Premio Nobel de Física
Galardonados judíos del Premio Nobel de Física documentados en el directorio ThankJews. Los judíos son alrededor del 25 % de todos los galardonados, aunque constituyen aproximadamente el 0,2 % de la población mundial.
61 galardonados documentados
Albert Michelson1907
Optical precision instruments and interferometry; the Michelson–Morley experiment and decades of measurements of the speed of light; Premio Nobel de Física 1907
Fuente: Wikipedia — Albert Michelson
Gabriel Lippmann1908
Inventó interference method of color photography; Nobel Physics 1908
Fuente: Nobelprize.org
Albert Einstein1905
Físico que fundó special and general relativity and explained the photoelectric effect; Premio Nobel de Física 1921
Fuente: Wikipedia — Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr1913
Físico who gave the quantum model of the atom in 1913 and led Copenhagen's Institute for Theoretical Physics; Premio Nobel de Física 1922
Fuente: Wikipedia — Niels Bohr
James Franck1882
Franck–Hertz experiment confirming the quantized energy levels of atoms; Premio Nobel de Física 1925; later research on photosynthesis
Fuente: Wikipedia — James Franck
Gustav Ludwig Hertz1925
Premio Nobel in physics for the Franck–Hertz experiment that proved the quantum energy levels of atoms, forced out of his chair in 1935 for his Jewish grandfather
Fuente: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1925/hertz/biographical/
Otto Stern1888
Molecular beam method, the Stern–Gerlach experiment and the discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton; Premio Nobel de Física 1943
Fuente: Wikipedia — Otto Stern
Isidor Rabi1944
Resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei, the basis of NMR and later MRI; Premio Nobel de Física 1944
Fuente: Wikipedia — Isidor Rabi
Wolfgang Pauli1945
Físico teórico who formulated the exclusion principle and proposed the neutrino; Premio Nobel de Física 1945
Fuente: Wikipedia — Wolfgang Pauli
Felix Bloch1905
Quantum theory of electrons in crystals and nuclear magnetic induction (NMR); Premio Nobel de Física 1952; first Director-General of CERN
Fuente: Wikipedia — Felix Bloch
Max Born1954
Cofundador de quantum mechanics who gave the statistical interpretation of the wave function; Premio Nobel de Física 1954
Fuente: Wikipedia — Max Born
Ilya Frank1908
Físico; with Igor Tamm explained Cherenkov radiation (1937); Premio Nobel de Física 1958, shared with Cherenkov and Tamm
Fuente: Wikipedia — Ilya Frank
Emilio Segrè1905
Físico; descubrió the antiproton, Premio Nobel 1959
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Donald Glaser1926
Físico; inventó the bubble chamber (1952), Premio Nobel de Física 1960; later a pioneer of biotechnology (Cetus) and of vision neuroscience
Fuente: Wikipedia — Donald Glaser
Robert Hofstadter1915
Físico; electron scattering revealing the size and structure of nuclei and nucleons, Premio Nobel de Física 1961; thallium-activated sodium iodide gamma-ray detector
Fuente: Wikipedia — Robert Hofstadter
Lev Landau1908
Físico teórico; theory of superfluidity of liquid helium and of condensed matter, Premio Nobel de Física 1962; co-author of the Course of Theoretical Physics
Fuente: Wikipedia — Lev Landau
Eugene Wigner1902
Mathematical physicist; brought group theory and symmetry principles into quantum mechanics, theory of the nuclear force; Premio Nobel de Física 1963
Fuente: Wikipedia — Eugene Wigner
Maria Goeppert Mayer1963
Físico teórico who explained the magic numbers with the nuclear shell model; Premio Nobel de Física 1963
Fuente: Wikipedia — Maria Goeppert Mayer
Richard Feynman1948
Físico who helped rebuild quantum electrodynamics and introduced Feynman diagrams; Premio Nobel de Física 1965
Fuente: Wikipedia — Richard Feynman
Julian Schwinger1918
Físico; cofundador de quantum electrodynamics (QED), Premio Nobel 1965
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Hans Bethe1945
Manhattan Project Theoretical Division Head
Fuente: Nobel Prize Physics 1967
Murray Gell-Mann1969
Classification of elementary particles and their interactions (quark theory)
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Physics 1969
Dennis Gabor1947
Holography
Fuente: Nobel Prize Physics 1971
Leon Cooper1930
Físico who proposed the electron pairs now called Cooper pairs and co-authored the BCS theory of superconductivity, then modelled learning in the brain; Premio Nobel de Física 1972
Fuente: Wikipedia — Leon Cooper
Brian Josephson1940
Físico who, as a 22-year-old research student in Cambridge, predicted the Josephson effect, the tunnelling of a supercurrent between two superconductors; Premio Nobel de Física 1973
Fuente: Wikipedia — Brian Josephson
Aage Bohr1975
Nuclear physicist who showed with Ben Mottelson that atomic nuclei can deform and rotate; Premio Nobel de Física 1975
Fuente: Wikipedia — Aage Bohr
Ben Mottelson1975
Premio Nobel in physics (1975) for nuclear structure; Atoms for Peace Award (1969)
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Physics
Burton Richter1931
Físico; descubrió the J/psi particle (charm quark), Premio Nobel 1976
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Arno Penzias1933
Radio astronomer, a child refugee of the Kindertransport, who with Robert Wilson discovered the cosmic microwave background, the afterglow of the Big Bang; Premio Nobel de Física 1978
Fuente: Wikipedia — Arno Penzias
Sheldon Glashow1932
