Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 2026-10-18
Awarded jointly to Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain for discovering the antiproton.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Both laureates, equal shares and antiproton-discovery motivation
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 2026-10-18
Awarded to Donald Arthur Glaser for inventing the bubble chamber.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Award year, laureate and bubble-chamber invention motivation
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961 2026-10-18
Awarded in equal shares to Robert Hofstadter for electron scattering studies of atomic nuclei and discoveries about nucleon structure, and Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer for resonance absorption of gamma rays and the Mössbauer effect.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Both laureates, equal shares and separate prize motivations
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962 2026-10-18
Awarded to Lev Davidovich Landau for pioneering theories of condensed matter, especially liquid helium.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1962 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official award summary: sole laureate and condensed-matter/liquid-helium theory motivation.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 2026-10-18
One half went to Eugene Paul Wigner for theories of atomic nuclei and elementary particles, particularly symmetry principles; the other half jointly to Maria Goeppert Mayer and Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen for discoveries about the nuclear shell model.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Reproduced individual official Nobel record: Wigner one-half for nuclear/particle theory and symmetry; Mayer and Jensen one-quarter each for nuclear shell structure.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 2026-10-18
One half went to Charles Hard Townes; the other half jointly to Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, for quantum-electronics work leading to oscillators and amplifiers using the maser-laser principle.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official award summary: Townes one-half; Basov and Prokhorov one-quarter each; common quantum-electronics motivation.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 2026-10-18
Awarded in equal shares to Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Seymour Schwinger and Richard Feynman for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with consequences for elementary particles.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official award summary: all three laureates, one-third shares, and common quantum-electrodynamics motivation.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1966 2026-10-18
Awarded to Alfred Kastler for discovering and developing optical methods for studying radiofrequency resonances in chemical atoms.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1966 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official award summary: sole laureate and optical methods for Hertzian resonances in atoms.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 2026-10-18
Awarded to Hans Albrecht Bethe for contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially explaining energy production in stars.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1967 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Slide 13: reproduced individual official 1967 Nobel record; sole laureate and nuclear-reaction/stellar-energy motivation.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 2026-10-18
Awarded to Luis Walter Alvarez for discoveries in elementary particle physics, especially particle resonances identified using hydrogen bubble chambers and analysis of their records.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1968 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Reproduced individual official 1968 record: sole laureate, resonance discoveries using hydrogen bubble chambers and data analysis.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969 2026-10-18
Awarded to Murray Gell-Mann for discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1969 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Reproduced individual official 1969 record: sole laureate, classification of elementary particles and their interactions.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970 2026-10-18
Awarded in equal shares to Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén for work in magnetohydrodynamics and its applications in plasma physics, and Louis Eugène Félix Néel for discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism and their applications in solid-state physics.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1970 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official summary: equal halves; magnetohydrodynamics/plasma and antiferromagnetism/ferrimagnetism motivations distinct.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 2026-10-18
Awarded to Dennis Gabor for inventing and developing holography.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1971 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official summary: sole laureate and holographic-method invention/development motivation.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972 2026-10-18
Awarded in equal shares to John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, the BCS theory.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official summary: all three laureates, equal one-third shares, joint superconductivity theory.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 2026-10-18
One half was shared by Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever for experimental discoveries of quantum tunnelling in semiconductors and superconductivity, respectively. The other half went to Brian D. Josephson for predicting supercurrents across a tunnel barrier and the Josephson effect.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official summary: Esaki and Giaever one-quarter each, Josephson one-half; experimental and theoretical motivations separately.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974 2026-10-18
Awarded in equal shares to Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish for pioneering radio astrophysics: Ryle for observations and inventions, especially aperture synthesis, and Hewish for his decisive role in discovering pulsars.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1974 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official summary: equal halves; Ryle aperture synthesis and Hewish decisive pulsar-discovery role distinguished.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 2026-10-18
Awarded in equal shares to Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson and Leo James Rainwater for connecting collective motion with individual-particle motion in atomic nuclei and developing a theory of nuclear structure from that connection.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1975 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Reproduced individual official 1975 record: CERN-hosted slide 8 gives all three full names and one-third shares; IN2P3-hosted slide reproduces full individual official motivation and its canonical URL.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 2026-10-18
Awarded in equal shares to Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting for pioneering work discovering a new kind of heavy elementary particle.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1976 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official summary: equal halves for pioneering discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 2026-10-18
Awarded in equal shares to Philip Warren Anderson, Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck Van Vleck for theoretical investigations of electronic structure in magnetic and disordered systems.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1977 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Three individual official laureate records: each one-third, same electronic-structure/magnetic/disordered-system motivation.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 2026-10-18
One half went to Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitza for inventions and discoveries in low-temperature physics. Arno Allan Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson received one quarter each for discovering the cosmic microwave background.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official summary: Kapitza one-half for low-temperature work; Penzias and Wilson one-quarter each for cosmic microwave background discovery.
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