| | 2006 - John C. Mather, George F. Smoot |
| | 2005 - Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch |
| | 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 Alvarez |
| | 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 |