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 1999
“for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1998
“for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1997
“for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1996
“for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1995
“for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics”
“for the discovery of the tau lepton”
“for the detection of the neutrino”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1994
“for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter”
“for the development of neutron spectroscopy”
“for the development of the neutron diffraction technique”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1993
“for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1992
“for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1991
“for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers”
Nobel Prize in Physics 1990
“for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics”