Hans Albrecht Bethe
"for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1966
Alfred Kastler
"for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger and Richard P. Feynman
"for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1964
Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
"for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963
Eugene Paul Wigner
"for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"
Maria Goeppert Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen
"for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1962
Lev Davidovich Landau
"for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1961
Robert Hofstadter
"for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons"
Rudolf Ludwig M?ssbauer
"for his researches concerning the resonance absorption of gamma radiation and his discovery in this connection of the effect which bears his name"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1960
Donald Arthur Glaser
"for the invention of the bubble chamber"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1959
Emilio Gino Segr? and Owen Chamberlain
"for their discovery of the antiproton"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1958
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il?ja Mikhailovich Frank and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
"for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1957
Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee
"for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956
William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain
"for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1955
Willis Eugene Lamb
"for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum"
Polykarp Kusch
"for his precision determination of the magnetic moment of the electron"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954
Max Born
"for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction"
Walther Bothe
"for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1953