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The Nobel Prize in Physics (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysik) is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a German, "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has... full article at wikipedia
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1901
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2008
  • "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
2008
  • "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
2007
  • for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance
2006
  • for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation
2005
  • for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique
2005
  • for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence
2004
  • for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction
2003
  • for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids
2002
  • for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources
2002
  • for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos
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