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Physics

2001   Eric A. Cornell, Carl E. Wieman, Wolfgang Ketterle
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2000   Zhores I Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S. Kilby

1999  Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman

1998  Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui

1997  Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips

1996  David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson

1995  Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines

1994  Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull

1993  Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr.

1992  Georges Charpak

1991  Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

1990  Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor

1989  Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul

1988  Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger

1987  J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alexander Müller

1986  Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer

1985  Klaus von Klitzing

1984  Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer

1983  Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler

1982  Kenneth G. Wilson

1981  Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn

1980  James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch

1979  Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg

1978  Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson

1977  Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck

1976  Burton Richter, Samuel Chao Chung Ting

1975  Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Leo James Rainwater

1974  Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish

1973  Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson

1972  John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, John Robert Schrieffer

1971  Dennis Gabor

1970  Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel

1969  Murray Gell-Mann

1968  Luis Walter Alvarez

1967  Hans Albrecht Bethe

1966  Alfred Kastler

1965  Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman

1964   Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov

1963  Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen

1962   Lev Davidovich Landau

1961  Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer

1960  Donald Arthur Glaser

1959  Emilio Gino Segrè, Owen Chamberlain

1958  Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank, Igor Yergenyevich Tamm

1957  Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee

1956  William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain

1955  Willis Eugene Lamb, Polykarp Kusch

1954  Max Born, Walther Bothe

1953  Frits (Frederik) Zernike

1952  Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell

1951  Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton

1950  Cecil Frank Powell

1949  Hideki Yukawa

1948  Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

1947  Sir Edward Victor Appleton

1946  Percy Williams Bridgman

1945  Wolfgang Pauli

1944   Isidor Isaac Rabi

1943  Otto Stern

1942  The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1941  The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1940  The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1939  Ernest Orlando Lawrence

1938  Enrico Fermi

1937  Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson

1936  Victor Franz Hess, Carl David Anderson

1935  James Chadwick

1934  The prize money was 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1933  Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

1932  Werner Karl Heisenberg

1931  The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1930  Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

1929  Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie

1928  Owen Willans Richardson

1927  Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

1926  Jean Baptiste Perrin

1925  James Franck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz

1924  Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn

1923   Robert Andrews Millikan

1922  Niels Henrik David Bohr

1921  Albert Einstein

1920  Charles Edouard Guillaume

1919   Johannes Stark

1918  Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

1917  Charles Glover Barkla

1916  The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1915  Sir William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg

1914  Max von Laue

1913  Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes

1912  Nils Gustaf Dalén

1911  Wilhelm Wien

1910  Johannes Diderik van der Waals

1909  Guglielmo Marconi, Carl Ferdinand Braun

1908  Gabriel Lippmann

1907  Albert Abraham Michelson

1906  Sir Joseph John Thomson

1905  Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard

1904  Lord (John William Strutt) Rayleigh

1903  Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie

1902   Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman