We've published our listing of the Nobel chemists now here are the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Nobel Medicine and Physiology listing will be published soon.
2010 Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene"
2009
Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for fibre optics and
digital imaging (the CCD in every digital camera).
2008 Yoichiro Nambu Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, IL, USA "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" and the other half jointly to: Makoto Kobayashi, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan and Toshihide Maskawa, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, and Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan: "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
2007 Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg - discovery of giant magnetoresistance effect used in modern hard drives
2006
John
C. Mather and George F. Smoot - empirical evidence for
the Big Bang via COBE
2005
Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, and Theodor W. Hänsch - quantum theory of
optical coherence (Glauber), laser-based spectroscopy (Hall and Hänsch)
2004
David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek - strong nuclear force
strong interaction)
2003
Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett -
superconductors and superfluids
2002
Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi - astrophysics
X-ray sources and neutrinos
2001
Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman - Bose Einstein
condensates
2000
Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S. Kilby - semiconductors, opto-electronics,
integrated circuits
1999
Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman - electroweak force
(electroweak interaction)
1998
Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui fractional charge
in quantum fluids
1997
Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips - optical trap
(laser cooling atom trap)
1996
David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson - superfluid
helium-3
1995
Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines - lepton physics - tau lepton and
discovery of the neutrino
1994
Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull - neutron scattering and
neutron diffraction
1993
Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr. - pulsars
1992
Georges Charpak - particle detectors
1991
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes - order in liquid crystals and polymers
1990
Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor - underlying
science of quark model
1989
Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul - atom clocks and ion
traps
1988
Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger - neutrino beam muon
neutrino
1987
J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex Müller - ceramic superconductors
1986
Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer - electron microscopy scanning
tuneling microscope
1985
Klaus von Klitzing - quantized Hall effect
1984
Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer - field particles W and Z weak
interaction
1983
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William A. Fowler - stellar evolution origin
of the elements
1982
Kenneth G. Wilson - phase transitions
1981
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur L. Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn - laser
spectroscopy, high resolution electron spectroscopy
1980
James Cronin, Val Fitch - fundamental symmetry particles
1979
Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg - unification of weak and
electromagnetic force
1978
Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson - low temperature
physics, cosmic background radiation
1977
Philip W. Anderson, Sir Nevill F. Mott, John H. van Vleck - magnetic and
disordered systems
1976
Burton Richter, Samuel C.C. Ting - heavy elementary particle
1975
Aage N. Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, James Rainwater - atomic nuclei
connections
1974
Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish - radio astrophysics
1973
Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson - tunneling in
semiconductors, Josephson effect
1972
John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, Robert Schrieffer BCS theory of
superconductors
1971
Dennis Gabor - holograms
1970
Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel - plasma physics, magnetism
1969
Murray Gell-Mann - elementary particles
1968
Luis Alvarez - hydrogen bubble chamber and particle physics
1967
Hans Bethe - nuclear reactions in the stars
1966
Alfred Kastler optical studies of atoms
1965
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman - quantum
electrodynamics
1964
Charles H. Townes, Nicolay G. Basov, Aleksandr M. Prokhorov - quantum
electronics
1963
Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen - atomic nucleus
1962
Lev Landau - condensed matter liquid helium
1961
Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer - electron scattering, gamma
radiation
1960
Donald A. Glaser - bubble chamber
1959
Emilio Segrè, Owen Chamberlain - antiproton
1958
Pavel A. Cherenkov, Il´ja M. Frank, Igor Y. Tamm - Cherenkov effect
1957
Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee - parity laws of particle physics
1956
William B. Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain - semiconductors
and transistor
1955
Willis E. Lamb, Polykarp Kusch - fine structure of hydrogen spectrum,
magnetic moment of the electron
1954
Max Born, Walther Bothe - quantum mechanics, coincidence method
1953
Frits Zernike - phase contrast microscope
1952
Felix Bloch, E. M. Purcell - nuclear induction
1951
John Cockcroft, Ernest T.S. Walton transmutation of atomic nuclei
1950
Cecil Powell - nuclear photography (!)
1949
Hideki Yukawa - prediction of mesons
1948
Patrick M.S. Blackett - development of Wilson cloud chamber method
nuclear physics cosmic radiation
1947
Edward V. Appleton - upper atmosphere Appleton layer
1946
Percy W. Bridgman - high pressure physics
1945
Wolfgang Pauli - exclusion principle
1944
Isidor Isaac Rabi - nuclear magnetic resonance
1943
Otto Stern - molecular ray method magnetic moment of the proton
1939
Ernest Lawrence - cyclotron
1938
Enrico Fermi - new elements from neutron irradiation of nuclei
1937
Clinton Davisson, George Paget Thomson - electron diffraction
1936
Victor F. Hess, Carl D. Anderson - cosmic radiation, positron
1935
James Chadwick - neutron
1933
Erwin Schrödinger, Paul A.M. Dirac - atomic theory
1932
Werner Heisenberg - not sure (!) quantum mechanics uncertainty principle
1930
Venkata Raman - light scattering Raman effect
1929
Louis de Broglie - wave nature of electrons
1928
Owen Willans Richardson - thermionic phenomenon
1927
Arthur H. Compton, C.T.R. Wilson - Compton effect, cloud chamber
1926
Jean Baptiste Perrin - discontinuous matter sedimentation equilibrium
1925
James Franck, Gustav Hertz - electron impact on the atom
1924
Manne Siegbahn - X-ray spectroscopy
1923
Robert A. Millikan - photoelectric effect
1922
Niels Bohr - atomic structure
1921
Albert Einstein - theoretical physics photoelectric effect (2005
Einstein centenary)
1920
Charles Edouard Guillaume - precision measurements nickel steel alloys
1919
Johannes Stark - Doppler effect in canal rays splitting of spectral
lines in electric fields
1918
Max Planck - the quantum
1917
Charles Glover Barkla - Röntgen radiation of the elements
1915
William Bragg, Lawrence Bragg - X-ray crystallography
1914
Max von Laue - X-ray diffraction
1913
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes - low temperature physics liquid helium
1912
Gustaf Dalén - automatic regulators for lighthouses and buoys
1911
Wilhelm Wien - heat radiation
1910
Johannes Diderik van der Waals - equation of state for gases and liquids
1909
Guglielmo Marconi, Ferdinand Braun - wireless telegraphy - radio
1908
Gabriel Lippmann - colour photography
1907
Albert A. Michelson - optical precision instruments spectroscopy
1906
J.J. Thomson - electrical conduction by gases
1905
Philipp Lenard - cathode rays
1904
Lord Rayleigh - gas densities discovery of argon
1903
Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie - radioactivity
1902
Hendrik A. Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman - effects of magnetism on radiation
1901
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - Röntgen rays
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