Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa
"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2007
Albert Fert and Peter Gr?nberg
"for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2006
John C. Mather and George F. Smoot
"for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005
Roy J. Glauber
"for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence"
John L. Hall and Theodor W. H?nsch
"for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004
David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek
"for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003
Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett
"for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002
Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba
"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
Riccardo Giacconi
"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2001
Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman
"for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000
"for basic work on information and communication technology"
Zhores I. Alferov and Herbert Kroemer
"for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed– and opto-electronics"
Jack S. Kilby
"for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999
Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman
"for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998
Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. St?rmer and Daniel C. Tsui
"for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1997
Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips
"for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1996
David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson
"for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995
"for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics"
Martin L. Perl
"for the discovery of the tau lepton"
Frederick Reines