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196 laureates of the Nobel Prize in Physics - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 1,441 times
- The average score is 28 of 196
Answer Stats
| Year | Country of birth | Laureate | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | Germany | Albert Einstein | 93%
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| 1903 | Russian Empire (now Poland) | Marie Curie | 86%
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| 1903 | France | Pierre Curie | 86%
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| 1975 | Denmark | Aage N. Bohr | 76%
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| 1922 | Denmark | Niels Bohr | 76%
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| 1932 | Germany | Werner Heisenberg | 60%
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| 1918 | Schleswig (now Germany) | Max Planck | 59%
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| 1933 | Austria | Erwin Schrödinger | 56%
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| 1938 | Italy | Enrico Fermi | 55%
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| 1989 | Germany | Wolfgang Paul | 48%
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| 1965 | USA | Richard P. Feynman | 47%
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| 1901 | Prussia (now Germany) | Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | 41%
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| 1933 | United Kingdom | Paul A.M. Dirac | 40%
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| 1945 | Austria | Wolfgang Pauli | 40%
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| 2013 | United Kingdom | Peter Higgs | 38%
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| 1954 | Germany (now Poland) | Max Born | 32%
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| 1902 | the Netherlands | Hendrik A. Lorentz | 31%
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| 1903 | France | Henri Becquerel | 30%
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| 1937 | United Kingdom | George Paget Thomson | 28%
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| 1906 | United Kingdom | J.J. Thomson | 28%
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| 1909 | Italy | Guglielmo Marconi | 26%
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| 1915 | Australia | Lawrence Bragg | 22%
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| 1915 | United Kingdom | William Bragg | 22%
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| 2009 | USA | George E. Smith | 21%
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| 1935 | United Kingdom | James Chadwick | 21%
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| 1927 | USA | Arthur H. Compton | 20%
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| 1925 | Germany | Gustav Hertz | 20%
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| 1902 | the Netherlands | Pieter Zeeman | 20%
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| 1923 | USA | Robert A. Millikan | 20%
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| 1957 | China | Chen Ning Yang | 19%
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| 1962 | Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan) | Lev Landau | 19%
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| 1929 | France | Louis de Broglie | 19%
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| 1907 | Prussia (now Poland) | Albert A. Michelson | 18%
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| 1927 | Scotland | C.T.R. Wilson | 18%
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| 1982 | USA | Kenneth G. Wilson | 18%
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| 1978 | USA | Robert Woodrow Wilson | 18%
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| 1936 | USA | Carl D. Anderson | 17%
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| 1996 | USA | David M. Lee | 17%
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| 1939 | USA | Ernest Lawrence | 17%
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| 1949 | Japan | Hideki Yukawa | 17%
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| 1977 | USA | Philip W. Anderson | 17%
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| 1930 | India | Sir Venkata Raman | 17%
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| 1983 | India (now Pakistan) | Subramanyan Chandrasekhar | 17%
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| 1957 | China | Tsung-Dao Lee | 17%
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| 1909 | Hesse-Kassel (now Germany) | Ferdinand Braun | 16%
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| 1967 | Germany (now France) | Hans Bethe | 16%
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| 1956 | 1972 | USA | John Bardeen | 16%
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| 1904 | United Kingdom | Lord Rayleigh | 16%
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| 1979 | India (now Pakistan) | Abdus Salam | 15%
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| 1910 | the Netherlands | Johannes Diderik van der Waals | 15%
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| 1965 | USA | Julian Schwinger | 15%
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| 1969 | USA | Murray Gell-Mann | 15%
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| 1913 | the Netherlands | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | 14%
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| 1919 | Germany | Johannes Stark | 14%
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| 1972 | USA | Leon N. Cooper | 14%
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| 1905 | Hungary (now Slovakia) | Philipp Lenard | 14%
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| 1965 | Japan | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga | 14%
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| 1979 | USA | Steven Weinberg | 14%
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| 2013 | Belgium | François Englert | 13%
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| 1914 | Germany | Max von Laue | 13%
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| 1911 | Prussia (now Russia) | Wilhelm Wien | 13%
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| 1944 | Austria-Hungary (now Poland) | Isidor Isaac Rabi | 12%
