| 2002 |
Raymond Davis Jr, Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi |
| 2001 |
Eric A Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E Wieman |
| 2000 |
Zhores I Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S Kilby |
| 1999 |
Gerardus't Hooft, Martinus J G Veltman |
| 1998 |
Robert B Laughlin, Horst L Stormer, Daniel C Tsui |
| 1997 |
Steven Chu, William D Phillips, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |
| 1996 |
David M Lee, Douglas D Osheroff, Robert C Richardson |
| 1995 |
Martin L Perl, Frederick Reines |
| 1994 |
Clifford G Shull, Bertram N Brockhouse |
| 1993 |
Russell A Hulse, Joseph H Taylor Jr |
| 1992 |
Georges Charpak |
| 1991 |
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes |
| 1990 |
Jerome I Friedman, Henry W Kendall, Richard E Taylor |
| 1989 |
Hans G Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul, Norman F Ramsey |
| 1988 |
Leon M Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger |
| 1987 |
J Georg Bednorz, K Alexander Muller |
| 1986 |
Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer, Ernst Ruska |
| 1985 |
Klaus von Klitzing |
| 1984 |
Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer |
| 1983 |
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William A Fowler |
| 1982 |
Kenneth G Wilson |
| 1981 |
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur L Schawlow, Kai M Siegbahn |
| 1980 |
James W Cronin, Val L Fitch |
| 1979 |
Steven Weinberg, Sheldon L Glashow, Abdus Salam |
| 1978 |
Pyotr L Kapitsa, Arno A Penzias, Robert W Wilson |
| 1977 |
Philip W Anderson, Sir Neville F Mott, John H van Vleck |
| 1976 |
Burton Richter, Samuel Chao Chung Ting |
| 1975 |
Aage N Bohr, Ben R Mottelson, L James Rainwater |
| 1974 |
Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish |
| 1973 |
Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D Josephson |
| 1972 |
John Bardeen, Leon N Cooper, J Robert Schrieffer |
| 1971 |
Dennis Gabor |
| 1970 |
Louis Eugene Neel, Hannes Olof Alfven |
| 1969 |
Murray Gell-Mann |
| 1968 |
Luis W Alvarez |
| 1967 |
Hans Albrecht Bethe |
| 1966 |
Alfred Kastler |
| 1965 |
Sin-itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P Feynman |
| 1964 |
Charles H Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov |
| 1963 |
Eugene P Winger, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J Hans D Jensen |
| 1962 |
Lev Davidovich Landau |
| 1961 |
Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Ludwig Mossbauer |
| 1960 |
Donald A Glaser |
| 1959 |
Emilio Gino Segre, Owen Chamberlain |
| 1958 |
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank, Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm |
| 1957 |
Chen Ning-Yang,Tsung-Dao Lee |
| 1956 |
William Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain |
| 1955 |
Willis Eugene Lamb, Polykarp Kusch |
| 1954 |
Max Born, Walther Bothe |
| 1953 |
Frederik Zernike |
| 1952 |
Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell |
| 1951 |
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton |
| 1950 |
Cecil Frank Powell |
| 1949 |
Hideki Yukawa |
| 1948 |
Lord Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett |
| 1947 |
Sir Edward Victor Appleton |
| 1946 |
PercyWilliams Bridgman |
| 1945 |
Wolfgang Pauli |
| 1944 |
Isidor Isaac Rabi |
| 1943 |
Otto Stern |
| 1942 |
No award |
| 1941 |
No award |
| 1940 |
No award |
| 1939 |
Ernest Orlando Lawrence |
| 1938 |
Enrico Fermi |
| 1937 |
Clinton Joseph Davisson, Sir George Paget Thomson |
| 1936 |
Vincent Franz Hess, Carl David Anderson |
| 1935 |
Sir James Chadwick |
