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Nobel Prize in Physics

230 laureates awarded across 125 years of discovery (19012025), honoring outstanding contributions in the field of physics.

Total Laureates
230
First Awarded
1901
Latest Year
2025
Top Country
United States· 100

Distribution by Decade

1900s – 2020s
13
10
12
11
7
20
17
25
22
22
28
26
17
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Recent Laureates

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2025
United Kingdom / France / United States

John Clarke & Michel H. Devoret & John M. Martinis

for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit

2024
United States / Canada

John J. Hopfield & Geoffrey Hinton

for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks

2023
Tunisia / Austria / Sweden

Pierre Agostini & Ferenc Krausz & Anne L’Huillier

for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter

Complete Directory

YearLaureate
2025
John Clarke United Kingdom
2025
Michel H. Devoret France
2025
John M. Martinis United States
2024
John J. Hopfield United States
2024
Geoffrey Hinton Canada
2023
Pierre Agostini Tunisia
2023
Ferenc Krausz Austria
2023
Anne L’Huillier Sweden
2022
Alain Aspect France
2022
John Clauser United States
2022
Anton Zeilinger Austria
2021
Syukuro Manabe United States
2021
Klaus Hasselmann Germany
2021
Giorgio Parisi Italy
2020
Roger Penrose United Kingdom
2020
Reinhard Genzel Germany
2020
Andrea Ghez United States
2019
Jim Peebles United States
2019
Michel Mayor Switzerland
2019
Didier Queloz Switzerland
2018
Arthur Ashkin United States
2018
Gérard Mourou France
2018
Donna Strickland Canada
2017
Rainer Weiss United States
2017
Barry C. Barish United States
2017
Kip S. Thorne United States
2016
David J. Thouless United States
2016
Duncan Haldane Slovenia
2016
J. Michael Kosterlitz United States
2015
Takaaki Kajita Japan
2015
Arthur B. McDonald Canada
2014
Isamu Akasaki Japan
2014
Hiroshi Amano Japan
2014
Shuji Nakamura United States
2013
François Englert Belgium
2013
Peter Higgs United Kingdom
2012
Serge Haroche France
2012
David J. Wineland United States
2011
Saul Perlmutter United States
2011
Brian Schmidt Australia
2011
Adam G. Riess United States
2010
Andre Geim Netherlands
2010
Konstantin Novoselov United Kingdom
2009
Charles K. Kao United Kingdom
2009
Willard Boyle United States
2009
George E. Smith United States
2008
Yoichiro Nambu United States
2008
Makoto Kobayashi Japan
2008
Toshihide Maskawa Japan
2007
Albert Fert France
2007
Peter Grünberg Germany
2006
John C. Mather United States
2006
George F. Smoot United States
2005
Roy J. Glauber United States
2005
John L. Hall United States
2005
Theodor W. Hänsch United States
2004
David J. Gross United States
2004
H. David Politzer United States
2004
Frank Wilczek United States
2003
Alexei Abrikosov United States
2003
Vitaly Ginzburg Russia
2003
Anthony J. Leggett United States
2002
Raymond Davis Jr. United States
2002
Masatoshi Koshiba Japan
2002
Riccardo Giacconi United States
2001
Eric Cornell United States
2001
Wolfgang Ketterle Germany
2001
Carl Wieman United States
2000
Zhores Alferov Russia
2000
Herbert Kroemer United States
2000
Jack Kilby United States
1999
Gerard 't Hooft Netherlands
1999
Martinus J. G. Veltman Netherlands
1998
Robert B. Laughlin United States
1998
Horst L. Störmer Germany
1998
Daniel C. Tsui United States
1997
Steven Chu United States
1997
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji France
1997
William D. Phillips United States
1996
David Lee United States
1996
Douglas D. Osheroff United States
1996
Robert C. Richardson United States
1995
Martin L. Perl United States
1995
Frederick Reines United States
1994
Bertram Brockhouse Canada
1994
Clifford G. Shull United States
1993
Russell A. Hulse United States
1993
Joseph H. Taylor Jr. United States
1992
Georges Charpak France
1991
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes France
1990
Jerome Isaac Friedman United States
1990
Henry W. Kendall United States
1990
Richard E. Taylor Canada
1989
Norman F. Ramsey United States
1989
Hans G. Dehmelt United States
1989
Wolfgang Paul Germany
1988
Leon M. Lederman United States
1988
Melvin Schwartz United States
1988
Jack Steinberger Switzerland
1987
J. Georg Bednorz Germany
1987
K. Alex Müller Switzerland
1986
Heinrich Rohrer Switzerland
