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.
57 lauréats répertoriés
Albert Michelson1907
Precision optical instruments and interferometry; first accurate measurements of the speed of light
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Physics 1907
Gabriel Lippmann1908
A inventé interference method of color photography; Nobel Physics 1908
Source : Nobelprize.org
Albert Einstein1905
Theory of Relativity
Source : Nobel Prize Physics 1921
Niels Bohr1913
Atomic Structure
Source : Nobel Prize Physics 1922
James Franck1882
Nobel-winning physicist who later made key contributions to the study of photosynthesis
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Otto Stern1888
Physicien; the Stern-Gerlach experiment and molecular beam method, Nobel Prize 1943
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Isidor Rabi1944
Resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei (NMR)
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Physics 1944
Wolfgang Pauli1945
Discovery of the exclusion principle governing electron behavior
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Physics 1945
Felix Bloch1905
Physicien, co-developer of nuclear magnetic resonance; Prix Nobel de physique 1952
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
Max Born1954
Statistical interpretation of the quantum-mechanical wave function
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Physics 1954
Ilya Frank1908
Physicien; theory of Cherenkov radiation, Nobel Prize 1958
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Emilio Segrè1905
Physicien; discovered the antiproton, Nobel Prize 1959
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Donald Glaser1926
Physicien; invented the bubble chamber, Nobel Prize 1960
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Robert Hofstadter1915
Physicien; electron scattering revealing nucleon structure, Nobel Prize 1961
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Lev Landau1908
Physicien théoricien; superfluidity theory, condensed matter, Nobel Prize 1962
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Eugene Wigner1902
Physique mathématique; group theory in quantum mechanics (Nobel)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
Richard Feynman1948
Quantum Electrodynamics
Source : Nobel Prize Physics 1965
Julian Schwinger1918
Physicien; co-founder of quantum electrodynamics (QED), Nobel Prize 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; co-author of BCS theory of superconductivity (Cooper pairs), Nobel Prize 1972
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Brian Josephson1940
Physicien; predicted the Josephson effect in superconductors, Nobel Prize 1973
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
James Rainwater1975
Nobel laureate in physics (1975) for the structure of atomic nuclei
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Physics
Ben Mottelson1975
Nobel laureate in physics (1975) for nuclear structure; Atoms for Peace Award (1969)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Physics
Burton Richter1931
Physicien; discovered the J/psi particle (charm quark), Nobel Prize 1976
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Arno Penzias1933
Physicien; discovered the cosmic microwave background, Nobel Prize 1978
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Sheldon Glashow1932
Physicien; electroweak unification theory, Nobel Prize 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; laser spectroscopy, Nobel Prize 1981
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Leon Lederman1922
Physicien; discovered the muon neutrino, Nobel Prize 1988
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Melvin Schwartz1932
Physicien; discovered the muon neutrino, Nobel Prize 1988
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Jack Steinberger1921
Physicien; discovered the muon neutrino, Nobel Prize 1988
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Jerome Friedman1930
Physicien; deep inelastic scattering revealing quarks, Nobel Prize 1990
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Georges Charpak1924
Physicien; invented the multiwire proportional chamber particle detector, Nobel Prize 1992
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Martin Perl1927
Physicien; discovered the tau lepton, Nobel Prize 1995
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Frederick Reines1918
Physicien; first experimental detection of the neutrino, Nobel Prize 1995
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
David Lee1931
Physicien; discovered superfluidity in helium-3, Nobel Prize 1996
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Douglas Osheroff1945
Physicien; discovered superfluidity in helium-3, Nobel Prize 1996
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji1997
Methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Physics 1997
Zhores Alferov1930
Physicien; semiconductor heterostructures for optoelectronics, Nobel Prize 2000
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Vitaly Ginzburg1916
Physicien; Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity, Nobel Prize 2003
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Alexei Abrikosov1928
Physicien; theory of vortices in type-II superconductors, Nobel Prize 2003
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
David Gross1941
Physicien; discovered asymptotic freedom in QCD, Nobel Prize 2004
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
H. David Politzer1949
Physicien; discovered asymptotic freedom in QCD, Nobel Prize 2004
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Roy Glauber1925
Physicien; quantum theory of optical coherence, Nobel Prize 2005
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Saul Perlmutter2011
Discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe via distant supernovae
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Physics 2011
Adam Riess1969
Astrophysicien; discovered the accelerating universe, Nobel Prize 2011
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Serge Haroche1944
Physicien; measuring and manipulating individual quantum systems, Nobel Prize 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
Michael Kosterlitz2016
Nobel laureate in physics (2016) for topological phase transitions (the KT transition)
Source : Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Physics
Barry Barish1936
Physicien; leadership of LIGO detection of gravitational waves, Nobel Prize 2017
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Rainer Weiss2017
Decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
Source : Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Physics 2017
Arthur Ashkin1922
Physicien; invented optical tweezers, Nobel Prize 2018
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Andrea Ghez1965
Astronome; evidence for the supermassive black hole at the galactic center, Nobel Prize 2020
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Roger Penrose1931
Mathematical physicist; black hole singularity theorems, Nobel Prize 2020
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
Michel Devoret1953
Physicien; quantum electronics and superconducting qubits
Source : Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics