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 1939
“for the invention and development of the cyclotron and for results obtained with it, especially with regard to artificial radioactive elements”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
“for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1937
“for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1936
“for his discovery of cosmic radiation”
“for his discovery of the positron”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1935
“for the discovery of the neutron”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1934
“No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. 1/3 of the prize money was allocated to the main fund and 2/3 was allocated to the special fund of this prize section”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1933
“for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1932
“for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1931
“No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1930
“for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him”