1986
Ernst Ruska Germany
1986
Gerd Binnig Germany
1985
Klaus von Klitzing Germany
1984
Carlo Rubbia Italy
1984
Simon van der Meer Netherlands
1983
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar India
1983
William A. Fowler United States
1982
Kenneth G. Wilson United States
1981
Kai Siegbahn Sweden
1981
Nicolaas Bloembergen United States
1981
Arthur L. Schawlow United States
1980
James Cronin United States
1980
Val Fitch United States
1979
Sheldon Glashow United States
1979
Abdus Salam India
1979
Steven Weinberg United States
1978
Pyotr Kapitsa Russia
1978
Arno Allan Penzias United States
1978
Robert Woodrow Wilson United States
1977
Philip W. Anderson United States
1977
Sir Nevill F. Mott United Kingdom
1977
John H. Van Vleck United States
1976
Burton Richter United States
1976
Samuel C.C. Ting United States
1975
Aage Bohr Denmark
1975
Ben Roy Mottelson Denmark
1975
James Rainwater United States
1974
Martin Ryle United Kingdom
1974
Antony Hewish United Kingdom
1973
Leo Esaki Japan
1973
Ivar Giaever United States
1973
Brian D. Josephson United Kingdom
1972
John Bardeen United States
1972
Leon Cooper United States
1972
Robert Schrieffer United States
1971
Dennis Gabor United Kingdom
1970
Hannes Alfvén Sweden
1970
Louis Néel France
1969
Murray Gell-Mann United States
1968
Luis Alvarez United States
1967
Hans Bethe Germany
1966
Alfred Kastler France
1965
Shin'ichirō Tomonaga Japan
1965
Julian Schwinger United States
1965
Richard Feynman United States
1964
Charles H. Townes United States
1964
Nikolay Basov Russia
1964
Alexander Prokhorov Russia
1963
Eugene Wigner United States
1963
Maria Goeppert Mayer Germany
1963
J. Hans D. Jensen Germany
1962
Lev Landau Azerbaijan
1961
Robert Hofstadter United States
1961
Rudolf Mössbauer Germany
1960
Donald A. Glaser United States
1959
Emilio Segrè United States
1959
Owen Chamberlain United States
1958
Pavel A. Cherenkov Russia
1958
Il´ja M. Frank Russia
1958
Igor Y. Tamm Russia
1957
Chen-ning Yang Taiwan
1957
Tsung-Dao Lee Taiwan
1956
William Shockley United States
1956
John Bardeen United States
1956
Walter H. Brattain United States
1955
Willis E. Lamb United States
1955
Polykarp Kusch United States
1954
Max Born Germany
1954
Walther Bothe Germany
1953
Frits Zernike Netherlands
1952
Felix Bloch United States
1952
E. M. Purcell United States
1951
John Cockcroft United Kingdom
1951
Ernest T.S. Walton United Kingdom
1950
Cecil Powell United Kingdom
1949
Hideki Yukawa Japan
1948
Patrick M.S. Blackett United Kingdom
1947
Edward V. Appleton United Kingdom
1946
Percy W. Bridgman United States
1945
Wolfgang Pauli United States
1944
Isidor Isaac Rabi Austria
1943
Otto Stern Germany
1939
Ernest Lawrence United States
1938
Enrico Fermi United States
1937
Clinton Davisson United States
1937
George Paget Thomson United Kingdom
1936
Victor F. Hess United States
1936
Carl D. Anderson United States
1935
James Chadwick United Kingdom
1933
Erwin Schrödinger Germany
1933
Paul Dirac United Kingdom
1932
Werner Heisenberg Germany
1930
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman India
1929
Louis de Broglie France
1928
Owen Willans Richardson United Kingdom
1927
Arthur Holly Compton United States
1927
C.T.R. Wilson United Kingdom
1926
Jean Perrin France
1925
James Franck United States
1925
Gustav Hertz Germany
1924
Manne Siegbahn Sweden
1923
Robert A. Millikan United States
1922
Niels Bohr Denmark
1921
Albert Einstein Austria
1920
Charles Edouard Guillaume France
1919
Johannes Stark Germany
1918
Max Planck Germany
1917
Charles Glover Barkla United Kingdom
1915
William Bragg United Kingdom
1915
William Lawrence Bragg United Kingdom
1914
Max von Laue Germany
1913
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Netherlands
1912
Gustaf Dalén Sweden
1911
Wilhelm Wien Germany
1910
Johannes Diderik van der Waals Netherlands
1909
Guglielmo Marconi Italy
1909
Ferdinand Braun Germany
1908
Gabriel Lippmann France
1907
Albert A. Michelson United States
1906
J. J. Thomson United Kingdom
1905
Philipp Lenard Germany
1904
Lord Rayleigh United Kingdom
1903
Henri Becquerel France
1903
Pierre Curie France
1903
Marie Curie Russia
1902
Hendrik Lorentz Netherlands
1902
Pieter Zeeman Netherlands
1901
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Germany
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