| Year | Names | Country | ||
| 2003 | Masatoshi Koshiba | Japan | ||
| 2002 | Raymond Davis Jr., Riccardo Giacconi | USA | ||
| 2001 | Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle | USA, German | ||
| 2000 | Zhores I.Alferov | Russia | ||
| 1999 | Gerardus T. Hooft, Martinus J.D. Veltman | Netherland | ||
| 1998 | Robert B. Laughlin, Horst Stormer | U.S. | ||
| 1997 | Steven Chu, William D. Phillips | U.S. | ||
| 1996 | David M.Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff | U.S. | ||
| 1995 | Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reins | Switzerland, U.S. | ||
| 1994 | Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull | Canada, U.S. | ||
| 1993 | Joseph H. Taylor, Russell A. Hulse | U.S. | ||
| 1992 | Georges Charpak | Poland – France | ||
| 1991 | Pierre – Giles de Gennes | France | ||
| 1990 | Richard E. Taylor, Jerome I. Griedman | Canada, U.S | ||
| 1989 | Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt | U.S., Grmany-U.S. | ||
| 1988 | Leon M. Lederman, | U.S. | ||
| 1987 | K.Alex Muller, J. Georg Bednorz | Switzerland | ||
| 1986 | Ernest Ruska, Gerd Binnig | Germany, West Germany | ||
| 1985 | Klaus von Klitzing | West Germany | ||
| 1984 | Carlo Rubbia, Simonvan der Meer | Italy, Dutch | ||
| 1983 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Indian U.S Citizen | ||
| 1982 | Kenneth G. Wilson | U.S. | ||
| 1981 | Nicolass Bloembergen | U.S. | ||
| 1980 | James W. Cronin, Val L. fitch | U.S. | ||
| 1979 | Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow | U.S. | ||
| 1978 | Pyotr Kapitsa | USSR | ||
| 1977 | John Van Vleck, Philip Anderson | U.S. | ||
| 1976 | Burton Richter, Samuel C.C Ting | U.S. | ||
| 1975 | James Rainwater, Ben Mottelson | U.S, U.S-Danish | ||
| 1974 | Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish | Britain | ||
| 1973 | Ivar Giaever, Leo Esaki | U.S, Japan, Britain | ||
| 1972 | John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper | U.S. | ||
| 1971 | Dennis Gabor | Britain | ||
| 1970 | Louis Neel,Hammes Alfven | France, Switzerland | ||
| 1969 | Murray Gell-Mann | U.S. | ||
| 1968 | Luis W. Alvarez | U.S. | ||
| 1967 | Hans A. Bethe | U.S. | ||
| 1966 | Alfred Kastler | Franch | ||
| 1965 | Richard P. Feynman Julian S. Schwinger | U.S. | ||
| 1964 | Nikolai G. Basov, aleksander M. Prochorov | USSR | ||
| 1963 | Maria Goeppert | U.S, Germany | ||
| 1962 | Lev. D. Landau | USSR | ||
| 1961 | Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf L. Mossbauer | U.S. | ||
| 1960 | Donald A. Glaser | U.S. | ||
| 1959 | Owen Chamberlain, Emilio G.Segre | U.S. | ||
| 1958 | Pavel Cherenkov, Ilya Frank | USSR | ||
| 1957 | Tsung-dao-Lee, Chenning Yang | U.S. | ||
| 1956 | John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain | U.S. | ||
| 1955 | Polykarp Kusch, Willis E.Lamb | U.S. | ||
| 1954 | Max Born, Walter Bothe | Britain, Germany | ||
| 1953 | Frits Zernike | Dutch | ||
| 1952 | Felix Bloch, Edward M. Purcell | U.S. | ||
| 1951 | Sir John D. Cockroft | Britain, Iran | ||
| 1950 | Cecil f. Powell | Britain |