The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 goes to Francis Halzen for the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin

In 1988, the physicist came up with the idea of using clear glacial ice at the South Pole as a detector material

06-Oct-2026 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 to Francis Halzen University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin”. Elusive particles ...

Drei Quantenforscher teilen sich Physik-Nobelpreis 2025

"It is wonderful to be able to celebrate the way that century-old quantum mechanics continually offers new surprises"

07-Oct-2025 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 toJohn Clarke (University of California, Berkeley, USA),Michel H. Devoret (Yale University, New Haven, CT and University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) andJohn M. MartinisUniversity of California, ...

Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational discoveries and inventions in machine learning

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton trained artificial neural networks using physics

08-Oct-2024 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 to John J. Hopfield (Princeton University, NJ, USA) and Geoffrey E. Hinton (University of Toronto, Canada) “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural ...

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 goes to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier

The laureates’ contributions have enabled the investigation of processes that are so rapid they were previously impossible to follow

04-Oct-2023 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to Pierre Agostini (The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA), Ferenc Krausz (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) and Anne L’Huillier (Lund ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 goes to three quantum researchers from France, USA and Austria

Entangled states – from theory to technology

04-Oct-2022 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 to Alain Aspect (Université Paris-Saclay and École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France), John F. Clauser (J.F. Clauser & Assoc., Walnut Creek, CA, USA) and Anton Zeilinger (University of Vienna, Austria) “for ...

Nobel Prize in Physics 2021: Climate and other complex phenomena

05-Oct-2021 - Three Laureates share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of chaotic and apparently random phenomena. Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann laid the foundation of our knowledge of the Earth’s climate and how humanity influences it. Giorgio Parisi is rewarded for his revolutionary ...

Nobel Prize for Physics 2018 announced

Appreciation of the research in laser physics

02-Oct-2018 - The researchersArthur Ashkin and Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland were announced today as this year's winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Their achievements in the field of laser physics was groundbreaking and worthy of the Nobel Prize Committee's appreciation. The discovery of optical ...

The Nobel Prize Winners 2017

Internal clock, gravitational waves and cold analysis

04-Oct-2017 - This year's Nobel Prizes were awarded to a total of nine scientists. The research areas that have been awarded and the prize winners at a glance: Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to the ...

Gravitational waves finally captured

Nobel prizes in physics announced

03-Oct-2017 - On 14 September 2015, the universe’s gravitational waves were observed for the very first time. The waves, which were predicted by Albert Einstein a hundred years ago, came from a collision between two black holes. It took 1.3 billion years for the waves to arrive at the LIGO detector in the ...

David Thouless, Duncan Haldan and Michael Kosterlitz received Nobel Prize for Physics

Nobel Prize for Physics 2016

04-Oct-2016 - The three british originated researchers David Thouless, Duncan Haldan and Michael Kosterlitz receive the Nobel Prize for Physics for their research of unusual states and phases of matter. David Thouless is awarded with one half, the Duncan Haldan and Michael Kosterlitz with the second half of ...