Nobel Prizes in Physics

Nobel Prizes in Physics

© Dr. John Andraos

Department of Chemistry, York University
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NOBEL PRIZE PHYSICS

YEAR	NAME OF SCIENTISTS	NATIONALITY	TYPE OF PHYSICS

1901	Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen	German	radiation
1902	Henrik Antoon Lorentz	Dutch	magnetism, radiation
1902	Pieter Zeeman	Dutch	magnetism, radiation
1903	Pierre Curie	French	radiation
1903	Marie Curie	French	radiation
1903	Antoine Henri Becquerel	French	radiation
1904	Lord John William Strutt Rayleigh	British	gases
1905	Philipp Eduard Anton Lenard	Hungarian-German	cathode rays
1906	Sir Joseph John Thomson	British	gases
1907	Albert Abraham Michelson	German-American	spectroscopy
1908	Gabriel Lippmann	French	optics
1909	Guglielmo Marconi	Italian	telegraphy
1909	Carl Ferdinand Braun	German	telegraphy
1910	Johannes Diderik van der Waals	Dutch	gases
1911	Wilhelm Wien	German	radiation
1912	Nils Gustaf Dalen	Swedish	gases
1913	Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes	Dutch	cryogenics
1914	Max von Laue	German	crystallography
1915	Sir William Henry Bragg	British	crystallography
1915	Sir William Lawrence Bragg	British	crystallography
1916	no prize awarded
1917	Charles Glover Barkla	British	radiation
1918	Max Planck	German	quantum theory, radiation
1919	Johannes Stark	German	spectroscopy
1920	Charles Edouard Guillaume	Swiss	material science
1921	Albert Einstein	Swiss-German-American	theoretical physics
1922	Neils Bohr	Danish	atomic structure
1923	Robert Andrews Millikan	American	electricity
1924	Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn	Swedish	spectroscopy
1925	James Franck	German-American	atomic structure
1925	Gustav Hertz	German	atomic structure
1926	Jean Baptiste Perrin	French	atomic structure
1927	Arthur Holly Compton	American	atomic structure
1927	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson	British	atomic structure
1928	Sir Owen Willans Richardson	British-American	thermoionic phenomena
1929	Prince Louis Victor de Broglie	French	atomic structure
1930	Sir Chandrasekhara V. Raman	Indian	spectroscopy
1931	no prize awarded
1932	Werner Heisenberg	German	quantum theory
1933	Erwin Schrodinger	Austrian	quantum theory
1933	Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac	British	quantum theory
1934	no prize awarded
1935	Sir James Chadwick	British	atomic structure
1936	Victor Franz Hess	Austrian-American	radiation
1936	Carl David Anderson	American	atomic structure
1937	Clinton Joseph Davisson	American	crystallography
1937	Sir George Paget Thomson	British	crystallography
1938	Enrico Fermi	Italian	nuclear physics
1939	Ernest Orlando Lawrence	American	nuclear physics
1940	no prize awarded
1941	no prize awarded
1942	no prize awarded
1943	Otto Stern	German	atomic structure
1944	Isidor Isaac Rabi	Austrian-American	nuclear physics
1945	Wolfgang Pauli	Austrian-American	quantum theory
1946	Percy Williams Bridgman	American	high energy physics
1947	Sir Edward Victor Appleton	British	atmospheric physics
1948	Lord Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett	British	nuclear physics, radiation
1949	Hideki Yukawa	Japanese	theoretical physics
1950	Cecil Frank Powell	British	nuclear physics
1951	Sir John Douglas Cockcroft	British	nuclear physics
1951	Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton	Irish	nuclear physics
1952	Felix Bloch	Swiss-American	nuclear magnetic resonance
1952	Edward Mills Purcell	American	nuclear magnetic resonance
1953	Frederik Zernike	Dutch	microscopy
1954	Max Born	German	quantum theory
1954	Walther Bothe	German	quantum theory
1955	Willis Eugene Lamb	American	spectroscopy
1955	Polykarp Kusch	German-American	atomic theory
1956	William Shockley	British-American	semiconductors
1956	John Bardeen	American	semiconductors
1956	Walter Houser Brattain	American(b. Amoy, China)	semiconductors
1957	Chen Ning Yang	Chinese-American	particle physics
1957	Tsung-Dao Lee	Chinese-American	particle physics
1958	Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov	Russian	radiation
1958	Ilja Mikhailovich Frank	Russian	radiation
1958	Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm	Russian	radiation
1959	Emilio Gino Segre	Italian	particle physics
1959	Owen Chamberlain	American	particle physics
1960	Donald A. Glaser	American	bubble chamber
1961	Robert Hofstadter	American	particle physics
1961	Rudolf Ludwig Mossbauer	German	radiation
1962	Lev Davidovich Landau	Russian	cryogenics
1963	Eugene P. Wigner	Hungarian-American	atomic structure, quantum theory
1963	Maria Goeppert-Mayer	Polish-American	atomic structure
1963	J. Hans D. Jensen	German	atomic structure
1964	Charles H. Townes	American	quantum theory
1964	Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov	Russian	quantum theory
1964	Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov	Russian (b. Australia)	quantum theory
1965	Sin-Itiro Tomonaga	Japanese	quantum theory
1965	Julian Schwinger	American	quantum theory
1965	Richard P. Feynman	American	quantum theory
1966	Alfred Kastler	French	optics
1967	Hans Albrecht Bethe	German-American	nuclear physics
1968	Luis W. Alvarez	American	particle physics
1969	Murray Gell-Mann	American	particle physics
1970	Hannes Alfven	Swedish	plasma physics
1970	Louis Neel	French	solid state physics
1971	Dennis Gabor	Hungarian-British	optics
1972	John Bardeen	American	superconductivity
1972	Leon N. Cooper	American	superconductivity
1972	J. Robert Schrieffer	American	superconductivity
1973	Leo Esaki	Japanese	semi and superconductivity
1973	Ivar Giaever	Norwegian-American	semi and superconductivity
1973	Brian D. Josephson	British	electricity
1974	Sir Martin Ryle	British	astrophysics
1974	Antony Hewish	British	astrophysics
1975	Aage Bohr	Danish	atomic structure
1975	Ben Mottelson	American-Danish	atomic structure
1975	James Rainwater	American	atomic structure
1976	Burton Richter	American	particle physics
1976	Samuel C.C. Ting	American	particle physics
1977	Philip W. Anderson	American	electromagnetism
1977	Sir Nevill F. Mott	British	electromagnetism
1977	John H. van Vleck	American	electromagnetism
1978	Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa	Russian	cryogenics
1978	Arno A. Penzias	German-American	radiation
1978	Robert W. Wilson	American	radiation
1979	Sheldon L. Glashow	American	particle physics
1979	Abdus Salam	Pakistani-British	particle physics
1979	Steven Weinberg	American	particle physics
1980	James W. Cronin	American	particle physics
1980	Val L. Fitch	American	particle physics
1981	Nicolas Bloembergen	Dutch-American	spectroscopy
1981	Arthur L. Schawlow	American	spectroscopy
1981	Kai M. Siegbahn	Swedish	spectroscopy
1982	Kenneth G. Wilson	American	condensed phases
1983	Subramanyan Chandrasekhar	Indian-American	astrophysics
1983	William A. Fowler	American	astrophysics
1984	Carlo Rubbia	Italian-American	particle physics
1984	Simon van der Meer	Dutch	particle physics
1985	Klaus von Klitzing	Polish-German	quantum theory
1986	Ernst Ruska	German	microscopy
1986	Gerd Binnig	German	microscopy
1986	Heinrich Rohrer	Swiss	microscopy
1987	J. Georg Bednorz	Swiss	superconductivity
1987	K. Alexander Muller	Swiss	superconductivity
1988	Leon M. Lederman	American	particle physics
1988	Melvin Schwartz	American	particle physics
1988	Jack Steinberger	German-American	particle physics
1989	Norman F. Ramsey	American	atomic physics
1989	Hans G. Dehmelt	German	ion trapping
1989	Wolfgang Paul	German	ion trapping
1990	Jerome I. Friedman	American	particle physics
1990	Henry W. Kendall	American	particle physics
1990	Richard E. Taylor	Canadian-American	particle physics
1991	Pierre Gilles de Gennes	French	material science
1992	Georges Charpak	Polish-French	particle physics
1993	Russell A. Hulse	American	astrophysics
1993	Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.	American	astrophysics
1994	Bertram N. Brockhouse	Canadian-American	spectroscopy
1994	Clifford G. Shull	American	particle physics
1995	Martin L. Perl	American	particle physics
1995	Frederick Reines	American	particle physics
1996	David M. Lee	American	cryogenics
1996	Douglas D. Osheroff	American	cryogenics
1996	Robert C. Richardson	American	cryogenics
1997	Steven Chu	American	laser physics
1997	Claude Cohen-Tannoudji	French	laser physics
1997	William D. Phillips	American	laser physics
1998	Robert B. Laughlin	American	quantum theory
1998	Horst L. Stormer	German-American	quantum theory
1998	Daniel C. Tsui	Chinese-American	quantum theory
1999	Gerardus 'T Hooft		quantum theory
1999	Martinius J.G. Veltman		quantum theory
2000	Alferov, Zhores I.	Russian	microelectronics
2000	Kroemer, Herbert	German	microelectronics
2000	Kilby, Jack St. Clair	American	microelectronics
2001	Eric A. Cornell	American	laser physics
2001	Carl E. Wiesman	American	laser physics
2001	Wolfgang Ketterle	German	laser physics

NUMBER OF PRIZES AWARDED BY TYPE OF PHYSICS
AREA OF PHYSICS	NUMBER OF NOBEL PRIZES
astrophysics	6
atmospheric physics	1
atomic physics	1
atomic structure	16
bubble chamber	1
cathode rays	1
condensed phases	1
cryogenics	6
crystallography	5
electricity	2
electromagnetism	3
gases	4
high energy physics	1
ion trapping	2
laser physics	6
magnetism	5
material science	2
microelectronics	3
microscopy	4
nuclear magnetic resonance	2
nuclear physics	8
optics	3
particle physics	26
quantum theory	20
radiation	17
semiconductors	3
solid state physics	1
spectroscopy	9
superconductivity	7
telegraphy	2
theoretical physics	2
thermoionic phenomena	1

PRIZE YEAR	NOBEL PHYSICISTS	SUPERVISOR	Ph.D.	UNIVERSITY	DATES	Age (years)	Age at Prize