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| 1925 | Germany | James Franck | 12%
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| 1956 | United Kingdom | William B. Shockley | 12%
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| 2011 | USA | Brian P. Schmidt | 11%
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| 1984 | Italy | Carlo Rubbia | 11%
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| 1908 | Luxembourg | Gabriel Lippmann | 11%
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| 1958 | Russia | Il´ja M. Frank | 11%
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| 1981 | Sweden | Kai M. Siegbahn | 11%
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| 1924 | Sweden | Manne Siegbahn | 11%
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| 1963 | Germany (now Poland) | Maria Goeppert Mayer | 11%
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| 1943 | Germany (now Poland) | Otto Stern | 11%
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| 2002 | USA | Raymond Davis Jr. | 11%
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| 1979 | USA | Sheldon Glashow | 11%
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| 1973 | United Kingdom | Brian D. Josephson | 10%
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| 1959 | Italy | Emilio Segrè | 10%
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| 1951 | Ireland | Ernest T.S. Walton | 10%
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| 1952 | Switzerland | Felix Bloch | 10%
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| 1999 | the Netherlands | Gerardus 't Hooft | 10%
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| 1912 | Sweden | Gustaf Dalén | 10%
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| 1926 | France | Jean Baptiste Perrin | 10%
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| 1987 | Switzerland | K. Alex Müller | 10%
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| 1928 | United Kingdom | Owen Willans Richardson | 10%
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| 1948 | United Kingdom | Patrick M.S. Blackett | 10%
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| 1958 | Russia | Pavel A. Cherenkov | 10%
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| 1996 | USA | Robert C. Richardson | 10%
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| 1961 | USA | Robert Hofstadter | 10%
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| 1977 | United Kingdom | Sir Nevill F. Mott | 10%
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| 1936 | Austria | Victor F. Hess | 10%
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| 2010 | Russia | Andre Geim | 9%
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| 1974 | United Kingdom | Antony Hewish | 9%
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| 1978 | Germany | Arno Penzias | 9%
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| 1950 | United Kingdom | Cecil Powell | 9%
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| 1920 | Switzerland | Charles Edouard Guillaume | 9%
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| 1917 | United Kingdom | Charles Glover Barkla | 9%
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| 1963 | Austria-Hungary (now Hungary) | Eugene Wigner | 9%
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| 2006 | USA | George F. Smoot | 9%
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| 1970 | Sweden | Hannes Alfvén | 9%
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| 1951 | United Kingdom | John Cockcroft | 9%
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| 1993 | USA | Joseph H. Taylor Jr. | 9%
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| 1985 | German-occupied Poland (now Poland) | Klaus von Klitzing | 9%
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| 2008 | Japan | Makoto Kobayashi | 9%
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| 1990 | Canada | Richard E. Taylor | 9%
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| 1997 | USA | Steven Chu | 9%
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| 2008 | Japan | Toshihide Maskawa | 9%
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| 1955 | USA | Willis E. Lamb | 9%
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| 2008 | Japan | Yoichiro Nambu | 9%
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| 2009 | China | Charles K. Kao | 8%
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| 1937 | USA | Clinton Davisson | 8%
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| 2012 | USA | David J. Wineland | 8%
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| 1971 | Hungary | Dennis Gabor | 8%
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| 1947 | United Kingdom | Edward V. Appleton | 8%
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| 1952 | USA | E. M. Purcell | 8%
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| 2004 | USA | Frank Wilczek | 8%
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| 1953 | the Netherlands | Frits Zernike | 8%
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| 1992 | Poland | Georges Charpak | 8%
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| 1973 | Norway | Ivar Giaever | 8%
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| 1990 | USA | Jerome I. Friedman | 8%
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| 2005 | USA | John L. Hall | 8%
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| 2010 | Russia | Konstantin Novoselov | 8%
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| 1973 | Japan | Leo Esaki | 8%
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| 1968 | USA | Luis Alvarez | 8%
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| 1995 | USA | Martin L. Perl | 8%
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| 1974 | United Kingdom | Martin Ryle | 8%
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| 1959 | USA | Owen Chamberlain | 8%
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| 1946 | USA | Percy W. Bridgman | 8%
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| 1972 | USA | Robert Schrieffer | 8%
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| 1961 | Germany | Rudolf Mössbauer | 8%
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| 1976 | USA | Samuel C.C. Ting | 8%
