A lbert Einstein, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the photoelectric effect and the great physicist ...

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 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded a day after two American scientists won the medicine prize for their discovery of microRNA. Three scientists won last year’s physics Nobel for providing ...

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.

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

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. The Nobel Prize in physics ...

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

The cash prize comes with a gold medal and a diploma that are received at an elegant ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of prize founder Alfred Nobel in 1896.

STOCKHOLM — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for work that found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding ...

Of the 222 people awarded the physics Nobel since 1901, only three have been women. The most famous of those three is perhaps Marie Curie, who took home one quarter of the prize in 1903. Curie’s work ...

This will the 14th Nobel prize that I have covered for Physics World, and I can honestly say that the excitement has never waned. A big challenge for journalists on Physics World, however, is coming ...

In selecting Donna Strickland as a Nobel Laureate, in the same year that Jocelyn Bell-Burnell was awarded the $3M Breakthrough Prize, we're stepping closer to a world where women can expect to ...