Laureates
| Citation Laureates | Nationality | Motivations | Institute | |
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| 2008[2] | ||||
 2010 |
Andre Geim (born 1958) |
 Netherlands United Kingdom
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"for their discovery and analysis of graphene." | University of Manchester |
| 2010 |
Konstantin Novoselov (born 1974) |
 Russia United Kingdom
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| Vera Rubin (1928–2016) |
 United States
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"for her pioneering research indicating the existence of dark matter in the universe." | Carnegie Institution of Washington | |
| 2020 |
Roger Penrose (born 1931) |
United Kingdom
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"for their related discoveries of, Penrose-tilings and quasicrystals, respectively." | University of Oxford |
| 2011 |
Dan Shechtman (born 1941) |
 Israel
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| 2009[3] | ||||
| Yakir Aharonov (born 1932) |
Israel
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"for their discovery of the Aharonov–Bohm effect and the related Berry phase, respectively." | ||
| Michael Berry (born 1941) |
United Kingdom
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University of Bristol | ||
| Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain (born 1965) |
 Spain
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"for their pioneering research on quantum optics and quantum computing." | Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics | |
| Peter Zoller (born 1952) |
 Austria
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| John Pendry (born 1943) |
United Kingdom
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"for their prediction and discovery of negative refraction." | Imperial College London | |
| Sheldon Schultz (1933–2017) |
United States
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University of California, San Diego | ||
| David R. Smith (born 1964) |
United States
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Duke University | ||
| 2010[4] | ||||
| Charles L. Bennett (born 1956) |
United States
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"for discoveries deriving from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), including the age of the universe, its topography, and its composition." | ||
| Lyman Page (born 1957) |
United States
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Princeton University | ||
| David Spergel (born 1961) |
United States
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| Thomas Ebbesen (born 1954) |
 Norway
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"for observation and explanation of the transmission of light through subwavelength holes, which ignited the field of surface plasmon photonics." |
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| 2011 |
Saul Perlmutter (born 1959) |
United States
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"for discoveries of the accelerating rate of the expansion of the universe, and its implications for the existence of dark energy." | |
| 2011 |
Adam Riess (born 1969) |
United States
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| 2011 |
Brian Schmidt (born 1967) |
United States
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Australian National University | |
| 2011[5] | ||||
| 2022 |
Alain Aspect (born 1947) |
 France
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"for their tests of Bell inequalities and research on quantum entanglement." | |
| 2022 |
John Clauser (born 1942) |
United States
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
| 2022 |
Anton Zeilinger (born 1945) |
Austria
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| Sajeev John (born 1957) |
 Canada
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"for their invention and development of photonic band gap materials." | University of Toronto | |
| Eli Yablonovitch (born 1946) |
United States
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University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Hideo Ohno (born 1954) |
 Japan
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"for contributions to ferromagnetism in diluted magnetic semiconductors." | ||
| 2012[6] | ||||
| Charles H. Bennett (born 1943) |
United States
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"for their pioneering description of a protocol for quantum teleportation, which has since been experimentally verified." | IBM Research | |
| Gilles Brassard (born 1955) |
Canada
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University of Montreal | ||
| William Wootters (born 1951) |
United States
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Williams College | ||
| Leigh Canham (born 1958) |
United Kingdom
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"for discovery of photoluminescence in porous silicon." | University of Birmingham | |
| Stephen E. Harris (born 1936) |
United States
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"for the experimental demonstration of electromagnetically induced transparency (Harris) and of 'slow light' (Harris and Hau)." | Stanford University | |
| Lene Hau (born 1959) |
 Denmark
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Harvard University | ||
| 2013[7] | ||||
| 2013 |
François Englert (born 1932) |
 Belgium
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"for their prediction of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson." | |
| 2013 |
Peter W. Higgs (born 1929) |
United Kingdom
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University of Edinburgh | |
| Hideo Hosono (born 1953) |
Japan
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"for his discovery of iron-based superconductors." | Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
| Geoffrey Marcy (born 1954) |
United States
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"for their discoveries of extrasolar planets." | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 2019 |
Michel Mayor (born 1942) |
 Switzerland
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University of Geneva | |
| 2019 |
Didier P. Queloz (born 1966) |
Switzerland
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| 2014[8] | ||||
| Charles L. Kane (born 1963) |
United States
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"for theoretical and experimental research on the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators." | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Laurens W. Molenkamp (born 1956) |
Netherlands
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University of Würzburg | ||
| Shoucheng Zhang (1963–2018) |
 China United States
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Stanford University | ||
| James F. Scott (1942–2020) |
United States
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"for their pioneering research on ferroelectric memory devices (Scott) and new multiferroic materials (Ramesh and Tokura)." | University of Cambridge | |
| Ramamoorthy Ramesh (born 1960) |
United States
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University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Yoshinori Tokura[a] (born 1954) |
Japan
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University of Tokyo | ||
| Peidong Yang (born 1971) |
China United States
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"for his contributions to nanowire photonics including the creation of first nanowire nanolaser." | ||
| 2015[9] | ||||
| Paul Corkum (born 1943) |
Canada
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"for contributions to the development of attosecond physics." | University of Ottawa | |
| 2023 |
Ferenc Krausz (born 1962) |
 Hungary
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| Deborah S. Jin (1968–2016) |
United States
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"for pioneering research on atomic gases at ultra-cold temperatures and the creation of the first fermionic condensate." | University of Colorado | |
