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Backgrounder: Latest winners of Nobel Prize in Physics

Xinhua, October 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

The following is a list of winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics since 2005.

2015: Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur B. McDonald (Canada)

2014: Isamu Akasaki (Japan) and Shuji Nakamura (U.S.)

2013: Francois Englert (Belgium) and Peter W. Higgs (Britain)

2012: Serge Haroche (France) and David J. Wineland (U.S.)

2011: Saul Perlmutter (U.S.), Brian P. Schmidt (U.S. and Australia) and Adam G. Riess (U.S.)

2010: Andre Geim (Britain), Konstantin Novoselov (Britain)

2009: Charles K. Kao (Britain and U.S.), Willard S. Boyle (U.S. and Canada) and George E. Smith (U.S.)

2008: Yoichiro Nambu (U.S.), Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa (Japan)

2007: Albert Fert (France) and Peter Grunberg (Germany)

2006: John C. Mather and George F. Smoot (U.S.)

2005: Roy J. Glauber (U.S.), John L. Hall (U.S.) and Theodor W. Hansch (Germany). Endit