Wolf Prize in Physics

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Wolf Prize in Physics

HONOR

1978 Chien-Shiung Wu

1979 George Uhlenbeck, Giuseppe Occhialini

1980 Michael E. Fisher, Leo P. Kadanoff, Kenneth G. Wilson

1981 Freeman Dyson, Gerardus 't Hooft, Victor Weisskopf

1982 Leon M. Lederman, Martin L. Perl

1983/4 Erwin L. Hahn, Peter B. Hirsch, Theodore Maiman

1984/5 Conyers Herring, Philippe Nozieres

1986 Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Albert J. Libchaber

1987 Herbert Friedman, Bruno Rossi, Riccardo Giacconi

1988 Roger Penrose, Stephen Hawking

1989 (no award)

1990 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, David J. Thouless

1991 Maurice Goldhaber, Valentine L. Telegdi

1992 Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.

1993 Benoit Mandelbrot

1994/5 Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Yoichiro Nambu

1995/6 (no award)

1997 John Archibald Wheeler

1998 Yakir Aharonov, Sir Michael V. Berry

1999 Dan Shechtman

2000 Raymond Davis, Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba

2001 (no award)

2002/3 Bertrand I. Halperin, Anthony J. Leggett

2004 Robert Brout, Francois Englert, Peter Higgs

2005 Daniel Kleppner

2006/7 Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg

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