Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1901), Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1902), Pieter Zeeman (1902), Antoine Henri Becquerel (1903), Marie Curie (1903), Pierre Curie (1903), John William Strutt (1904), Philipp Lenard (1905), Joseph John Thomson (1906), Albert Abraham Michelson (1907), Gabriel Lippmann (1908), Ferdinand Braun (1909), Guglielmo Marconi (1909), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1910), Wilhelm Wien (1911), Gustaf Dalén (1912), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1913), Max von Laue (1914), William Henry Bragg (1915), William Lawrence Bragg (1915), Charles Glover Barkla (1917), Max Planck (1918), Johannes Stark (1919), Charles Édouard Guillaume (1920), Albert Einstein (1921), Niels Bohr (1922), Robert Andrews Millikan (1923), Manne Siegbahn (1924), James Franck (1925), Gustav Hertz (1925 (verliehen 1926)), Jean-Baptiste Perrin (1926), Arthur Holly Compton (1927), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1927), Owen Willans Richardson (1928 (verliehen 1929)), Louis de Broglie (1929), Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1930), Werner Heisenberg (1932), Erwin Schrödinger (1933), Paul Dirac (1933), James Chadwick (1935), Victor Franz Hess (1936), Carl David Anderson (1936), Clinton Davisson (1937), George Paget Thomson (1937), Enrico Fermi (1938), Ernest Lawrence (1939), Otto Stern (1943), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1944), Wolfgang Pauli (1945), Percy Williams Bridgman (1946), Edward Victor Appleton (1947), Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett (1948), Hideki Yukawa (1949), Cecil Powell (1950), John Cockcroft (1951), Ernest Walton (1951), Felix Bloch (1952), Edward Mills Purcell (1952), Frits Zernike (1953), Max Born (1954), Walther Bothe (1954), Willis Eugene Lamb (1955), Polykarp Kusch (1955), William Bradford Shockley (1956), John Bardeen (1956), Walter Houser Brattain (1956), Chen Ning Yang (1957), Tsung-Dao Lee (1957), Pawel Tscherenkow (1958), Ilja Frank (1958), Igor Tamm (1958), Emilio Segrè (1959), Owen Chamberlain (1959), Donald Arthur Glaser (1960), Robert Hofstadter (1961), Rudolf Mößbauer (1961), Lew Landau (1962), Eugene Paul Wigner (1963), Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963), Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen (1963), Charles Hard Townes (1964), Nikolai Bassow (1964), Alexander Prochorow (1964), Richard Feynman (1965), Julian Seymour Schwinger (1965), Shin’ichirō Tomonaga (1965), Alfred Kastler (1966), Hans Bethe (1967), Luis Walter Alvarez (1968), Murray Gell-Mann (1969), Hannes Alfvén (1970), Louis Néel (1970), Dennis Gábor (1971), John Bardeen (1972), Leon Neil Cooper (1972), John Robert Schrieffer (1972), Leo Esaki (1973), Ivar Giaever (1973), Brian David Josephson (1973), Martin Ryle (1974), Antony Hewish (1974), Aage Niels Bohr (1975), Ben Mottelson (1975), James Rainwater (1975), Burton Richter (1976), Samuel Chao Chung Ting (1976), Philip Warren Anderson (1977), Nevill Francis Mott (1977),John Hasbrouck van Vleck (1977), Pjotr Kapiza (1978), Arno Penzias (1978), Robert Woodrow Wilson (1978), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1979), Abdus Salam (1979), Steven Weinberg (1979), James Cronin (1980), Val Fitch (1980), Nicolaas Bloembergen (1981), Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1981), Kai Siegbahn (1981), Kenneth Wilson (1982), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1983), William Alfred Fowler (1983), Carlo Rubbia (1984), Simon van der Meer (1984), Klaus von Klitzing (1985), Ernst Ruska (1986), Gerd Binnig (1986), Heinrich Rohrer (1986), Johannes Georg Bednorz (1987), Karl Alexander Müller (1987), Leon Max Lederman (1988), Melvin Schwartz (1988), Jack Steinberger (1988), Wolfgang Paul (1989), Hans Georg Dehmelt (1989), Norman Ramsey (1989), Jerome Isaac Friedman (1990), Henry Way Kendall (1990), Richard Edward Taylor (1990), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1991), Georges Charpak (1992), Russell Hulse (1993), Joseph Hooton Taylor jr. (1993), Bertram Brockhouse (1994), Clifford Shull (1994), Martin Lewis Perl (1995), Frederick Reines (1995), David Morris Lee (1996), Douglas Dean Osheroff (1996), Robert Coleman Richardson (1996), Steven Chu (1997), Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1997), William Daniel Phillips (1997), Robert Betts Laughlin (1998), Horst Ludwig Störmer (1998), Daniel Chee Tsui (1998), Gerardus ’t Hooft (1999), Martin Justinus Godefriedus Veltman (1999), Schores Alfjorow (2000), Herbert Kroemer (2000), Jack Kilby (2000), Eric Allin Cornell (2001), Wolfgang Ketterle (2001), Carl Edwin Wieman (2001), Raymond Davis jr. (2002), Masatoshi Koshiba (2002), Riccardo Giacconi (2002), Alexei Abrikossow (2003), Witali Ginsburg (2003), Anthony James Leggett (2003), David Gross (2004), David Politzer (2004), Frank Wilczek (2004), Roy Jay Glauber (2005), John Lewis Hall (2005), Theodor Hänsch (2005), John Cromwell Mather (2006), George Fitzgerald Smoot (2006), Albert Fert (2007), Peter Grünberg (2007), Yōichirō Nambu (2008), Makoto Kobayashi (2008), Toshihide Masukawa (2008), Charles Kuen Kao (2009), Willard Boyle (2009), George Elwood Smith (2009), Andre Geim (2010), Konstantin Novoselov (2010); keine Verleihung: 1916, 1931, 1934, 1940, 1941, 1942.