Nobel Prize in Physics laureates of the 2010s
The top 3 according to 34 votes from people: Andre Geim · Konstantin Novoselov · Serge Haroche. (Updated Oct 5, 2022.)
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?
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Top 26
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Andre Geim
2010. For groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.
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Konstantin Novoselov
2010. For groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.
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Serge Haroche
2012. For ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.
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David J. Wineland
2012. For ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.
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Isamu Akasaki
2014. For the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.
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David J. Thouless
2016. For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
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Arthur Ashkin
2018. For the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems.
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Gérard Mourou
2018. For their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.
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Adam G. Riess
2011. For the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.
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Saul Perlmutter
2011. For the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.
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Brian P. Schmidt
2011. For the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.
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François Englert
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.
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Hiroshi Amano
2014. For the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.
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Takaaki Kajita
2015. For the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
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Arthur B. McDonald
2015. For the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
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J. Michael Kosterlitz
2016. For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
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Peter W. Higgs
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.
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Michel Mayor
2019. For the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
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F. Duncan M. Haldane
2016. For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
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Rainer Weiss
2017. For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
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Barry C. Barish
2017. For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
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Kip S. Thorne
2017. For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
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Donna Strickland
2018. For their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.
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James Peebles
2019. For theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
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Didier Queloz
2019. For the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
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Shuji Nakamura
2014. For the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.
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Comments (4)
LIGO en 2017, las ondas gravitacionales, emocionante.
Higgs y Englert, el bosón por fin confirmado en 2012.
Geim y Novosiólov, el grafeno, aislado con cinta adhesiva.
Akasaki, Amano y Nakamura, el LED azul, gracias por las pantallas.