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Nobel Prize in Physics
45 laureates · 1901–2025
Total Laureates
45
First Awarded
1901
Latest Award
2025
Year
Laureate
Country
Motivation
2025
Omar M. Yaghi
United States
United States
—
2023
Moungi Bawendi
United States
United States
—
2016
Ben Feringa
Netherlands
Netherlands
—
2015
Aziz Sancar
Turkey
Turkey
—
2015
Tomas Lindahl
Sweden
Sweden
—
2014
Stefan Hell
Romania
Romania
—
2013
Martin Karplus
United States
United States
—
2010
Ei-ichi Negishi
Japan
Japan
—
2010
Akira Suzuki
Japan
Japan
—
2009
Ada Yonath
Israel
Israel
—
2008
Osamu Shimomura
Japan
Japan
—
2005
Yves Chauvin
France
France
—
2002
Koichi Tanaka
Japan
Japan
—
2001
Ryōji Noyori
Japan
Japan
—
2000
Hideki Shirakawa
Japan
Japan
—
2000
Alan MacDiarmid
New Zealand
New Zealand
—
1999
Ahmed Zewail
Egypt
Egypt
—
1998
Walter Kohn
United States
United States
—
1997
Jens Christian Skou
Denmark
Denmark
—
1995
Paul Josef Crutzen
Netherlands
Netherlands
—
1995
Mario Molina
Mexico
Mexico
—
1989
Sidney Altman
Canada
Canada
—
1986
Yuan T. Lee
Taiwan
Taiwan
—
1981
Kenichi Fukui
Japan
Japan
—
1978
Peter D. Mitchell
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
1975
John Cornforth
Australia
Australia
—
1968
Lars Onsager
United States
United States
—
1964
Dorothy Hodgkin
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
1952
Archer John Porter Martin
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
—
1949
William Giauque
United States
United States
—
1948
Arne Tiselius
Sweden
Sweden
—
1945
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
Finland
Finland
—
1943
George de Hevesy
Hungary
Hungary
—
1936
Peter Debye
Netherlands
Netherlands
—
1936
Irène Joliot-Curie
France
France
—
1935
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
France
France
—
1929
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Sweden
Sweden
—
1926
Theodor Svedberg
Sweden
Sweden
—
1912
Victor Grignard
France
France
—
1911
Marie Curie
Poland
Poland
—
1909
Wilhelm Ostwald
Germany
Germany
—
1908
Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand
New Zealand
—
1903
Svante August Arrhenius
Sweden
Sweden
—
1902
Emil Fischer
Germany
Germany
—
1901
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Netherlands
Netherlands
—