Nobel Prize
Year
Winners
Nationality
1901
Wilhelm Rontgen
Germany
1902
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Netherlands
Pieter Zeeman
Netherlands
1903
Henri Becquerel
France
Pierre Curie
France
Marie Curie
France (Polish born)
1904
Lord John William Strutt Rayleigh
Great Britain
1905
Philipp Lenard
Germany
1906
Joseph John Thomson
Great Britain
1907
Albert A. Michelson
USA
1908
Gabriel Lippmann
France
1909
Guglielmo Marconi
Italy
Ferdinand Braun
Germany
1910
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Netherlands
1911
Wilhelm Wien
Germany
1912
Gustaf Dalen
Sweden
1913
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Netherlands
1914
Max von Laue
&
Germany
1915
William Henry Bragg
Great Britain
William Lawerence Bragg
Great Britain
1916
No Award Made
1917
Charles Glover Barkla
Great Britain
1918
Max Planck
Germany
1919
Johannes Stark
Germany
1920
Charles Edouard Guillaume
France
1921
Albert Einstein
Germany
1922
Niels Bohr
Denmark
1923
Robert Andrews Millikan
USA
1924
Manne Siegbahn
Sweden
1925
James Franck
Germany
Gustav Hertz
Germany
1926
Jean Baptiste Perrin
France
1927
Arthur Holly Compton
USA
Charles Thomsom Rees Wilson
Great Britain
1928
Owen Willans Richards
Great Britain
1929
Louis de Broglie
France
1930
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
India
1931
No Award Made
1932
Werner Heisenberg
Germany
1933
Erwin Schrodinger
Austria
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Great Britain
1934
No Award Made
1935
James Chadwick
Great Britain
1936
Victor Franz Hess
Austria
Carl David Anderson
USA
1937
Clinton Joseph Davisson
USA
George Paget Thomson
Great Britain
1938
Enrico Fermi
Italy
1939
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
USA
1940-1942
No Award Made
1943
Otto Stern
USA
1944
Isidor Isaac Rabi
USA
1945
Wolfgang Pauli
USA
1946
Percy William Bridgman
USA
1947
Edward Victor Appleton
Great Britain
1948
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Great Britain
1949
Hideki Yukawa
Japan
1950
Cecil Frank Powell
Great Britain
1951
John Douglas Cockroft
Great Britain
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
Ireland
1952
Felix Bloch
USA (Swiss born)
Edward Mills Purcell
USA
1953
Fritz Zernike
Netherlands
1954
Max Born
&
Great Britain (German born)
Walther Bothe
Germany (West)
1955
Polykarp Kusch
USA (German born)
Willis Eugene Lamb
USA
1956
John Bartdeen
USA
Walter Houser Brattain
USA
William Shockley
USA
1957
Tsung-Dao Lee
USA (Chinese born)
Chen Ning Yang
USA (Chinese born)
1958
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
Russia
Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank
Russia
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
Russia
1959
Owen Chamberlain
USA
Emilio Gino Segre
USA (Italian born)
1960
Donald A. Glaser
USA
1961
Robert Hofstadter
USA
Rudolph Ludwig Mossbauer
Germany (West)
1962
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russia
1963
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
USA
J. Hans D. Jensen
Germany (West)
Eugene P. Wigner
&
USA
1964
Nikolai Basov
Russia
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
Russia
Charles H. Townes
USA
1965
Richard P. Feynman
USA
Julian Schwinger
USA
Sin-itiro Tomonaga
Japan
1966
Alfred Kastler
France
1967
Hans Albrecht Bethe
USA (German born)
1968
Luis W. Alvarez
USA
1969
Murray Gell-Man
USA
1970
Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven
Sweden
Louis Eugene Felix Neel
France
1971
Dennis Gabor
Great Britain (Hungarian born)
1972
John Bardeen
USA
Leon N. Cooper
USA
John Robert Schrieffer
USA
1973
Ivar Giaever
&
USA (Norwegian born)
Leo Esaki
Japan
Brian D. Josephson
Great Britain
1974
Antony Hewish
&
Great Britain
Martin Ryle
Great Britain
1975
Leo James Rainwater
USA
Aage Niels Bohr
Denmark
Benjamin Roy Mottelson
Denmark (USA born)
1976
Burton Richter
USA
Samuel C. C. Ting
USA
1977
John H. van Vleck
USA
Philip W. Anderson
USA
Nevill F. Mott
Great Britain
1978
Piotr Leontevich Kapitsz
Russia
Arno A. Penzias
USA (German born)
Robert Woodrow Wilson
USA
1979
Abdus Salam
Great Britain
Sheldon Glashow
USA
Steven Weinberg
USA
1980
James Watson Cronin
USA
Val Fitch
USA
1981
Nicolaas Bloemergern
USA
Arthur Schawlow
USA
Kai M. Siegbahn
Sweden
1982
Kenneth G. Wilson
USA
1983
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
USA
William A. Fowler
USA
1984
Carlo Ribbia
Italy
Simon van de Meer
Netherlands
1985
Klaus von Klitzing
Germany
1986
Erns Ruska
Germany
Gerd Binnig
Germany
Heinrich Rohrer
Switzerland
1987
J. Georg Bednorz
Germany
K. Alexander Muller
Switzerland
1988
Leon M. Lederman
USA
Melvin Schwartz
USA
Jack Steinberger
Germany
1989
Norman F. Ramsey
USA
Hans G. Dehmelt
USA
Wolfgang Paul
Germany
1990
Jerome I. Friedman
USA
Henry W. Kendall
USA
Richard E. Taylor
Canada
1991
Pierre-Giles de Gennes
France
1992
Georges Charpak
France
1993
Russell Huise
USA
Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
USA
1994
Bertram N. Brockhouse
Canada
Clifford G. Shull
USA
1995
Frederick Reines
USA
Martin Lewis Perl
USA
1996
Douglas D. Osheroff
USA
David M. Lee
USA
Robert C. Richardson
USA
1997
Claud Cohen-Tannoudji
France
Steven Chu
USA
William D. Phillips
USA
1998
Robert B. Laughlin
USA
Daniel C. Tsui
USA
Horst L. Stormer
Germany
1999
Gerardus 't Hooft
Holland
Martinus J. G. Veltham
Holland
2000
Zhores I. Alferov
Russia
Homer Kroemer
Germany
Jack S. Kilby
USA
2001
Eric A. Cornell
USA
Wolfgang Keslerle
Germanay
Carl E. Weiman
USA
2002
Raymond Davis Jr.
USA
Masatoshi Koshiba
Japan
Riccardo Giacconi
USA
2003
Alexei A. Abrikosov
USA & Russia
Vitaly L. Ginzburg
Russia
Anthony J. Leggett
USA & United Kingdom
2004
David J. Gross
USA
H. David Politzer
USA
Frank Wilczek
USA
2005
Roy J. Glauber
USA
John L. Hall
USA
Theodor W. Hansch
Germany
2006
John C. Mather
USA
George C. Smoot
USA
2007
Albert Fert
France
Peter Grunberg
Germany
2008
Yoichiro Nambu
USA
Makoto Kobayashi
Japan
Toshihide Maskawa
Japan
2009
Charles K. Kao
China
Willard S. Boyle
Canada
George E. Smith
USA