List of Recent Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics

List of recent winners of the Nobel prize for physics

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) — French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance.

The following is a list of Nobel laureates in physics since 1992:2006: John C. Mather and George F. Smoot (U.S.)2005: John L. Hall, Roy J. Glauber (U.S.) and Theodor W. Haensch (Germany)2004: David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczeck (U.S.)2003: Alexei A. Abrikosov, Anthony J. Leggett (U.S.) and Vitaly L.Ginzburg (Russia)2002: Masatoshi Koshiba (Japan), Raymond Davis Jr and Riccardo Giacconi (U.S.)2001: Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E. Wieman (U.S.)2000: Zhores I. Alferov (Russia), Herbert Kroemer and Jack S. Kilby (U.S.)1999: Gerardus’t Hooft and Martinus J.G. Veltman (the Netherlands)1998: Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Stormer and Daniel C. Tsui (U.S.)1997: Steven Chu, William D. Phillips (U.S.) and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (France)1996: David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff and Robert C. Richardson (U.S.)1995: Martin L. Perl and Frederick Reines (U.S.)1994: Bertram N. Brockhouse (Canada) and Clifford G. Shull (U.S.)1993: Russell A. Hulse and Joseph H. Taylor Jr (U.S.)1992: Georges Charpak (France)

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