1970	Alfven, Hannes Olof Gosta		1934	Uppsala	1908 - 1995	87	62
2000	Alferov, Zhores I.		1970	A.F.Ioffe Phys.-Tech. Inst., Leningrad	1930 -		70
1968	Alvarez, Luis Walter	Arthur Compton	1930's	Chicago	1911 - 1988	77	57
1936	Anderson, Carl David	Robert A. Millikan	1930	Cal Tech	1905 - 1991	86	31
1977	Anderson, Philip Warren	John van Vleck	1949	Harvard	1923 -		54
1947	Appleton, Sir Edward Victor	William H. Bragg	1913	Cambridge	1892 - 1965	73	55
1956	Bardeen, John	Eugene P. Wigner	1936	Princeton	1908 - 1991	83	48
1972	Bardeen, John	Eugene P. Wigner	1936	Princeton	1908 - 1991	83	64
1917	Barkla, Charles Glover	J.J. Thomson	1899	Cambridge (M.Sc.)	1877 - 1944	67	40
1964	Basov, Nicolay Gennadiyevich	MA Leontovich, AM Prochorov	1956	P.N. Lebedev Institute, Moscow	1922 -		42
1903	Becquerel, Antoine Henri		1877	Ecole de Ponts et Chaussees, Paris (eng.)	1852 - 1908	56	51
1987	Bednorz, J. Georg	Heini Granicher, K. Alex Muller	1982	Swiss Fed. Inst. Tech., Zurich	1950 -		37
1967	Bethe, Hans Albrecht	Arnold Sommerfeld	1928	Munich	1906 -		61
1986	Binnig, Gerd	E. Hoenig	1978	Johann Wolfgang Goethe U, Frankfurt	1947 -		39
1948	Blackett, Lord Patrick M. S.	Ernest Rutherford	1921	Cambridge (MA)	1897 - 1974	77	51
1952	Bloch, Felix	Werner Heisenberg	1928	Leipzig	1905 - 1983	78	47
1981	Bloembergen, Nicolas	E. M. Purcell	1948	Leiden	1920 -		61
1975	Bohr, Aage	Benjamin Mottelson	1954	Copenhagen	1922 -		53
1922	Bohr, Neils	C. Christiansen	1911	Copenhagen	1885 - 1962	77	37
1954	Born, Max	Christian Felix Klein	1907	Gottingen	1882 - 1970	88	72
1954	Bothe, Walther	Max Planck	1914	Berlin	1891 - 1957	66	63
1915	Bragg, Sir William Henry	J.J. Thomson	1885	Cambridge (MA)	1862 - 1942	80	53
1915	Bragg, Sir William Lawrence	J.J. Thomson, Sir W.H. Bragg	1912	Cambridge (MA)	1890 - 1971	81	25
1956	Brattain, Walter Houser		1929	Minnesota	1902 - 1987	85	54
1909	Braun, Carl Ferdinand		1872	Berlin	1850 - 1918	68	59
1946	Bridgman, Percy Williams		1908	Harvard	1882 - 1961	79	64
1994	Brockhouse, Bertram Neville	Hugh Grayson-Smith, James Reekie, Sir Edward Bullard	1950	Toronto	1918 -		76
1929	Broglie, Prince Louis Victor de	Maurice de Broglie	1924	Sorbonne	1892 - 1987	95	37
1935	Chadwick, Sir James	Ernest Rutherford	1921	Cambridge	1891 - 1974	83	44
1959	Chamberlain, Owen	Enrico Fermi	1948	Chicago	1920 -		39
1983	Chandrasekhar, Subramanyan	Ralph H. Fowler	1933	Cambridge	1910 - 1995	85	73
1992	Charpak, Georges		1954	College de France	1924 -		68
1958	Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich	Sergei I. Vavilov	1930's	Leningrad	1904 - 1990	86	54
1997	Chu, Steven	Eugene Commins	1976	UC Berkeley	1948 -		49
1951	Cockcroft, Sir John Douglas	Pyotr Kapitsa	1928	Cambridge	1897 - 1967	70	54
1997	Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude	Alfred Kastler	1962	Paris	1933 -		64
1927	Compton, Arthur Holly	Owen W. Richardson, H.L. Cooke	1916	Princeton U.	1892 - 1962	70	35
1972	Cooper, Leon N.	Robert Serber	1954	Columbia	1930 -		42
2001	Cornell, Eric A.	David E. Pritchard	1990	MIT	1961 -		40
1980	Cronin, James Watson	Samuel K. Allison	1955	Chicago	1931 -		49
1903	Curie, Marie	Antoine Becquerel	1902	Sorbonne	1867 - 1934	67	36
1903	Curie, Pierre		1895	Sorbonne	1859 - 1906	47	44
