List of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysik) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists who have made outstanding contributions in Physics.^[1] It is one of the five Nobel Prizes which were established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895.^[2]

Every year, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences sends out forms, which amount to a personal and exclusive invitation, to about three thousand selected individuals to invite them to submit nominations. The names of the nominees are never publicly announced, and neither are they told that they have been considered for the Prize. Nomination records are strictly sealed for fifty years. As of 2022^[update], the nominations for the years 1901 to 1970 are publicly available. Despite the annual sending of invitations, the prize was not awarded in six years (1916, 1931, 1934, 1940–1942) and have been delayed for a year nine times (1914, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1932, 1943).

From 1901 to 1970, 578 scientists were nominated for the prize, 92 of which were awarded either jointly or individually. 31 more scientists from these nominees were awarded after 1970 and John Bardeen was awarded a second time in 1972. Of the 11 women nominees, only two were awarded the prize. The first woman to be nominated was Marie Curie in 1902 by German scientist Emil Warburg and French mathematician Gaston Darboux, and she won the prize the next year. She is the only woman to win a Nobel Prize twice: Physics (1903) and Chemistry (1911).^[3] Besides 23 and 3 scientists from these nominees won the prizes in Chemistry (including two more women) and in Physiology or Medicine correspondingly (including years after 1970). Only one informal corporation and one organization have been nominated: the Nuclear scientists (1946 and 1947) and CERN (1970).

Despite the long list of nominated noteworthy physicists, astronomers, engineers, and chemists, there have been other famed scientists who were overlooked for the prize in physics, such as physicists G.Fr.FitzGerald, G.Stokes, J.W.Gibbs, P.Drude, H.Minkowski, W.Ritz, G.J.Stoney, Osb.Reynolds, Fr.C.Alw.Pockels, V.Schumann, N.Umov, Ernst Pringsheim Sr., M.Smoluchowski, W.Voigt, M.Abraham, Al.Friedmann, G.Wulff, Ant. van den Broek, F.Kurlbaum, G.Sagnac, Em.Wiechert, R.Pictet, P.Ehrenfest, P.Knipping, L.Shubnikov, M.P.Bronstein, Ett.Majorana, Edw.Hall, S.P.Schubin, D.S.Roschdestwenski, Ol.Lodge, J.Larmor, J.Ishiwara, N.Dm.Papaleksi, R.Ch.Tolman, A.H.Pfund, W. W. Hansen, H.Nagaoka, Y.Nishina, Ya.Frenkel, Th.Kaluza, J.Lennard-Jones, H.Weyl, Al.Proca, J. von Neumann, G.Mie, D.Hartree, Ad.Smekal, P. Pringsheim, H. von Halban, Fr.Houtermans, B.Podolsky, A.I.Alikhanov and Ern.Marsden; astronomers and astrophysicists: Ot.W.v.Struve and his grandson Otto Struve, P.J.C.Janssen, B. Paczyński, Ch.Aug.Young, S.Newcomb, G.V.Schiaparelli, K.Schwarzschild, P.Lowell, W.de Sitter, brothers Edw.Ch. and W.H.Pickering, R.H.Fowler, G.W.Ritchey, J.Jeans, Gr.Shajn, Otto Schmidt, G.Adr.Tikhov, C.K.Seyfert and Dm.Dm.Maksutov; inventors and engineers: Al.St.Popov, B.Rosing, G.B.Pegram, Ig.Kurchatov and S.Korolev.

In addition, nominations of 10 scientists and two corporations more were declared invalid by the Nobel Committee.

Nominees by their first nomination[edit]

1901–1909[edit]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1901
	Wilhelm Röntgen	March 27, 1845 Lennep, German Confederation	February 10, 1923 Munich, Germany	1901	Won the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physics[a] and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine too[b][4]
	Henri Becquerel	December 15, 1852 Paris, France	August 25, 1908 Le Croisic, France	1901, 1902, 1903	Shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics[c] with P. and M.Curie[5]
	Philipp Lenard	June 7, 1862 Preßburg, now Slovakia	May 20, 1947 Messelhausen, Germany	1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1924, 1925	Won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics[d][6]
	Gabriel Lippmann	August 16, 1845 Bonnevoie, German Confederation	July 13, 1921 SS France, Atlantic Ocean	1901, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908	Won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics[e][7]
	Guglielmo Marconi	April 25, 1874 Bologna, Kingdom of Italy	July 20, 1937 Rome, Kingdom of Italy	1901, 1902, 1903, 1908, 1909, 1929, 1933	Shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with K.F.Braun[f][8]
	Johannes Diderik van der Waals	November 23, 1837 Leiden, Netherlands	March 8, 1923 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1901, 1907, 1909, 1910	Won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physics[g][9]
	Svante Arrhenius	February 19, 1859 Vik Castle, Sweden	October 2, 1927 Stockholm, Sweden	1901, 1902, 1903	Won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine too[h][10]
	William Wallace Campbell	April 11, 1862 Hancock County, Ohio, United States	June 14, 1938 San Francisco, United States	1901	[11]
	Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld	November 18, 1832 Helsingfors, Grand Duchy of Finland	August 12, 1901 Dalbyö, Sweden	1901	Nominated the only time by El. Sidenbladh [sv]. Died before the only chance to be rewarded[12]
	Henry Augustus Rowland	November 27, 1848 Honesdale, Pennsylvania, United States	April 16, 1901 Baltimore, United States	1901[i]	H.Aug.Rowland died before the only chance to be rewarded Self-nominations
	Robert Henry Thurston	October 25, 1839 Providence, Rhode Island, United States	October 25, 1903 Ithaca, New York, United States
	William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin	June 26, 1824 Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	December 17, 1907 Largs, United Kingdom	1901, 1902, 1903, 1906, 1907	[13]
	Pieter Zeeman	May 25, 1865 Zonnemaire, Netherlands	October 9, 1943 Amsterdam, Netherlands	1901, 1902	[14] Shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics[j] [15]
1902
	Hendrik Lorentz	July 18, 1853 Arnhem, Netherlands	February 4, 1928 Haarlem, Netherlands	1902, 1912, 1913, 1918, 1919, 1923[i]
	Pierre Curie	May 15, 1859 Paris, France	April 19, 1906 Paris, France	1902, 1903	[16] Shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics[k] with H.Becquerel M.Curie won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry too[17]
	Marie Curie	November 7, 1867 Warsaw, Congress of Poland	July 4, 1934 Passy, Haute-Savoie, France
	John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh	November 12, 1842 Langford Grove, Maldon, United Kingdom	June 30, 1919 Terling Place, Witham, England	1902, 1903, 1904, 1905[i]	Won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics[l][18]
	J. J. Thomson	December 18, 1856 Cheetham, United Kingdom	August 30, 1940 Cambridge, England	1902, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907[i], 1912	Won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics[m][19]
	Charles Édouard Guillaume	February 15, 1861 Fleurier, Switzerland	May 13, 1938 Sèvres, France	1902, 1903, 1904, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1920	Won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physics[n][20]
	Pierre Chappuis [de]	Oktober 9, 1855 Bremblens, Switzerland	February 15, 1916 Basel, Switzerland	1902, 1903, 1904	Nominated jointly with Ch.Éd.Guillaume and J.-M.-R.Benoît only by P.Kr.Prytz.[21]
	Justin-Mirande René Benoit[22]	November 28, 1844 Montpellier, France	May 4, 1922 Dijon, France	1902, 1903, 1904, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916	[23]
	John Kerr	December 17, 1824 Ardrossan, United Kingdom	August 15, 1907 Glasgow, Scotland	1902, 1903	[24]
	Johann Wilhelm Hittorf	March 27, 1824 Bonn, German Confederation	November 28, 1914 Münster, German Empire	1902, 1903, 1904	[25]
1903
	Gustave Le Bon	May 7, 1841 Nogent-le-Rotrou, France	December 13, 1931 Marnes-la-Coquette, France	1903	Nominated the only time by Belgian physicist Pierre De Heen (1851–1915).[26]
	Ludwig Boltzmann	February 20, 1844 Vienna, Austria	September 5, 1906 Tybein, Austria-Hungary	1903, 1905, 1906	[27]
1904
	Albert A. Michelson	December 19, 1852 Strzelno, Congress of Poland	May 9, 1931 Pasadena, California, United States	1904, 1907	Won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics[o][28]
	William Ramsay	October 2, 1852 Glasgow, United Kingdom	July 23, 1916 High Wycombe, United Kingdom	1904, 1905[i]	Won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[29]
	Walter Kaufmann	June 5, 1871 Elberfeld, German Empire	January 1, 1947 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	1904	Nominated jointly with J. J. Thomson, J.Dewar and K.Olszewski the only time by N.Umov.[30]
	Ernst Abbe	January 23, 1840 Eisenach, German Confederation	January 14, 1905 Jena, German Empire	1904, 1905	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine too[p][31][32]
	Édouard Branly	November 23, 1844 Amiens, France	March 24, 1940 Paris, France	1904, 1909	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[33]
	Friedrich Kohlrausch	October 14, 1840 Rinteln, German Confederation	January 17, 1910 Marburg, German Empire	1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909	[34]
	Julius Elster	December 24, 1854 Blankenburg (Harz), German Confederation	April 6, 1920 Bad Harzburg, Germany	1904, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911	[35] Only nominated jointly [36]
	Hans Friedrich Geitel	July 16, 1855 Braunschweig, German Confederation	August 15, 1923 Wolfenbüttel, Germany	1904, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911
	Henri Poincaré	April 29, 1854 Nancy, France	July 17, 1912 Paris, France	1904, 1906, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912	[37]
	James Dewar	September 20, 1842 Kincardine, Fife, United Kingdom	March 27, 1923 London, United Kingdom	1904, 1905, 1912, 1913	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[38]
	Karol Olszewski	January 29, 1846 Broniszów, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, now Poland	March 24, 1915 Kraków, now Poland	1904, 1913	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[39]
	Oliver Heaviside	May 18, 1850 Camden Town, United Kingdom	February 3, 1925 Torquay, England	1904, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1914	Nominated by V.Bjerknes only.[40]
	Arthur Schuster	September 12, 1851 Frankfurt am Main, German Confederation	October 14, 1934 Yeldall Manor, Berkshire, United Kingdom	1904, 1914, 1917, 1925	[41]
1905
	Karl Ferdinand Braun	June 6, 1850 Fulda, German Confederation	April 20, 1918 Brooklyn, New York, United States	1905, 1906, 1907, 1909	Shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with G.Marconi[f][42]
	Prosper-René Blondlot	July 3, 1849 Nancy, France	November 24, 1930 Nancy, France	1905	Nominated the only time by Ch.J.Bouchard.[43]
	Pyotr Lebedev	February 24, 1866 Moscow, Russian Empire	March 1, 1912 Moscow, Russian Empire	1905, 1912	[44]
	Heinrich Kayser	March 16, 1853 Bingen am Rhein, German Confederation	October 14, 1940 Bonn, Germany	1905, 1916, 1917	[45]
	Augusto Righi	August 27, 1850 Bologna, Papal States	June 8, 1920 Bologna, Kingdom of Italy	1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920	[46]
1906
	Julius von Hann	March 23, 1839 Wartberg ob der Aist, Austria	October 1, 1921 Vienna, Austria	1906, 1911, 1913	[47]
1907
	Wilhelm Wien	January 13, 1864 Gaffken near Fischhausen, German Confederation	August 30, 1928 Munich, Germany	1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1926, 1927, 1929	Won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physics[q][48]
	Max Planck	April 23, 1858 Kiel, German Confederation	October 4, 1947 Göttingen, Germany	1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920[i]	Won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1919[r][49]
	Ernest Rutherford	August 30, 1871 Brightwater, British Empire	October 19, 1937 Cambridge, United Kingdom	1907, 1908, 1909[i], 1922, 1923, 1924, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1937	Won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[50]
	Ernst Bessel Hagen	January 31, 1851 Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia	January 15, 1923 Munich, Germany	1907	Nominated jointly with H.Rubens the only time by G.H.Quincke.[51]
	Heinrich Rubens	March 30, 1865 Wiesbaden, German Confederation	July 17, 1922 Berlin, Germany	1907, 1909	[52]
	Pierre Duhem	June 9, 1861 Paris, France	September 14, 1916 Cabrespine, France	1907, 1916	[53]
	William Crookes	June 17, 1832 London, United Kingdom	April 4, 1919 London, England	1907, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1918	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[54]
1908
	Gustaf de Laval	May 9, 1845 Orsa Municipality, Sweden	February 2, 1913 Stockholm, Sweden	1908	Nominated the only time by Sven Otto Pettersson [sv] and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[55]
	Joseph Norman Lockyer[i]	May 17, 1836 Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom	August 16, 1920 Salcombe Regis, England	1908, 1909
	Émile Amagat	January 2, 1841 Saint-Satur, France	February 15, 1915 Saint-Satur, France	1908, 1913, 1914	[56]
1909
	Heike Kamerlingh Onnes	September 21, 1853 Groningen, Netherlands	February 21, 1926 Leiden, Netherlands	1909, 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914[i]	Won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics[s] and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[57]
	Henri Farman	May 26, 1874 Paris, France	July 17, 1958 Paris, France	1909	[58] Nominated jointly with brothers Wright only [59]
	Gabriel Voisin	February 5, 1880 Belleville, France	December 25, 1973 Ozenay, France
	Orville Wright	August 19, 1871 Dayton, United States	January 30, 1948 Dayton, United States	1909, 1913	[60] Only nominated jointly [61]
	Wilbur Wright	April 16, 1867 Millville, United States	May 30, 1912 Dayton, United States
	John Henry Poynting	September 9, 1852 Monton, United Kingdom	March 30, 1914 Birmingham, England	1909, 1911, 1912	[62]
	Valdemar Poulsen	November 23, 1869 Copenhagen, Denmark	July 23, 1942 Gentofte, Denmark	1909, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923	[63]
	George Ellery Hale	June 29, 1868 Chicago, United States	February 21, 1938 Pasadena, United States	1909, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1934	[64]

1910–1919[edit]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1910
	Albert Einstein	March 14, 1879 Ulm, German Empire	April 18, 1955 Princeton, New Jersey, United States	1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923	Won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922[t][65]
	Allvar Gullstrand	June 5, 1862 Landskrona, Sweden	July 28, 1930 Stockholm, Sweden	1910, 1911, 1912	Won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[66]
	Knut Ångström	January 12, 1857 Uppsala parish [sv], Sweden	March 4, 1910 Uppsala parish, Sweden	1910	Nominated the only time by W.Röntgen.[67] Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Otto Lummer	July 17, 1860 Gera, German Confederation	July 5, 1925 Breslau, now Poland	1910, 1911	Nominated jointly with W.Wien and M.Planck by Em.Warburg only.[68]
	Henri Abraham	July 12, 1868 Paris, France	December 22, 1943 Oświęcim, now Poland	1910, 1916	[69]
	Paul Langevin	January 23, 1872 Paris, France	December 19, 1946 Paris, France	1910, 1916, 1921, 1922, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932[i], 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1946	[70]
1911
	Walther Nernst	June 25, 1864 Briesen, now Poland	November 18, 1941 Zibelle, now Poland	1911, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1921	Won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1921.[71]
	Ernst Mach	February 18, 1838 Brünn, now Czechia	February 19, 1916 Munich, German Empire	1911, 1912, 1914	[72]
	Loránd Eötvös	July 27, 1848 Buda, Hungary	April 8, 1919 Budapest, Hungary	1911, 1914, 1917, 1923[i]	[73]
	Eugen Goldstein	September 5, 1850 Gleiwitz, now Poland	December 25, 1930 Berlin, Germany	1911, 1913, 1926	[74]
	Charles Fabry	June 11, 1867 Marseille, France	December 11, 1945 Paris, France	1911, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1922, 1925, 1928[i], 1932	[75]
1912
	Gustaf Dalén	November 30, 1869 Stenstorp, Sweden	December 9, 1937 Lidingö, Sweden	1912	Won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics[u][76]
	Robert Hadfield	November 28, 1858 Sheffield, United Kingdom	September 30, 1940 Surrey, England	1912, 1913	[77]
1913
	Jean Baptiste Perrin	September 30, 1870 Lille, France	April 17, 1942 New York City, United States	1913, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926	Won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics[v] and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[78]
	Theodor Svedberg	August 30, 1884 Fleräng, Sweden	February 25, 1971 Kopparberg, Sweden	1913, 1919	Won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[79]
	Hermann Frahm [de]	December 8, 1867 Büdelsdorf, North German Confederation	December 28, 1939 Remscheid, Germany	1913	Nominated the only time by Sv.Arrhenius.[80]
	Adolf Slaby	April 18, 1849 Berlin, German Confederation	April 6, 1913 Charlottenburg, German Empire	1913	Nominated the only time by Pehr af Bjerkén [sv].[81] Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Ferdinand von Zeppelin	July 8, 1838 Konstanz, German Confederation	March 8, 1917 Berlin, German Empire	1913	Nominated jointly with brothers Wrights the only time by V.Czerny.[82]
	Henry Frederic William Burstall[i]	September 3, 1865 Old Machar, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom	July 15, 1934 Hopwood, Worcestershire, United Kingdom	1913	Self-nomination
	Hugh Longbourne Callendar	April 18, 1863 Hatherop, United Kingdom	January 21, 1930 Ealing, England	1913, 1918, 1921	[83]
	Otto Lehmann	January 13, 1855 Konstanz, German Confederation	June 17, 1922 Karlsruhe, Germany	1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922	Nominated by C.Benedicks only.[84]
	Henri-Alexandre Deslandres	July 24, 1853 Paris, France	January 15, 1948 Paris, France	1913, 1915, 1916, 1923	[85]
	Carl von Linde	June 11, 1842 Berndorf, German Confederation	November 16, 1934 Munich, Germany	1913, 1918, 1926	[86]
1914 - Prize has been awarded a year later
	Johannes Stark	April 15, 1874 Schickenhof, German Empire	June 21, 1957 Traunstein, Germany	1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919	Won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics[w][87]
	Henry Louis Le Chatelier	October 8, 1850 Paris, France	September 17, 1936 Miribel-les-Échelles, France	1914	Nominated jointly with W.Nernst the only time by Sven Otto Pettersson [sv] and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[88]
	Louis Georges Gouy	February 19, 1854 Vals-les-Bains, France	January 27, 1926 Vals-les-Bains, France	1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1922	[89]
	Friedrich Paschen	January 22, 1865 Schwerin, German Confederation	February 25, 1947 Potsdam, Germany	1914, 1915, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933	[90]
	Martin Knudsen	February 15, 1871 Hasmark [da], Denmark	May 27, 1949 Gentofte, Denmark	1914, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1937	[91]
	Robert W. Wood	May 2, 1868 Concord, Massachusetts, United States	August 11, 1955 Amityville, New York, United States	1914, 1915, 1920, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1937, 1942, 1950	[92]
	Max von Laue	October 9, 1879 Pfaffendorf, German Empire	April 24, 1960 West Berlin, Germany	1914, 1915	Won the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915[x][93]
	William Henry Bragg	July 2, 1862 Wigton, United Kingdom	March 12, 1942 London, England	1914, 1915	W.H.Bragg nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too[94] Shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics[y] .[95]
1915
	Lawrence Bragg	March 31, 1890 Adelaide, Australia	July 1, 1971 Waldringfield, United Kingdom	1915
	Charles Galton Darwin	December 18, 1887 Cambridge, United Kingdom	December 31, 1962 Cambridge, England	1915	[96] Nominated jointly with W.H.Bragg the only time by Sv.Arrhenius and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too. Moseley has been killed before the only chance to be rewarded.[97]
	Henry Moseley	November 23, 1887 Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom	August 10, 1915 Gallipoli campaign, Turkey
	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson	February 14, 1869 Glencorse, United Kingdom	November 15, 1959 Carlops, Scotland	1915, 1918, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927	Shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics[z] with A.Compton[98]
	Thomas Edison	February 11, 1847 Milan, Ohio, United States	October 18, 1931 West Orange, New Jersey, United States	1915	Nominated the only time by H.F.Osborn.[99]
	Giacomo Casalis	1869 Italy	after 1931	1915	[100] Nominated jointly[101] the only time by T.Boggio [102]
	Nicola Pavia[103]	1872 Torino, Kingdom of Italy	February 22, 1937 Torino, Kingdom of Italy
	Kristian Birkeland	December 13, 1867 Christiania, Norway	June 15, 1917 Tokyo, Japan	1915, 1916, 1917	Nominated jointly with C.Størmer only and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[104]
	Carl Størmer	September 3, 1874 Skien, Norway	August 13, 1957 Oslo, Norway	1915, 1916, 1917, 1925, 1927, 1934	[105]
	Aimé Cotton	October 9, 1869 Bourg-en-Bresse, France	April 16, 1951 Sèvres, France	1915, 1916, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1944, 1949	[106]
1916 - this year Prize was not awarded
	Henri Mouton	September 5, 1869 Cambrai, France	June 13, 1935 Bezons, France	1916	Nominated jointly with A.Cotton, L.G.Gouy, P.Duhem and Ch.Fabry the only time by M.Brillouin.[107]
	Robert Andrews Millikan	March 22, 1868 Morrison, Illinois, United States	December 19, 1953 San Marino, California, United States	1916, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924[i], 1926	Won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics[aa][108]
	Irving Langmuir	January 31, 1881 Brooklyn, New York City, United States	August 16, 1957 Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States	1916, 1928, 1929, 1933, 1940	Won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[109]
	Peter Debye	March 24, 1884 Maastricht, Netherlands	November 2, 1966 Ithaca, New York, United States	1916, 1917, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1939	Won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[110]
	Carl Runge	August 30, 1856 Bremen, German Confederation	January 3, 1927 Göttingen, Germany	1916, 1917	Nominated jointly with H.Kayser only.[111]
	Alexandre Dufour [fr]	May 8, 1875 Paris, France	June 19, 1942 Paris, France	1916	Nominated jointly with H.Abraham and G.-A.Ferrié the only time by M.Brillouin.[112]
	Gustave-Auguste Ferrié	November 19, 1868 Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne, France	February 16, 1932 Paris, France	1916, 1930, 1931	[113]
	Peder Oluf Pedersen	June 19, 1874 Sig, Denmark	August 30, 1941 Copenhagen, Denmark	1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923	Nominated jointly with V.Poulsen only.[114]
	Pierre Weiss	March 25, 1865 Mulhouse, France	October 24, 1940 Lyon, France	1916, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1927[i], 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937	[115]
1917 - Prize has been awarded a year later
	Niels Bohr	October 7, 1885 Copenhagen, Denmark	November 18, 1962 Copenhagen, Denmark	1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923[i]	Won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics[ab] and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too[116]
	Johannes Rydberg	November 8, 1854 Halmstad, Sweden	December 28, 1919 Lund, Sweden	1917, 1920[i]	[117]
	Arnold Sommerfeld	December 5, 1868 Königsberg, North German Confederation	April 26, 1951 Munich, Germany	1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951	[118]
1918 - Prize has been awarded a year later
	Charles Glover Barkla	June 7, 1877 Widnes, United Kingdom	October 23, 1944 Edinburgh, United Kingdom	1918, 1919[i]	Won the 1917 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918[ac][119]
	Alfred Perot	November 3, 1863 Metz, France	November 28, 1925 Paris, France	1918	Nominated jointly with R.A.Millikan, H.L.Callendar and Th.Lyman IV the only time by H.Crew.[120]
	Fernando Sanford	February 12, 1854 Franklin Grove, Illinois, United States	May 21, 1948 Santa Clara, California, United States	1918, 1919, 1920	Nominated by D.St.Jordan only.[121]
	Theodore Lyman IV	November 23, 1874 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	October 11, 1954 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1918, 1926	Nominated jointly with R.A.Millikan only.[122]
1919
	Percy Williams Bridgman	April 21, 1882 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	August 20, 1961 Randolph, New Hampshire, United States	1919, 1924, 1928, 1929, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1946	Won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics[ad] and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[123]

1920–1930[edit]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1920
	Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald	September 2, 1853 Riga, Russian Empire	April 4, 1932 Großbothen, Germany	1920, 1921, 1923, 1924	Won the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[124] and self-nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics[i]
	Walter Sydney Adams	December 20, 1876 Antakya, Turkey	May 11, 1956 Pasadena, California, United States	1920	Nominated the only time by Alfred Fowler.[125]
	Carl Barus	February 19, 1856 Cincinnati, United States	September 20, 1935 Providence, Rhode Island, United States	1920, 1921	[126]
	Louis Lumière	October 5, 1864 Besançon, France	June 6, 1948 Bandol, France	1920, 1921, 1922, 1924, 1927	Nominated jointly with A.Lumière by H.L.Le Chatelier only.[127]
	Auguste Lumière	October 19, 1862 Besançon, France	April 10, 1954 Lyon, France		Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine too[ae][128][129]
1921 - Prize has been awarded a year later
	Ernst Gehrcke	July 1, 1878 Berlin, German Empire	January 25, 1960 Hohen Neuendorf, Germany	1921, 1923, 1924, 1928	[130]
	Abbott Lawrence Rotch	January 6, 1861 Boston, United States	April 7, 1912 Boston, United States	1921[i]	Nominated posthumously with V.Fr.K.Bjerknes and W.N.Shaw by Al.G.McAdie the only time
	Léon Teisserenc de Bort	November 5, 1855 Paris, France	January 2, 1913 Cannes, France
1922
	Francis William Aston	September 1, 1877 Harborne, United Kingdom	November 20, 1945 Cambridge, England	1922	Won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[131]
	Charles Greeley Abbot	May 31, 1872 Wilton, New Hampshire, United States	December 17, 1973 Riverdale Park, Maryland, United States	1922	Nominated jointly with Fr.W.Aston, R.A.Millikan, W.D.Coolidge and G.Ell.Hale the only time by Ch.D.Walcott.[132]
	Leo Graetz	September 26, 1856 Breslau, now Poland	November 12, 1941 Munich, Germany	1922, 1924	Nominated by G. von Mayr [de] only.[133]
	William D. Coolidge	October 23, 1873 Hudson, Massachusetts, United States	February 3, 1975 Schenectady, New York, United States	1922, 1927, 1935	[134]
1923
	Frederick Soddy	September 2, 1877 Eastbourne, United Kingdom	September 22, 1956 Brighton, England	1923	Won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922.[135]
	Kazimierz Fajans	May 27, 1887 Warsaw, Congress of Poland	May 18, 1975 Michigan, United States	1923	Nominated with Fr.Soddy by Em.G.Warburg and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too[136]
	Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft	October 30, 1920		1923[i]	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too by Sv.Aug.Arrhenius only
	Wolfgang Gaede	May 25, 1878 Bremerhaven, German Empire	June 24, 1945 Munich, Germany	1923, 1924, 1925, 1929, 1935, 1936, 1937	[137]
	Vilhelm Bjerknes	March 14, 1862 Christiania, Norway	April 9, 1951 Oslo, Norway	1921[i], 1923, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1945	[138]
	James Franck	August 26, 1882 Hamburg, German Empire	May 21, 1964 Göttingen, Germany	1923, 1924, 1925, 1926	[139] Shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926[af] [140]
1924 - Prize has been awarded a year later
	Gustav Ludwig Hertz	July 22, 1887 Hamburg, German Empire	October 30, 1975 East Berlin, Germany	1924, 1926
	Owen Willans Richardson	April 26, 1879 Dewsbury, United Kingdom	February 15, 1959 Alton, Hampshire, England	1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929	Won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929[ag][141]
	Jules Richard	1862[ah] France		1924	Nominated the only time by prominent meteorologist and climatologist Alfred Angot [fr].[142]
	Napier Shaw	March 4, 1854 Birmingham, United Kingdom	March 23, 1945 London, England	1921[i], 1924, 1927	Nominated by Al.G.McAdie only.[143]
	John Sealy Townsend	June 7, 1868 Galway, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	February 16, 1957 Oxford, United Kingdom	1924, 1942, 1944	[144]
1925
	Manne Siegbahn	December 3, 1886 Örebro, Sweden	September 26, 1978 Stockholm, Sweden	1923[i], 1925	Won the 1924 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1925[ai][145]
	Arthur Compton	September 10, 1892 Wooster, Ohio, United States	March 15, 1962 Berkeley, California, United States	1925, 1926, 1927, 1928[i]	Shared the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics[aj] with Ch.Th.R.Wilson[146]
	Louis de Broglie	August 15, 1892 Dieppe, France	March 19, 1987 Louveciennes, France	1925, 1926, 1928, 1929, 1950	Won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physics[ak][147]
	Otto Stern	February 17, 1888 Sohrau, now Poland	August 17, 1969 Berkeley, California, United States	1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945	Won the 1943 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944[al][148]
	Walther Gerlach	August 1, 1889 Biebrich, German Empire	August 10, 1979 Munich, Germany	1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1944	Nominated jointly with Otto Stern only.[149]
	Siegmund Strauss [de]	January 4, 1875 Znaim, now Czechia	March 29, 1942 New York City, United States	1925	Nominated the only time by F.Ehrenhaft.[150]
	John Ambrose Fleming	November 29, 1849 Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom	April 18, 1945 Sidmouth, England	1925, 1927, 1928, 1934	[151]
	Maurice de Broglie	April 27, 1875 Paris, France	July 14, 1960 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France	1925, 1926, 1928, 1930[i], 1939, 1946	[152]
1926
	Dayton Miller	March 13, 1866 Strongsville, Ohio, United States	February 22, 1941 Cleveland, United States	1926	Nominated the only time by J.Sw.Ames.[153]
	Werner Kolhörster	December 28, 1887 Schwiebus, Brandenburg, now Poland	August 5, 1946 Munich, Germany	1926, 1935[i]	Nominated jointly with E.Goldstein the only time by Ernst Gehrcke.[154]
1927
	Viktor Kaplan	November 27, 1876 Mürzzuschlag, Austria-Hungary	August 23, 1934 Unterach am Attersee, Austria	1927	Nominated the only time by Fr.Niethammer [de].[155]
	Carl Ramsauer	February 6, 1879 Osternburg, Oldenburg, German Empire	December 24, 1955 Berlin, Germany	1927, 1931	Nominated by R.W.Pohl only.[156]
1928 - Prize has been awarded a year later
	Ludwig Prandtl	February 4, 1875 Freising, German Empire	August 15, 1953 Göttingen, Germany	1928, 1937	[157]
	Jacob Bjerknes	November 2, 1897 Stockholm, Sweden	July 7, 1975 Los Angeles, United States	1928, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939	[158]
	Tor Bergeron	August 15, 1891 Godstone, United Kingdom	June 13, 1977 Uppsala, Sweden	1928, 1937, 1938, 1939	[159] Nominated jointly with J.Bjerknes only [160]
	Halvor Solberg	February 5, 1895 Ringsaker, Norway	January 31, 1974 Oslo, Norway	1928, 1937, 1938, 1939
	Werner Heisenberg	December 5, 1901 Würzburg, German Empire	February 1, 1976 Munich, Germany	1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1969	Won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933[am][161]
	Erwin Schrödinger	August 12, 1887 Vienna, Austria-Hungary	January 4, 1961 Vienna, Austria	1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933	[162] Shared the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics[an] [163]
1929
	Paul Dirac	August 8, 1902 Bristol, United Kingdom	October 20, 1984 Tallahassee, Florida, United States	1929, 1933
	Clinton Davisson	October 22, 1881 Bloomington, Illinois, United States	February 1, 1958 Charlottesville, Virginia, United States	1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937	Shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with G.P.Thomson[ao][164]
	Lester Germer	October 10, 1896 Chicago, United States	October 3, 1971 Shawangunk Ridge, United States	1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937	Nominated jointly with Cl.Davisson only.[165]
	Emil Warburg	March 9, 1846 Altona, Hamburg, German Confederation	July 28, 1931 Bayreuth, Germany	1929	Nominated the only time by J.Franck.[166]
	Edwin Howard Armstrong	December 18, 1890 Chelsea, Manhattan, New York, United States	February 1, 1954 Manhattan, New York City, United States	1929	[167] Only nominated jointly [168]
	Alexander Meissner	September 14, 1883 Vienna, Austria-Hungary	January 3, 1958 West Berlin, Germany
	Mihajlo Pupin	October 9, 1858 Idvor, now Serbia	March 12, 1935 New York City, United States	1929	[169]
	David Hilbert	January 23, 1862 Wehlau, now Russia	February 14, 1943 Göttingen, Germany	1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933	[170]
	Jean Cabannes	August 12, 1885 Marseille, France	October 31, 1959 Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, France	1929, 1931, 1943, 1953	[171]
	C. V. Raman	November 7, 1888 Tiruchirappalli, India	November 21, 1970 Bangalore, India	1929, 1930	Won the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics[ap][172]
1930
	Grigory Landsberg	January 22, 1890 Vologda, Russian Empire	February 2, 1957 Moscow, Russia	1930	Nominated jointly with C. V. Raman and L.Mandelstam the only time by Or.Khvolson.[173]
	Leonid Mandelstam	May 4, 1879 Mogilev, now Belarus	November 27, 1944 Moscow, Russia	1930	[174]
	Max Born	December 11, 1882 Breslau, now Poland	January 5, 1970 Göttingen, Germany	1930, 1934, 1939, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954	Shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics[aq] with W.W.G.Bothe.[175]
	Henry Norris Russell	October 25, 1877 Oyster Bay, United States	February 18, 1957 Princeton, New Jersey, United States	1930, 1950, 1953	[176]
	Meghnad Saha	October 6, 1893 Shaoratoli near Dhaka, now Bangladesh	February 16, 1956 New Delhi, India	1930, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1951, 1955	[177]
	Ira Sprague Bowen	December 21, 1898 Seneca Falls, New York, United States	February 6, 1973 Hollywood, United States	1930, 1934, 1939, 1950, 1968	[178]

1931–1939[edit]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1931 - this year Prize was not awarded
	Victor Francis Hess	June 24, 1883 Schloss Waldstein, Peggau, Austria-Hungary	December 17, 1964 Mount Vernon, New York, United States	1931, 1933, 1935[i], 1936	Shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics[ar] with C.D.Anderson.[179]
	George Paget Thomson Wave properties of electrons experimenters	May 3, 1892 Cambridge, United Kingdom	September 10, 1975 Cambridge, England	1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1937	Won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with Cl.Davisson[ao][180]
				1931[i]	They nominated by Ern.G.Merritt the only time Ch.Alg.Parsons nominated by J.Ern.Petavel the only time but died before the only chance to be rewarded. [181]
	Charles Algernon Parsons	June 13, 1854 London, United Kingdom	February 11, 1931 Kingston Harbour, Colony of Jamaica, British Empire
	Georges Claude	September 24, 1870 Paris, France	May 23, 1960 Saint-Cloud, France	1931
1932 - Prize has been awarded a year later
	Kotaro Honda	February 23, 1870 Okazaki, Aichi, Japan	February 12, 1954 Tokyo, Japan	1932	[182]
	Auguste Piccard	January 28, 1884 Basel, Switzerland	March 24, 1962 Lausanne, Switzerland	1932, 1933	[183]
	Arthur Eddington	December 28, 1882 Kendal, United Kingdom	November 22, 1944 Cambridge, England	1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1944	[184]
1933
	Wolfgang Pauli	April 25, 1900 Vienna, Austria-Hungary	December 15, 1958 Zürich, Switzerland	1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946	Won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics[as][185]
	René-Paul-Eugène Thiry[186]	June 26, 1886 Langres, France	October 5, 1968 Mar Vivo, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France	1933	Nominated the only time by O.Colard from Belgium.[187]
1934 - this year Prize was not awarded
	Carl David Anderson	September 3, 1905 New York City, United States	January 11, 1991 San Marino, California, United States	1934, 1935, 1936, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953	Shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics[at] with the V.Fr.Hess.[188]
	Walther Bothe	January 8, 1891 Oranienburg, German Empire	February 8, 1957 Heidelberg, Germany	1934, 1935[i], 1936[i], 1946, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954	Shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics[au] with M.Born[189]
	James Chadwick	October 20, 1891 Bollington, United Kingdom	July 24, 1974 Cambridge, England	1934, 1935, 1936[i], 1939	Won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics[av][190]
	Frédéric Joliot-Curie	March 19, 1900 Paris, France	August 14, 1958 Paris, France	1934, 1935, 1936[i]	[191] Shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [192]
	Irène Joliot-Curie	September 12, 1897 Paris, France	March 17, 1956 Paris, France
	Harold Urey	April 29, 1893 Walkerton, Indiana, United States	January 5, 1981 La Jolla, California, United States	1934	Won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[193]
	Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde	March 26, 1903 Baltimore, United States	March 29, 1989 Linwood, New Jersey, United States		[194] Nominated jointly with H.Urey the only time by Fr.Horton [195]
	George Moseley Murphy[196]	June 1, 1903 Wilmington, North Carolina, United States	December 7, 1968 New York City, United States
	Gustav Waldemar Elmen	December 22, 1876 Stockholm, Sweden	December 10, 1957 Englewood, New Jersey, United States	1934	Nominated the only time by H.F.Osborn.[197]
	Lars Vegard	February 3, 1880 Vegårshei, Norway	December 21, 1963 Oslo, Norway	1934	Nominated jointly with C.Størmer the only time by Alfred Kalähne [de].[198]
	Giancarlo Vallauri [it]	October 19, 1882 Rome, Kingdom of Italy	May 7, 1957 Turin, Italy	1934, 1935, 1941	[199]
1935
	Enrico Fermi	September 29, 1901 Rome, Kingdom of Italy	November 28, 1954 Chicago, United States	1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948	Won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics[aw] and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[200]
	Edward Victor Appleton	September 6, 1892 Bradford, United Kingdom	April 21, 1965 Edinburgh, United Kingdom	1935, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1947	Won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physics[ax][201]
	Arthur E. Kennelly	December 17, 1861 Colaba, now India	June 18, 1939 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1935	Nominated jointly with Edw.V.Appleton only.[202]
	Alexander Gurwitsch	September 26, 1874 Poltava, now Ukraine	July 27, 1954 Moscow, Russia	1935	Nominated jointly with H.Dingler and F.Ehrenhaft the only time by L.Zehnder and for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine too[ay][203][204]
	Hugo Dingler	July 7, 1881 Munich, German Empire	June 29, 1954 Munich, Germany		[205] Nominated jointly with Al.Gurwitsch the only time by L.Zehnder [206]
	Felix Ehrenhaft	April 24, 1879 Vienna, Austria-Hungary	March 4, 1952 Vienna, Austria
	Abraham Esau	June 7, 1884 Tiegenhagen, now Poland	May 12, 1955 Düsseldorf, Germany	1935	Nominated the only time by August Gärtner [de].[207]
	John Cunningham McLennan	October 14, 1867 Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada	October 9, 1935 Paris, France	1935	Nominated the only time by David Arnold Keys (1890–1977).[208][209] Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Fritz Zwicky	February 14, 1898 Varna, Bulgaria	February 8, 1974 Pasadena, California, United States	1935	Nominated the only time by H.Bateman.[210]
	Max Cosyns[i]	May 29, 1906 Schaerbeek, Belgium	March 30, 1998 Brussels, Belgium	1935	Nominated by Fr.-V.-M.Cumont the only time
	Wander Johannes de Haas	March 2, 1878 Lisse, Netherlands	April 26, 1960 Bilthoven, Netherlands	1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945	[211]
	Hans Geiger	September 30, 1882 Neustadt an der Haardt, German Empire	September 24, 1945 Potsdam, Germany	1935, 1937, 1955	[212]
	Samuel Goudsmit	July 11, 1902 The Hague, Netherlands	December 4, 1978 Reno, Nevada, United States	1935, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970	[213]
1936
	Patrick Blackett	November 18, 1897 London, United Kingdom	July 13, 1974 London, England	1936, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949	Won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physics[az][214]
	Giuseppe Occhialini	December 5, 1907 Fossombrone, Kingdom of Italy	December 30, 1993 Paris, France	1936, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965[ba], 1968[ba], 1969	[215]
	Jacob Clay	January 18, 1882 Berkhout, Netherlands	December 31, 1955 De Bilt, Netherlands	1936, 1952	[216]
	Hans (Richard (?)) Becker[i]	December 3, 1887 Hamburg, German Empire (?)	March 16, 1955 Bad Schwalbach, Germany (?)	1936	Nominated by S.J.Barnett the only time
1937
	John Cockcroft	May 27, 1897 Todmorden, United Kingdom	September 18, 1967 Cambridge, England	1935[i], 1937, 1938, 1939, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952	[217] Shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics[bb] [218]
	Ernest Walton	October 6, 1903 Abbeyside, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	June 25, 1995 Belfast, United Kingdom	1935[i], 1937, 1938, 1939, 1945, 1947, 1951
	Otto Hahn	March 8, 1879 Frankfurt, German Empire	July 28, 1968 Göttingen, Germany	1937, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947	Won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1945.[219]
	Lise Meitner	November 7, 1878 Vienna, Austria-Hungary	October 27, 1968 Cambridge, United Kingdom	1937, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1967	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[220]
	Alfred Lee Loomis	November 4, 1887 Manhattan, New York, United States	August 11, 1975 East Hampton (town), New York, United States	1937	Nominated jointly with R.W.Wood only.[221]
	Nikola Tesla	July 7, 1856 Smiljan, now Croatia	January 7, 1943 New York City, United States	1937	Nominated the only time by F.Ehrenhaft.[222]
	Gilles Holst	March 20, 1886 Haarlem, Netherlands	October 11, 1968 Waalre, Netherlands	1937, 1944	[223]
	Geoffrey Ingram Taylor	March 7, 1886 St. John's Wood, United Kingdom	June 27, 1975 Cambridge, England	1937, 1945, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1970	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[224][225]
1938
	Ernest Lawrence	August 8, 1901 Canton, South Dakota, United States	August 27, 1958 Palo Alto, California, United States	1938, 1939, 1940	Won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics[bc][226]
	Erich Regener	November 12, 1881 Schleusenau [pl], now Poland	February 27, 1955 Stuttgart, Germany	1938	Nominated the only time by Erw.Schrödinger.[227]
1939
	Isidor Isaac Rabi	July 29, 1898 Rymanów, now Poland	January 11, 1988 New York City, United States	1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945	Won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics[bd][228]
	Albert W. Hull	April 19, 1880 Southington, Connecticut, United States	January 22, 1966 Schenectady, New York, United States	1939	Nominated jointly with P.Debye and P.Scherrer the only time by Harald Perlitz [et].[229]
	Paul Scherrer	February 3, 1890 St. Gallen, Switzerland	September 25, 1969 Zürich, Switzerland	1939, 1951	[230]

1940–1949[edit]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1940 - this year Prize was not awarded
	Hideki Yukawa	January 23, 1907 Tokyo, Japan	September 8, 1981 Kyoto, Japan	1940, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950	Won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physics[be] and nominated for Nobel Peace Prize too[231]
	William Giauque	May 12, 1895 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada	March 28, 1982 Berkeley, California, United States	1940	Won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[232]
	Jaroslav Heyrovský	December 20, 1890 Prague, Czechia	March 27, 1967 Prague, Czechia	1940	Won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine too[bf][233]
	Henri Bouasse [fr]	November 16, 1866 Paris, France	November 15, 1953 Toulouse, France	1940	[234] Nominated jointly the only time by R. de Mallemann [fr]. [bg]Chamberlain nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize too[235]
	Neville Chamberlain	March 8, 1869 Edgbaston, United Kingdom	November 9, 1940 Heckfield, England
	Willem Hendrik Keesom	June 21, 1876, Texel, Netherlands	March 24, 1956 Leiden, Netherlands	1940, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1955	[236]
1941 - this year Prize was not awarded
	Fritz Strassmann	February 22, 1902 Boppard, German Empire	April 22, 1980 Mainz, Germany	1941, 1945, 1946	Nominated jointly with Otto Hahn only.[237]
	Seth Neddermeyer	September 16, 1907 Richmond, Michigan, United States	January 29, 1988 Seattle, Washington, United States	1941, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952	Nominated jointly with or by C.D.Anderson only.[238]
	Pierre Victor Auger	May 14, 1899 Paris, France	December 25, 1993 Paris, France	1941, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953	[239]
1942 - this year Prize was not awarded
	George de Hevesy	August 1, 1885 Budapest, Austria-Hungary	July 5, 1966 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	1942	Won the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine too.[240]
1943 - Prize has been awarded a year later
	Hans Bethe	July 2, 1906 Strasbourg, now France	March 6, 2005 Ithaca, New York, United States	1943, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967	Won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics[bh][241]
	Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo	January 10, 1887 Huacllan District, Aija Province, Department of Ancash, Peru	April 20, 1967 Lima, Peru	1943	Nominated the only time by C.Granda from Lima.[242]
	George Gamow	March 4, 1904 Odesa, now Ukraine	August 19, 1968 Boulder, Colorado, United States	1943, 1946, 1967	[243]
	Donald William Kerst	November 1, 1911 Galena, Illinois, United States	August 19, 1993 Madison, Wisconsin, United States	1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1969	[244]
1944
	Frits Zernike	July 16, 1888 Amsterdam, Netherlands	March 10, 1966 Amersfoort, Netherlands	1944, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953	Won the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physics[bi] and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[245]
	Henk Dorgelo	February 9, 1894 Dedemsvaart, Netherlands	March 6, 1961 Eindhoven, Netherlands	1944	[246] Nominated jointly with G.Holst the only time by G.J.Elias [nl] [247] [248]
	Willem Christiaan van Geel[249]	October 27, 1895 Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands	August 23, 1967 Eindhoven, Netherlands
	Frans Michel Penning	September 12, 1894 Gorinchem, Netherlands	December 6, 1953 Utrecht, Netherlands
1945
	Bernard Lyot	February 27, 1897 Paris, France	April 2, 1952 Cairo, Egypt	1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952	[250]
	Otto Robert Frisch	October 1, 1904 Vienna, Austria-Hungary	September 22, 1979 Cambridge, United Kingdom	1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1967	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[251]
1946
	Pyotr Kapitsa	July 8, 1894 Kronstadt, Russian Empire	April 8, 1984 Moscow, Russia	1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970	Shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics[bj] with A.A.Penzias and R.W.Wilson[252]
	Nuclear Scientists			1946, 1947	[253]
	Arthur Jeffrey Dempster	August 14, 1886 Toronto, Canada	March 11, 1950 Stuart, Florida, United States	1946, 1948	[254]
	Francis Simon	July 2, 1893 Berlin, German Empire	October 31, 1956 Oxford, United Kingdom	1946, 1953, 1956	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[255]
	J. Robert Oppenheimer	April 22, 1904 New York City, United States	February 18, 1967 Princeton, New Jersey, United States	1946, 1951, 1955, 1967	[256]
1947
	Edwin McMillan	September 18, 1907 Redondo Beach, California, United States	September 7, 1991 El Cerrito, California, United States	1947, 1948, 1951, 1956, 1965	Shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Gl.T.Seaborg.[257]
	Vladimir Veksler	March 4, 1907 Zhytomyr, now Ukraine	September 22, 1966 Moscow, Russia	1947, 1948, 1951, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1965	[258]
	Camille Gutton	August 30, 1872 Nancy, France	August 19, 1963 Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche, France	1947	Nominated the only time by L. de Broglie.[259]
	Robert Serber	March 14, 1909 Philadelphia, United States	June 1, 1997 New York City, United States	1947	Nominated jointly with D.W.Kerst by Cz.Białobrzeski the only time.[260]
	Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer	January 13, 1899 Breslau, now Poland	May 15, 1957 Göttingen, Germany	1947, 1949	Nominated by W.Heisenberg only and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[261]
	Klaus Clusius	March 19, 1903 Breslau, now Poland	May 28, 1963 Zürich, Switzerland	1947, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[262]
	Walther Meissner	December 16, 1882 Berlin, German Empire	November 16, 1974 Munich, Germany	1947, 1950, 1955, 1966, 1967	[263]
	Dmitri Skobeltsyn	November 24, 1892 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire	November 16, 1990 Moscow, Russia	1947	Nominated jointly with Br.Rossi, P.Blackett and P.V.Auger the only time by Cz.Białobrzeski.[264]
	Bruno Rossi	April 13, 1905 Venice, Kingdom of Italy	November 21, 1993 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1947, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968	[265]
	Llewellyn Thomas	October 21, 1903 London, United Kingdom	April 20, 1992 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States	1947, 1968	Nominated jointly with S.Goudsmit and G.Uhlenbeck only.[266]
	George Uhlenbeck	December 6, 1900 Batavia, now Indonesia	October 31, 1988 Boulder, Colorado, United States	1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970	Nominated jointly with S.Goudsmit only.[267]
1948
	Helmut Scheffers[268]	September 13, 1898 Darmstadt, German Empire	February 25, 1963 West Berlin, Germany	1948	Nominated the only time by J.Stark.[269]
	Balthasar van der Pol	January 27, 1889 Utrecht, Netherlands	October 6, 1959 Wassenaar, Netherlands	1948, 1949, 1950	Nominated by brothers Louis and M. de Broglie only.[270]
	Marcel Schein	June 9, 1902 Trstená, now Slovakia	February 20, 1960 Chicago, United States	1948, 1949, 1951, 1952	[271]
	Walter Grotrian	April 21, 1890 Aachen, German Empire	March 3, 1954 Potsdam, Germany	1948	Nominated jointly with B.Edlén and B.Lyot the only time by Alfred Kastler.[272]
	Bengt Edlén	November 2, 1906, Gusum, Sweden	February 10, 1993 Lund, Sweden	1948, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1964	[273]
	Henry Lincoln Yeagley, Sr.[274]	July 17, 1899 York, Pennsylvania, United States	December 26, 1996 State College, Pennsylvania, United States	1948	[275] Nominated jointly with R.W.Pohl the only time by W.O.Schumann [276]
	Karl Guthe Jansky	October 22, 1905 Norman, Oklahoma, United States	February 14, 1950 Red Bank, New Jersey, United States
	Robert Wichard Pohl	August 10, 1884 Hamburg, German Empire	June 5, 1976 Göttingen, Germany	1948, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1967[ba]	[277]
	Felix Bloch	October 23, 1905 Zürich, Switzerland	September 10, 1983 Zürich, Switzerland	1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953	[278] Shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics[bk] [279]
1949
	Edward Mills Purcell	August 30, 1912 Taylorville, Illinois, United States	March 7, 1997 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1949, 1950, 1951, 1952
	C. F. Powell	December 5, 1903 Tonbridge, United Kingdom	August 9, 1969 Valsassina, Italy	1949, 1950, 1951	Won the 1950 Nobel Prize in Physics[bl][280]
	César Lattes	July 11, 1924 Curitiba, Brazil	March 8, 2005 Campinas, Brazil	1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954	[281]
	Eugene Hill Gardner[282]	March 22, 1913 Logan, Utah, United States[283]	November 27, 1950 Vallejo, California, United States	1949	Nominated jointly with C.Lattes the only time by W.Sc.Hill Rodriguez (1903–1987)[284] from Montevideo.[285]
	Vannevar Bush	March 11, 1890 Everett, Massachusetts, United States	June 28, 1974 Belmont, Massachusetts, United States	1949	Nominated the only time by Arthur C. Hardy.[286]
	Alfred O. C. Nier	May 28, 1911 St. Paul, Minnesota, United States	May 16, 1994 Hennepin County Medical Center, United States	1949	Nominated the only time by J.L.Kerwin and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[287][288]
	Albert Portevin	November 1, 1880 Paris, France	April 12, 1962 Abano Terme, Italy	1949	Nominated the only time by C.Benedicks and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[289]
	Leo Szilard	February 11, 1898 Budapest, Austria-Hungary	May 30, 1964 San Diego, United States	1949	Nominated the only time by M.Goldhaber and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[290]
	Hans Kramers	February 2, 1894 Rotterdam, Netherlands	April 24, 1952 Oegstgeest, Netherlands	1949, 1950, 1952	[291]
	Harold Jeffreys	22 April 1891 Fatfield, United Kingdom	18 March 1989 Cambridge, England	1949, 1964, 1966	[292]
	Edward Carl Stevenson[293]	March 9, 1907 Sumpter, Oregon, United States	July 23, 2002 Charlottesville, Virginia, United States	1949	Nominated jointly with C.D.Anderson, S.Neddermeyer, H.Yukawa and J.C.Street the only time by Peter Gerald Kruger (1902–1978) from Urbana, Illinois, United States[294]
	J. Curry Street	May 5, 1906 Opelika, Alabama, United States	November 7, 1989 Charleston, South Carolina, United States	1949, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1967	[295]
	Lawrence R. Hafstad	June 18, 1904 Minneapolis, United States	October 12, 1993 Oldwick, New Jersey, United States	1949	[296] Nominated jointly with Gr.Breit the only time by W.S.Adams [297]
	Merle Tuve	June 27, 1901 Canton, South Dakota, United States	May 20, 1982 Bethesda, Maryland, United States
	Gregory Breit	July 14, 1899 Mykolaiv, now Ukraine	September 13, 1981 Salem, Oregon, United States	1949, 1970	[298]

1950–1959[edit]

Picture	Name	Born	Died	Years Nominated	Notes
1950
	Georg von Békésy	June 3, 1899 Budapest, Austria-Hungary	June 13, 1972 Honolulu, United States	1950, 1953, 1954, 1958	Won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[299]
	Josef Mattauch	November 21, 1895 Ostrava, Czechia	August 10, 1976 Klosterneuburg, Austria	1950	Nominated jointly with W.Kossel the only time by F.K.L.Machatschki and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[300]
	Walther Kossel	January 4, 1888 Berlin, German Empire	May 22, 1956 Tübingen, Germany	1950, 1954, 1955	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[301]
	Hertha Wambacher	March 9, 1903 Vienna, Austria-Hungary	April 25, 1950 Vienna, Austria	1950	Nominated jointly with M.Blau the only time by Erwin Schrödinger.[302] Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Marietta Blau	April 29, 1894 Vienna, Austria-Hungary	January 27, 1970 Vienna, Austria	1950, 1955, 1956, 1957	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[303]
	Horace W. Babcock	September 13, 1912 Pasadena, California, United States	August 29, 2003 Santa Barbara, California, United States	1950, 1956, 1958	Nominated by Al.H.G.Dauvillier[bm] only[304]
	Grote Reber	December 22, 1911 Wheaton, Illinois, United States	December 20, 2002 Ouse, Tasmania, Australia	1950, 1967, 1969	[305]
1951
	Julian Schwinger	February 12, 1918 New York City, United States	July 16, 1994 Los Angeles, United States	1951, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966	[306] Shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with R.Ph.Feynman[bn] [307]
	Shin'ichirō Tomonaga	March 31, 1906 Tokyo, Japan	July 8, 1979 Tokyo, Japan	1951, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
	Luis Walter Alvarez	June 13, 1911 San Francisco, California, United States	September 1, 1988 Berkeley, California, United States	1951, 1953, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968	Won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics[bo][308]
	Willis Lamb	July 12, 1913 Los Angeles, United States	May 15, 2008 Tucson, United States	1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955	Shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics[bp] with P.Kusch[309]
	Robert Curtis Retherford	1912 Carthage, Indiana, United States	1981	1951, 1952, 1953, 1955	Nominated jointly with W.Lamb only.[310]
	William Francis Gray Swann	August 29, 1884 Ironbridge Gorge, United Kingdom	January 29, 1962 Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States	1951, 1952, 1953	Nominated jointly with C.D.Anderson by V.Fr.Hess only.[311]
	Homi J. Bhabha	October 30, 1909 Bombay, India	January 24, 1966 Mont Blanc, Alps	1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956	Nominated by J.Hadamard only.[312]
	Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky	April 24, 1919 Berlin, Germany	September 24, 2007 Los Altos, California, United States	1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1967	[313]
	Pascual Jordan	18 October 1902 Hannover, German Empire	31 July 1980 Hamburg, Germany	1951, 1963, 1967, 1970	[314]
	Erwin Wilhelm Müller	June 13, 1911 Berlin, German Empire	May 17, 1977 Washington, D.C., United States	1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[315]
	John Hasbrouck Van Vleck	March 13, 1899 Middletown, Connecticut, United States	October 27, 1980 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1951, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970	[316] Shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ph.W.Anderson[bq] [317]
1952
	Nevill Francis Mott	September 30, 1905 Leeds, United Kingdom	August 8, 1996 Milton Keynes, England	1952, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1970
	Polykarp Kusch	January 26, 1911 Blankenburg (Harz), German Empire	March 20, 1993 Dallas, United States	1952, 1955	Shared the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics[br] with W.Lamb[318]
	Pavel Cherenkov	July 28, 1904 Novaya Chigla, Russian Empire	January 6, 1990 Moscow, Russia	1952, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958	Shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ig.Tamm and Il.Frank[bs][319]
	Lars Onsager	November 27, 1903 Kristiania, Norway	October 5, 1976 Coral Gables, Florida, United States	1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968	Won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[320]
	Helmut L. Bradt[321]	December 11, 1917 Berlin, German Empire	May 24, 1950 Brooklyn, United States	1952	[322] Nominated jointly (Bradt - posthumously) with J.Clay the only time by Al.H.G.Dauvillier[bm] [323]
	Bernard Peters	December 22, 1910 Posen, now Poland	February 2, 1993 Copenhagen, Denmark
	Samuel Jackson Barnett	December 14, 1873 Woodson County, Kansas, United States	May 22, 1956 Pasadena, California, United States	1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956	[324]
	Georges Destriau	1 August 1903 Bordeaux, France	20 January 1960 Paris, France	1952, 1962	[325]
	Louis Néel	November 22, 1904 Lyon, France	November 17, 2000 Brive-la-Gaillarde, France	1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970	[bt][326] Shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics L.Néel nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too [bu][327]
1953
	Hannes Alfvén	May 30, 1908 Norrköping, Sweden	April 2, 1995 Djursholm, Sweden	1953, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970
	Emilio Segrè	February 1, 1905 Tivoli, Italy,	April 22, 1989 Lafayette, California, United States	1953, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959	Shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics with O.Chamberlain[bv] and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too[328]
	Eugene Wigner	November 17, 1902 Budapest, Austria-Hungary	January 1, 1995 Princeton, New Jersey, United States	1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963	Shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics[bw] with J.H.D.Jensen and M.Goeppert-Mayer[329]
	Willard Libby	December 17, 1908 Grand Valley, United States	September 8, 1980 Los Angeles, United States	1953, 1956, 1957, 1960	Won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[330]
	Edwin Hubble	November 20, 1889 Marshfield, Missouri, United States	September 28, 1953 San Marino, California, United States	1953	Died before the only chance to be rewarded.[331]
	Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker	June 28, 1912 Kiel, German Empire	April 28, 2007 Starnberg, Germany	1953, 1958, 1964, 1965	[332]
	Robert J. Van de Graaff	December 20, 1901 Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States	January 16, 1967 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1953, 1964, 1966	[333]
	Louis Leprince-Ringuet	March 27, 1901 Alès, France	December 23, 2000 Paris, France	1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1966[ba], 1967[ba]	[334]
	John Bardeen	May 23, 1908 Madison, Wisconsin, United States	January 30, 1991 Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1961[bx], 1963, 1965[bx], 1966[bx], 1967[bx], 1968[bx], 1969[bx], 1970[bx]	J.Bardeen shared 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics with L.Cooper and J.R.Schrieffer[by] too[335] W.H.Brattain nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too[336] Shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics[bz] [337]
	Walter Houser Brattain	February 10, 1902 Xiamen, China	October 13, 1987 Seattle, Washington, United States	1953, 1954, 1956
1954
	William Shockley	February 13, 1910 Greater London, United Kingdom	August 12, 1989 Stanford, California, United States	1954, 1955, 1956
	Lev Landau	January 22, 1908 Baku, now Azerbaijan	April 1, 1968 Moscow, Russia	1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963	Won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physics[ca][338]
	Fritz London	March 7, 1900 Breslau, now Poland	March 30, 1954 Durham, North Carolina, United States	1954	Nominated jointly with L.Landau the only time by R.Marschak and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[339] Died before the chance to be rewarded.
	Ilya Prigogine	January 25, 1917 Moscow, Russian Empire	May 28, 2003 Brussels, Belgium	1954, 1958, 1964, 1970	Won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[340]
	Jean Laval [fr]	January 31, 1900 Saint-Pardoux-le-Vieux, France	March 4, 1980 Paris, France	1954	Nominated the only time by A.Lichnorowicz.[341]
	Georges Lemaître	July 17, 1894 Charleroi, Belgium	June 20, 1966 Leuven, Belgium	1954	Nominated the only time by Al.H.G.Dauvillier[bm] and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[342]
	Vladimir K. Zworykin	July 29, 1888 Murom, Russian Empire	July 29, 1982 Princeton, New Jersey, United States	1954	Nominated the only time by Vitomir H. Pavloviћ[343] (9.II 1897, Опланићи - 1959) from the University of Belgrade.[344]
	James Gilbert Baker	November 11, 1914 Louisville, Kentucky, United States	June 29, 2005 Bedford, New Hampshire, United States	1954	[345] [346] Nominated jointly with B.Edlén and M.Deutsch the only time by H.Shapley [347] [348]
	Edward Linfoot	June 8, 1905 Sheffield, United Kingdom	October 14, 1982 Cambridge, England
	Edwin H. Land	May 7, 1909 Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States	March 1, 1991 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
	Karl Lark-Horovitz	July 20, 1892 Vienna, Austria-Hungary	April 14, 1958 West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
	Martin Deutsch	January 29, 1917 Vienna, Austria-Hungary	August 16, 2002 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[349]
	Maurice Goldhaber	April 18, 1911 Lviv, now Ukraine	May 11, 2011 East Setauket, New York, United States	1954, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1970	[350]
1955
	Ernst Ruska	December 25, 1906 Heidelberg, German Empire	May 27, 1988 West Berlin, Germany	1955, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970	Shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics[cb] with G.Binnig and H.Rohrer and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine too.[cc][351]
	Bodo von Borries	May 22, 1905 Herford, German Empire	July 17, 1956 Aachen, Germany	1955	Nominated jointly with Ernst Ruska only and for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine too. [cc][352][353]
	Jan Oort	April 28, 1900 Franeker, Netherlands	November 5, 1992 Leiden, Netherlands	1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961	[354]
	Christiaan Alexander Muller	April 18, 1923 Alkmaar, Netherlands	August 8, 2004 Delden, Netherlands	1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1961	Nominated jointly with J.Oort and H.C. van de Hulst only.[355]
	Hendrik C. van de Hulst	November 19, 1918 Utrecht, Netherlands	July 31, 2000 Leiden, Netherlands	1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968	[356]
	Max Knoll	July 17, 1897 Schlangenbad, German Empire	November 6, 1969 Munich, Germany	1955, 1957, 1961, 1967	[357]
	Léon Brillouin	August 7, 1889 Sèvres, France	October 4, 1969 New York City, United States	1955, 1957, 1960, 1965, 1967, 1969	[358]
	George Rochester	February 4, 1908 Wallsend, United Kingdom	December 26, 2001 Durham, England	1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966[ba], 1967[ba], 1968[ba], 1969[ba]	[359]
	J. Hans D. Jensen	June 25, 1907 Hamburg, German Empire	February 11, 1973 Heidelberg, Germany	1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963	[360] Shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics[cd] with E.Wigner and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too [361]
	Maria Goeppert Mayer	June 28, 1906 Kattowitz, now Poland	February 20, 1972 San Diego, California, United States	1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963
1956
	Otto Haxel	April 2, 1909, Neu-Ulm, German Empire	February 26, 1998 Heidelberg, Germany	1956, 1957	[362] Nominated jointly with J.H.D.Jensen and M.Goeppert Mayer by Karl Freudenberg only [363]
	Hans Suess	December 16, 1909 Vienna, Austria-Hungary	September 20, 1993 La Jolla, California, United States
	Richard Feynman	May 11, 1918 New York City, United States	February 15, 1988 Los Angeles, United States	1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967	Shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with J.Schwinger and Sh.Tomonaga[bn][364]
	Alfred Kastler	3 May 1902 Guebwiller, now France	7 January 1984 Bandol, France	1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966	Won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics[ce][365]
	Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	May 12, 1910 Cairo, Egypt	July 29, 1994 Ilmington, United Kingdom	1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961	Won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[366]
	Jan Hendrik de Boer	March 19, 1899 Ruinen, Netherlands	April 25, 1971 The Hague, Netherlands	1956	Nominated the only time by Antoine Hautot (1909–1998) from Liège.[367]
	Lee de Forest	August 26, 1873 Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States	June 30, 1961 Hollywood, United States	1956	Nominated the only time by Cl.Davisson.[368]
	Mark Oliphant	October 8, 1901 Adelaide, Australia	July 14, 2000 Canberra, Australia	1956	Nominated the only time by L.Ružička.[369]
	Gerald Pearson	March 31, 1905 Salem, Oregon, United States	October 25, 1987 Portola Valley, California, United States	1956	Nominated jointly with J.Bardeen and W.H.Brattain the only time by Mariano Velasco Durántez (1897–1984) from University of Barcelona.[370]
	Gustav Ising	February 19, 1883 Finja, Sweden	February 5, 1960 Danderyd Municipality, Sweden	1956	Nominated jointly with D.W.Kerst and R.Widerøe the only time by Ern.Walton.[371]
	Rolf Widerøe	July 11, 1902 Kristiania, Norway	October 11, 1996 Obersiggenthal, Switzerland	1956, 1969	Nominated jointly with D.W.Kerst only.[372]
	Satyendra Nath Bose	January 1, 1894 Calcutta, India	February 4, 1974 Calcutta, India	1956, 1959, 1962, 1968, 1969, 1970	[373]
	Sydney Chapman	January 29, 1888 Eccles, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom	June 16, 1970 Boulder, Colorado, United States	1956, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1967, 1968, 1970	[374]
	Cornelis Jacobus Gorter	August 14, 1907, Utrecht, Netherlands	30 March 1980 Leiden, Netherlands	1956, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970	[375]
1957
	Igor Tamm	July 8, 1895 Vladivostok, Russian Empire	April 12, 1971 Moscow, Russia	1957, 1958	[376] Shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with P.A.Cherenkov[bs] [377]
	Ilya Frank	October 23, 1908 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire	June 22, 1990 Moscow, Russia
	Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov	March 24, 1891 Moscow, Russian Empire	January 25, 1951 Moscow, Russia	1957, 1958	Posthumously nominated jointly with P.A.Cherenkov only.[378]
	Owen Chamberlain	July 10, 1920 San Francisco, California, United States	February 28, 2006 Berkeley, California, United States	1957, 1958, 1959	Shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics with Em.Segrè[bv][379]
	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	October 19, 1910 Lahore, now Pakistan	August 21, 1995 Chicago, United States	1957, 1962, 1968, 1969, 1970	Shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics[cf] with W.A.Fowler.[380]
	Clifford Shull	September 23, 1915 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States	March 31, 2001 Medford, Massachusetts, United States	1957, 1968	Shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics[cg] with B.N.Brockhouse.[381]
	Ernest O. Wollan	November 6, 1902 Glenwood, Minnesota, United States	March 11, 1984 Minneapolis, United States	1957	Nominated jointly with Cl.Shull and L.Néel the only time by Ivar Waller.[382]
	Frederick Reines	March 16, 1918 Paterson, New Jersey, United States	August 26, 1998 Orange, California, United States	1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967	Shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics[ch] with M.L.Perl[383]
	Clyde Cowan	December 6, 1919 Detroit, United States	May 24, 1974 Bethesda, Maryland, United States	1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967	Nominated jointly with Fr.Reines only.[384]
	Carl-Gustaf Rossby	December 28, 1898 Stockholm, Sweden	August 19, 1957 Stockholm, Sweden	1957	Nominated the only time by H.Pettersson.[385] Died before the only chance to be rewarded.
	Gersh Budker	May 1, 1918 Murafa, near Vinnytsia, now Ukraine	July 4, 1977 Akademgorodok, Russia	1957	[386] Nominated jointly with Vl.I.Veksler the only time by L.Ružička [387]
	Alexey Naumov	January 27, 1916 Petrograd, Russian Empire	November 22, 1985 Protvino, Russia
	Hans Busch	February 27, 1884 Jüchen, German Empire	February 16, 1973 Darmstadt, Germany	1957	Nominated jointly with Ernst Ruska and M.Knoll only.[388]
	Ettore Pancini [it]	August 10, 1915 Stanghella, Kingdom of Italy	September 2, 1981 Venice, Italy	1957, 1963	[389] Nominated jointly with M.Conversi only [390]
	Oreste Piccioni	October 24, 1915 Siena, Kingdom of Italy	April 13, 2002 Rancho Santa Fe, California, United States
	Marcello Conversi	August 25, 1917 Tivoli, Lazio, Kingdom of Italy	September 22, 1988 Rome, Italy	1957, 1963, 1965	[391]
	Brebis Bleaney	June 6, 1915 Chelsea, London, United Kingdom	November 4, 2006 Oxford, England	1957, 1959, 1966	[392]
	Clifford Charles Butler	May 20, 1922 Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom	June 30, 1999 Glenfield Hospital, England	1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965[ba], 1966[ba], 1967[ba], 1968[ba], 1969[ba]	Nominated jointly with George Rochester only[393][394][ci]
	Yang Chen-Ning	October 1, 1922 Hefei, China		1957[cj][ck]	[395][cl] Shared the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics[cm] [396][cn]
	Tsung-Dao Lee	November 24, 1926 Shanghai, China
1958
	Chien-Shiung Wu	May 31, 1912 Liuhe, Taicang, China	February 16, 1997 New York City, United States	1958, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1967[ba], 1968, 1970	[397][398][co]
	Robert Hofstadter	February 5, 1915 New York City, United States	November 17, 1990 Stanford, California, United States	1958, 1959, 1960, 1961	Shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics[cp] with R.L.Mössbauer.[399]
	Charles H. Townes	July 28, 1915 Greenville, South Carolina, United States	January 27, 2015 Oakland, California, United States	1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965	Shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Al.M.Prokhorov and N.G.Basov[cq][400]
	Abdus Salam	January 29, 1926 Jhang, now Pakistan	November 21, 1996 Oxford, United Kingdom	1958, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970	Shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with St.Weinberg and Sh.L.Glashow[cr][401]
	Seymour Benzer	October 15, 1921 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, United States	November 30, 2007 Pasadena, California, United States	1958	Nominated the only time by Ernest C. Pollard.[402]
	Heinz Neuber [de]	November 22, 1906 Stettin, now Poland	November 18, 1989 Bad Wörishofen, Germany	1958	Nominated the only time by Hajimu Ōkubo from Mechanical Engineering Department of Nagoya University.[403]
	Boris Rajewsky	July 17, 1893 Chyhyryn, now Ukraine	November 22, 1974 Frankfurt am Main, Germany	1958	Nominated the only time by Fr.Dessauer.[404]
	Harold D. Babcock	January 24, 1882 Edgerton, Wisconsin, United States	April 8, 1968 Pasadena, California, United States	1958	Nominated jointly with H.W.Babcock the only time by Al.H.G.Dauvillier[bm][405]
	William Hume-Rothery	May 15, 1899 Worcester Park, United Kingdom	September 27, 1968 Oxford, England	1958	Nominated the only time by G.D.Preston and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[406]
	Clyde Wiegand	May 23, 1915, Long Beach, Washington, United States	July 5, 1996 Oakland, California, United States	1958	[407] Nominated jointly with Owen Chamberlain and Em.Segrè the only time by M.Verde [it] [408]
	Thomas Ypsilantis	June 24, 1928 Salt Lake City, United States	August 15, 2000 Geneva, Switzerland
	David Bohm	December 20, 1917 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States	October 27, 1992 London, United Kingdom	1958	Nominated jointly with D.Pines the only time by Huzio Nakano [ja] (1922-2009) from Nagoya University.[409]
	David Pines	June 8, 1924 Kansas City, Missouri, United States	May 3, 2018 Urbana, Illinois, United States	1958, 1968	[410]
	Alfred Landé	December 13, 1888 Elberfeld, German Empire	October 30, 1976 Columbus, Ohio, United States	1958, 1969	Nominated jointly with S.Goudsmit and G.Uhlenbeck by Alfred Kastler only.[411]
	Jesse Beams	December 25, 1898 Belle Plaine, Kansas, United States	July 23, 1977 Charlottesville, Virginia, United States	1958, 1970	[412]
	Victor Weisskopf	September 19, 1908 Vienna, Austria-Hungary	April 22, 2002 Newton, Massachusetts, United States	1958, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1970	[413]
	Yevgeny Zavoisky	September 28, 1907 Mohyliv-Podilskyi, now Ukraine	October 9, 1976 Moscow, Russia	1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[414]
1959
	Donald A. Glaser	September 21, 1926 Cleveland, Ohio, United States	February 28, 2013 Berkeley, California, United States	1959, 1960	Won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics[cs][415]
	Leon M. Lederman	July 15, 1922 New York City, United States	October 3, 2018 Rexburg, Idaho, United States	1959, 1963, 1967, 1969	Shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with M.Schwartz and J.Steinberger[ct][416]
	Friedrich Dessauer	July 19, 1881 Aschaffenburg, German Empire	February 16, 1963 Frankfurt am Main, Germany	1959	Nominated the only time by H.Schreiber [de] and for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine too[cu][417][418]
	Abram Ioffe	October 29, 1880 Romny, now Ukraine	October 14, 1960 Leningrad, Russia	1959	Nominated the only time by Fr.X.Eder [de].[419]
	Charles Kittel	July 18, 1916 New York City, United States	May 15, 2019 Berkeley, California, United States	1959	Nominated the only time by W.Nierenberg.[420]
	Albrecht Unsöld	April 20, 1905 Bolheim, German Empire	September 23, 1995 Kiel, Germany	1959	Nominated the only time by G.Burkhardt [de].[421]
	Frank Philip Bowden	May 2, 1903 Hobart, Australia	September 3, 1968 Cambridge, United Kingdom	1959	Nominated the only time by L.B.Loeb.[422]
	André Lallemand	September 29, 1904 Cirey-lès-Pontailler, France	March 24, 1978 Paris, France	1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964	[423]
	Nicholas Kemmer	December 7, 1911 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire	October 21, 1998 Edinburgh, United Kingdom	1959, 1965	[424]
	J. D. Bernal	May 10, 1901 Nenagh, United Kingdom	September 15, 1971 London, United Kingdom	1959, 1966	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[425]
	Norbert Wiener	November 26, 1894 Columbia, Missouri, United States	March 18, 1964 Stockholm, Sweden	1959	Nominated jointly with Cl.Shannon the only time by G. N. Ramachandran.[426]
	Claude Shannon	April 30, 1916 Petoskey, Michigan, United States	February 24, 2001 Medford, Massachusetts, United States	1959, 1967	[427]
	Carl Wagner	May 25, 1901 Leipzig, German Empire	December 10, 1977 Göttingen, Germany	1959	Nominated jointly with W.H.Schottky the only time by R.Vieweg [de] and for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[428]
	Walter H. Schottky	July 23, 1886 Zürich, Switzerland	March 4, 1976 Pretzfeld, Germany	1959, 1965, 1967[ba]	Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too.[429]
	Frederick Charles Frank	March 6, 1911 Durban, South Africa	April 5, 1998 Bristol, United Kingdom	1959, 1961, 1968	[430]
	Nikolay Bogolyubov	August 21, 1909 Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire	February 13, 1992 Moscow, Russia	1959, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968[bx], 1969, 1970	[431]