Nobel Laureates

Nobel prizes in low-temperature physics

Low-temperature physicists and chemists have earned many Nobel prizes. The list below omits P-G De Gennes, a low-temperature physicist who won the prize for liquid crystals and polymers, and Lars Onsager, a chemist who made many contributions to low temperature physics.  Each one has a link to their respective award page on the Nobel Prize Web site.

1910   Johannes Diderik van der Waals Equation of state of fluids Nobel Prize Information
1913   Heike Kamerlingh Onnes           Matter at low temperatures Nobel Prize Information
1949   William Francis Giauque   Adiabatic demagnetization Nobel Prize Information
1960   Donald A. Glaser     The Bubble Chamber Nobel Prize Information
1962   Lev Davidovich Landau     Theory of liquid helium Nobel Prize Information
1972   John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, John Robert Schrieffer      Theory of superconductivity Nobel Prize Information
1973 Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson Tunneling in superconductors; Super-current through tunnel barriers Nobel Prize Information
1977 Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck         Electronic structure of magnetic and disordered solids Nobel Prize Information
1978 Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa Discovery of superfluidity Nobel Prize Information
1982 Kenneth G Wilson   Critical phenomena in phase transitions Nobel Prize Information
1985   Klaus von Klitzing   Discovery of quantum Hall effect Nobel Prize Information
1987   J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex Müller  High temperature superconductivity Nobel Prize Information
1996   David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson     Superfluid helium 3 Nobel Prize Information
1997   Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips Development of methods of trapping and cooling atoms with laser light Nobel Prize Information
2001   Carl Wieman, Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle        Bose-Einstein condensation of dilute gases of alkali metals Nobel Prize Information