Year
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Name
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Rationale (for)
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2008
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Anton Zeilinger
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"his pioneering conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, which have become the cornerstone for the rapidly-evolving field of quantum information"[3][8]
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2009
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Alan Guth
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"his invention of the inflationary universe model, his recognition that inflation would solve major problems confronting then-standard cosmology, and his calculation, with others, of the spectrum of density fluctuations that gave rise to structure in the universe"[9]
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2010
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Edward Witten
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"his many profound contributions that have transformed areas of particle theory, quantum field theory and general relativity"[10][11]
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2011
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Leo Kadanoff
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"inventing conceptual tools that reveal the deep implications of scale invariance on the behavior of phase transitions and dynamical systems"[12]
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2012
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Martin Rees
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his outstanding contributions to relativistic astrophysics and cosmology[13][14]
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2013
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John Pendry
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“seminal contributions to surface science, disordered systems and photonics”[15][4][16][5]
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2014
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Deborah S. Jin
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"pioneering the field of quantum-degenerate Fermi gases"[17][18][19]
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2015
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Eli Yablonovitch
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"visionary and foundational contributions to photonic nanostructures"[20][21][22]
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2016
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Tom Kibble
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"outstanding lifelong commitment to physics" (posthumously)[23]
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2017
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Charles L. Bennett
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"leadership of the Microwave Anisotropy Probe, a satellite experiment that revolutionized cosmology, transforming it from an order-of-magnitude game to a paragon of precision science"[24][25]
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2018
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Paul Corkum
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"his outstanding contributions to experimental physics"[6][26][27][28]
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2019
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Michael Pepper
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"the creation of the field of semiconductor nanoelectronics and discovery of new quantum phenomena"[29][30][31][32][33]
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2020
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Nader Engheta
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"groundbreaking innovation and transformative contributions to electromagnetic complex materials and nanoscale optics, and for pioneering development of the fields of near-zero-index metamaterials, and material-inspired analogue computation and optical nanocircuitry"
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2021
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David Deutsch
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"founding the discipline named quantum computation and establishing quantum computation's fundamental idea, now known as the ‘qubit’ or quantum bit"[34]
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2022
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Margaret Murnane
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"pioneering and sustained contributions to the development of ultrafast lasers and coherent X-ray sources and the use of such sources to understand the quantum nature of materials"[35]
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2023
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James Binney
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"advancing the science of stellar dynamics and using strong physical intuition to widen and deepen our understanding of how galaxies are structured and formed."[36]
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2024
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Richard Friend
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"for pioneering and enduring work on the fundamental electronic properties of molecular semiconductors and in their engineering development."[37]
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