The annual Nobel Memorial Prize in Physics is given in memory of Alfred Nobel to researchers in the field of Physics. It is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences every December 10 and funded by Sveriges Riksbank. To date, 218 outstanding individuals have received such award. (The name of John Bardeen was listed twice, in 1956 and in 1972. Hence, the running total is 219.)

1. 1901 – Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Germany)
2. 1902 – Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Netherlands)
3. 1902 – Pieter Zeeman (Netherlands)
4. 1903 – Henri Becquerel (France)
5. 1903 – Marie Curie (France)
6. 1903 – Pierre Curie (France)
7. 1904 – Lord Rayleigh (United Kingdom)
8. 1905 – Philipp Lenard (Germany)
9. 1906 – Sir J.J. Thomson (United Kingdom)

10. 1907 – A.A. Michelson (United States)
11. 1908 – Gabriel Lippmann (France)
12. 1909 – Ferdinand Braun (Germany)
13. 1909 – Guglielmo Marconi (Italy)
14. 1910 – Johannes Diederik van der Waals (Netherlands)
15. 1911 – Wilhelm Wien (Germany)
16. 1912 – Nils Dalén (Sweden)
17. 1913 – Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Netherlands)
18. 1914 – Max von Laue (Germany)
19. 1915 – Sir Lawrence Bragg (United Kingdom)
20. 1915 – Sir William Bragg (United Kingdom)

21. 1917 – Charles Glover Barkla (United Kingdom)
22. 1918 – Max Planck (Germany)
23. 1919 – Johannes Stark (Germany)
24. 1920 – Charles Édouard Guillaume (Switzerland)
25. 1921 – Albert Einstein (Switzerland)
26. 1922 – Niels Bohr (Denmark)
27. 1923 – Robert Andrews Millikan (United States)
28. 1924 – Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (Sweden)
29. 1925 – James Franck (Germany)
30. 1925 – Gustav Hertz (Germany)

31. 1926 – Jean Perrin (France)
32. 1927 – Arthur Holly Compton (United States)
33. 1927 – C.T.R. Wilson (United Kingdom)
34. 1928 – Sir Owen Willans Richardson (United Kingdom)
35. 1929 – Louis de Broglie (France)
36. 1930 – Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (India)
37. 1932 – Werner Heisenberg (Germany)
38. 1933 – P.A.M. Dirac (United Kingdom)
39. 1933 – Erwin Schrödinger (Austria)
40. 1935 – Sir James Chadwick (United Kingdom)

41. 1936 – Carl David Anderson (United States)
42. 1936 – Victor Francis Hess (Austria)
43. 1937 – Clinton Joseph Davisson (United States)
44. 1937 – Sir George Paget Thomson (United Kingdom)
45. 1938 – Enrico Fermi (Italy)
46. 1939 – Ernest Orlando Lawrence (United States)
47. 1943 – Otto Stern (United States)
48. 1944 – Isidor Isaac Rabi (United States)
49. 1945 – Wolfgang Pauli (Austria)
50. 1946 – Percy Williams Bridgman (United States)

51. 1947 – Sir Edward Victor Appleton (United Kingdom)
52. 1948 – Patrick M.S. Blackett (United Kingdom)
53. 1949 – Yukawa Hideki (Japan)
54. 1950 – Cecil Frank Powell (United Kingdom)
55. 1951 – Sir John Douglas Cockcroft (United Kingdom)
56. 1951 – Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (Ireland)
57. 1952 – Felix Bloch (United States)
58. 1952 – E.M. Purcell (United States)
59. 1953 – Frits Zernike (Netherlands)
60. 1954 – Max Born (United Kingdom)

61. 1954 – Walther Bothe (West Germany)
62. 1955 – Polykarp Kusch (United States)
63. 1955 – Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. (United States)
64. 1956 – John Bardeen (United States)
65. 1956 – Walter H. Brattain (United States)
66. 1956 – William B. Shockley (United States)
67. 1957 – Tsung-Dao Lee (China)
68. 1957 – Chen Ning Yang (China)
69. 1958 – Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
70. 1958 – Ilya Mikhaylovich Frank (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

71. 1958 – Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
72. 1959 – Owen Chamberlain (United States)
73. 1959 – Emilio Segrè (United States)
74. 1960 – Donald A. Glaser (United States)
75. 1961 – Robert Hofstadter (United States)
76. 1961 – Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer (West Germany)
77. 1962 – Lev Davidovich Landau (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
78. 1963 – J. Hans D. Jensen (West Germany)
79. 1963 – Maria Goeppert Mayer (United States)
80. 1963 – Eugene Paul Wigner (United States)

81. 1964 – Nikolay Gennadiyevich Basov (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
82. 1964 – Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Prokhorov
83. 1964 – Charles Hard Townes (United States)
84. 1965 – Richard P. Feynman (United States)
85. 1965 – Julian Seymour Schwinger (United States)
86. 1965 – Tomonaga Shin’ichiro (Japan)
87. 1966 – Alfred Kastler (France)
88. 1967 – Hans Albrecht Bethe (United States)
89. 1968 – Luis W. Alvarez (United States)
90. 1969 – Murray Gell-Mann (United States)

91. 1970 – Hannes Alfvén (Sweden)
92. 1970 – Louis-Eugène-Félix Néel (France)
93. 1971 – Dennis Gabor (United Kingdom)
94. 1972 – John Bardeen (United States)
95. 1972 – Leon N. Cooper (United States)
96. 1972 – John Robert Schrieffer (United States)
97. 1973 – Leo Esaki (Japan)
98. 1973 – Ivar Giaever (United States)
99. 1973 – Brian D. Josephson (United Kingdom)
100. 1974 – Antony Hewish (United Kingdom)

101. 1974 – Sir Martin Ryle (United Kingdom)
102. 1975 – Aage N. Bohr (Denmark)
103. 1975 – Ben R. Mottelson (Denmark)
104. 1975 – James Rainwater (United States)
105. 1976 – Burton Richter (United States)
106. 1976 – Samuel C.C. Ting (United States)
107. 1977 – Philip W. Anderson (United States)
108. 1977 – Sir Nevill F. Mott (United Kingdom)
109. 1977 – John H. Van Vleck (United States)
110. 1978 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

111. 1978 – Arno Penzias (United States)
112. 1978 – Robert Woodrow Wilson (United States)
113. 1979 – Sheldon Lee Glashow (United States)
114. 1979 – Abdus Salam (Pakistan)
115. 1979 – Steven Weinberg (United States)
116. 1980 – James Watson Cronin (United States)
117. 1980 – Val Logsdon Fitch (United States)
118. 1981 – Nicolaas Bloembergen (United States)
119. 1981 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow (United States)
120. 1981 – Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (Sweden)

121. 1982 – Kenneth Geddes Wilson (United States)
122. 1983 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (United States)
123. 1983 – William A. Fowler (United States)
124. 1984 – Simon van der Meer (Netherlands)
125. 1984 – Carlo Rubbia (Italy)
126. 1985 – Klaus von Klitzing (West Germany)
127. 1986 – Gerd Binnig (West Germany)
128. 1986 – Heinrich Rohrer (Switzerland)
129. 1986 – Ernst Ruska (West Germany)
130. 1987 – J. Georg Bednorz (West Germany)

131. 1987 – Karl Alex Müller (Switzerland)
132. 1988 – Leon Max Lederman (United States)
133. 1988 – Melvin Schwartz (United States)
134. 1988 – Jack Steinberger (United States)
135. 1989 – Hans Georg Dehmelt
136. 1989 – Wolfgang Paul (West Germany)
137. 1989 – Norman Foster Ramsey (United States)
138. 1990 – Jerome Isaac Friedman (United States)
139. 1990 – Henry Way Kendall (United States)
140. 1990 – Richard E. Taylor (Canada)

141. 1991 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (France)
142. 1992 – Georges Charpak (France)
143. 1993 – Russell Alan Hulse (United States)
144. 1993 – Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. (United States)
145. 1994 – Bertram N. Brockhouse (Canada)
146. 1994 – Clifford G. Shull (United States)
147. 1995 – Martin Lewis Perl (United States)
148. 1995 – Frederick Reines (United States)
149. 1996 – David M. Lee (United States)
150. 1996 – Douglas D. Osheroff (United States)

