Oct 17, 2018 · The Nobel Prize is one of the world's most prestigious awards and is given annually to individuals and organizations to acknowledge significant academic, scientific, and cultural contributions or advances. The prize was created and endowed by Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel in 1895 and was initially awarded to five categories: Chemistry, Literature, Peace, …

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 115 times to 219 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021. John Bardeen is the only laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. This means that a total of 218 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics. Click on the links to get more information.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 was divided, one half awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity", the other half jointly to Pierre Curie and Marie Curie, née Sklodowska "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation …

The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony has been held at the Norwegian Nobel Institute (1905–1946), at the auditorium of the University of Oslo (1947–1989), ... The Physics Prize in 1906 was won by J. J. Thomson for showing that electrons are particles, and in 1937 by his son, ...

Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, FRS FMedSci FRSE MAE (born 19 February 1943) is a British biochemist and molecular physiologist.He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells. While studying fertilized sea urchin eggs in the early 1980s, Hunt discovered …