The Physical Review journals are home to the most Nobel-winning physics papers in the world. Over 65% of the Nobel-Prize-winning research published in the last four decades are included in Physical Review journals, as are Nobel Prize winners from the previous twelve years.
Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
For experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, Giorgio Parisi
Manabe and Hasselmann: For the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming
Parisi: For the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez
Penrose: For the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity
Genzel and Ghez: For the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy
James Peebles, Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz
Peebles: For theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology
Mayor and Queloz: For the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star
Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou, Donna Strickland
Ashkin: For groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems
Mourou and Strickland: For groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses
Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, Barry Barish
For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, John M. Kosterlitz
For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
Takaaki Kajita, Arthur B. McDonald
For the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass
Chemistry prize: Eric Bertzig, Stefan W. Hell, and William E. Moerner
For the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
Francois Englert, Peter Higgs
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
Serge Haroche, David J. Wineland
For ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems
Chemistry prize: Dan Shechtman
For the discovery of quasicrystals
For more information about winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, please consult the winners' list.