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.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 has not been awarded yet. It will be announced on Tuesday 7 October, 11:45 CEST at the earliest.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
“for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”
“for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”
“for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
“for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”
“for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”
“for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
“for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
“for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
“for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
“for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2013
“for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2012
“for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2011
“for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2010
“for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”