Here is the list of Nobel Prize winners in Physics from 2014 to 2021
1. 2014: Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura
– For: The invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.
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2. 2015: Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald
– For: The discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
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3. 2016: David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz
– For:Theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
4. 2017: Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne
– For: decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.
5. 2018: Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, and Donna Strickland
– For: groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics. Arthur Ashkin was awarded for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems, and Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland were awarded for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.
6. 2019: James Peebles, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz
– For: contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz were awarded for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
7. 2020: Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez
– For: discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole. Roger Penrose was awarded “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were awarded “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object, now confirmed to be a black hole, at the centre of our galaxy”.
8. 2021. Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi
– For: the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming.
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