Nobel Prize in Physics 2016

The laureates this year with the Nobel Prize in Physics are:

• David J. Thouless, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
• F. Duncan M. Haldane, Princeton University, NJ, USA
• J. Michael Kosterlitz, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

”for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”

This year’s Laureates opened the door on an unknown world where matter can assume strange states. They have used advanced mathematical methods to study unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids or thin magnetic films. Thanks to their pioneering work, the hunt is now on for new and exotic phases of matter. Many people are hopeful of future applications in both materials science and electronics.

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Papers: 

• https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2016/popular-physicsprize2016.pdf
• https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2016/advanced-physicsprize2016.pdf

Nobel Prize in Physics 2015

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two physicists whose teams discovered a fundamental property of neutrinos. The work of Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald showed that those tiny particles (with three types) change from one type to another.
from: symmetrymagazine

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011

Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G. Riess

Photo: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Photo: Belinda Pratten, Australian National University

Photo: Scanpix/AFP

Saul Perlmutter

Brian P. Schmidt

Adam G. Riess

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae" with one half to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess.

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
"for studies of the structure and function
of the ribosome"

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (United Kingdom) - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge, United Kingdom - b. 1952(in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India)
Thomas A. Steitz (USA) - Yale University New Haven, CT, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute - b. 1940

Ada E. Yonath (Israel) - Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel - b. 1939

Titles, data and places given above refer to the time of the award.

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2009

O Prémio Nobel da Física 2009

"para realizações inovadoras relacionadas com a transmissão da luz em fibras ópticas de comunicação"

"pela invenção do circuito semicondutos de imagem – o sensor CCD"

Photo: Richard Epworth
Charles K. Kao	Willard S. Boyle	George E. Smith
1/2 of the prize	1/4 of the prize	1/4 of the prize
Standard Telecommunication Laboratories Harlow, United Kingdom; Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China	Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ, USA	Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ, USA
b. 1933 (in Shanghai, China)	b. 1924 (in Amherst, NS, Canada)	b. 1930
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Nobel da Física e da Química 2008

O Prémio Nobel da Física de 2008 foi para Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi e Toshihide Maskawa, pela Descoberta do Mecanismo das Quebras Expontâneas das Simetrias na Física Subatómica (Nambu) e pela Descoberta da origem das quebras de simetria que prevê a existência de, pelo menos, três famílias de quarks na natureza (Kobayashi e Maskawa).

O Prémio Nobel da Química 2008 foi para Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie e Roger Y. Tsien, pela descoberta e desenvolvimento da proteína verde fluorescente.

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