This photo shows the 2024 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, professor John Hopfield, left, of Princeton University, and professor Geoffrey Hinton, of the University of Toronto, on Oct. 8, 2024.

The physics prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the award’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. It has been awarded 117 times.

The 2022 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to John F. Clauser, Alain Aspect, and Anton Zeilinger for their independent contributions to understanding quantum entanglement.

Austrian-Hungarian physics Nobel laureate Ferenc Krausz speaks at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) after receiving the Nobel along with two other scientists, Oct. 3, 2023, in ...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a team of scientists who created a ground-breaking technique using lasers to understand the extremely rapid movements of electrons, which were ...

This year’s award is the 117th Nobel prize to be presented in physics since 1901. Prof L’Huillier is only the fifth woman to receive the prize. Speaking at the press conference, Prof L ...

Nobel laureate Anne L'Huillier, who is one of this year's Nobel laureates in Physics, talks to journalists at Lund University, in Lund, Sweden, on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023.

Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 by Nobel Prize on YouTube Holding up the three pastries, Hansson said that in topology “there is only one thing that is really interesting with ...

The Nobel Prize in physics this year has gone to two very different research threads — and danced around some big societal issues, even as it celebrates distinguished work.

2020 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for major black hole discoveries Andrea Ghez becomes the fourth woman to win the prize, which she shares with fellow laureates Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel.

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for their detection of gravitational waves.