Nobel Prizes in Physics: 2019 – 2010
Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
“for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”
James Peebles
“for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz
“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”
Arthur Ashkin
“for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”
Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland
“for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne
“for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz
“for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald
“for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura
“for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2013
François Englert and Peter Higgs
“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
Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland
“for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2011
Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess
“for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”
Nobel Prize in Physics 2010
Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov
“for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”
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Source:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes-in-physics/2019-2010/
