2005
Roy Glauber
Awarded for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence.
1995
Joseph Rotblat**
Awarded for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.
1995
Frederick Reines
Awarded for the detection of the neutrino and for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics.
1989
Norman Ramsey
Awarded for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks.
1980
Val Fitch
Awarded for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons.
1975
Aage Bohr
Awarded for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection.
1968
Luis Alvarez
Awarded for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possible through his development of the technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis.
1967
Hans Bethe
Awarded for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars.
1965
Richard Feynman
Awarded for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics (QED), with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles.
1963
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Awarded for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure.
1959
Emilio Segre & Owen Chamberlain
Awarded for their discovery of the antiproton.
1952
Felix Bloch
Awarded for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith.
1951
Edwin McMillan*
Awarded for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements.
1944
I.I. Rabi
Awarded for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei.
1938
Enrico Fermi
Awarded for his demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions brought about by slow neutrons.
1935
Sir James Chadwick
Awarded for the discovery of the neutron.
1922
Niels Bohr
Awarded for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them.