1912	Dalen, Nils Gustaf		1896	Charmers Inst. Tech., Goteburg	1869 - 1937	68	43
1937	Davisson, Clinton Joseph	Owen W. Richardson	1911	Princeton	1881 - 1958	77	56
1989	Dehmelt, Hans Georg		1950	Gottingen	1922 -		67
1933	Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice	Ralph H. Fowler	1926	Cambridge	1902 - 1984	82	31
1921	Einstein, Albert		1905	Zurich	1879 - 1955	76	42
1973	Esaki, Leo		1959	Tokyo	1925 -		48
1938	Fermi, Enrico	Luigi Puccianti	1922	Pisa	1901 - 1954	53	37
1965	Feynman, Richard P.	John Archibald Wheeler	1942	Princeton	1918 - 1988	70	47
1980	Fitch, Val Logsdon	Leo James Rainwater	1954	Columbia	1923 -		57
1983	Fowler, William A.	C.C. Lauritsen	1936	Cal Tech	1911 - 1995	84	72
1925	Franck, James	Emil Gabriel Warburg	1906	Berlin	1882 - 1964	82	43
1958	Frank, Ilja Mikhailovich	Sergei I. Vavilov	1930	Moscow State U	1908 - 1990	82	50
1990	Friedman, Jerome I.	Enrico Fermi	1956	Chicago	1930 -		60
1971	Gabor, Dennis		1927	TH Berlin (engineering)	1900 - 1979	79	71
1969	Gell-Mann, Murray		1951	MIT	1929 -		40
1991	Gennes, Pierre Gilles de	J.Friedel, A.Herpin, A.Abragam	1957	Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay	1932 -		59
1973	Giaever, Ivar		1964	Rensselaer Poly. Inst., Troy	1929 -		44
1960	Glaser, Donald Arthur		1950	Cal Tech	1926 -		34
1979	Glashow, Sheldon Lee	Julian Schwinger	1950's	Harvard	1932 -		47
1963	Goeppert-Mayer, Maria	Max Born	1930	Gottingen	1906 - 1972	66	57
1920	Guillaume, Charles Edouard		1882	Zurich Polytech.	1861 - 1938	77	59
1932	Heisenberg, Werner	Arnold Sommerfeld	1923	Munich	1901 - 1976	75	31
1925	Hertz, Gustav Ludwig		1911	Berlin	1887 - 1975	88	38
1936	Hess, Victor Franz		1910	Graz	1883 - 1964	81	53
1974	Hewish, Antony	Martin Ryle	1952	Cambridge	1924 -		50
1961	Hofstadter, Robert	R. Herman	1938	Princeton	1915 - 1990	75	46
1999	Hooft, Gerardus 'T		1972	Utrecht	1946 -		53
1993	Hulse, Russell Alan		1975	U Massachusetts, Amherst	1950 -		43
1963	Jensen, Johannes Hans Daniel		1936	Hamburg	1907 - 1973	66	56
1973	Josephson, Brian D.		1964	Cambridge	1940 -		33
1913	Kamerlingh-Onnes, Heike		1879	Groningen	1853 - 1926	73	60
1978	Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich	Ernest Rutherford	1923	Cambridge	1894 - 1984	90	84
1966	Kastler, Alfred		1936	Bordeaux	1902 - 1984	82	64
1990	Kendall, Henry Way	Martin Deutsch	1954	MIT	1926 -		64
2001	Ketterle, Wolfgang	H. Walther	1986	Munich	1957 -		44
2000	Kilby, Jack St. Clair		1950	Illinois (M.Sc. Eng.)	1923 -		77
1985	Klitzing, Klaus von	G. Landwehr	1972	Wurzburg	1943 -		42
2000	Kroemer, Herbert		1952	Gottingen	1928 -		72
1955	Kusch, Polykarp	F. Wheeler Loomis	1936	Illinois	1911 - 1993	82	44
1955	Lamb, Willis Eugene, Jr.	J. Robert Oppenheimer	1938	UC Berkeley	1913 -		42
1962	Landau, Lev Davidovich		1934	Leningrad State	1908 - 1968	60	54
1914	Laue, Max von	Max Planck	1903	Berlin	1879 - 1960	81	35
1998	Laughlin, Robert B.	John Joannopoulos	1979	MIT	1950 -		48
1939	Lawrence, Ernest Orlando	William Francis Gray Swann	1925	Yale	1901 - 1958	57	38
1988	Lederman, Leon Max	John Tinlot	1951	Columbia	1922 -		66
1996	Lee, David M.	Henry A. Fairbank	1959	Yale	1931 -		65
1957	Lee, Tsung-Dao	Enrico Fermi	1950	Chicago	1926 -		31