151. 1996 – Robert C. Richardson (United States)
152. 1997 – Steven Chu (United States)
153. 1997 – Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (France)
154. 1997 – William D. Phillips (United States)
155. 1998 – Robert B. Laughlin (United States)
156. 1998 – Horst L. Störmer (United States)
157. 1998 – Daniel C. Tsui (United States)
158. 1999 – Gerardus ‘t Hooft (Netherlands)
159. 1999 – Martinus J.G. Veltman (Netherlands)
160. 2000 – Zhores I. Alferov (Russia)

161. 2000 – Jack S. Kilby (United States)
162. 2000 – Herbert Kroemer (Germany)
163. 2001 – Eric A. Cornell (United States)
164. 2001 – Wolfgang Ketterle (Germany)
165. 2001 – Carl E. Wieman (United States)
166. 2002 – Raymond Davis, Jr. (United States)
167. 2002 – Riccardo Giacconi (United States)
168. 2002 – Koshiba Masatoshi (Japan)
169. 2003 – Alexei A. Abrikosov (United States)
170. 2003 – Vitaly L. Ginzburg (Russia)

171. 2003 – Anthony J. Leggett (United States)
172. 2004 – David J. Gross (United States)
173. 2004 – H. David Politzer (United States)
174. 2004 – Frank Wilczek (United States)
175. 2005 – Roy J. Glauber (United States)
176. 2005 – John L. Hall (United States)
177. 2005 – Theodor W. Hänsch (Germany)
178. 2006 – John C. Mather (United States)
179. 2006 – George F. Smoot (United States)
180. 2007 – Albert Fert (France)

181. 2007 – Peter Grünberg (Germany)
182. 2008 – Kobayashi Makoto (Japan)
183. 2008 – Maskawa Toshihide (Japan)
184. 2008 – Yoichiro Nambu (United States)
185. 2009 – Willard Boyle (Canada/United States)
186. 2009 – Charles Kao (United Kingdom/United States)
187. 2009 – George E. Smith (United States)
188. 2010 – Andre Geim (Netherlands)
189. 2010 – Konstantin Novoselov (Russia/United Kingdom)
190. 2011 – Saul Perlmutter (United States)

191. 2011 – Brian P. Schmidt (United States/Australia)
192. 2011 – Adam G. Riess (United States)
193. 2012 – Serge Haroche (France)
194. 2012 – David J. Wineland (United States)
195. 2013 – François Englert (Belgium)
196. 2013 – Peter Higgs (United Kingdom)
197. 2014 – Akasaki Isamu (Japan)
198. 2014 – Amano Hiroshi (Japan)
199. 2014 – Shuji Nakamura (United States)
200. 2015 – Kajita Takaaki (Japan)

201. 2015 – Arthur B. McDonald (Canada)
202. 2016 – David Thouless (United Kingdom)
203. 2016 – Duncan Haldane (United Kingdom)
204. 2016 – Michael Kosterlitz (United Kingdom)
205. 2017 – Barry C. Barish (United States)
206. 2017 – Kip S. Thorne (United States)
207. 2017 – Rainer Weiss (United States)
208. 2018 – Arthur Ashkin (United States)
209. 2018 – Gérard Mourou (France)
210. 2018 – Donna Strickland (Canada)

211. 2019 – James Peebles (Canada/United States)
212. 2019 – Michel Mayor (Switzerland)
213. 2019 – Didier Queloz (Switzerland)
214. 2020 – Reinhard Genzel (Germany)
215. 2020 – Andrea Ghez (United States)
216. 2020 – Roger Penrose (United Kingdom)
217. 2021 – Klaus Hasselmann (Germany)
218. 2021 – Manabe Syukuro (Japan/United States)
219. 2021 – Giorgio Parisi (Italy)

See also: List of Nobel Prize Winners in Economics

See also: List of Inventors