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Nobel Prize in Physics

Photos of (L-R) British physicist John Clarke at the University of California, USA, French physicist Michel Devoret (University of California and Yale) and US physicist John Martinis (University of California) are seen on a screen during a press conference on the awarding of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 7, 2025. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
October 8, 2025, 3:26 am
Trio win Nobel prize for revealing quantum physics in action
John Clarke, Michel Devoret, John Martinis awarded for developing ‘next generation’ of quantum technology, ubiquitous in everyday electronics; ‘I’m completely stunned,’ says Clarke
By Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander
Winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Physics (from left): Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier. (Nobelprize.org)
October 3, 2023, 3:11 pm
3 scientists share physics Nobel for work observing electrons in fractions of seconds
Researchers at US, German and Swedish universities praised for method exploring tiny speedsters zipping around atoms, yielding a ‘blurry’ glimpse that opens up whole new sciences
By david keyton, Seth Borenstein and Mike Corder
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences secretary general Hans Ellegren, center announces the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, from left to right on the screen, Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 4, 2022. (Jonas Ekstromer /TT News Agency via AP)
October 4, 2022, 1:41 pm
Physicists from US, France, Austria share Nobel Prize for work on quantum science
Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, Anton Zeilinger – who previously shared Israel’s Wolf Prize – handed prestigious award for research with implications for secure information transfer
By AP
Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Goran Hansson, center, flanked at left by member of the Nobel Committee for Physics Thors Hans Hansson, left, and member of the Nobel Committee for Physics John Wettlaufer, right, announces the winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. (Pontus Lundahl/TT via AP)
October 5, 2021, 4:00 pm
Scientists from Germany, Japan, Italy awarded physics Nobel on climate work
Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann are sharing one portion of the prize, with the other half going to Giorgio Parisi
By david keyton and Frank Jordans
Professor Steven Weinberg, then of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 15, 1979. (AP Photo/File)
July 26, 2021, 8:53 pm
Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies at 88
Jewish professor was recognized in 1979 with work on mysteries of tiny particles and their electromagnetic interaction that built on Einstein’s theory of relativity
By AP and ToI Staff
Jack Steinberger, left, in 1956 (Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images, JTA)
December 18, 2020, 1:09 pm
Jack Steinberger, pioneering Jewish physicist and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 99
Steinberger and two other Jewish colleagues were honored in 1988 for their discoveries about the neutrino; he refused to do research for weapon building
By JTA
Mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, June 26, 2015. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)
October 6, 2020, 4:00 pm
Scientists of Jewish heritage among trio to win Nobel prize for black hole finds
Britain’s Roger Penrose and American Andrea Ghez receive physics award along with German Reinhard Genzel for showing phenomenon predicts general theory of relativity
By AP and ToI Staff
In this Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005 file photo Swiss Astronomers Michel Mayor, right, and Didier Queloz, left, pose for the photographer at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Geneva. The 2019 Nobel prize in Physics was given to James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology," and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star," said Prof. Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that chooses the laureates. (Laurent Gillieron, Keystone via AP)
October 8, 2019, 7:12 pm
Three win Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand cosmos
Canadian-born James Peebles and Swiss star-gazers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz honored for efforts help discover if life exists beyond the Earth
By david keyton
In this Nov. 14, 2003, file photo, Santa Fe Institute co-founder Murray Gell-Mann, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for physics, is seen Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico (AP Photo/Jane Bernard, File)
May 27, 2019, 5:30 am
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann dies at 89
Trailblazing Jewish American researcher theorized the quark and was honored for his method of classifying subatomic particles
By AFP
Portrait of Prof. Dr. Lise Meitner, the Swedish noted woman scientist, who assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, pictured in West Berlin, West Germany, May 11, 1957. (AP Photo/Werner Kreusch)
February 9, 2019, 4:35 am
The forgotten Jewish woman of nuclear physics who was denied a Nobel Prize
After fleeing Nazi Germany, Lise Meitner used letters to guide her colleagues in Berlin to discover nuclear fission, but she was not credited when the findings were published
By Timothy J. Jorgensen
In this Nov. 2014, file photo provided by Fermilab, Physics Nobel Prize winner Dr. Leon M. Lederman poses for a photo in Batavia, Ill. Lederman, an experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles and coined the phrase "God particle," has died. Ellen Carr Lederman, his wife of 37 years, said her husband died Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, at a nursing home in the Idaho town of Rexburg. He was 96. (Reidar Hahn, Fermilab via AP)
October 4, 2018, 1:30 am
Nobel physicist Leon Lederman, who coined phrase ‘God particle,’ dies at 96
The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, hailed as a giant in his field, he was forced to sell his Nobel prize to pay for medical bills
By Keith Ridler
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