1905	Lenard, Philipp Eduard Anton		1886	Heidelberg	1862 - 1947	85	43
1908	Lippmann, Gabriel		1875	Sorbonne	1845 - 1921	76	63
1902	Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon		1875	Arnhem	1853 - 1928	75	49
1909	Marconi, Guglielmo Marchese	Vincenzo Rosa	1890's	Technical Institute of Livorno	1874 - 1937	63	35
1984	Meer, Simon van der		1952	Technical U Delft	1925 -		59
1907	Michelson, Albert Abraham		1873	U.S. Naval Academy (no Ph.D.)	1852 - 1931	79	55
1923	Millikan, Robert Andrews	Michael Pupin	1895	Columbia	1868 - 1953	85	55
1961	Mossbauer, Rudolf Ludwig	Heinz Maier-Leibnitz	1958	TU Heidelberg	1929 -		32
1977	Mott, Sir Nevill Francis	Ernest Rutherford	1930	Cambridge (MA)	1905 - 1996	91	72
1975	Mottelson, Benjamin Roy	Julian Schwinger	1950	Harvard	1926 -		49
1987	Muller, Karl Alexander		1958	Swiss Fed. Inst. Tech., Zurich	1927 -		60
1970	Neel, Louis	Pierre Ernest Weiss	1932	Strasbourg	1904 -		66
1996	Osheroff, Douglas D.	David Lee	1973	Cornell	1945 -		51
1989	Paul, Wolfgang	Hans Kopfermann	1939	Berlin	1913 - 1993	80	76
1945	Pauli, Wolfgang	Arnold Sommerfeld	1922	Munich	1900 - 1958	58	45
1978	Penzias, Arno Allan	Charles H. Townes	1961	Columbia	1933 -		45
1995	Perl, Martin Lewis	I. I. Rabi	1955	Columbia	1927 -		68
1926	Perrin, Jean Baptiste		1897	Sorbonne	1870 - 1942	72	56
1997	Phillips, William Daniel	Dan Kleppner	1976	MIT	1948 -		49
1918	Planck, Max		1879	Munich	1858 - 1947	89	60
1950	Powell, Cecil Frank	Charles T.R. Wilson	1927	Cambridge	1903 - 1969	66	47
1964	Prokhorov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich	S.M. Rytov	1951	P.N. Lebedev Institute, Moscow	1916 -		48
1952	Purcell, Edward Mills	Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge	1938	Harvard	1912 - 1997	85	40
1944	Rabi, Isidor Isaac		1927	Columbia	1898 - 1988	90	46
1975	Rainwater, Leo James	Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller	1946	Columbia	1917 - 1986	69	58
1930	Raman, Sir Chandrasekhara V.		1907	Presidency College Madras (MA)	1888 - 1970	82	42
1989	Ramsey, Norman Foster	I.I. Rabi	1940	Columbia	1915 -		74
1904	Rayleigh, Lord	J.J. Thomson	1865	Cambridge (no Ph.D.)	1842 - 1919	77	62
1995	Reines, Frederick	S. A. Korff	1944	NYU	1918 - 1998	80	77
1996	Richardson, Robert C.	Francis Bitter	1966	Duke U	1937 -		59
1928	Richardson, Sir Owen Willans	J.J. Thomson	1904	London	1879 - 1959	80	49
1976	Richter, Burton		1956	MIT	1931 -		45
1901	Roentgen, Wilhelm Roentgen	August Kundt	1869	Polytech. Zurich	1845 - 1923	78	56
1986	Rohrer, Heinrich	Jorgen Lykke Olsen	1960	Swiss Fed. Inst. Tech., Zurich	1933 -		53
1984	Rubbia, Carlo		1958	Pisa	1934 -		50
1986	Ruska, Ernst	Max Knoll	1933	TU Berlin	1906 - 1988	82	80
1974	Ryle, Sir Martin		1939	Oxford	1918 - 1984	66	56
1979	Salam, Abdus		1951	Cambridge	1926 - 1996	70	53
1981	Schawlow, Arthur Leonard	Charles Townes	1951	Columbia	1921 -		60
1972	Schrieffer, John Robert	John Bardeen, Leon Cooper	1957	Illinois	1931 -		41
1933	Schrodinger, Erwin	Friedrich Hasenohrl	1910	Vienna	1887 - 1961	74	46
1988	Schwartz, Melvin	Jack Steinberger	1959	Columbia	1932 -		56
1965	Schwinger, Julian	J. R. Oppenheimer (post-doc)	1939	Columbia	1918 - 1994	76	47
1959	Segre, Emilio Gino	Enrico Fermi	1928	Rome	1905 - 1989	84	54
