This Article is From Oct 04, 2016

Recent Winners Of The Nobel Physics Prize

Recent Winners Of The Nobel Physics Prize

Winner of 2016 Nobel Physics Prize will be announced in Stockholm on Tuesday.

Stockholm, Sweden: Here is a list of Nobel Physics Prize winners over the past 10 years, with the 2016 award to be announced in Stockholm on Tuesday:

2015: Takaaki Kajita (Japan), Arthur B. McDonald (Canada) for their work on neutrinos.

2014: Isamu Akasaki (Japan), Hiroshi Amano (Japan) and Shuji Nakamura (US) for their work on LED lamps.

2013: Peter Higgs (Britain) and Francois Englert (Belgium) for their work on the so-called Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that gives mass to other particles.

2012: Serge Haroche (France) and David Wineland (US) for experimental methods used to measure and manipulate quantum systems.

2011: Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess (US), Brian Schmidt (US-Australian) for discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe.

2010: Andre Geim (Netherlands) and Konstantin Novoselov (Russia-Britain) for work on the two-dimensional material graphene.

2009: Charles Kao (Britain-US), Willard S. Boyle (Canada-US) and George E. Smith (US) for work on light transmission with optical fibres and semiconductor circuits.

2008: Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa (Japan) and Yoichiro Nambu (US) for discovering the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.

2007: Albert Fert (France) and Peter Gruenberg (Germany) for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance.

2006: John C. Mather and George F. Smoot (US) for work on cosmic microwave background radiation.
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