British Nobel Prize Winner in Physics

List of U.K. Nobel Laureate in Physics

Award winner Award Reason for the award
David James Thouless
(born 1934)
2016 Together with the two British Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz
for their theoretical research in the field of topological phase transitions and the topological phases of matter
(exotic states of matter)
Frederick Duncan Michael Haldane
(born 1951)
2016 Together with the two Britons David Thouless and Michael Kosterlitz
for their theoretical research in the field of topological phase transitions and the topological phases of matter
(exotic states of matter)
John Michael Kosterlitz
(born 1942 in Scotland)
2016 Together with the two Britons David Thouless and Duncan Haldane
for their theoretical research in the field of topological phase transitions and the topological phases of matter
(exotic states of matter)
Peter Higgs
(born 1929)
2013 Together with the Belgian François Englert for his theoretical work in the field of particle physics,
Higgs had
predicted the existence of a boson, which gives all other particles their mass, as early as the 1960s.
Englert – independently of Higgs – postulated the underlying mechanism.
In 2012, the Higgs boson was detected for the first time at the European Research Center Cern near Geneva
Konstantin Novoselov
– Russian-British physicist
(born 1974)
2010 Together with the Dutchman Andre Geim
for basic experiments
with the two-dimensional material graph
Charles Kuen Kao
British-American researcher
(born 1933)
2009 For his groundbreaking success in the field of light transmission
using fiber optics for optical communication
Anthony James Leggett
British-American researcher
(born 1938)
2003 Together with the researchers Alexei Abrikossow and Witali Ginsburg:
For groundbreaking work in the theory of superconductors and superfluids
Nevill Francis Mott
(1905-1996)
1977 Together with the US colleagues Philip W. Anderson and John H. van Vleck:
For the basic theoretical achievements on electronic structure
in magnetic and disordered systems
Antony Hewish
(born 1924)
1974 Together with his colleague Martin Ryle:
For their pioneering work in radio astronomy:
Ryle for his observations and inventions,
especially in the opening up of technical syntheses
and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars
Martin Ryle
(1918-1984)
1974 Together with his colleague Antony Hewish:
For their pioneering work in radio astronomy:
Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars
and Ryle for his observations and inventions,
especially in the opening up of technical syntheses
Brian D. Josephson
(born 1940)
1973 For his theoretical prediction of supercurrent properties
through a tunnel barrier,
particularly those phenomena commonly known as the Josephson Effect
Dennis Gábor
(1900-1979)
1971 For his invention and development of the holographic method
Max Born
(1882-1970)
1954 For his fundamental research in quantum mechanics,
especially for his statistical interpretation of the wave function
John Cockcroft
(1897-1967
1951 Together with Irishman Ernest Walton:
For their pioneering work in the field of atomic nucleus conversion using
artificially accelerated atomic particles
Cecil Powell
(1903-1969)
1950 For the development of the photographic method for the investigation of nuclear processes
and the associated discovery of the mesons
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
(1897-1974)
1948 For the further development of the application of Wilson’s cloud chamber
and the discoveries made with it in the field of nuclear physics
and cosmic radiation
Edward Victor Appleton
(1892-1965)
1947 For his research in the field of physics of the upper layers of the atmosphere,
in particular for the discovery of the ionized layer named after him
George Paget Thomson
(1892-1975)
1937 Together with the American Clinton Davisson:
For their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals
James Chadwick
(1891-1974)
1935 For the discovery of the neutron in 1932
Paul Dirac
(1902-1984)
1933 Together with the Austrian Erwin Schrödinger.
For the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory
Owen Willans Richardson
(1879-1959)
Awarded in 1928, received in
1929
For his work on the phenomena of thermo-ions
and especially for the discovery of the law named after him
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
(1869-1959)
1927 For the discovery of the method of
making the paths of electrically charged particles perceptible through steam condensation. (Wilson Chamber)
Charles Glover Barkla
(1877-1944)
Awarded in 1917, received in
1918
For his discovery of the characteristic X-rays of the elements
William Henry Bragg
(1862-1942)
1915 Together with his son William Lawrence Bragg:
For their services in researching crystal structures using X-rays
William Lawrence Bragg
(1890-1971)
1915 Together with his father William Henry Bragg:
For their services in researching crystal structures using X-rays
Joseph John Thomson
(1856-1940)
1906 In recognition of the great merit he has earned through his
theoretical and experimental investigations
into the passage of electricity through gases
John William Strutt
3rd Baron Rayleigh
(1842-1919
1904 For his investigations into the density of the most important gases
and his discovery of argon in connection with it

John William Strutt

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