1956	Shockley, William Bradford	John C. Slater	1936	MIT	1910 - 1989	79	46
1956	Shull, Clifford Glenwood	Frank Myers, Richard Cox	1941	NYU	1915 -		41
1994	Siegbahn, Kai M.		1944	Stockholm	1918 -		76
1924	Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg	Johannes Rydberg	1911	Lund	1886 - 1978	92	38
1919	Stark, Johannes		1897	Munich	1874 - 1957	83	45
1988	Steinberger, Jack	Enrico Fermi	1948	Chicago	1921 -		67
1943	Stern, Otto	Otto Sackur	1916	Breslau	1888 - 1969	81	55
1998	Stormer, Horst Ludwig		1977	Stuttgart	1949 -		49
1958	Tamm, Igor Yevgenyevich		1933	Moscow	1895 - 1971	76	63
1993	Taylor, Jr., Joseph H.	Alan Maxwell	1968	Harvard	1941 -		52
1990	Taylor, Richard E.	Robert F. Mozley	1962	Stanford	1929 -		61
1937	Thomson, Sir George Paget	J.J. Thomson	1913	Cambridge	1892 - 1975	83	45
1906	Thomson, Sir Joseph John	Edward J. Routh	1880	Cambridge	1856 - 1940	84	50
1976	Ting, Samuel Chao Chung		1962	Michigan	1936 -		40
1965	Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro		1939	Kyoto	1906 - 1979	73	59
1964	Townes, Charles Hard		1939	Cal Tech	1915 -		49
1998	Tsui, Daniel Chee	Royal Stark	1967	Chicago	1938 -		60
1999	Veltman, Martinus J.G.		1963	Utrecht	1931 -		68
1977	Vleck, John Hasbrouck van	Edwin Crawford Kemble	1922	Harvard	1899 - 1980	81	78
1910	Waals, Johannes Diderik van der		1873	Leiden	1837 - 1923	86	73
1951	Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton	Ernest Rutherford	1931	Cambridge	1903 - 1995	92	48
1979	Weinberg, Steven	Samuel Treiman	1957	Princeton	1933 -		46
1911	Wien, Wilhelm	Hermann von Helmholtz	1886	Berlin	1864 - 1928	64	47
2001	Wiesman, Carl E.		1977	Stanford	1951 -		50
1963	Wigner, Eugene P.	Michael Polanyi	1925	TH Berlin	1902 - 1995	93	61
1927	Wilson, Charles Thomson Rees	J.J. Thomson	1892	Cambridge	1869 - 1959	90	58
1982	Wilson, Kenneth Geddes	Murray Gell-Mann	1961	Cal Tech	1936 -		46
1978	Wilson, Robert Woodrow	John Bolton	1962	Cal Tech	1936 -		42
1957	Yang, Chen Ning	Enrico Fermi	1948	Chicago	1922 -		35
1949	Yukawa, Hideki		1938	Osaka	1907 - 1981	74	42
1902	Zeeman, Pieter	Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes	1893	Leiden	1865 - 1943	78	37
1953	Zernike, Frederik		1915	Amsterdam	1888 - 1966	78	65

TOP 5 UNIVERSITY RANKING
Number of Laureates	University	Country
19	Cambridge	U.K.
12	Columbia	U.S.
8	Chicago	U.S.
7	Berlin	Germany
7	Harvard	U.S.
7	Princeton	U.S.
7	MIT	U.S.
6	Cal Tech	U.S.

National Demographics
Nationality	Number of Laureates
American	79
American born	53
German	28
German born	26
British	21
British born	19
French	11
French born	10
Dutch	7
Russian	8
Russian born	7
Swiss	6
Austrian	4
Swedish	4
Chinese	4
Danish	3
Danish born	2
Italian	3
Japanese	3
Hungarians	3
Polish	3
Indian	2
Canadians	2
Irish	1
Norwegian	1
Pakistani	1
Australian	1

CANADIAN BORN PHYSICS NOBEL LAUREATES

1990	RICHARD E. TAYLOR	b. Medicine Hat, AB	Ph.D. 1962, Stanford	went to United States
1994	BERTRAM NEVILLE BROCKHOUSE	b. Lethbridge, AB	Ph.D. 1950, U Toronto	went to United States

Age Range at Time Prize Awarded	Number of Physics Laureates
(years)
25 - 29	1
30 - 34	7
35 - 39	15
40 - 44	24
45 - 49	30
50 - 54	21
55 - 59	21
60 - 64	20
65 - 69	9
70 - 74	9
75 - 79	6
80 - 84	2
85 - 89	0