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Nobel Physics Prize Winners

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  • Zhores Ivanovich Alferov and Herbert Kroemer

    for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and optoelectronics
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  • Jack St. Clair Kilby

    for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit

  • Eric Allin Cornell, Carl Edwin Wieman, and Wolfgang Ketterle

    for the achievement of Bose–Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates

  • Raymond Davis, Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba

    for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos

  • Riccardo Giacconi

    for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources

  • Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, and Anthony James Leggett

    for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids

  • David J. Gross, Hugh David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek

    for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction

  • Roy J. Glauber

    for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence

  • John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch

    for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique

  • John C. Mather and George F. Smoot

    for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation

  • Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg

    for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance

  • Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa

    for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature

  • Yoichiro Nambu

    for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics

  • Charles K. Kao

    for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication

  • Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith

    for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor

  • Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov

    for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene

  • Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Riess

    for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae

  • Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland

    for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems

  • None have been picked for 2013