The Nobel Prize Medal for Physics.

• 2009 - Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George E. Smith

• 2008 - Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa

• 2007 - Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg
• 2006 - John C. Mather, George F. Smoot
• 2005 - Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch
• 2004 - David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek
• 2003 - Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett
• 2002 - Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi
• 2001 - Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman
• 2000 - Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S. Kilby
• 1999 - Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman
• 1998 - Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui
• 1997 - Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips
• 1996 - David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson
• 1995 - Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines
• 1994 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull
• 1993 - Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
• 1992 - Georges Charpak
• 1991 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
• 1990 - Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor
• 1989 - Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul
• 1988 - Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
• 1987 - J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex Müller
• 1986 - Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer
• 1985 - Klaus von Klitzing
• 1984 - Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer
• 1983 - Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William A. Fowler
• 1982 - Kenneth G. Wilson
• 1981 - Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur L. Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn
• 1980 - James Cronin, Val Fitch
• 1979 - Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
• 1978 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
• 1977 - Philip W. Anderson, Sir Nevill F. Mott, John H. van Vleck
• 1976 - Burton Richter, Samuel C.C. Ting
• 1975 - Aage N. Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, James Rainwater
• 1974 - Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
• 1973 - Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson
• 1972 - John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, Robert Schrieffer
• 1971 - Dennis Gabor
• 1970 - Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel
• 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
• 1968 - Luis Alvarez
• 1967 - Hans Bethe
• 1966 - Alfred Kastler
• 1965 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
• 1964 - Charles H. Townes, Nicolay G. Basov, Aleksandr M. Prokhorov
• 1963 - Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
• 1962 - Lev Landau
• 1961 - Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer
• 1960 - Donald A. Glaser
• 1959 - Emilio Segrè, Owen Chamberlain
• 1958 - Pavel A. Cherenkov, Il´ja M. Frank, Igor Y. Tamm
• 1957 - Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee
• 1956 - William B. Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain
• 1955 - Willis E. Lamb, Polykarp Kusch
• 1954 - Max Born, Walther Bothe
• 1953 - Frits Zernike
• 1952 - Felix Bloch, E. M. Purcell
• 1951 - John Cockcroft, Ernest T.S. Walton
• 1950 - Cecil Powell
• 1949 - Hideki Yukawa
• 1948 - Patrick M.S. Blackett
• 1947 - Edward V. Appleton
• 1946 - Percy W. Bridgman
• 1945 - Wolfgang Pauli
• 1944 - Isidor Isaac Rabi
• 1943 - Otto Stern
• 1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1939 - Ernest Lawrence
• 1938 - Enrico Fermi
• 1937 - Clinton Davisson, George Paget Thomson
• 1936 - Victor F. Hess, Carl D. Anderson
• 1935 - James Chadwick
• 1934 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1933 - Erwin Schrödinger, Paul A.M. Dirac
• 1932 - Werner Heisenberg
• 1931 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1930 - Sir Venkata Raman
• 1929 - Louis de Broglie
• 1928 - Owen Willans Richardson
• 1927 - Arthur H. Compton, C.T.R. Wilson
• 1926 - Jean Baptiste Perrin
• 1925 - James Franck, Gustav Hertz
• 1924 - Manne Siegbahn
• 1923 - Robert A. Millikan
• 1922 - Niels Bohr
• 1921 - Albert Einstein
• 1920 - Charles Edouard Guillaume
• 1919 - Johannes Stark
• 1918 - Max Planck
• 1917 - Charles Glover Barkla
• 1916 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
• 1915 - William Bragg, Lawrence Bragg
• 1914 - Max von Laue
• 1913 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
• 1912 - Gustaf Dalén
• 1911 - Wilhelm Wien
• 1910 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
• 1909 - Guglielmo Marconi, Ferdinand Braun
• 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
• 1907 - Albert A. Michelson
• 1906 - J.J. Thomson
• 1905 - Philipp Lenard
• 1904 - Lord Rayleigh
• 1903 - Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie
• 1902 - Hendrik A. Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
• 1901 - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen