The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 119 times to 230 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2025. 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 229 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Click on the links to get more information.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 1909
“in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1908
“for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1907
“for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1906
“in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1905
“for his work on cathode rays”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1904
“for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1903
“in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity”
“in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1902
“in recognition of the extraordinary service they rendered by their researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1901
“in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him”