ALI ZAIN ALZAHRANI KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY. Nobel Prizes for Physicists Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa

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Nobel Prizes for Physicists 1901 Nobel Prizes for Physicists 1901 Nobel Prizes for Physicists 1901

Nobel Prizes for Physicists 1901----2008200820082008

2008 2008 2008

2008 Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa

2007 2007 2007

2007 Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg

2006 2006 2006

2006 John C. Mather, George F. Smoot

2005 2005 2005

2005 Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch

2004 2004 2004

2004 David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek

2003 2003 2003

2003 Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett

2002 2002 2002

2002 Raymond Davis, Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi

2001 2001 2001

2001 Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman

2000 2000 2000

2000 Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S. Kilby

19991999

19991999 Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman

1998 1998 1998

1998 Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Stormer, Daniel C. Tsui

1997 1997 1997

1997 Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips

1996 1996 1996

1996 David M. Lee. Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson

1995 1995 1995

1995 Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines

1994 1994 1994

1994 Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull

1993 1993 1993

1993 Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.

1992 1992 1992

1992 Georges Charpak

1991 1991 1991

1991 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

1990 1990 1990

1990 Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor

1989 1989 1989

1989 Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul

1988 1988 1988

1988 Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger

1987 1987 1987

1987 Georg J. Bednorz, Karl Alexander Muller

1986 1986 1986

1986 Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binning, Heinrich Rohrer

1985 1985 1985

1985 Klaus Von Klitzing

1984 1984 1984

1984 Carlo Rubbia, Simon Van Der Meer

1983 1983 1983

1983 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler

1982 1982 1982

1982 Kenneth G. Wilson

1981 1981 1981

1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur L. Schawlow, Kai M.B. Siegbahn

1980 1980 1980

1980 James W. Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch

1979 1979 1979

1979 Sheldon L. Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg

1978 1978 1978

1978 Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno A. Penzias, Robert W. Wilson

1977 1977 1977

1977 Philip W. Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John H. Van Vleck

1976 1976 1976

1976 Burton Richter, Samuel Ting

1975 1975 1975

1975 Aage Niels Bohr, Benjamin R. Mottelson, Leo James Rainwater

1974 1974 1974

1974 Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish

1973 1973 1973

1973 Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson

1972 1972 1972

1972 John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, Robert J. Schrieffer

1971 1971 1971

1971 Dennis Gabor

1970 1970 1970

1970 Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven, Louis Eugene Felix Neel

1969 1969 1969

1969 Murray Gell-Mann

1968 1968 1968

1968 Luis W. Alvarez

1967 1967 1967

1967 Hans Albrecht Bethe

1966 1966 1966

1966 Alfred Kastler

1965 1965 1965

1965 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian S. Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman

1964 1964 1964

1964 Charles H. Townes, Nikolai G. Basov, Alexander M. Prokhorov

1963 1963 1963

1963 Eugene P. Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Johannes Hans D.

Jensen 1962 1962 1962

1962 Lev Davidovich Landau

1961 1961 1961

1961 Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf L. Moessbauer

1960 1960 1960

1960 Donald A. Glaser

19591959

19591959 Emilio Gino Segre, Owen Chamberlain

1958 1958 1958

1958 Pavel A. Cherenkov, Ilya M. Frank, Igor Y. Tamm

1957 1957 1957

1957 Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee

1956 1956 1956

1956 William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain

1955 1955 1955

1955 Willis Eugene Lamb, Polykarp Kusch

1954 1954 1954

1954 Max Born, Walther Bothe

1953 1953 1953

1953 Frits Zernike

1952 1952 1952

1952 Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell

1951 1951 1951

1951 Sir John D. Cockcroft, Ernest T.S. Walton

1950 1950 1950

1950 Cecil F. Powell

1949 1949 1949

1949 Hideki Yukawa

1948 1948 1948

1948 Lord Patrick M.S. Blackett

1947 1947 1947

1947 Sir Edward V. Appleton

1946 1946 1946

1946 Percy W. Bridgman

1945 1945 1945

1945 Wolfgang Pauli

1944 1944 1944

1944 Isidor Isaac Rabi

1943 1943 1943

1943 Otto Stern

1942 1942 1942

1942----1940 1940 1940 1940 Prize money withheld and not awarded those years.

1939 1939 1939

1939 Ernest Orlando Lawrence

1938 1938 1938

1938 Enrico Fermi

1937 1937 1937

1937 Clinton Joseph Davisson, Sir George Paget Thomson

1936 1936 1936

1936 Victor Franz Hess, Carl David Anderson

1935 1935 1935

1935 Sir James Chadwick

1934 1934 1934

1934 Prize money withheld and not awarded this year.

1933 1933 1933

1933 Erwin Schrodinger, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

1932 1932 1932

1932 Werner Heisenberg

1931 1931 1931

1931 Prize money withheld and not awarded this year.

1930 1930 1930

1930 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

1929 1929 1929

1929 Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie

1928 1928 1928

1928 Sir Owen Willans Richardson

1927 1927 1927

1927 Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

1926 1926 1926

1926 Jean Baptiste Perrin

1925 1925 1925

1925 James Franck, Gustav Ludwig Herz

1924 1924 1924

1924 Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn

1923 1923 1923

1923 Robert Andrews Millikan

1922 1922 1922

1922 Niels Henrik David Bohr

1921 1921 1921

1921 Albert Einstein

1920 1920 1920

1920 Charles Edouard Guillaume

1919 1919 1919

1919 Johannes Stark

1918 1918 1918

1918 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

1917 1917 1917

1917 Charles Glover Barkla

1916 1916 1916

1916 Prize money withheld and not awarded this year.

1915 1915 1915

1915 Sir William Henry Bragg, Sir William Lawrence Bragg

1914 1914 1914

1914 Max Theodor Felix von Laue

1913 1913 1913

1913 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

1912 1912 1912

1912 Nils Gustaf Dalen

1911 1911 1911

1911 Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien

1910 1910 1910

1910 Johannes Diderik van der Waals

1909 1909 1909

1909 Guglielmo Marconi, Karl Ferdinand Braun

19081908

19081908 Gabriel Jonas Lippmann

1907 1907 1907

1907 Albert Abraham Michelson

1906 1906 1906

1906 Sir Joseph John Thomson

1905 1905 1905

1905 Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard

1904 1904 1904

1904 Lord (John William Strutt) Rayleigh

1903 1903 1903

1903 Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie

1902 1902 1902

1902 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman

1901 1901 1901

1901 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen