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 1979
“for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
“for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics”
“for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1977
“for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1976
“for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1975
“for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1974
“for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1973
“for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively”
“for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1972
“for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1971
“for his invention and development of the holographic method”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1970
“for fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro-dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics”
“for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics”