Nobel Prize in Physics

Scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves

PHYSICS PRIZE IN NUMBERS

110 Nobel Prizes in Physics awarded from 1901 to 2016 

1  person, John Bardeen, awarded prize twice, in 1956 and in 1972
25 Age of youngest laureate, Lawrence Bragg, awarded in 1915
2  Women awarded Physics Prize to date, including Marie Curie in 1903


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