Il Premio Nobel per la fisica è stato previsto nel testamento di Alfred Nobel del 1895 ed è stato assegnato per la prima volta nel 1901 (come gli altri premi previsti da Nobel stesso). Il Premio viene assegnato annualmente dall’Accademia Reale Svedese delle Scienze.
PREMIO NOBEL PER LA FISICA
La lista completa dei vincitori
1901 – 1909
- 1901 – Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
- 1902 – Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
- 1903 – Antoine Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie
- 1904 – John William Strutt Rayleigh
- 1905 – Philipp Eduard Anton Lenard
- 1906 – Joseph John Thomson
- 1907 – Albert Abraham Michelson
- 1908 – Gabriel Lippmann
- 1909 – Carl Ferdinand Braun, Guglielmo Marconi (ITALIA)
1910 – 1919
- 1910 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals
- 1911 – Wilhelm Wien
- 1912 – Nils Gustaf Dalen
- 1913 – Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes
- 1914 – Max von Laue
- 1915 – William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg
- 1916 – non è stato assegnato
- 1917 – Charles Glover Barkla
- 1918 – Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
- 1919 – Johannes Stark
1920 – 1929
- 1920 – Charles Edouard Guillaume
- 1921 – Albert Einstein
- 1922 – Niels Bohr
- 1923 – Robert Andrews Millikan
- 1924 – Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
- 1925 – James Franck, Gustav Hertz
- 1926 – Jean Baptiste Perrin
- 1927 – Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
- 1928 – Owen Willans Richardson
- 1929 – Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
1930 – 1939
- 1930 – Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
- 1931 – non è stato assegnato
- 1932 – Werner Karl Heisenberg
- 1933 – Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, Erwin Schrödinger
- 1934 – non è stato assegnato
- 1935 – James Chadwick
- 1936 – Carl David Anderson, Victor Franz Hess
- 1937 – Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson
- 1938 – Enrico Fermi (ITALIA)
- 1939 – Ernest Orlando Lawrence
1940 – 1949
- 1940 – non è stato assegnato
- 1941 – non è stato assegnato
- 1942 – non è stato assegnato
- 1943 – Otto Stern
- 1944 – Isidor Isaac Rabi
- 1945 – Wolfgang Pauli
- 1946 – Percy Williams Bridgman
- 1947 – Edward Victor Appleton
- 1948 – Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
- 1949 – Hideki Yukawa
1950 – 1959
- 1950 – Cecil Frank Powell
- 1951 – John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
- 1952 – Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell
- 1953 – Frits Zernike
- 1954 – Max Born, Walther Bothe
- 1955 – Polykarp Kusch, Willis Eugene Lamb
- 1956 – John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, William Shockley
- 1957 – Tsung-Dao Lee, Chen Ning Yang
- 1958 – Pavel Alekseevič Čerenkov, Il’ja Michajlovič Frank, Igor’ Evgen’evič Tamm
- 1959 – Owen Chamberlain, Emilio Segrè (ITALIA, ricerche negli USA)
1960 – 1969
- 1960 – Donald Glaser
- 1961 – Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
- 1962 – Lev Davidovič Landau
- 1963 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Hans Jensen, Eugene P. Wigner
- 1964 – Nikolaj Gennadievič Basov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Charles Hard Townes
- 1965 – Richard P. Feynman, Julian Schwinger, Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
- 1966 – Alfred Kastler
- 1967 – Hans Albrecht Bethe
- 1968 – Luis W. Alvarez
- 1969 – Murray Gell-Mann
1970 – 1979
- 1970 – Hannes Alfvén, Louis Neel
- 1971 – Dennis Gabor
- 1972 – John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, J. Robert Schrieffer
- 1973 – Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson
- 1974 – Antony Hewish, Martin Ryle
- 1975 – Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Mottelson, James Rainwater
- 1976 – Burton Richter, Samuel C. C. Ting
- 1977 – Philip W. Anderson, Nevill F. Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck
- 1978 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno A. Penzias, Robert W. Wilson
- 1979 – Sheldon L. Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
1980 – 1989
- 1980 – James W. Cronin, Val L. Fitch
- 1981 – Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur L. Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn
- 1982 – Kenneth G. Wilson
- 1983 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William A. Fowler
- 1984 – Simon Van Der Meer, Carlo Rubbia (ITALIA, ricerche in SVIZZERA)
- 1985 – Klaus von Klitzing
- 1986 – Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer, Ernst Ruska
- 1987 – Georg Bednorz, Karl Alexander Müller
- 1988 – Leon Max Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
- 1989 – Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul, Norman F. Ramsey
1990 – 1999
- 1990 – Jerome Isaac Friedman, Henry Way Kendall, Richard Edward Taylor
- 1991 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
- 1992 – Georges Charpak
- 1993 – Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph H. Jr. Taylor
- 1994 – Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull
- 1995 – Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines
- 1996 – David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert Coleman Richardson
- 1997 – Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips
- 1998 – Robert B. Laughlin, Horst Störmer, Daniel Tsui
- 1999 – Gerardus ‘t Hooft, Martinus J. G. Veltman
2000 – 2009
- 2000 – Zhores I. Alferov, Jack St. Clair Kilby, Herbert Kroemer
- 2001 – Eric Allin Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman
- 2002 – Raymond Davis Jr., Riccardo Giacconi (ITALIA, naturalizzato USA), Masatoshi Koshiba
- 2003 – Aleksej Alekseevič Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony James Leggett
- 2004 – David Gross, David Politzer, Frank Wilczek
- 2005 – Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch
- 2006 – John C. Mather, George F. Smoot
- 2007 – Albert Fert e Peter Grünberg
- 2008 – Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi e Toshihide Maskawa
- 2009 – Charles Kao, Willard S. Boyle e George E. Smith
2010 – 2013
- 2010 – Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov
- 2011 – Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam Riess
- 2012 – Serge Haroche, David Wineland
- 2013 – François Englert (BELGIO), Peter W. Higgs (REGNO UNITO)
PREMIO NOBEL PER LA FISICA
I favoriti della vigilia (Reuters)
François Englert Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Visiting Professor in Residence, Chapman Institute for Quantum Studies
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA
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Peter W. Higgs, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
For their prediction of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson
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Hideo Hosono Professor, Materials and Structures Laboratory and Director of Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
For his discovery of iron-based superconductors
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Geoffrey W. Marcy Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA
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Michel Mayor, Emeritus Professor, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Didier Queloz, Professor University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
For their discoveries of extrasolar planets