2011

Saul Perlmutter , Brian P. Schmidt Adam G. Riess

2010

Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov

2009

Charles Kuen Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George E. Smith

2008

Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa

2007

Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg

2006

John C. Mather, George F. Smoot 

2005

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

2004

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

2003

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

2002

Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi

2001

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

2000

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

1999

Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman

1998

Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui

1997

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

1996

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

1995

Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines

1994

Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull

1993

Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr.

1992

Georges Charpak

1991

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

1990

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

1989

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

1988

Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger

1987

J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex Müller

1986

Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer

1985

Klaus von Klitzing

1984

Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer

1983

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William A. Fowler

1982

Kenneth G. Wilson

1981

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

1980

James Cronin, Val Fitch

1979

Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg

1978

Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson

1977

Philip W. Anderson, Sir Nevill F. Mott, John H. van Vleck

1976

Burton Richter, Samuel C.C. Ting

1975

Aage N. Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, James Rainwater

1974

Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish

1973

Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson

1972

John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, Robert Schrieffer

1971

Dennis Gabor

1970

Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel

1969

Murray Gell-Mann

1968

Luis Alvarez

1967

Hans Bethe

1966

Alfred Kastler

1965

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

1964

Charles H. Townes, Nicolay G. Basov, Aleksandr M. Prokhorov

1963

Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen

1962

Lev Landau

1961

Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer

1960

Donald A. Glaser

1959

Emilio Segrè, Owen Chamberlain

1958

Pavel A. Cherenkov, Il´ja M. Frank, Igor Y. Tamm

1957

Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee

1956

William B. Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain

1955

Willis E. Lamb, Polykarp Kusch

1954

Max Born, Walther Bothe

1953

Frits Zernike

1952

Felix Bloch, E. M. Purcell

1951

John Cockcroft, Ernest T.S. Walton

1950

Cecil Powell

1949

Hideki Yukawa

1948

Patrick M.S. Blackett

1947

Edward V. Appleton

1946

Percy W. Bridgman

1945

Wolfgang Pauli

1944

Isidor Isaac Rabi

1943

Otto Stern

1942

of this prize section

1942

The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund

1941

The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1940

The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1939

Ernest Lawrence

1938

Enrico Fermi

1937

Clinton Davisson, George Paget Thomson

1936

Victor F. Hess, Carl D. Anderson

1935

James Chadwick

1934

The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section

1933

Erwin Schrödinger, Paul A.M. Dirac

1932

Werner Heisenberg

1931

The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1930

Sir Venkata Raman

1929

Louis de Broglie

1928

Owen Willans Richardson

1927

Arthur H. Compton, C.T.R. Wilson

1926

Jean Baptiste Perrin

1925

James Franck, Gustav Hertz

1924

Manne Siegbahn

1923

Robert A. Millikan

1922

Niels Bohr

1921

Albert Einstein

1920

Charles Edouard Guillaume

1919

Johannes Stark

1918

Max Planck

1917

Charles Glover Barkla

1916

The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section

1915

William Bragg, Lawrence Bragg

1914

Max von Laue

1913

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

1912

Gustaf Dalén

1911

Wilhelm Wien

1910

Johannes Diderik van der Waals

1909

Guglielmo Marconi, Ferdinand Braun

1908

Gabriel Lippmann

1907

Albert A. Michelson

1906

J.J. Thomson

1905

Philipp Lenard

1904

Lord Rayleigh

1903

Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie

1902

Hendrik A. Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman

1901

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen