Backgrounder: Latest winners of Nobel Prize in Physics

Source: Xinhua| 2017-10-03 22:04:01|Editor: Yurou
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STOCKHOLM, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne share 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, announced the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday.

The following is a list of winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics since 2007.

2016: David J. Thouless (Britain), F. Duncan M. Haldane (Britain), J. Michael Kosterlitz (Britain)

2015: Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur B. McDonald (Canada)

2014: Isamu Akasaki (Japan), Hiroshi Amano (Japan) and Shuji Nakamura (U.S.)

2013: Francois Englert (Belgium) and Peter W. Higgs (Britain)

2012: Serge Haroche (France) and David J. Wineland (U.S.)

2011: Saul Perlmutter (U.S.), Brian P. Schmidt (U.S. and Australia) and Adam G. Riess (U.S.)

2010: Andre Geim (Britain), Konstantin Novoselov (Britain)

2009: Charles K. Kao (Britain and U.S.), Willard S. Boyle (U.S. and Canada) and George E. Smith (U.S.)

2008: Yoichiro Nambu (U.S.), Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa (Japan)

2007: Albert Fert (France) and Peter Grunberg (Germany).

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