| Zhong Lin Wang (born 1961) |
China United States
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"for his invention of piezotronic and piezophototronic nanogenerators." | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| 2016[10] | ||||
| Marvin L. Cohen (born 1935) |
United States
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"for theoretical studies of solid materials, prediction of their properties, and especially for the empirical pseudopotential method." | ||
| Ronald Drever (1931–2017) |
United Kingdom
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"for the development of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) that made possible the detection of gravitational waves." | California Institute of Technology | |
| 2017 |
Kip Thorne (born 1940) |
United States
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| 2017 |
Rainer Weiss (born 1932) |
United States
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| Celso Grebogi (born 1947) |
 Brazil
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"for their description of a control theory of chaotic systems, the OGY method." | University of Aberdeen | |
| Edward Ott (born 1941) |
United States
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University of Maryland | ||
| James A. Yorke (born 1941) |
United States
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| 2017[11] | ||||
| Phaedon Avouris (born 1945) |
 Greece
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"for seminal contributions to carbon-based electronics." | Thomas J. Watson Research Center | |
| Cornelis Dekker (born 1949) |
Netherlands
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Delft University of Technology | ||
| Paul McEuen (born 1963) |
United States
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Cornell University | ||
| Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019) |
United States
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"for pioneering discoveries in nonlinear and chaotic physical systems and for identification of the Feigenbaum constants." | Rockefeller University | |
| Rashid Sunyaev (born 1943) |
Russia Germany
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"for his profound contributions to our understanding of the universe, including its origins, galactic formation processes, disk accretion of black holes, and many other cosmological phenomena." | ||
| 2018[12] | ||||
| David Awschalom (born 1956) |
United States
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"for observation of the spin Hall effect in semiconductors." | University of Chicago | |
| Arthur Gossard (1935–2022) |
United States
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University of California, Santa Barbara | ||
| Sandra Faber (born 1944) |
United States
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"for pioneering methods to determine the age, size and distance of galaxies and for other contributions to cosmology." | University of California, Santa Cruz | |
| Yury Gogotsi (born 1961) |
 Ukraine
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"for discoveries advancing the understanding and development of carbon-based materials, including for capacitive energy storage and understanding the mechanisms of operation of supercapacitors." | Drexel Nanomaterials Institute | |
| Rodney S. Ruoff (born 1957) |
United States
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Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology | ||
| Patrice Simon (born 1969) |
France
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Université Paul Sabatier | ||
| 2019[13] | ||||
| Artur Ekert (born 1961) |
 Poland United States
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"for contributions to quantum computation and quantum cryptography." | ||
| Tony Heinz (born 1956) |
United States
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"for pioneering research on optical and electronic properties of two-dimensional nanomaterials." | ||
| John Perdew (born 1943) |
United States
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"for advances in density functional theory of electronic structure, revealing 'nature's glue'." | Temple University | |
| 2020[14] | ||||
| Thomas L. Carroll |
United States
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"for research in nonlinear dynamics including synchronization of chaotic systems." | United States Naval Research Laboratory | |
| Louis M. Pecora (born 1947) |
United States
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| Hongjie Dai (born 1966) |
China United States
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"for fabrication and novel applications of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes." | Stanford University | |
| Alex Zettl (born 1956) |
United States
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| Carlos Frenk (born 1951) |
 Mexico United Kingdom
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"for their fundamental studies of galaxy formation and evolution, cosmic structure, and dark matter halos." | Durham University | |
| Julio Navarro (born 1962) |
 Argentina Canada
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University of Victoria | ||
| Simon White (born 1951) |
United Kingdom
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Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics | ||
| 2021[15] | ||||
| Alexei Kitaev (born 1963) |
Russia United States
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"for topological quantum computation, in which quantum information is encoded and protected using topological properties of many-body systems." | California Institute of Technology | |
| Mark Newman |
United Kingdom United States
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"for wide-ranging research on network systems including work on community structure and random graph models." | University of Michigan | |
| 2021 |
Giorgio Parisi (born 1948) |
 Italy
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"for ground-breaking discoveries in quantum chromodynamics and in the study of complex disordered systems." | Sapienza University of Rome |
| 2022[16] | ||||
| Immanuel Bloch (born 1972) |
Germany
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"for ground-breaking research on quantum many-body systems using ultra-cold atomic and molecular gases, opening the way to quantum simulations of 'artificial solids'." | ||
| Stephen Quake (born 1969) |
United States
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"for contributions to the physics of fluid phenomena on the nanoliter scale." | ||
| Takashi Taniguchi (born 1959) |
Japan
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"for fabrication of high-quality hexagonal boron nitride crystals, the availability of which enabled a revolution in research on the electronic behavior of two-dimensional materials." | National Institute for Materials Science | |
| Kenji Watanabe (born 1969) |
Japan
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| 2023[17] | ||||
| Sharon C. Glotzer | United States
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"for demonstrating the role of entropy in the self-assembly of matter and for introducing strategies to control the assembly process to engineer new materials." | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | |
| Federico Capasso (born 1949) |
Italy United States
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"for pioneering research on photonics, plasmonics, and metasurfaces, as well as contributions to the invention of and improvements on the quantum cascade laser." | Harvard University, Cambridge | |
| Stuart S. P. Parkin (born 1955) |
United Kingdom Germany
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"for research on spintronics and specifically the development of racetrack memory for increased data storage density." | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | |