Nobelova nagrada za fiziku, 1920-e
| Godina |
Ime |
Polje (zasluga) |
| 1920 |
Charles Edouard Guillaume |
"priznanje of the service he has rendered to precision measurements in Fizika by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys" |
| 1921 |
Albert Einstein |
"za doprinose u teorijskoj fizici, osobito za otkriće zakonitosti fotoelektičnog efekta" |
| 1922 |
Niels Bohr |
"za doprinos u istraživanju strukture atoma i zračenja izbijenih iz atoma" |
| 1923 |
Robert Andrews Millikan |
"za njegov rad na određivanju elementarnog naboja i rad na fotoelektičnom efektu" |
| 1924 |
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn |
"za njegova otkrića i rad u području spektroskopije X-zraka" |
| 1925 |
James Franck i Gustav Ludwig Hertz |
"za otkriće zakona koji opisuju sraz elektrona na atomu" |
| 1926 |
Jean Baptiste Perrin |
"za njegov rad on the discontinuous structure of matter, i especially for his discovery of sedimentation equilibrium" |
| 1927 |
Arthur Holly Compton |
"za otkriće efekta imenovanog po njemu". Vidi:Comptonov efekt |
| Charles Thomson Rees Wilson |
"za njegovu metodu kojom su putanje električki nabijenih čestica učinjene vidljivima putem kondenzacije vodene pare" |
| 1928 |
Owen Willans Richardson |
"za njegov rad on the thermionic phenomenon i especially for the discovery of the law Imed after him" |
| 1929 |
Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie |
"za otkriće valne prirode elektron" |
Nobelova nagrada za fiziku, 1930-e
| Godina |
Ime |
Polje (zasluga) |
| 1930 |
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman |
"za njegov rad na raspršenju svjetla i za otkriće efekta imenovanog po njemu" |
| 1931 |
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(The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.) |
| 1932 |
Werner Karl Heisenberg |
"za stvaranje kvantne mehanike, primjena koje je, između ostaloga, dovela do otkrića alotropskih formi vodika" |
| 1933 |
Erwin Schrödinger i Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac |
"za otkriće i razvoj nove i plodonosne forme atomske teorije" |
| 1934 |
|
(The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund i with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.) |
| 1935 |
James Chadwick |
"za otkriće neutrona" |
| 1936 |
Victor Franz Hess |
"za otkriće kozmičkog zračenja" |
| Carl David Anderson |
"za otkriće pozitrona" |
| 1937 |
Clinton Joseph Davisson i George Paget Thomson |
"za njihovo eksperimentalno otkriće difrakcije elektrona na kristalima" |
| 1938 |
Enrico Fermi |
"za dokaz postojanja radioaktivnih elemenata stvorenih neutronskim zračenjem, te za povezana otkrića nuklearnih reakcija potaknutih sporim neutronima" |
| 1939 |
Ernest Orlando Lawrence |
"za otkriće i razvoj ciklotrona i za rezultate dobivene sa ovim uređajem, posebno u području umjetno stvorenih radioaktivnih elemenata" |
Nobelova nagrada za fiziku, 1940-e
| Godina |
Ime |
Polje (zasluga) |
| 1940 |
|
The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund i with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section. |
| 1941 |
| 1942 |
| 1943 |
Otto Stern |
"za doprinos razvoju of the molecular ray method i his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton" |
| 1944 |
Isidor Isaac Rabi |
"za njegovu rezonantnu metodu bilježenja magnetskih svojstava atomskih jezgri" |
| 1945 |
Wolfgang Pauli |
"za otkriće ekskluzijskog principa (princip isključenja), također znanog kao Paulijev princip" |
| 1946 |
Percy Williams Bridgman |
"za otkriće aparature za postizanje ekstremno visokih tlakova, i za s njime učinjena otkrića u području fizike visokog tlaka" |
| 1947 |
Sir Edward Victor Appleton |
"za istraživanje fizike visokih slojeva atmosfere i posebno za otkriće tzv. Appletnovog sloja" |
| 1948 |
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett |
"za razvoj metoda Wilsonove komore maglena komora i s time povezanim otkrićima na polju nuklearne fizike i kozmičkog zračenja" |
| 1949 |
Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹) |
"za predviđanje postojanja mezona na osnovi teorijskih radova u području nuklearnih sila" |
Nobelova nagrada za fiziku, 1950-e
| Godina |
Ime |
Polje (zasluga) |
| 1950 |
Cecil Frank Powell |
"for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes i his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method" |
| 1951 |
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft i Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton |
"za pionirski rad na transmutaciji atomske jezgre pomoću umjetno ubrzanih atomskih čestica" |
| 1952 |
Felix Bloch i Edward Mills Purcell |
"for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements i discoveries in connection therewith" |
| 1953 |
Frits (Frederik) Zernike |
"for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope" |
| 1954 |
Max Born |
"za njegov temeljni doprinos u istraživanjima iz područja kvantne mehanike, osobito za statističku interpretaciju valne funkcije" |
| Walther Bothe |
"for the coincidence method i his discoveries made therewith" |
| 1955 |
Willis Eugene Lamb |
"for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum" |
| Polykarp Kusch |
"za točno određivanje magnetskog momenta elektrona" |
| 1956 |
William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen, i Walter Houser Brattain |
"za istraživanja u području poluvodiča i otkriće tranzistorskog efekta" |
| 1957 |
Chen Ning Yang (楊振寧 Pinyin: Yáng Zhe`nníng) i Tsung-Dao Lee (李政道 Pinyin: Lǐ Zhe`ngda`o) |
"for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles" |
| 1958 |
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Павел Алексеевич Черенков), Il'ia Frank (Илья Михайлович Франк), i Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (Игорь Евгеньевич Тамм) |
"za otkriće i interpretaciju Cherenkovog zračenja" |
| 1959 |
Emilio Gino Segre i Owen Chamberlain |
"za njihovo otkriće antiprotona" |
Nobelova nagrada za fiziku, 1960-e
| Godina |
Ime |
Polje (zasluga) |
| 1960 |
Donald Arthur Glaser |
"za njegovo otkriće komore sa mjehurićima" |
| 1961 |
Robert Hofstadter |
"for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei i for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons" |
| Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer |
"za istraživanje od interesa za rezonantnu apsorpciju gama zraka i s time povezano otkriće efekta koji nosi njegovo ime". Vidi:Mossbauerov efekt |
| 1962 |
Lev Davidovich Landau (Лев Давидович Ландау) |
"za pionirske teorije u istraživanju kondenzirane tvari, posebno tekućeg helija" |
| 1963 |
Eugene Paul Wigner |
"za doprinose teoriji atomske jezgre i elementarnih čestica, osobito kroz otkriće i primjenu osnovnih principa simetrije" |
| Maria Goeppert-Mayer i J. Hans D. Jensen |
"za otkrića u vezi ljuskastom strukturom nuklearnih jezgara" |
| 1964 |
Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov (Николай Геннадиевич Басов), i Aleksandr Prokhorov (Александр Михайлович Прохоров) |
"za temeljni doprinos na području kvantne elektronike, što je dovelo do konstrukcije oscilatora i pojačala temeljenih na principu masera-lasera" |
| 1965 |
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎), Julian Schwinger, i Richard P. Feynman |
"za njihov fundamentalni doprinos u kvantnoj elektrodinamici, sa dalekosežnim posljedicama za Fiziku elementarnih čestica" |
| 1966 |
Alfred Kastler |
"for the discovery i development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms" |
| 1967 |
Hans Albrecht Bethe |
"za doprinos u teoriji nuklearnih reakcija, posebno za otkrića bitna za razumjevanje stvaranja energije u zvjezdama" |
| 1968 |
Luis Walter Alvarez |
"for his decisive contributions to elementary particle Fizika, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber i data analysis" |
| 1969 |
Murray Gell-Mann |
"za doprinos i otkrića bitna za klasifikaciju elementarnih čestica i njihovih interakcija" |
Nobelova nagrada za fiziku, 1970-e
| Godina |
Ime |
Polje (zasluga) |
| 1970 |
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén |
"for fundamental work i discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma Fizika" |
| Louis Eugene Félix Néel |
"for fundamental work i discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism i ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state Fizika" |
| 1971 |
Dennis Gabor |
"z aotkriće i razvoj metoda holografije" |
| 1972 |
John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, i John Robert Schrieffer |
"za njihovu zajednički razvijenu teoriju supravodljivosti, danas uobičajeno nazvanu BCS-teorija" |
| 1973 |
Leo Esaki (江崎 玲於奈) i Ivar Giaever |
"for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors i superconductors, respectively" |
| Brian David Josephson |
"za teorijsko predviđanje svojstava tuneliranja suprastruja kroz barijeru, konkretno, fenomen koji je danas općepoznat kao Josephsonov efekt" |
| 1974 |
Sir Martin Ryle i Antony Hewish |
"for their pioneering research in radio astroFizika: Ryle for his observations i inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, i Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars" |
| 1975 |
Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, i Leo James Rainwater |
"for the discovery of the connection between collective motion i particle motion in atomic nuclei i the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection" |
| 1976 |
Burton Richter i Samuel Chao Chung Ting (丁肇中 Pinyin: Dīng Zha`ozhōng) |
"for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind". In other words: for discovery of the J/Ψ particle as it confirmed the idea that baryonic matter (such as the nuclei of atoms) is made out of quarks? |
| 1977 |
Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, i John Hasbrouck van Vleck |
"za njihov temeljni teorijski doprinos u istraživanjima elektronske strukture magnetskih i neuređenih sistema" |
| 1978 |
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Пётр Леонидович Капица) |
"za inovacije i otkrića na prodručju niskih temperatura" |
| Arno Allan Penzias i Robert Woodrow Wilson |
"za otkriće pozadinskog mikrovalnog zračenja" |
| 1979 |
Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, i Steven Weinberg |
"for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak i electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current" |
Nobelova nagrada za fiziku, 1980-e
| Godina |
Ime |
Polje (zasluga) |
| 1980 |
James Watson Cronin i Val Logsdon Fitch |
"for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons" |
| 1981 |
Nicolaas Bloembergen i Arthur Leonard Schawlow |
"za njihov doprinos u razvoju laserske spektroskopije" |
| Kai Manne Boerje Siegbahn |
"za doprinos razvoju elektronske spektroskopije visoke rezolucije" |
| 1982 |
Kenneth G. Wilson |
"for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions" |
| 1983 |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
"for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure i evolution of the stars" |
| William Alfred Fowler |
"for his theoretical i experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe" |
| 1984 |
Carlo Rubbia i Simon van der Meer |
"for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W i Z, communicators of weak interaction" |
| 1985 |
Klaus von Klitzing |
"za otkriće kvantnog Hall efekta" |
| 1986 |
Ernst Ruska |
"for his fundamental work in electron optics, i for the design of the first electron microscope" |
| Gerd Binnig i Heinrich Rohrer |
"for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope" |
| 1987 |
Johannes Georg Bednorz i Karl Alexander Müller |
"za njihov važan prodor u otkriću supravodljivosti u keramičkim materijalima" |
| 1988 |
Leon Max Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, i Jack Steinberger |
"for the neutrino beam method i the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino" |
| 1989 |
Norman Foster Ramsey |
"for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method i its use in the hydrogen maser i other atomic clocks" |
| Hans Georg Dehmelt i Wolfgang Paul |
"for the development of the ion trap technique" |
Nobelova nagrada za fiziku, 1990-e
| Godina |
Ime |
Polje (zasluga) |
| 1990 |
Jerome Isaac Friedman, Henry Way Kendall, i Richard Edward Taylor |
"for their pioneering istraživanja concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons i bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle Fizika" |
| 1991 |
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes |
"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 crystals i polymers" |
| 1992 |
Georges Charpak |
"za njegov izum i razvoj detektora čestica, posebno višežične proporcionalne komore" |
| 1993 |
Russell Alan Hulse i Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. |
"for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation" |
| 1994 |
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"for pioneering contributions razvoju of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter" |
| Bertram Neville Brockhouse |
"za razvoj neutronske spektroskopije" |
| Clifford Glenwood Shull |
"za razvoj tehnike neutronskog ogiba (difrakcije)" |
| 1995 |
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"za pionirski eksperimentalni doprinos fizici leptona" |
| Martin Lewis Perl |
"za otkriće tau leptona" |
| Frederick Reines |
"za detekciju neutrina" |
| 1996 |
David Morris Lee, Douglas Dean Osheroff, i Robert Coleman Richardson |
"za otkriće supravodljivosti u heliju-3" |
| 1997 |
Steven Chu(朱棣文, pinyin: zhū di`wén), Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, i William Daniel Phillips |
"for development of methods to cool i trap atoms with laser light" |
| 1998 |
Robert B. Laughlin, Horst Ludwig Störmer, i Daniel Chee Tsui(崔琦, pinyin: cuī qí) |
"za njihovo otkriće novog oblika kvantne tekućine s djelomično nabijenim pobudama". Ili, otkriće kvantnog Hallovog efekta za eksperiment iz 1982, koji je utvrdio uvjete za opažanje djelomično nabijenih elektrona. |
| 1999 |
Gerardus 't Hooft i Martinus J.G. Veltman |
"za razjašnjenje kvantne strukture elektroslabih međudjelovanja u fizici" |
Nobelova nagrada za fiziku, 2000-e
| Godina |
Ime |
Polje (zasluga) |
| 2000 |
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (Жорес Иванович Алферов) |
"za temeljni rad u području informacija i komunikacijskoj tehnologiji" |
| Herbert Kroemer |
"za razvoj poluvodičkih heterostrktura korištenih u opto-elektronici velikih brzina" |
| Jack St. Clair Kilby |
"za doprinos u pronalasku integriranoga kruga" |
| 2001 |
Eric Allin Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, i Carl Edwin Wieman |
"za realizaciju Bose-Einsteinovih kondenzata u razrijeđenim plinovima alkalijskih atoma, te za rane fundamentalne studije svojstava kondenzata" |
| 2002 |
Raymond Davis Jr. i Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴 昌俊) |
"za pionirski doprinos u astrofizici, osobito za detekciju kozmičkih neutrina" |
| Riccardo Giacconi |
"za pionirske prinose astrofizici, što je dovelo do otkrića izvora kozmičkih rendgenskih zraka" |
| 2003 |
Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov (Алексей Алексеевич Абрикосов), Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург) i Anthony James Leggett |
"za pionirske prinose teoriji supravodljivosti i suprafluida" |
| 2004 |
David J. Gross, H. David Politzer i Frank Wilczek |
"za otkriće asimptotske slobode u teoriji jakih međudjelovanja" |
