Nobel laureates in Physics

Can you name the people, which received the Nobel Prize in Physics?

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_in_Physics

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Hint	Answer
1901	Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
1902	Hendrik Lorentz
1902	Pieter Zeeman
1903	Antoine Henri Becquerel
1903	Pierre Curie
1903	Marie Curie
1904	Lord Rayleigh
1905	Philipp Lenard
1906	Joseph John Thomson
1907	Albert Abraham Michelson
1908	Gabriel Lippmann
1909	Guglielmo Marconi
1909	Karl Ferdinand Braun
1910	Johannes van der Waals
1911	Wilhelm Wien
1912	Nils Gustaf Dalén
1913	Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes
1914	Max von Laue
1915	William Henry Bragg
1915	William Lawrence Bragg
1917	Charles Glover Barkla
1918	Max Planck
1919	Johannes Stark
1920	Charles Guillaume
1921	Albert Einstein
1922	Niels Bohr
1923	Robert Andrews Millikan
1924	Manne Siegbahn
1925	James Franck
1925	Gustav Hertz
1926	Jean Baptiste Perrin
1927	Arthur Holly Compton
1927	Charles Wilson
1928	Owen Willans Richardson
1929	Louis de Broglie
1930	Chandrasekhara Raman
1932	Werner Heisenberg
1933	Erwin Schrödinger
1933	Paul Dirac
1935	James Chadwick
1936	Victor Francis Hess
1936	Carl David Anderson
1937	Clinton Joseph Davisson
1937	George Paget Thomson
1938	Enrico Fermi
1939	Ernest Lawrence
1943	Otto Stern
1944	Isidor Isaac Rabi
1945	Wolfgang Pauli
1946	Percy Williams Bridgman
1947	Edward Victor Appleton
1948	Patrick Blackett
1949	Hideki Yukawa
1950	Cecil Frank Powell
1951	John Douglas Cockcroft
1951	Ernest Walton
1952	Felix Bloch
1952	Edward Mills Purcell
1953	Frits Zernike
1954	Max Born
1954	Walther Bothe
1955	Willis Eugene Lamb
1955	Polykarp Kusch
1956	John Bardeen
1956	Walter Houser Brattain
1956	William Bradford Shockley
1957	Tsung-Dao Lee
1957	Chen-Ning Yang
1958	Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
1958	Ilya Frank

Hint	Answer
1958	Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
1959	Emilio Gino Segre
1959	Owen Chamberlain
1960	Donald Arthur Glaser
1961	Robert Hofstadter
1961	Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
1962	Lev Landau
1963	Eugene Paul Wigner
1963	Maria Goeppert-Mayer
1963	Hans Jensen
1964	Nicolay Basov
1964	Alexander Prokhorov
1964	Charles Hard Townes
1965	Richard Feynman
1965	Julian Schwinger
1965	Shinichiro Tomonaga
1966	Alfred Kastler
1967	Hans Albrecht Bethe
1968	Luis Walter Alvarez
1969	Murray Gell-Mann
1970	Hannes Alfvén
1970	Louis Néel
1971	Dennis Gabor
1972	John Bardeen
1972	Leon Neil Cooper
1972	John Robert Schrieffer
1973	Leo Esaki
1973	Ivar Giaever
1973	Brian David Josephson
1974	Martin Ryle
1974	Antony Hewish
1975	Aage Bohr
1975	Ben Roy Mottelson
1975	Leo James Rainwater
1976	Burton Richter
1976	Samuel Ting
1977	Philip Warren Anderson
1977	Nevill Francis Mott
1977	John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
1978	Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
1978	Arno Allan Penzias
1978	Robert Woodrow Wilson
1979	Sheldon Lee Glashow
1979	Abdus Salam
1979	Steven Weinberg
1980	James Watson Cronin
1980	Val Logsdon Fitch
1981	Nicolaas Bloembergen
1981	Arthur Leonard Schawlow
1981	Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn
1982	Kenneth G. Wilson
1983	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1983	William Alfred Fowler
1984	Carlo Rubbia
1984	Simon van der Meer
1985	Klaus von Klitzing
1986	Ernst Ruska
1986	Gerd Binnig
1986	Heinrich Rohrer
1987	Johannes Georg Bednorz
1987	Karl Alexander Müller
1988	Leon Max Lederman
1988	Melvin Schwartz
1988	Jack Steinberger
1989	Norman Foster Ramsey
1989	Hans Georg Dehmelt
1989	Wolfgang Paul
1990	Jerome I. Friedman
1990	Henry Way Kendall
1990	Richard E. Taylor

Hint	Answer
1991	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1992	Georges Charpak
1993	Russell Alan Hulse
1993	Joseph Hooton Taylor
1994	Bertram Brockhouse
1994	Clifford Glenwood Shull
1995	Martin Lewis Perl
1995	Frederick Reines
1996	David Morris Lee
1996	Douglas D. Osheroff
1996	Robert Coleman Richardson
1997	Steven Chu
1997	Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
1997	William Daniel Phillips
1998	Robert B. Laughlin
1998	Horst Ludwig Störmer
1998	Daniel Chee Tsui
1999	Gerard 't Hooft
1999	Martinus J. G. Veltman
2000	Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
2000	Herbert Kroemer
2000	Jack St. Clair Kilby
2001	Eric Allin Cornell
2001	Carl Edwin Wieman
2001	Wolfgang Ketterle
2002	Raymond Davis
2002	Masatoshi Koshiba
2002	Riccardo Giacconi
2003	Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov
2003	Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg
2003	Anthony James Leggett
2004	David J. Gross
2004	Hugh David Politzer
2004	Frank Wilczek
2005	Roy J. Glauber
2005	John L. Hall
2005	Theodor W. Hänsch
2006	John C. Mather
2006	George F. Smoot
2007	Albert Fert
2007	Peter Grünberg
2008	Makoto Kobayashi
2008	Toshihide Maskawa
2008	Yoichiro Nambu
2009	Charles K. Kao
2009	Willard S. Boyle
2009	George E. Smith
2010	Andre Geim
2010	Konstantin Novoselov
2011	Saul Perlmutter
2011	Brian P. Schmidt
2011	Adam G. Riess
2012	Serge Haroche
2012	David J. Wineland
2013	François Englert
2013	Peter Higgs
2014	Isamu Akasaki
2014	Hiroshi Amano
2014	Shuji Nakamura
2015	Takaaki Kajita
2015	Arthur B. McDonald
2016	David J. Thouless
2016	F. Duncan M. Haldane
2016	John M. Kosterlitz
2017	Rainer Weiss
2017	Kip Thorne
2017	Barry Barish
2018	Arthur Ashkin
2018	Gérard Mourou
2018	Donna Strickland

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