The Nobel Prize in Physics is one of the most prestigious awards in science. It honors individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of physics. This article provides an overview of some notable Nobel laureates in Physics, highlighting their achievements and the year they received the award.
The Nobel Prizes are five important awards given each year to people who have made significant contributions to humanity. These awards were created by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist and inventor, in his will before he died in 1896. The first prizes were awarded in 1901.
The five main categories for the Nobel Prizes are:
In addition, there is a sixth award for Economic Sciences, which was added in 1969 and is also managed by the Nobel Foundation.
The Nobel Prize in Physics has honored remarkable scientists since its inception in 1901. Recognizing groundbreaking contributions, this prestigious award showcases the achievements of physicists who have advanced our understanding of the universe, making significant impacts on science and society up to 2024.
Here is the list of Nobel Laureates in Physics from 1901 to 2024:
| Nobel Laureates in Physics | ||
| S. No. | Name | Year |
| 1. | Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen | 1901 |
| 2. | Hendrik A. Lorentz and Peter Zeeman | 1902 |
| 3. | Henri Becquerel and Pierre Curie and Marie Curie | 1903 |
| 4. | Lord Rayleigh | 1904 |
| 5. | Philipp Lenard | 1905 |
| 6. | J.J. Thomas | 1906 |
| 7. | Albert A. Michelson | 1907 |
| 8. | Gabriel Lippmann | 1908 |
| 9. | Guglielmo Marconi and Ferdinand Braun | 1909 |
| 10. | Johannes Diderik van der Waals | 1910 |
| 11. | Wilhelm Wien | 1911 |
| 12. | Gustaf Dalen | 1912 |
| 13. | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | 1913 |
| 14. | Max Von Laue | 1914 |
| 15. | William Bragg and Lawrence Bragg | 1915 |
| 16. | Charles Glover Barkla | 1917 |
| 17. | Max Planck | 1918 |
| 18. | Johannes Stark | 1919 |
| 19. | Charles Edouard Guillaume | 1920 |
| 20. | Albert Einstein | 1921 |
| 21. | Niels Bohr | 1922 |
| 22. | Robert A. Millikan | 1923 |
| 23. | Manne Siegbahn | 1924 |
| 24. | James Franck and Gustav Hertz | 1925 |
| 25. | Jean Baptiste Perrin | 1926 |
| 26. | C.T.R. Wilson and Arthur H. Compton | 1927 |
| 27. | Owen Willans Richardson | 1928 |
| 28. | Louis de Broglie | 1929 |
| 29. | Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman | 1930 |
| 30. | Werner Heisenberg | 1932 |
| 31. | Erwin Schrodinger and Paul A.M. Dirac | 1933 |
| 32. | James Chadwick | 1935 |
| 33. | Victor F. Hess and Carl D. Anderson | 1936 |
| 34. | Clinton Davisson and George Paget Thomson | 1937 |
| 35. | Enrico Fermi | 1938 |
| 36. | Ernest Lawrence | 1939 |
| 37. | Otto Stern | 1943 |
| 38. | Isidor Isaac Rabi | 1944 |
| 39. | Wolfgang Pauli | 1945 |
| 40. | Percy W. Bridgman | 1946 |
| 41. | Edward V. Appleton | 1947 |
| 42. | Patrick M.S. Blackett | 1948 |
| 43. | Hideki Yukawa | 1949 |
| 44. | Cecil Powell | 1950 |
| 45. | John Cockcroft and Ernest T.S. Walton | 1951 |
| 46. | Felix Bloch and E.M. Purcell | 1952 |
| 47. | Frits Zernike | 1953 |
| 48. | Max Born and Walther Bothe | 1954 |
| 49. | Willis E. Lamb and Polykarp Kusch | 1955 |
| 50. | William B. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain | 1956 |
| 51. | Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee | 1957 |
| 52. | Pavel A. Cherenkov, II ja M. Frank and Igor Y. Tamm | 1958 |
| 53. | Emilio Segre and Owen Chamberlain | 1959 |
| 54. | Donald A. Glaser | 1960 |
| 55. | Robert Hofstadter and Rudolf Mossubauer | 1961 |
| 56. | Lev Landau | 1962 |
| 57. | Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen | 1963 |
| 58. | Charles H. Townes, Nicolay G. Basov and Aleksandr M. Prokhorov | 1964 |
| 59. | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger and Richard P. Feynman | 1965 |
| 60. | Alfred Kastler | 1966 |
| 61. | Hans Bethe | 1967 |
| 62. | Luis Alvarez | 1968 |
| 63. | Murray Gell-Mann | 1969 |
| 64. | Hannes Alfven and Louis Neel | 1970 |
| 65. | Dennis Gabor | 1971 |
| 66. | John Bardeen, Leon N. Copper and Robert Schrieffer | 1972 |
| 67. | Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever and Brian D. Josephson | 1973 |
| 68. | Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish | 1974 |
| 69. | Aage N. Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson and James Rainwater | 1975 |
| 70. | Burton Richter and Samuel C.C. Ting | 1976 |
| 71. | Philip W. Anderson, Sir Nevill F. Mott and John H. Van Vleck | 1977 |
| 72. | Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson | 1978 |
| 73. | Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg | 1979 |
| 74. | James Cronin and Val Fitch | 1980 |
| 75. | Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur L. Schawlow | 1981 |
| 76. | Kenneth G. Wilson | 1982 |
| 77. | Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar and William A. Fowler | 1983 |
| 78. | Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer | 1984 |
| 79. | Klaus von Klitzing | 1985 |
| 80. | Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer | 1986 |
| 81. | J. George Bednorz and K. Alex Muller | 1987 |
| 82. | Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger | 1988 |
| 83. | Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul | 1989 |
| 84. | Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall and Richard E. Taylor | 1990 |
| 85. | Peirre-Gilles de Gennes | 1991 |
| 86. | Georges Charpak | 1992 |
| 87. | Russell A. Hulse and Joseph H. Taylor Jr. | 1993 |
| 88. | Bertram N. Brockhouse and Clifford G. Shull | 1994 |
| 89. | Martin L. Perl & Frederick Reines | 1995 |
| 90. | David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson | 1996 |
| 91. | Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips | 1997 |
| 92. | Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui | 1998 |
| 93. | Gerardus ‘t Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman | 1999 |
| 94. | Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby | 2000 |
| 95. | Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl Wieman | 2001 |
| 96. | Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba and Riccardo Giacconi | 2002 |
| 97. | Alexei Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett | 2003 |
| 98. | David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek | 2004 |
| 99. | Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch | 2005 |
| 100. | John C. Mather and George F. Smoot | 2006 |
| 101. | Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg | 2007 |
| 102. | Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa | 2008 |
| 103. | Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith | 2009 |
| 104. | Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov | 2010 |
| 105. | Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess | 2011 |
| 106. | Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland | 2012 |
| 107. | François Englert and Peter Higgs | 2013 |
| 108. | Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura | 2014 |
| 109. | Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald | 2015 |
| 110. | David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz | 2016 |
| 111. | Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne | 2017 |
| 112. | Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland | 2018 |
| 113. | James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz | 2019 |
| 114. | Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez | 2020 |
| 115. | Syukuro Manabe Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi | 2021 |
| 116. | Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger | 2022 |
| 117. | Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier | 2023 |
| 118. | John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton | 2024 |
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