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