Nobel Prize is the most honoured award in the world that is being given to the person(s) who have conferred the greatest benefit to the mankind. The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 108 times to 199 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2014. John Bardeen is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. This means that a total of 198 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Click on the links to get more information.
Awards for the Nobel Prize Winners in Physics :
The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel (who died in 1896), awarded for outstanding contributions in physics. As dictated by Nobel’s will, the award is administered by the Nobel Foundation and awarded by a committee that consists of five members elected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The award is presented in Stockholm at an annual ceremony on December 10th, the anniversary of Nobel’s death. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years.
The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, of Germany, who received 150,782 SEK, which is equal to 7,731,004 SEK in December 2007. John Bardeen is the only laureate to win the prize twice—in 1956 and 1972. Maria Skłodowska-Curie also won two Nobel Prizes, for physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911. William Lawrence Bragg was, until October 2014, the youngest ever Nobel laureate; He won the prize in 1915 at the age of 25. Two women have won the prize: Curie and Maria Goeppert – Mayer (1963), which is the least of any of the original five Nobel Prizes. As of 2014, the prize has been awarded to 198 individuals. There have been six years in which the Nobel Prize in Physics was not awarded 1916, 1931, 1934, 1940–1942.
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to 196 Nobel Laureates in Physics between 1901 and 2013 in 107 times. The Nobel Laureate, John Bardeen is the only person who has been awarded the Nobel Prize twice in Physics in the year 1956 and 1972. A total of 195 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics from 1901 to 2013. Dr.Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was the first Indian Physicist who received Nobel Prize in Physics during the year 1930 whereas Dr.Subramanyan Chandrasekhar was another Indo-American who received Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1983. Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs are the latest Nobel Laureates in Physics for the year 2013.
The details of the Nobel Laureates in Physics from 1901 to 2013 are given below:
| Year | Name of the Noble Laureate | Year | Name of the Noble Laureate |
| 1901 | Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen | 1958 | Pavel Alekseyevich Cheren-Kov, Ilja Mikhailovich Franck and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm |
| 1902 | Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Pieter Zeeman | 1959 | Emilio Gino Segre and Owen Chamberlain |
| 1903 | Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, nee Sklodowska | 1960 | Donald Arthur Glaser |
| 1904 | Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt) | 1961 | Robert Hofstadter & Rudolf Ludwig Mossbauer |
| 1905 | Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard | 1962 | Lev Davidovich Landau |
| 1906 | Joseph John Thomson | 1963 | Eugene Paul Wigner & Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen |
| 1907 | Albert Abraham Michelson | 1964 | Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennediyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov |
| 1908 | Gabriel Lippmann | 1965 | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger and Richard P. Feynman |
| 1909 | Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun | 1966 | Alfred Kastler |
| 1910 | Johannes Diderik van der Waals | 1967 | Hans Albrecht Bethe |
| 1911 | Wilhelm Wien | 1968 | Luis Walter Alvarez |
| 1912 | Nils Gustaf Dalen | 1969 | Murray Gell-Mann |
| 1913 | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | 1970 | Hanees Olof Gosto Alfven & Louis Eugene Felix Neel |
| 1914 | Max von Laue | 1971 | Dennis Gabor |
| 1915 | Sir William Henry Bragg & William Lawrence Bragg | 1972 | John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer |
| 1916 | No prize was awarded this year | 1973 | Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever & Brian David Josephson |
| 1917 | Charles Glover Barkla | 1974 | Sir Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish |
| 1918 | Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck | 1975 | Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson & Leo James Rainwater |
| 1919 | Johannes Stark | 1976 | Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting |
| 1920 | Charles Edouard Guillaume | 1977 | Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck van Vleck |
| 1921 | Albert Einstein | 1978 | Pyotr Leonidovich Kapista |
| 1922 | Niels Henrik David Bohr | 1979 | Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg |
| 1923 | Robert Andrews Millikan | 1980 | James Watson Cronin and Val Logsdon Fitch |
| 1924 | Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn | 1981 | Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Kai M. Siegbahn |
| 1925 | James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz | 1982 | Kenneth G. Wilson |
| 1926 | Jean Baptiste Perrin | 1983 | Subramanyan Chandrasekhar & William Alfred Fowler |
| 1927 | Arthur Holly Compton & Charles Thomson Rees Wilson | 1984 | Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer |
| 1928 | Owen Willans Richardson | 1985 | Klaus von Klitzing |
| 1929 | Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie | 1986 | Ernst Ruska & Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer |
| 1930 | Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman | 1987 | J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alexander Muller |
| 1931 | No prize was awarded this year. | 1988 | Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger |
| 1932 | Werner Karl Heisenberg | 1989 | Norway F. Ramsey & Hans G. Dehmelt and Wolfgang Paul |
| 1933 | Erwin Schrodinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac | 1990 | Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall and Richard E. Taylor |
| 1934 | No prize was awarded this year. | 1991 | Pierre-Gilles de Gannes |
| 1935 | James Chadwick | 1992 | Georges Charpak |
| 1936 | Victor Franz Hess & Carl David Anderson | 1993 | Russell A.Hulse and Joseph H. Taylor Jr. |
| 1937 | Clinton Joseph Davission and George Paget Thomson | 1994 | Bertram N. Brockhouse & Clifford G. Shull |
| 1938 | Enrico Fermi | 1995 | Martin L.Perl & Frederick Reines |
| 1939 | Ernest Orlando Lawrence | 1996 | David M. Lee, Doughlas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson |
| 1940 | No prize was awarded | 1997 | Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips |
| 1941 | No prize was awarded | 1998 | Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Stormer and Daniel C. Tsui |
| 1942 | No prize was awarded | 1999 | Gerardus ‘t Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman |
| 1943 | Otto Stern | 2000 | Zhores I. Alferov and Herbert Kroemer & Jack S. Kilby |
| 1944 | Isidor Issac Rabi | 2001 | Eric A. Cornell, Wolfganf Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman |
| 1945 | Wolfgang Pauli | 2002 | Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba & Riccardo Giacconi |
| 1946 | Percy Williams Bridgman | 2003 | Alexi A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. GInzburg & Anthony J. Leggett |
| 1947 | Sir Edward Victor Appleton | 2004 | David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek |
| 1948 | Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett | 2005 | Roy J. Glauber & John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hansch |
| 1949 | Hideki Yukawa | 2006 | John C. Mather and George F. Smoot |
| 1950 | Cecil Frank Powell | 2007 | Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg |
| 1951 | Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton | 2008 | Yoichiro Nambu & Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa |
| 1952 | Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell | 2009 | Charles Kuen Kao & Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith |
| 1953 | Frits (Frederik) Zernike | 2010 | Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov |
| 1954 | Max Born & Walther Bothe | 2011 | Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess |
| 1955 | Willis Eugene Lamb & Polykarp Kusch | 2012 | Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland |
| 1956 | William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain | 2013 | Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs |
| 1957 | Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee |