Nobel Prizes in Physics: 2009 – 2000 

 

 

Nobel Prize in Physics 2009

 

Charles K. Kao

“for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication”

 

Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith

“for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor”

  

 

Nobel Prize in Physics 2008

 

Yoichiro Nambu

“for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”

 

Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa

“for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature”

  

 

Nobel Prize in Physics 2007

 

Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg

“for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance”

 

 

Nobel Prize in Physics 2006

 

John C. Mather and George F. Smoot

“for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation”

 

 

Nobel Prize in Physics 2005

 

Roy J. Glauber

“for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence”

 

John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch

“for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique”

 

 

Nobel Prize in Physics 2004

 

David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek

“for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction” 

   

  

Nobel Prize in Physics 2003

 

Alexei Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett 

“for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids”

 

 

Nobel Prize in Physics 2002

 

Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba

“for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos”

 

Riccardo Giacconi

“for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources”

 

 

Nobel Prize in Physics 2001

 

Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl Wieman

“for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”

 

 

Nobel Prize in Physics 2000

 

“for basic work on information and communication technology”

 

Zhores Alferov and Herbert Kroemer

“for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics”

 

Jack Kilby 

“for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit”

 

 

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Source: 

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes-in-physics/2009-2000/