For their services in the analysis of [[crystal structure]] by means of X-rays"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1915/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>, an important step in the development of [[X-ray crystallography]]
|-
|[[File:Wl-bragg.jpg|75px]]
|[[1920]]||[[Charles Edouard Guillaume]]
|[[William Lawrence Bragg]]
| United Kingdom
|-
|1916
|[[1921]]||[[Albert Einstein]]
| colspan=4 align=center|''Not awarded''
|-
|1917
|[[1922]]||[[Niels Bohr]]
|[[Image:Charles Glover Barkla.jpg|75px]]
|[[Charles Glover Barkla]]
| United Kingdom
|"For his discovery of the [[X-ray fluorescence|characteristic Röntgen radiation]] of the elements"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1917 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1917/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>, another important step in the development of [[X-ray spectroscopy]]
|-
|1918
|[[1923]]||[[Robert A. Millikan]]
|[[File:Max Planck (Nobel 1918).jpg|75px]]
|[[Max Planck]]
| Germany
|"[for] the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy [[quantum mechanics|quanta]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1918 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1918/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1919
|[[1924]]||[[Manne Siegbahn]]
|[[Image:Johannes Stark.jpg|75px]]
|[[Johannes Stark]]
| Germany
|"for his discovery of the [[Doppler effect]] in canal rays and the splitting of [[spectral line]]s in [[electric field]]s"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1919 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1919/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1920
|[[1925]]||[[James Franck]]''' + '''[[Gustav Hertz]]
|[[File:Guillaume 1920.jpg|75px]]
|[[Charles Édouard Guillaume]]
| [[Switzerland]]
|"[for] the service he has rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel-steel alloys"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1920 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1920/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1921
|[[1926]]||[[Jean Baptiste Perrin]]
|[[Image:Einstein1921 by F Schmutzer 4.jpg|75px]]
|[[Albert Einstein]]
| Germany
|"for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the [[photoelectric effect]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1922
|[[1927]]||[[Arthur H. Compton]]''' + '''[[C.T.R. Wilson]]
|[[Image:Niels Bohr.jpg|75px]]
|[[Niels Bohr]]
| [[Denmark]]
|"for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1922/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1923
|[[1928]]||[[Owen Willans Richardson]]
|[[File:Robert-millikan2.jpg|75px]]
|[[Robert Andrews Millikan]]
| United States
|"for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the [[photoelectric effect]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1923| publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1923/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1924
|[[1929]]||[[Louis de Broglie]]
|[[File:Manne Siegbahn.jpg|75px]]
|[[Manne Siegbahn]]
| Sweden
|"for his discoveries and research in the field of [[X-ray spectroscopy]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1924 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1924/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1925
|[[1930]]||[[Venkata Raman]]
|[[File:James Franck.jpg|75px]]
|[[James Franck]]
| Germany
|rowspan=2|"for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an [[electron]] upon an atom"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1925 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1925/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Gustav Ludwig Hertz.jpg|75px]]
|[[1931]]||''No prize awarded''
|[[Gustav Ludwig Hertz|Gustav Hertz]]
|Germany
|-
|1926
|[[1932]]||[[Werner Heisenberg]]
|[[Image:Jean Baptiste Perrin.jpg|75px]]
|[[Jean Baptiste Perrin]]
| France
|"for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter, and especially for his discovery of [[sedimentation equilibrium]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1926 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1926/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1927
|[[1933]]||[[Erwin Schrödinger]]''' + '''[[Paul A.M. Dirac]]
|[[Image:Arthur Holly Compton.gif|75px]]
|[[Arthur Compton|Arthur Holly Compton]]
| United States
|"for his discovery of the [[Compton effect|effect named after him]]"<ref name=N1927>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1927 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1927/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Charles Thomson Rees Wilson at 1927 Solvay conference.jpg|75px]]
|[[1934]]||''No prize awarded''
|[[Charles Thomson Rees Wilson]]
| United Kingdom
|"for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour"<ref name=N1927/>
|-
|1928
|[[1935]]||[[James Chadwick]]
|[[Image:Niels BohrUpOwenWillansRichardsonDownSolvay1927.JPG|75px]]
|[[Owen Willans Richardson]]
| United Kingdom
|"for his work on the [[Thermionic emission|thermionic phenomenon]] and especially for the discovery of [[Thermionic emission#Richardson's Law|the law named after him]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1928 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1928/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1929
|[[1936]]||[[Victor F. Hess]]''' + '''[[Carl D. Anderson]]
|[[Image:Broglie Big.jpg|75px]]
|[[Louis de Broglie|Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie]]
| France
|"for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1929 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1929/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1930
|[[1937]]||[[Clinton Davisson]]''' + '''[[George Paget Thomson]]
|[[File:CVRaman.jpg|75px]]
|[[C. V. Raman|Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman]]
|[[India]]
|"for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the [[Raman scattering|effect named after him]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1930/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1931
|[[1938]]||[[Enrico Fermi]]
| colspan=4 align=center|''Not awarded''
|-
|1932
|[[1939]]||[[Ernest Lawrence]]
|[[Image:Werner Heisenberg at 1927 Solvay Conference.JPG|75px]]
|[[Werner 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"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1932/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1933
|[[1940]]||''No prize awarded''
|[[Image:Erwin Schrödinger.jpg|75px]]
|[[Erwin Schrödinger]]
| [[Austria]]
|rowspan=2|"for the discovery of new productive forms of [[atomic theory]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1933/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Dirac.gif|75px]]
|[[1941]]||''No prize awarded''
|[[Paul Dirac]]
| United Kingdom
|-
|1934
|[[1942]]||''No prize awarded''
| colspan=4 align=center|''Not awarded''
|-
|1935
|[[1943]]||[[Otto Stern]]
|[[Image:Chadwick.jpg|75px]]
|[[James Chadwick]]
| United Kingdom
|"for the discovery of the [[neutron]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935| publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1935/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1936
|[[1944]]||[[Isidor Isaac Rabi]]
|[[Image:Hess.jpg|75px]]
|[[Victor Francis Hess]]
| Austria
|"for his discovery of [[cosmic ray|cosmic radiation]]"<ref name="N1936">{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1936/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Carl anderson.1937.jpg|75px]]
|[[1945]]||[[Wolfgang Pauli]]
|[[Carl David Anderson]]
| United States
|"for his discovery of the [[positron]]"<ref name="N1936"/>
|-
|rowspan=2|1937
|[[1946]]||[[Percy W. Bridgman]]
|[[File:Clinton Davisson.jpg|75px]]
|[[Clinton Davisson|Clinton Joseph Davisson]]
| United States
|rowspan=2|"for their experimental discovery of the [[electron diffraction|diffraction of electrons]] by crystals"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1937/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:George Paget Thomson.jpg|75px]]
|[[1947]]||[[Edward V. Appleton]]
|[[George Paget Thomson]]
| United Kingdom
|-
|1938
|[[1948]]||[[Patrick M.S. Blackett]]
|[[Image:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|75px]]
|[[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"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1938 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1938/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1939
|[[1949]]||[[Hideki Yukawa]]
| [[Image:Ernest Orlando Lawrence.jpg|75px]]
|[[Ernest Lawrence]]
| United States
|"for the invention and development of the [[cyclotron]] and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1939/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1940
|[[1950]]||[[Cecil Powell]]
| colspan=4 align=center|''Not awarded''
|-
|1941
|[[1951]]||[[John Cockcroft]]''' + '''[[Ernest T.S. Walton]]
| colspan=4 align=center|''Not awarded''
|-
|1942
|[[1952]]||[[Felix Bloch]]''' + '''[[E. M. Purcell]]
| colspan=4 align=center|''Not awarded''
|-
|1943
|[[1953]]||[[Frits Zernike]]
|[[File:OttoStern.jpg|75px]]
|[[Otto Stern]]
| United States
|"for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the [[magnetic moment]] of the [[proton]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1943 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1943/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1944
|[[1954]]||[[Max Born]]''' + '''[[Walther Bothe]]
|[[File:Isidor Isaac Rabi.jpg|75px]]
|[[Isidor Isaac Rabi]]
| United States
|"for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1944 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1944/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1945
|[[1955]]||[[Willis E. Lamb]]''' + '''[[Polykarp Kusch]]
|[[File:Wolfgang Pauli young.jpg|75px]]
|[[Wolfgang Ernst Pauli|Wolfgang Pauli]]
| Austria
|"for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the [[Pauli principle]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1945 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1945/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1946
|[[1956]]||[[William B. Shockley]]''' + '''[[John Bardeen]]''' + '''[[Walter H. Brattain]]
|[[File:Percy Williams Bridgman.jpg|75px]]
|[[Percy Williams Bridgman]]
| United States
|"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]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1946 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1946/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1947
|[[1957]]||[[Chen Ning Yang]]''' + '''[[Tsung-Dao Lee]]
|[[Image:EVAppleton.jpg|75px]]
|[[Edward Victor Appleton]]
| United Kingdom
|"for his investigations of the physics of the upper atmosphere especially for the discovery of the so-called [[Appleton layer]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1947 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1947/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1948
|[[1958]]||[[Pavel A. Cherenkov]]''' + '''[[Il´ja M. Frank]]''' + '''[[Igor Y. Tamm]]
|[[File:Blackett-large.jpg|75px]]
|[[Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett|Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett]]
| United Kingdom
|"for his development of the Wilson [[cloud chamber]] method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1948 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1948/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1949
|[[1959]]||[[Emilio Segrè]]''' + '''[[Owen Chamberlain]]
|
|[[Hideki Yukawa]]
| [[Japan]]
|"for his prediction of the existence of [[meson]]s on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1949 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1949/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1950
|[[1960]]||[[Donald A. Glaser]]
|
|[[Cecil Frank Powell]]
| United Kingdom
|"for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1950/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1951
|[[1961]]||[[Robert Hofstadter]]''' + '''[[Rudolf Mössbauer]]
|
|[[John Cockcroft|John Douglas Cockcroft]]
| United Kingdom
|rowspan=2|"for their pioneer work on the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1951 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1951/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Ernest Walton.jpg|75px]]
|[[1962]]||[[Lev Landau]]
|[[Ernest Walton|Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton]]
| [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1952
|[[1963]]||[[Eugene Wigner]]''' + '''[[Maria Goeppert-Mayer]]''' + '''[[J. Hans D. Jensen]]
|[[File:Felix Bloch, Stanford University.jpg|75px]]
|[[Felix Bloch]]
| United States
|rowspan=2|"for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1952 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1952/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Edward Purcell.jpg|75px]]
|[[1964]]||[[Charles H. Townes]]''' + '''[[Nicolay G. Basov]]''' + '''[[Aleksandr M. Prokhorov]]
|[[Edward Mills Purcell]]
| United States
|-
|1953
|[[1965]]||[[Sin-Itiro Tomonaga]]''' + '''[[Julian Schwinger]]''' + '''[[Richard P. Feynman]]
|[[File:Zernike.jpg|75px]]
|[[Frits Zernike]]
| Netherlands
|"for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the [[phase contrast microscope]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1953 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1953/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1954
|[[1966]]||[[Alfred Kastler]]
|[[File:Max Born.jpg|75px]]
|[[Max Born]]
| United Kingdom
|"for his fundamental research in [[quantum mechanics]], especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction"<ref name="N54">{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1954/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Bothe.jpg|75px]]
|[[1967]]||[[Hans Bethe]]
|[[Walther Bothe]]
| West Germany
|"for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"<ref name="N54"/>
|-
|rowspan=2|1955
|[[1968]]||[[Luis Alvarez]]
|[[File:Willis Lamb 1955.jpg|75px]]
|[[Willis Eugene Lamb]]
| United States
|"for his discoveries concerning the [[fine structure]] of the hydrogen spectrum"<ref name="N55">{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1955/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Polykarp Kusch.jpg|75px]]
|[[1969]]||[[Murray Gell-Mann]]
|[[Polykarp Kusch]]
| United States
|"for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"<ref name="N55"/>
|-
|rowspan=3|1956
|[[1970]]||[[Hannes Alfvén]]''' + '''[[Louis Néel]]
|[[Image:Bardeen.jpg|75px]]
|[[John Bardeen]]
| United States
|rowspan=3|"for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the [[transistor]] effect"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1956/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Brattain.jpg|75px]]
|[[1971]]||[[Dennis Gabor]]
|[[Walter Houser Brattain]]
| United States
|-
|[[File:William Shockley, Stanford University.jpg|75px]]
|[[1972]]||[[John Bardeen]]''' + '''[[Leon N. Cooper]]''' + '''[[Robert Schrieffer]]
|[[William Shockley|William Bradford Shockley]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=2|1957
|[[1973]]||[[Leo Esaki]]''' + '''[[Ivar Giaever]]''' + '''[[Brian D. Josephson]]
|[[Image:TD Lee-med.jpg|75px]]
|[[Tsung-Dao Lee]]
| {{nowrap|[[Republic of China]]}}
|rowspan=2|"for their penetrating investigation of the so-called [[parity violation|parity laws]] which has led to important discoveries regarding the [[elementary particles]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1957/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:CNYang.jpg|75px]]
|[[1974]]||[[Martin Ryle]]''' + '''[[Antony Hewish]]
|[[Chen Ning Yang]]
| Republic of China
|-
|rowspan=3|1958
|[[1975]]||[[Aage N. Bohr]]''' + '''[[Ben R. Mottelson]]''' + '''[[James Rainwater]]
|[[File:Cerenkov.jpg|75px]]
|[[Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov]]
| [[Soviet Union]]
|rowspan=3|"for the discovery and the interpretation of the [[Cherenkov-Vavilov effect|Cherenkov effect]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1958/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Ilya Frank.jpg|75px]]
|[[1976]]||[[Burton Richter]]''' + '''[[Samuel C.C. Ting]]
|[[Ilya Frank|Il'ya Frank]]
| Soviet Union
|-
|
|[[1977]]||[[Philip W. Anderson]]''' + '''[[Sir Nevill F. Mott]]''' + '''[[John H. van Vleck]]
|[[Igor Tamm|Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm]]
| Soviet Union
|-
|rowspan=2|1959
|[[1978]]||[[Pyotr Kapitsa]]''' + '''[[Arno Penzias]]''' + '''[[Robert Woodrow Wilson]]
|[[Image:Owen Chamberlain.jpg|75px]]
|[[Owen Chamberlain]]
| United States
|rowspan=2|"for their discovery of the [[antiproton]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1959/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Segre.jpg|75px]]
|[[1979]]||[[Sheldon Glashow]]''' + '''[[Abdus Salam]]''' + '''[[Steven Weinberg]]
|[[Emilio G. Segrè|Emilio Gino Segrè]]
| Italy
|-
|1960
|[[1980]]||[[James Cronin]]''' + '''[[Val Fitch]]
|[[Image:Donald Glaser.jpg|75px]]
|[[Donald A. Glaser|Donald Arthur Glaser]]
| United States
|"for the invention of the [[bubble chamber]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1960/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1961
|[[1981]]||[[Nicolaas Bloembergen]]''' + '''[[Arthur L. Schawlow]]''' + '''[[Kai M. Siegbahn]]
|[[File:Robert Hofstadter.jpg|75px]]
|[[Robert Hofstadter]]
| United States
|"for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"<ref name=N61>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1961/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Mossbauer.jpg|75px]]
|[[1982]]||[[Kenneth G. Wilson]]
|[[Rudolf Mössbauer|Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer]]
| West Germany
|"for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of [[gamma radiation]] and his discovery in this connection of the [[Mössbauer effect|effect]] which bears his name"<ref name=N61/>
|-
|1962
|[[1983]]||[[Subramanyan Chandrasekhar]]''' + '''[[William A. Fowler]]
|
|[[Lev Landau|Lev Davidovich Landau]]
| Soviet Union
|"for his pioneering theories for [[condensed matter]], especially [[liquid helium]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1962/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=3|1963
|[[1984]]||[[Carlo Rubbia]]''' + '''[[Simon van der Meer]]
|[[File:Wigner.jpg|75px]]
|[[Eugene Wigner|Eugene Paul Wigner]]
| United States
|"for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"<ref name=N63>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1963/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
||[[Image:Maria Goeppert-Mayer.gif|75px]]
|[[1985]]||[[Klaus von Klitzing]]
|[[Maria Goeppert-Mayer]]
| United States
|rowspan=2|"for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"<ref name=N63/>
|-
|[[Image:Jensen.jpg|75px]]
|[[1986]]||[[Ernst Ruska]]''' + '''[[Gerd Binnig]]''' + '''[[Heinrich Rohrer]]
|[[J. Hans D. Jensen]]
| West Germany
|-
|rowspan=3|1964
|[[1987]]||[[J. Georg Bednorz]]''' + '''[[K. Alex Müller]]
|
|[[Nikolay Basov|Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov]]
| Soviet Union
|rowspan=3|"for fundamental work in the field of [[quantum electronics]], which has led to the construction of [[oscillator]]s and [[amplifier]]s based on the [[maser]]-[[laser]] principle"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1964/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Aleksandr Prokhorov.jpg|75px]]
|[[1988]]||[[Leon M. Lederman]]''' + '''[[Melvin Schwartz]]''' + '''[[Jack Steinberger]]
|[[Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov|Aleksandr Prokhorov]]
| Soviet Union
|-
|
|[[1989]]||[[Norman F. Ramsey]]''' + '''[[Hans G. Dehmelt]]''' + '''[[Wolfgang Paul]]
|[[Charles Hard Townes]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=3|1965
|[[1990]]||[[Jerome I. Friedman]]''' + '''[[Henry W. Kendall]]''' + '''[[Richard E. Taylor]]
|[[Image:Richard Feynman.png|75px]]
|[[Richard Feynman|Richard Phillips Feynman]]
| United States
|rowspan=3|"for their fundamental work in [[quantum electrodynamics]], with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Schwinger.jpg|75px]]
|[[1991]]||[[Pierre-Gilles de Gennes]]
|[[Julian Schwinger]]
| United States
|-
|[[Image:Tomonaga.jpg|75px]]
|[[1992]]||[[Georges Charpak]]
|[[Sin-Itiro Tomonaga]]
| Japan
|-
|1966
|[[1993]]||[[Russell A. Hulse]]''' + '''[[Joseph H. Taylor Jr.]]
| [[File:Kastler.jpg|75px]]
|[[Alfred Kastler]]
| France
|"for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1966 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1966/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1967
|[[1994]]||[[Bertram N. Brockhouse]]''' + '''[[Clifford G. Shull]]
|[[Image:Hans Bethe.jpg|75px]]
|[[Hans Bethe|Hans Albrecht Bethe]]
| United States
|"for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in [[star]]s"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1967 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1967/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1968
|[[1995]]||[[Martin L. Perl]]''' + '''[[Frederick Reines]]
|[[Image:Luis Alvarez ID badge.png|75px]]
|[[Luis Walter Alvarez]]
| United States
|"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"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1968 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1968/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1969
|[[1996]]||[[David M. Lee]]''' + '''[[Douglas D. Osheroff]]''' + '''[[Robert C. Richardson]]
|[[Image:Murray Gell-Mann.jpg|75px]]
|[[Murray Gell-Mann]]
| United States
|"for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1969 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1969/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1970
|[[1997]]||[[Steven Chu]]''' + '''[[Claude Cohen-Tannoudji]]''' + '''[[William D. Phillips]]
|[[Image:YoungAlfven.jpg|75px]]
|[[Hannes Alfvén|Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén]]
| Sweden
|"for fundamental work and discoveries in [[magneto-hydrodynamics]] with fruitful applications in different parts of [[plasma physics]]"<ref name=N70>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1970 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1970/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[1998]]||[[Robert B. Laughlin]]''' + '''[[Horst L. Störmer]]''' + '''[[Daniel C. Tsui]]
|[[Louis Néel]]
| France
|"for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in [[solid state physics]]"<ref name=N70/>
|-
|1971
|[[1999]]||[[Gerardus 't Hooft]]''' + '''[[Martinus J.G. Veltman]]
|
|[[Dennis Gabor]]
| United Kingdom
|"for his invention and development of the [[holography|holographic method]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1971 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1971/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=3|1972
|[[2000]]||[[Zhores I. Alferov]]''' + '''[[Herbert Kroemer]]''' + '''[[Jack S. Kilby]]
|[[Image:Bardeen.jpg|75px]]
|[[John Bardeen]]
| United States
|rowspan=3|"for their jointly developed theory of [[superconductivity]], usually called the [[BCS-theory]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1972/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[2001]]||[[Eric A. Cornell]]''' + '''[[Wolfgang Ketterle]]''' + '''[[Carl E. Wieman]]
|[[Leon Cooper|Leon Neil Cooper]]
| United States
|-
| [[File:Schrieffer.jpg|75px]]
|[[2002]]||[[Raymond Davis Jr.]]''' + '''[[Masatoshi Koshiba]]''' + '''[[Riccardo Giacconi]]
|[[John Robert Schrieffer]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=3|1973
|[[2003]]||[[Alexei A. Abrikosov]]''' + '''[[Vitaly L. Ginzburg]]''' + '''[[Anthony J. Leggett]]
|
|[[Leo Esaki]]
| Japan
|rowspan=2|"for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in [[semiconductor]]s and [[superconductor]]s, respectively"<ref name=N73>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1973/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Ivar Giaever.jpg|75px]]
|[[2004]]||[[David J. Gross]]''' + '''[[H. David Politzer]]''' + '''[[Frank Wilczek]]
|[[Ivar Giaever]]
| United States<br> Norway
|-
|[[File:Brian David Josephson.jpg|75px]]
|[[2005]]||[[Roy J. Glauber]]''' + '''[[John L. Hall]]''' + '''[[Theodor W. Hänsch]]
|[[Brian David Josephson]]
| United Kingdom
|"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]]"<ref name=N73/>
|-
|rowspan=2|1974
|[[2006]]||[[John C. Mather]]''' + '''[[George F. Smoot]]
|
|[[Martin Ryle]]
| United Kingdom
|rowspan=2|"for their pioneering research in [[Radio astronomy|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 [[pulsar]]s"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1974 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1974/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[Antony Hewish]]
| United Kingdom
|-
|rowspan=3|1975
|
|[[Aage Bohr]]
| Denmark
|rowspan=3|"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"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1975 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1975/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Mottelson,Ben 1963 Kopenhagen.jpg|75px]]
|[[Ben Roy Mottelson]]
| Denmark
|-
|
|[[James Rainwater|Leo James Rainwater]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=2|1976
|[[Image:Burton Richter - charm quark.jpg|75px]]
|[[Burton Richter]]
| United States
|rowspan=2|"for their pioneering work in the discovery of [[J/ψ meson|a heavy elementary particle]] of a new kind"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1976/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[Samuel C. C. Ting|Samuel Chao Chung Ting]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=3|1977
|[[Image:Andersonphoto.jpg|75px]]
|[[Philip Warren Anderson]]
| United States
|rowspan=3|"for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1977/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Sir Nevill Francis Mott.jpg|75px]]
|[[Nevill Francis Mott]]
| United Kingdom
|-
|
|[[John Hasbrouck Van Vleck]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=3|1978
|[[Image:KustodiyevSemenov Kapitsa.JPG|75px]]
|[[Pyotr Kapitsa|Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa]]
| Soviet Union
|"for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics"<ref name=N78>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1978/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Arno Penzias.jpg|75px]]
|[[Arno Allan Penzias]]
| United States
|rowspan=2|"for their discovery of [[cosmic microwave background radiation]]"<ref name=N78/>
|-
|[[Image:Wilson penzias200.jpg|75px]]
|[[Robert Woodrow Wilson]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=3|1979
|[[Image:Sheldon Glashow at Harvard.jpg|75px]]
|[[Sheldon Lee Glashow]]
| United States
|rowspan=3|"for their contributions to the theory of the [[electroweak force|unified weak and electromagnetic interaction]] between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the [[weak neutral current]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1979/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Abdus_salam.gif|75px]]
|[[Abdus Salam]]
| [[Pakistan]]
|-
|[[Image:Steven-weinberg.jpg|75px]]
|[[Steven Weinberg]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=2|1980
|[[Image:James Watson Cronin 2006.jpg|75px]]
|[[James Cronin|James Watson Cronin]]
| United States
|rowspan=2|"for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of [[neutral K-meson]]s"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1980 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1980/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[Val Logsdon Fitch]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=3|1981
|[[Image:Nico 2006 Tucson Wiki.png|75px]]
|[[Nicolaas Bloembergen]]
| United States
|rowspan=2|"for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy"<ref name=N81>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1981 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1981/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Artur Schawlow, Stanford University.jpg|75px]]
|[[Arthur Leonard Schawlow]]
| United States
|-
|
|[[Kai Siegbahn|Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn]]
| Sweden
|"for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy"<ref name=N81/>
|-
|1982
|
|[[Kenneth G. Wilson]]
| United States
|"for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1982 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1982/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1983
|
|[[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]]
| [[India]], [[United States]]
|"for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars"<ref name=N83>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1983/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[William Alfred Fowler]]
| United States
|"for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe"<ref name=N83/>
|-
|rowspan=2|1984
|[[Image:Carlo Rubbia W and Z bosons.jpg|75px]]
|[[Carlo Rubbia]]
| Italy
|rowspan=2|"for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1984 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1984/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[Simon van der Meer]]
| Netherlands
|-
|1985
|[[Image:Klausvonklitzing.jpg|75px]]
|[[Klaus von Klitzing]]
| West Germany
|"for the discovery of the [[Quantum Hall effect|quantized Hall effect]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1985 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1985/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=3|1986
|
|[[Ernst Ruska]]
| West Germany
|"for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first [[electron microscope]]"<ref name=N86>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1986 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1986/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Gerd Binnig sw.jpg|75px]]
|[[Gerd Binnig]]
| West Germany
|rowspan=2|"for their design of the [[scanning tunneling microscope]]"<ref name=N86/>
|-
|[[File:Rohrer.jpg|75px]]
|[[Heinrich Rohrer]]
| Switzerland
|-
|rowspan=2| 1987
|[[File:Ibmgb.jpg|75px]]
|[[Johannes Georg Bednorz]]
| West Germany
|rowspan=2| "for their important break-through in the discovery of [[superconductivity]] in [[ceramic]] materials"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1987 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1987/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Karl Alexander Mueller.jpg|75px]]
|[[Karl Alexander Müller]]
| Switzerland
|-
|rowspan=3|1988
|[[Image:Leon M. Lederman.jpg|75px]]
|[[Leon M. Lederman|Leon Max Lederman]]
| United States
|rowspan=3|"for the [[neutrino]] beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the [[lepton]]s through the discovery of the muon neutrino"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1988 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1988/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[Melvin Schwartz]]
| United States
|-
|[[File:Jack-Steinberger-2008.JPG|75px]]
|[[Jack Steinberger]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=3|1989
|
|[[Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.|Norman Foster Ramsey]]
| United States
|"for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks"<ref name=N89>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1989 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1989/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[Hans Georg Dehmelt]]
| United States
|rowspan=2|"for the development of the [[ion trap]] technique"<ref name=N89/>
|-
|
|[[Wolfgang Paul]]
| West Germany
|-
|rowspan=3|1990
|
|[[Jerome Isaac Friedman|Jerome I. Friedman]]
| United States
|rowspan=3|"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"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1990 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1990/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Henry Kendall by Tom Frost.jpg|75px]]
|[[Henry Way Kendall]]
| United States
|-
|
|[[Richard E. Taylor]]
| [[Canada]]
|-
|1991
|[[Image:Pierre-Gilles Rice University.jpg|75px]]
|[[Pierre-Gilles de Gennes]]
| France
|"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 crystal]]s and [[polymer]]s"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1991 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1991/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|1992
|[[File:CHARPAK Georges-24x50-2005.jpg|75px]]
|[[Georges Charpak]]
| France
|"for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the [[multiwire proportional chamber]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1992/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan=2|1993
|
|[[Russell Alan Hulse]]
| United States
|rowspan=2|"for the discovery of a [[PSR B1913+16|new type]] of [[pulsar]], a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of [[Gravitational wave|gravitation]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1993 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1993/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:2008JosephTaylorWithMarietta.jpg|75px]]
|[[Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=2|1994
|[[Image:Bertram Brockhouse.jpg|75px]]
|[[Bertram Brockhouse]]
| Canada
|"for the development of neutron spectroscopy" and "for pioneering contributions to the development of [[neutron scattering]] techniques for studies of [[condensed matter]]"<ref name=N94>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1994 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1994/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[Clifford Shull|Clifford Glenwood Shull]]
| United States
|"for the development of the [[neutron diffraction]] technique" and "for pioneering contributions to the development of [[neutron scattering]] techniques for studies of [[condensed matter]]"<ref name=N94/>
|-
|rowspan=2|1995
|[[Image:Martin Perl - tau.jpg|75px]]
|[[Martin Lewis Perl]]
| United States
|"for the discovery of the [[tau lepton]]" and "for pioneering experimental contributions to [[lepton]] physics"<ref name=N95>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1995/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Frederick Reines.jpg|75px]]
|[[Frederick Reines]]
| United States
|"for the detection of the [[neutrino]]" and "for pioneering experimental contributions to [[lepton]] physics"<ref name=N95/>
|-
|rowspan=3|1996
|
|[[David Lee (physicist)|David Morris Lee]]
| United States
|rowspan=3|"for their discovery of [[superfluid]]ity in [[helium-3]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1996/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Douglas Osheroff.jpg|75px]]
|[[Douglas D. Osheroff]]
| United States
|-
|[[Image:Robert Coleman Richardson.jpg|75px]]
|[[Robert Coleman Richardson]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=3|1997
|[[Image:Steven Chu official portrait headshot.jpg|75px]]
|[[Steven Chu]]
| United States
|rowspan=3|"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light."<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1997/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Claude Cohen-Tannoudji.JPG|75px]]
|[[Claude Cohen-Tannoudji]]
| France
|-
|[[Image:William Phillips-physicist photo.jpg|75px]]
|[[William Daniel Phillips]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=3|1998
|[[File:Robert Laughlin, Stanford University.jpg|75px]]
|[[Robert B. Laughlin]]
| United States
|rowspan=3|"for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1998/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Horst Störmer.jpg|75px]]
|[[Horst Ludwig Störmer]]
| Germany
|-
|
|[[Daniel C. Tsui|Daniel Chee Tsui]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=2|1999
|[[Image:GerardtHooft.jpg|75px]]
|[[Gerardus 't Hooft]]
| Netherlands
|rowspan=2|"for elucidating the quantum structure of [[electroweak interaction]]s in physics"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999| publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1999/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Martinus Veltman.jpg|75px]]
|[[Martinus J. G. Veltman]]
| Netherlands
|-
|rowspan=3|2000
|[[File:Zhores Alferov.jpg|75px]]
|[[Zhores Alferov|Zhores Ivanovich Alferov]]
|[[Russia]]
|rowspan=2|"for developing [[semiconductor]] heterostructures used in high-speed- and [[optoelectronics]]"<ref name=N00>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2000/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[Herbert Kroemer]]
| Germany
|-
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|[[Jack Kilby|Jack St. Clair Kilby]]
| United States
|"for his part in the invention of the [[integrated circuit]]"<ref name=N00/>
|-
|rowspan=3|2001
|rowspan=2|[[Image:WiemanandCornell.jpg|75px|Eric Cornell (right) and Carl Wieman (left)]]
|[[Eric Allin Cornell]]
| United States
|rowspan=3|"for the achievement of [[Bose-Einstein condensate|Bose-Einstein condensation]] in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2001/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Carl Wieman|Carl Edwin Wieman]]
| United States
|-
|[[Image:Ketterle.jpg|75px]]
|[[Wolfgang Ketterle]]
| Germany
|-
|rowspan=3|2002
|[[Image:Raymond Davis 1978.jpg|75px]]
|[[Raymond Davis, Jr.]]
|United States
|rowspan=2|"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic [[neutrino]]s"<ref name=N02>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2002/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[Masatoshi Koshiba]]
| Japan
|-
|[[Image:RiccardoGiacconi.jpg|75px]]
|[[Riccardo Giacconi]]
| United States
|"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"<ref name=N02/>
|-
|rowspan=3|2003
|[[Image:Abrikosov in a lecture.jpg|75px]]
|[[Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov]]
| Russia<br>United States
|rowspan=3|"for pioneering contributions to the theory of [[superconductivity|superconductors]] and superfluids"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2003/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург.jpg|75px]]
|[[Vitaly Ginzburg|Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg]]
| Russia
|-
|[[File:Anthony James Leggett.jpg|75px]]
|[[Anthony James Leggett]]
| United Kingdom<br>United States
|-
|rowspan=3|2004
|[[Image:David Gross cropped.JPG|75px]]
|[[David Gross|David J. Gross]]
| United States
|rowspan=3|"for the discovery of [[asymptotic freedom]] in the theory of the [[strong interaction]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2004/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[H. David Politzer]]
| United States
|-
|[[Image:FrankStockholm2004.jpg|75px]]
|[[Frank Wilczek]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=3|2005
|[[Image:Roy Glauber Dec 10 2005.jpg|75px]]
|[[Roy J. Glauber]]
| United States
|"for his contribution to the quantum theory of [[Coherence (physics)|optical coherence]]"<ref name=N05>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2005/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|
|[[John L. Hall]]
| United States
|rowspan=2|"for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision [[spectroscopy]], including the [[optical frequency comb]] technique"<ref name=N05/>
|-
|[[Image:Theodor W Haensch.jpg|75px]]
|[[Theodor W. Hänsch]]
| Germany
|-
|rowspan=2|2006
|[[Image:John-C-Mather.jpg|75px]]
|[[John C. Mather]]
| United States
|rowspan=2|"for their discovery of the [[blackbody|blackbody form]] and [[anisotropy]] of the [[cosmic microwave background radiation]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2006/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:George Smoot.jpg|75px]]
|[[George Smoot|George F. Smoot]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan=2|2007
|[[Image:Albert Fert at EP2DS 2007 in Genua PICT5745.jpg|75px]]
|[[Albert Fert]]
| France
|rowspan=2|"for the discovery of [[giant magnetoresistance]]"<ref>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2007/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Peter Gruenberg 01.jpg|75px]]
|[[Peter Grünberg]]
| Germany
|-
|rowspan="3"|2008
|[[Image:Mkobayashi.jpg|75px]]
|[[Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)|Makoto Kobayashi]]
| Japan
|rowspan="2"|"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"<ref name=N08>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2008/index.html|accessdate=2008-10-09}}</ref>
|-
|[[Image:Masukawa.jpg|75px]]
|[[Toshihide Maskawa]]
| Japan
|-
|[[Image:YoichiroNambu.jpg|75px]]
|[[Yoichiro Nambu]]
| United States
|"for the discovery of [[Spontaneous symmetry breaking|the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry]] in subatomic physics"<ref name=N08/>
|-
|rowspan="3"|2009
||[[File:Charles K. Kao cropped 2.jpg|75px]]
|[[Charles K. Kao]]
| Hong Kong<br>United Kingdom<br>United States
|"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in [[optical fiber|fibers]] for [[optical communication]]"<ref name=N09>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2009/index.html|accessdate=2009-10-06}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-23.jpg|75px]]
|[[Willard S. Boyle]]
| Canada<br>United States
|rowspan="2"|"for the invention of an imaging [[semiconductor]] circuit – the [[Charge-coupled device|CCD sensor]]"<ref name=N09/>
|-
|[[File:Nobel Prize 2009-Press Conference KVA-24.jpg|75px]]
|[[George E. Smith]]
| United States
|-
|rowspan="2"|2010
||[[File:Geim.jpg|75px]]
|[[Andre Geim]]
| Russia<br>Netherlands
|rowspan="2"|"for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material [[graphene]]"<ref name=N10>{{cite web | title = The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 | publisher = Nobel Foundation | url = http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/index.html|accessdate=2010-10-05}}</ref>
|-
|[[File:Konstantin Novoselov at MIPT.jpg|75px]]
|[[Konstantin Novoselov]]
| Russia<br>United Kingdom
|}