All Nobel Prizes in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 117 times to 225 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2023. John Bardeen is the only laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. This means that a total of 224 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Click on the links to get more information.

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 will be announced on Tuesday 8 October, 11:45 CEST at the earliest.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023

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

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022

“for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

“for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems”
“for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”
“for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

“for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”
“for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”

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