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| 1984 | the Netherlands | Simon van der Meer | 8%
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| 1956 | China | Walter H. Brattain | 8%
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| 1954 | Germany | Walther Bothe | 8%
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| 2007 | France | Albert Fert | 7%
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| 1964 | Australia | Aleksandr M. Prokhorov | 7%
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| 2003 | USSR (now Russia) | Alexei A. Abrikosov | 7%
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| 1975 | USA | Ben R. Mottelson | 7%
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| 1976 | USA | Burton Richter | 7%
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| 1964 | USA | Charles H. Townes | 7%
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| 1997 | Algeria | Claude Cohen-Tannoudji | 7%
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| 1960 | USA | Donald A. Glaser | 7%
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| 1986 | Germany | Ernst Ruska | 7%
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| 1958 | Russia | Igor Y. Tamm | 7%
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| 1980 | USA | James Cronin | 7%
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| 1987 | West Germany (now Germany) | J. Georg Bednorz | 7%
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| 1963 | Germany | J. Hans D. Jensen | 7%
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| 1977 | USA | John H. van Vleck | 7%
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| 1970 | France | Louis Néel | 7%
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| 1999 | the Netherlands | Martinus J.G. Veltman | 7%
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| 1964 | USSR (now Russia) | Nicolay G. Basov | 7%
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| 1955 | Germany | Polykarp Kusch | 7%
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| 1978 | Russian Empire (now Russia) | Pyotr Kapitsa | 7%
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| 2011 | USA | Saul Perlmutter | 7%
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| 2012 | Morocco | Serge Haroche | 7%
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| 1983 | USA | William A. Fowler | 7%
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| 2001 | West Germany (now Germany) | Wolfgang Ketterle | 7%
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| 2011 | USA | Adam G. Riess | 6%
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| 1966 | Germany (now France) | Alfred Kastler | 6%
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| 1994 | Canada | Bertram N. Brockhouse | 6%
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| 1998 | China | Daniel C. Tsui | 6%
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| 2004 | USA | David J. Gross | 6%
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| 1996 | USA | Douglas D. Osheroff | 6%
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| 2001 | USA | Eric A. Cornell | 6%
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| 1986 | West Germany (now Germany) | Gerd Binnig | 6%
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| 2004 | USA | H. David Politzer | 6%
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| 1998 | West Germany (now Germany) | Horst L. Störmer | 6%
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| 1975 | USA | James Rainwater | 6%
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| 1988 | USA | Leon M. Lederman | 6%
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| 2002 | Japan | Masatoshi Koshiba | 6%
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| 1988 | USA | Melvin Schwartz | 6%
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| 1981 | the Netherlands | Nicolaas Bloembergen | 6%
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| 2007 | Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) | Peter Grünberg | 6%
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| 1991 | France | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | 6%
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| 2002 | Italy | Riccardo Giacconi | 6%
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| 1998 | USA | Robert B. Laughlin | 6%
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| 2005 | USA | Roy J. Glauber | 6%
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| 1993 | USA | Russell A. Hulse | 6%
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| 1980 | USA | Val Fitch | 6%
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| 2003 | Russia | Vitaly L. Ginzburg | 6%
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| 2009 | Canada | Willard S. Boyle | 6%
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| 1997 | USA | William D. Phillips | 6%
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| 2000 | USSR (now Belarus) | Zhores I. Alferov | 6%
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| 2003 | United Kingdom | Anthony J. Leggett | 5%
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| 1981 | USA | Arthur L. Schawlow | 5%
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| 2001 | USA | Carl E. Wieman | 5%
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| 1994 | USA | Clifford G. Shull | 5%
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| 1995 | USA | Frederick Reines | 5%
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| 1989 | Germany | Hans G. Dehmelt | 5%
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| 1986 | Switzerland | Heinrich Rohrer | 5%
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| 1990 | USA | Henry W. Kendall | 5%
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| 2000 | Germany | Herbert Kroemer | 5%
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| 2000 | USA | Jack S. Kilby | 5%
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| 1988 | Germany | Jack Steinberger | 5%
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| 2006 | USA | John C. Mather | 5%
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| 1989 | USA | Norman F. Ramsey | 5%
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| 2005 | Germany | Theodor W. Hänsch | 5%
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