The Physical Review journals are home to the most Nobel-winning physics papers in the world. Over 65% of the Nobel-Prize-winning research published in the last four decades are included in Physical Review journals, as are Nobel Prize winners from the previous twelve years.
2022
Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
For experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science
- Physics Magazine 15, 153, Nobel Prize: Quantum Entanglement Unveiled
- PRL 82, 1345 (1999), Observation of Three-Photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Entanglement
- PRL 80, 3891 (1998), Experimental Entanglement Swapping: Entangling Photons That Never Interacted
- PRL 81, 5039 (1998), Violation of Bell's Inequality under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions
- PRL 71, 4287 (1993), "Event-ready-detectors" Bell experiment via entanglement swapping
- PRL 49, 91 (1982), Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities
- PRL 49, 1804 (1982), Experimental Test of Bell's Inequalities Using Time-Varying Analyzers
- PRL 47, 460 (1981), Experimental Tests of Realistic Local Theories via Bell's Theorem
- PRL 28, 938 (1972), Experimental Test of Local Hidden-Variable Theories
- PRL 23, 880 (1969), Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden-Variable Theories
2021
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, Giorgio Parisi
Manabe and Hasselmann: For the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming
Parisi: For the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales
- APS News Update, October 5, 2021, 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Research in Complex Systems
- Physics Magazine 14, 141, Nobel Prize: Complexity, from Atoms to Atmospheres
- PRL 127, 038001 (2021), Long-Range Anomalous Decay of the Correlation in Jammed Packings
- PRL 109, 205501 (2012), Universal Microstructure and Mechanical Stability of Jammed Packings
- PRL 52, 1156 (1984), Nature of the Spin-Glass Phase
- PRL 50, 1946 (1983), Order Parameter for Spin-Glasses
- PRL 43, 1754 (1979), Infinite Number of Order Parameters for Spin-Glasses
2020
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez
Penrose: For the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity
Genzel and Ghez: For the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy
2019
James Peebles, Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz
Peebles: For theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology
Mayor and Queloz: For the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star
2018
Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou, Donna Strickland
Ashkin: For groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems
Mourou and Strickland: For groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses
- APS News, November 2018, The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Physics Magazine 11, 100, Nobel Prize — Lasers as Tools
- PRL 57, 314 (1986), Experimental Observation of Optically Trapped Atoms
- PRL 40, 729 (1978), Trapping of Atoms by Resonance Radiation Pressure
- PRL 24, 156 (1970), Acceleration and Trapping of Particles by Radiation Pressure
2017
Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, Barry Barish
For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
- Physics Magazine 13, 26, Opinion: Filming the Thrill of Physics Discovery
- APS News Update, October 3, 2017, 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
- PRL 118, 221101 (2018), GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
- PRL 116, 061102 (2016), Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
- PRL 116, 241103 (2016), GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
2016
David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, John M. Kosterlitz
For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
- APS News, November 2016, 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Physics Magazine 9, 116, Nobel Prize — Topological Phases of Matter
- PRL 61, 2015 (1988), Model for a Quantum Hall Effect without Landau Levels: Condensed-Matter Realization of the "Parity Anomaly"
- PRL 50, 1153 (1983), Nonlinear Field Theory of Large-Spin Heisenberg Antiferromagnets: Semiclassically Quantized Solitons of the One-Dimensional Easy-Axis Néel State
- PRL 49, 405 (1982), Quantized Hall Conductance in a Two-Dimensional Periodic Potential
- PRL 39, 1201 (1977), Universal Jump in the Superfluid Density of Two-Dimensional Superfluids
2015
Takaaki Kajita, Arthur B. McDonald
For the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass
- APS News, November 2015, Neutrino Oscillations Nab Nobel Prize
- Physics Magazine 8, 97, Nobel Prize — Neutrinos Oscillate
- PRL 89, 011301 (2002), Direct Evidence for Neutrino Flavor Transformation from Neutral-Current Interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
- PRL 87, 071301 (2001), Measurement of the Rate of (formula) Interactions Produced by (formula) Solar Neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
- PRL 81, 1562 (1998), Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos
2014
Chemistry prize: Eric Bertzig, Stefan W. Hell, and William E. Moerner
For the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
2013
Francois Englert, Peter Higgs
For the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider
2012
Serge Haroche, David J. Wineland
For ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems
- APS News, November 2012, Quantum Wizardry Wins Nobel Recognition
- Physics Magazine 5, 114, Nobel Prize — Tools for Quantum Tinkering
- PRL 77.4887 (1996), Observing the Progressive Decoherence of the “Meter” in a Quantum Measurement
- PRL 76, 1796 (1996), Generation of Nonclassical Motional States of a Trapped Atom
- PRL 76, 1800 (1996), Quantum Rabi Oscillation: A Direct Test of Field Quantization in a Cavity
- PRL 75.4714 (1995), Demonstration of a Fundamental Quantum Logic Gate
2011
Chemistry prize: Dan Shechtman
For the discovery of quasicrystals
For more information about winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, please consult the winners' list.