2007 Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg
 2006 John C. Mather, George F. Smoot
 2005 Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Haensch
 2004 David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek
 2003 Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett
 2002 Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi
 2001 Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman 
 2000 Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S. Kilby
 1999 Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman
 1998 Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui
 1997 Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips
 1996 David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson
 1995 Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines
 1994 Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull
 1993 Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
 1992 Georges Charpak
 1991 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
 1990 Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor
 1989 Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul
 1988 Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
 1987 J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex Müller
 1986 Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer
 1985 Klaus von Klitzing
 1984 Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer
 1983 Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William A. Fowler
 1982 Kenneth G. Wilson
 1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur L. Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn
 1980 James Cronin, Val Fitch
 1979 Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
 1978 Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
 1977 Philip W. Anderson, Sir Nevill F. Mott, John H. van Vleck
 1976 Burton Richter, Samuel C. C. Ting
 1975 Aage N. Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, James Rainwater
 1974 Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
 1973 Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson
 1972 John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, Robert Schrieffer
 1971 Dennis Gabor
 1970 Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel
 1969 Murray Gell-Mann
 1968 Luis Álvarez
 1967 Hans Bethe
 1966 Alfred Kastler
 1965 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
 1964 Charles H. Townes, Nicolay G. Basov, Aleksandr M. Prokhorov
 1963 Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
 1962 Lev Landau
 1961 Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer
 1960 Donald A. Glaser
 1959 Emilio Segrè, Owen Chamberlain
 1958 Pavel A. Cherenkov, Il´ja M. Frank, Igor Y. Tamm
 1957 Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee
 1956 William B. Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain
 1955 Willis E. Lamb, Polykarp Kusch
 1954 Max Born, Walther Bothe
 1953 Frits Zernike
 1952 Felix Bloch, E. M. Purcell
 1951 John Cockcroft, Ernest T. S. Walton
 1950 Cecil Powell
 1949 Hideki Yukawa
 1948 Patrick M. S. Blackett
 1947 Edward V. Appleton
 1946 Percy W. Bridgman
 1945 Wolfgang Pauli
 1944 Isidor Isaac Rabi
 1943 Otto Stern
 1942 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
 1941 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
 1940 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
 1939 Ernest Lawrence
 1938 Enrico Fermi
 1937 Clinton Davisson, George Paget Thomson
 1936 Victor F. Hess, Carl D. Anderson
 1935 James Chadwick
 1934 The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
 1933 Erwin Schrödinger, Paul A. M. Dirac
 1932 Werner Heisenberg
 1931 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
 1930 Venkata Raman
 1929 Louis de Broglie
 1928 Owen Willans Richardson
 1927 Arthur H. Compton, C. T. R. Wilson
 1926 Jean Baptiste Perrin
 1925 James Franck, Gustav Hertz
 1924 Manne Siegbahn
 1923 Robert A. Millikan
 1922 Niels Bohr
 1921 Albert Einstein
 1920 Charles Edouard Guillaume
 1919 Johannes Stark
 1918 Max Planck
 1917 Charles Glover Barkla
 1916 The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
 1915 William Bragg, Lawrence Bragg
 1914 Max von Laue
 1913 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
 1912 Gustaf Dalén
 1911 Wilhelm Wien
 1910 Johannes Diderik van der Waals
 1909 Guglielmo Marconi, Ferdinand Braun
 1908 Gabriel Lippmann
 1907 Albert A. Michelson
 1906 J. J. Thomson
 1905 Philipp Lenard
 1904 Lord Rayleigh
 1903 Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie
 1902 Hendrik A. Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
 1901 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen