Every Nobel laureate in Physics, 2020–2025
The top 3 according to 76 votes from people: Roger Penrose (2020) · Andrea Ghez (2020) · Klaus Hasselmann (2021). (Updated Feb 1, 2026.)
From black holes and climate models to quantum entanglement, attosecond pulses, neural networks and quantum effects in electric circuits: the 17 scientists who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in the 2020s, with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' citation. They include Anne L'Huillier of Lund University, laureate in 2023.
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Top 17
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Roger Penrose (2020)
United Kingdom. Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity (Penrose) and for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy (Genzel and Ghez).
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Andrea Ghez (2020)
United States. Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity (Penrose) and for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy (Genzel and Ghez). The fourth woman to win the Physics prize.
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Klaus Hasselmann (2021)
Germany. Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems, including Earth's climate (Manabe and Hasselmann) and the interplay of disorder and fluctuations (Parisi).
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Alain Aspect (2022)
France. Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.
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Reinhard Genzel (2020)
Germany. Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of general relativity (Penrose) and for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy (Genzel and Ghez).
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Giorgio Parisi (2021)
Italy. Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems, including Earth's climate (Manabe and Hasselmann) and the interplay of disorder and fluctuations (Parisi).
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Anton Zeilinger (2022)
Austria. Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.
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John Clauser (2022)
United States. Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.
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Ferenc Krausz (2023)
Hungary/Austria. Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.
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Anne L'Huillier (2023)
France/Sweden. Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter. Professor at Lund University; the fifth woman to win the Physics prize.
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Geoffrey Hinton (2024)
Canada/United Kingdom. Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. Often called the godfather of AI.
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Syukuro Manabe (2021)
Japan/United States. Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems, including Earth's climate (Manabe and Hasselmann) and the interplay of disorder and fluctuations (Parisi).
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Pierre Agostini (2023)
France/United States. Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.
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John M. Martinis (2025)
United States. Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.
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John Clarke (2025)
United Kingdom/United States. Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.
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Michel H. Devoret (2025)
France/United States. Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.
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John Hopfield (2024)
United States. Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.
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