Just considering past physics prizes, a number of awards have gone to inventions and discoveries with varying degrees of applied background, such as X-rays (the first Nobel prize, 1901), the ...

The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded one half jointly to ... at a very strong pace” in tackling climate change. “It’s clear for future generations that we have to act now,” he added.

The 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to John Hopfield ... Hinton has a diverse background, initially exploring fields like physiology and philosophy before settling on psychology ...

STOCKHOLM--Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for work that found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding our ...

Out of 225 people awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, only five have been women. This is a very small number, and certainly smaller than 50%—the percent of women in the human population.

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two climate change experts in addition to an Italian scientist, it was announced Tuesday. The Japanese-American Syukuro Manabe and the German ...