# Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 2010s

Every Nobel Prize in Physics laureate between 2010 and 2019, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Which discovery do you think mattered most?

- 34 votes · 26 items
- Oct 5, 2022 · Daniela Ospina Rodríguez
- https://even.best/en/l/1217/nobel-prize-in-physics-laureates-of-the-2010s

## Top 26

1. **Andre Geim** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2010. For groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.
2. **Konstantin Novoselov** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2010. For groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.
3. **Serge Haroche** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2012. For ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.
4. **David J. Wineland** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2012. For ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.
5. **Isamu Akasaki** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2014. For the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.
6. **David J. Thouless** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2016. For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
7. **Arthur Ashkin** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2018. For the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems.
8. **Gérard Mourou** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2018. For their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.
9. **Adam G. Riess** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 2011. For the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.
10. **Saul Perlmutter** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2011. For the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.
11. **Brian P. Schmidt** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2011. For the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.
12. **François Englert** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2013. 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.
13. **Hiroshi Amano** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2014. For the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.
14. **Takaaki Kajita** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2015. For the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
15. **Arthur B. McDonald** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2015. For the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
16. **J. Michael Kosterlitz** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2016. For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
17. **Peter W. Higgs** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 2013. 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.
18. **Michel Mayor** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 2019. For the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
19. **F. Duncan M. Haldane** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2016. For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
20. **Rainer Weiss** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2017. For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
21. **Barry C. Barish** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2017. For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
22. **Kip S. Thorne** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2017. For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
23. **Donna Strickland** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2018. For their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.
24. **James Peebles** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2019. For theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
25. **Didier Queloz** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2019. For the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
26. **Shuji Nakamura** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — 2014. For the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.

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