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 1989
“for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks”
“for the development of the ion trap technique”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1988
“for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1987
“for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1986
“for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope”
“for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1985
“for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1984
“for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1983
“for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars”
“for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1982
“for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1981
“for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy”
“for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1980
“for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons”