Nobel Prize in physics

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to 2 scientists for discoveries in machine learning

6:30am October 08, 2024

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.

T.D. Lee changed science in China and my life. This is what I owe to him

5:00am September 05, 2024

Chinese particle physicist Yangyang Cheng reflects on the legacy of the late Nobel laureate T.D. Lee — how his ideas changed her life, and the limit to his engagement with Beijing.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has died at age 97

11:55am August 06, 2024

by The Associated Press

The Chinese American physicist, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died on Sunday at his home in San Francisco.

A panel of the Royal Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, announces the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday.

3 scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for looking at electrons in atoms

6:22am October 03, 2023

by The Associated Press

The scientists look at electrons in atoms during the tiniest of split seconds, giving "humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons," according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three scientists for their work on black holes. This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of Earth's sun.

3 Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize In Physics For Discoveries Related To Black Holes

10:12am October 06, 2020

The prize goes to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. Ghez says she hopes it will inspire young people, and particularly women, to pursue careers in science.

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3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize In Physics For Work On Earth's Place In The Universe

1:23pm October 08, 2019

by Scott Neuman

The Royal Swedish Academy of Science made the announcement Tuesday in Stockholm that a Canadian-American and two Swiss scientists had won the prize.

Marie Curie (Left), French physicist and winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics, Canadian Donna Strickland (Middle), who won the 2018 prize for her work with lasers, and physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer (Right), who won for her work in atomic physics in

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The Nobel Prize In Physics: 117 Years, Three Women And Counting

7:15pm October 02, 2018

by Geoff Brumfiel

Donna Strickland is the first woman to win the prize in a generation. Other women in physics are not surprised, but some hope change may be coming.

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Canadian professor Donna Strickland, American Arthur Ashkin and French scientist Gérard Mourou won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics announced on Tuesday for work in laser physics. Strickland is the third woman to win the prize, first awarded in 1901.

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Scientists From U.S., Canada, France Split Nobel Prize In Physics For Laser Work

2:14pm October 02, 2018

by Emily Sullivan

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says American Arthur Ashkin has won half the prize, while Gérard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada, the third female winner ever, share the rest.

Nobel Committee for Physics members announce the 2017 Nobel Prize winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. The laureates are (from left) Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne.

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They Proved Einstein Right; Now They've Won The 2017 Physics Nobel Prize

11:36am October 03, 2017

by Bill Chappell

For years, three physicists worked to prove Albert Einstein's idea that gravitational waves are rippling through space-time. In 2015, they made history as part of the LIGO Collaboration.

A screen shows the laureates of the Nobel Prize in physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday.

3 Scientists Win Nobel In Physics For Development Of Blue LED

12:49pm October 07, 2014

by Scott Neuman

American Shuji Nakamura, and Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan, will share the prize for co-developing a blue light-emitting diode that triggered a revolution in lighting technology.