Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 2000s
The top 3 according to 352 votes from people: Zhores I. Alferov · Eric A. Cornell · Jack S. Kilby. (Updated Aug 12, 2019.)
Every Nobel Prize in Physics laureate between 2000 and 2009, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?
Top 28
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Zhores I. Alferov
2000. For developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics.
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Eric A. Cornell
2001. For the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.
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Jack S. Kilby
2000. For his part in the invention of the integrated circuit.
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Alexei A. Abrikosov
2003. For pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.
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Herbert Kroemer
2000. For developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics.
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Riccardo Giacconi
2002. For pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources.
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Wolfgang Ketterle
2001. For the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.
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Carl E. Wieman
2001. For the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates.
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Raymond Davis Jr.
2002. For pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos.
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Anthony J. Leggett
2003. For pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.
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Vitaly L. Ginzburg
2003. For pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.
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Roy J. Glauber
2005. For his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence.
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John L. Hall
2005. For their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique.
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Masatoshi Koshiba
2002. For pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos.
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George E. Smith
2009. For the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor.
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Yoichiro Nambu
2008. For the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.
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Charles Kuen Kao
2009. For groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication.
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Peter Grünberg
2007. For the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance.
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Makoto Kobayashi
2008. For the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.
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Toshihide Maskawa
2008. For the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.
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Willard S. Boyle
2009. For the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor.
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Theodor W. Hänsch
2005. For their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique.
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David J. Gross
2004. For the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.
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John C. Mather
2006. For their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.
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Albert Fert
2007. For the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance.
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Frank Wilczek
2004. For the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.
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George F. Smoot
2006. For their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.
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H. David Politzer
2004. For the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.
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Comments (12)
Ginzburg and Abrikosov for superconductors.
Glauber and quantum optics.
Mather and Smoot for the COBE results.
Jack Kilby and the integrated circuit, everything we use came from that.
Jack Kilby and the integrated circuit, everything electronic comes from this.
Nambu, Kobayashi and Maskawa, symmetry breaking.
Koshiba and the Kamiokande neutrinos.
Gross, Politzer and Wilczek, asymptotic freedom.
Fert and Grünberg, giant magnetoresistance, thank them for your hard drive.
Charles Kao, fibre optics, and the CCD sensor in 2009.
Bose-Einstein condensate in 2001, Cornell, Ketterle and Wieman.
Great decade of applied physics.