Nobel Prizes in Physics

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  Ripples in spacetime

  The 2017 Nobel prize in Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”.

  Editorial1 Nov 2017 Nature Physics
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  Of topology and low-dimensionality

  The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”.

  Editorial3 Nov 2016 Nature Physics

• Nobel Prize 2015: Kajita and McDonald

  The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass".

  • Andrea Taroni

  Research Highlights6 Oct 2015 Nature Physics

• Nobel Prize 2014: Akasaki, Amano & Nakamura

  The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to 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."

  • Joerg Heber

  Research Highlights7 Oct 2014 Nature Physics

• Nobel Prize 2013: Englert and Higgs

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 has been awarded to 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".

  • Alison Wright

  Research Highlights8 Oct 2013 Nature Physics

• Nobel Prize 2012: Haroche & Wineland

  The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".

  • Iulia Georgescu

  Research Highlights9 Oct 2012 Nature Physics

• Nobel Prize 2011: Perlmutter, Schmidt & Riess

  The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess, "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae".

  • Alison Wright

  Research Highlights4 Oct 2011 Nature Physics

• Nobel Prize 2010: Andre Geim & Konstantin Novoselov

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 has been awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene".

  • Ed Gerstner

  Research Highlights5 Oct 2010 Nature Physics

• Nobel Prize 2009: Kao, Boyle & Smith

  The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Charles K. Kao for the development of optical fibres for telecommunications, and to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for the invention of charge-coupled device sensors.

  • Ed Gerstner

  Research Highlights6 Oct 2009 Nature Physics

• Nobel Prize 2008: Nambu, Kobayashi and Maskawa

  The 2008 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Yoichiro Nambu “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics”, and to 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”.

  • Alison Wright

  Research Highlights7 Oct 2008 Nature Physics
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  Nobel Prize 2007: Fert and Grünberg

  The 2007 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance.

  • Ed Gerstner

  Research Highlights9 Oct 2007 Nature Physics
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  Nobel Prize 2006: Mather and Smoot

  The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 has been awarded to John C. Mather and George F. Smoot, "for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation".

  • Alison Wright

  Research Highlights3 Oct 2006 Nature Physics

• Nobel Prize 2005: Glauber, Hall and Hänsch

  For contributions to the quantum theory of optical coherence, and to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique.

  • Andreas Trabesinger

  Research Highlights4 Oct 2005 Nature Physics