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Recent winners of the Nobel Physics Prize
STOCKHOLM, Oct 2, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Here is a list of the 10 most recent
Nobel Physics Prize winners, after the 2018 prize was awarded on Tuesday to
three researchers for revolutionary inventions in the field of laser physics.
2018: Arthur Ashkin (US), Gerard Mourou (France) and Donna Strickland
(Canada) for inventions in the laser field used for advanced precision
instruments in corrective eye surgery and industry.
2017: Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss (US) for the discovery of
gravitational waves, a phenomenon predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago
as part of his theory of general relativity.
2016: David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz (Britain) for
their study of strange phenomena in unusual phases, or states, of matter,
such as superconductors, superfluids or thin magnetic films.
2015: Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur McDonald (Canada) for their work on
neutrinos.
2014: Isamu Akasaki (Japan), Hiroshi Amano (Japan) and Shuji Nakamura (US)
for their work on LED lamps.
2013: Peter Higgs (Britain) and Francois Englert (Belgium) for their work
on the so-called Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that gives mass to other
particles.
2012: Serge Haroche (France) and David Wineland (US) for experimental
methods used to measure and manipulate quantum systems.
2011: Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess (US) and Brian Schmidt (US-Australian)
for discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe.
2010: Andre Geim (Netherlands-Britain) and Konstantin Novoselov (Russia-
Britain) for work on the two-dimensional material graphene.
2009: Charles Kao (Britain-US), Willard S. Boyle (Canada-US) and George E.
Smith (US) for work on light transmission with optical fibres and
semiconductor circuits.
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