Físico; electroweak unification theory, Premio Nobel 1979
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Steven Weinberg1979
Unified theory of the electromagnetic and weak forces (electroweak unification)
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Physics 1979
Arthur Schawlow1921
Físico who with Charles Townes laid the theoretical foundations of the laser and then developed high-precision laser spectroscopy; Premio Nobel de Física 1981
Fuente: Wikipedia — Arthur Schawlow
K. Alexander Müller1927
Físico at IBM Zurich who with Georg Bednorz discovered high-temperature superconductivity in ceramic copper oxides in 1986; Premio Nobel de Física 1987
Fuente: Wikipedia — K. Alex Müller
Leon Lederman1922
Experimental physicist que descubrió the muon neutrino and the bottom quark, dirigió Fermilab and championed science teaching; Premio Nobel de Física 1988
Fuente: Wikipedia — Leon Lederman
Melvin Schwartz1932
Físico; descubrió the muon neutrino, Premio Nobel 1988
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Jack Steinberger1921
Físico; descubrió the muon neutrino, Premio Nobel 1988
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Jerome Friedman1930
Físico; deep inelastic scattering revealing quarks, Premio Nobel 1990
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Georges Charpak1924
Físico; inventó the multiwire proportional chamber particle detector, Premio Nobel 1992
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Martin Perl1927
Físico; descubrió the tau lepton, Premio Nobel 1995
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Frederick Reines1918
Físico; first experimental detection of the neutrino, Premio Nobel 1995
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
David Lee1931
Físico; with Douglas Osheroff and Robert Richardson discovered superfluidity in helium-3 at Cornell in 1972, Premio Nobel de Física 1996
Fuente: Wikipedia — David Lee
Douglas Osheroff1945
Físico; as a Cornell graduate student co-discovered superfluidity in helium-3 in 1972, Premio Nobel de Física 1996
Fuente: Wikipedia — Douglas Osheroff
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji1997
Físico; methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light, Premio Nobel de Física 1997; co-author of the textbook Quantum Mechanics
Fuente: Wikipedia — Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Zhores Alferov1930
Físico; semiconductor heterostructures for optoelectronics, Premio Nobel 2000
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Vitaly Ginzburg1916
Físico; Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity (1950), Premio Nobel de Física 2003
Fuente: Wikipedia — Vitaly Ginzburg
Alexei Abrikosov1928
Físico; theory of the vortex lattice in type-II superconductors (1957), Premio Nobel de Física 2003
Fuente: Wikipedia — Alexei Abrikosov
David Gross1941
Físico; descubrió asymptotic freedom in QCD, Premio Nobel 2004
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
H. David Politzer1949
Físico; descubrió asymptotic freedom in QCD, Premio Nobel 2004
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Frank Wilczek2004
Físico teórico que descubrió asymptotic freedom with David Gross and named the axion and anyons; Premio Nobel de Física 2004
Fuente: Wikipedia — Frank Wilczek
Roy Glauber1925
Físico teórico whose quantum theory of optical coherence founded quantum optics; Premio Nobel de Física 2005
Fuente: Wikipedia — Roy Glauber
Saul Perlmutter2011
Astrofísico who led the Supernova Cosmology Project and co-discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe; Premio Nobel de Física 2011
Fuente: Wikipedia — Saul Perlmutter
Adam Riess1969
Astrofísico; descubrió the accelerating universe, Premio Nobel 2011
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Serge Haroche1944
Físico; measuring and manipulating individual quantum systems, Premio Nobel 2012
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
François Englert2013
Theory of the mechanism giving elementary particles mass (Higgs mechanism)
Fuente: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Physics 2013
J. Michael Kosterlitz2016
Premio Nobel de Física 2016 for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
Fuente: Wikipedia — J. Michael Kosterlitz
Barry Barish1936
Físico; leadership of LIGO detection of gravitational waves, Premio Nobel 2017
Fuente: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Rainer Weiss2017
Físico who conceived the laser-interferometer design of LIGO and co-founded it; first observation of gravitational waves; Premio Nobel de Física 2017
Fuente: Wikipedia — Rainer Weiss
Arthur Ashkin1922
Físico at Bell Labs que inventó optical tweezers and applied them to living cells; Premio Nobel de Física 2018
Fuente: Wikipedia — Arthur Ashkin
Andrea Ghez1965
Astrónomo whose measurements of stellar orbits revealed the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way; Premio Nobel de Física 2020
Fuente: Wikipedia — Andrea Ghez
Roger Penrose1931
Mathematical physicist who proved that black holes are an inevitable outcome of general relativity; twistor theory and Penrose tilings; Premio Nobel de Física 2020
Fuente: Wikipedia — Roger Penrose
Michel Devoret1953
Físico who showed quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in a macroscopic superconducting circuit, groundwork for superconducting qubits; Premio Nobel de Física 2025
Fuente: Wikipedia — Michel Devoret