Eis uma listagem de todos os que se destacaram na história da física pelos trabalhos de grande importância, desenvolvidos nesse âmbito e que foram galardoados com o prémio Nobel da física, atribuído pela Fundação Nobel. Talvez já tenhas ouvido falar de alguns deles...
2019 James Peebles, Michel Mayor e Didier Queloz
2018 Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou e Donna Strickland
2017 Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish e Kip Thorne
2016 Duncan Haldane, David Thouless e John Michael Kosterlitz
2015 Takaaki Kajita, Arthur McDonald
2014 Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano e Shuji Nakamura
2013 François Englert, Peter Higgs
2012 Serge Haroche, David Wineland
2011 Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess, Brian Schmidt
2010 Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov
2009 Willard Boyle, George Smith
2008 Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Masukawa, Charles Kao
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. Alexander Müller
1986 Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer
1985 Klaus von Klitzing
1984 Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer
1983 Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler
1982 Kenneth G. Wilson
1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn
1980 James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch
1978 Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
1977 Philip W. Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck
1976 Burton Richter, Samuel Chao Chung Ting
1975 Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Leo James Rainwater
1974 Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
1973 Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson
1972 John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, John Robert Schrieffer
1971 Dennis Gabor
1970 Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel
1969 Murray Gell-Mann
1968 Luis Walter Alvarez
1967 Hans Albrecht Bethe
1966 Alfred Kastler
1964 Charles H. Townes, Nicolay G. Basov, Aleksandr M. Prokhorov
1963 Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
1962 Lev Davidovich Landau
1961 Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
1960 Donald Arthur Glaser
1959 Emilio Gino Segrè, Owen Chamberlain
1958 Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank, Igor Y. Tamm
1957 Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee
1956 William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain
1955 Willis Eugene Lamb, Polykarp Kusch
1954 Max Born, Walther Bothe
1979 Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
1965 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
1953 Frits (Frederik) Zernike
1952 Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell
1951 Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
1950 Cecil Frank Powell
1949 Hideki Yukawa
1948 Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
1947 Sir Edward Victor Appleton
1946 Percy Williams Bridgman
1945 Wolfgang Pauli
1944 Isidor Isaac Rabi
1943 Otto Stern
1942 Não atribuído
1941 Não atribuído
1940 Não atribuído
1939 Ernest Orlando Lawrence
1938 Enrico Fermi
1937 Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson
1936 Victor Franz Hess, Carl David Anderson
1935 James Chadwick
1934 Não atribuído
1933 Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
1932 Werner Karl Heisenberg
1931 Não atribuído
1930 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
1929 Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
1928 Owen Willans Richardson
1927 Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
1926 Jean Baptiste Perrin
1925 James Franck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz
1924 Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
1923 Robert Andrews Millikan
1922 Niels Henrik David Bohr
1921 Albert Einstein
1920 Charles-Edouard Guillaume
1919 Johannes Stark
1918 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
1917 Charles Glover Barkla
1916 Não atribuído
1915 Sir William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg
1914 Max von Laue
1913 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1912 Nils Gustaf Dalén
1911 Wilhelm Wien
1910 Johannes Diderik van der Waals
1908 Gabriel Lippmann
1907 Albert Abraham Michelson
1906 Sir Joseph John Thomson
1905 Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
1904 Lord (John William Strutt) Rayleigh
1903 Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie
1902 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
