Recent winners of the Nobel Physics Prize

Stockholm: A portrait of Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel can be seen on the speakers desk at the Nobel Forum in Stockholm, prior to the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Medicine on October 3, 2016. The 2016 Nobel prize season kicks off with the announcement of the medicine prize by a scandal-tainted jury, to be followed over the next 10 days by the other science awards and those for peace and literature. AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand

October 4, 2016
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Here is a list of Nobel Physics Prize winners over the past 10 years, with the 2016 award to be announced in Stockholm on Tuesday:

2015: Takaaki Kajita (Japan), Arthur B. McDonald (Canada) for their work on neutrinos.

2014: Isamu Akasaki (Japan), Hiroshi Amano (Japan) and Shuji Nakamura (US) for their work on LED lamps.

2013: Peter Higgs (Britain) and Francois Englert (Belgium) for their work on the so-called Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that gives mass to other particles.

2012: Serge Haroche (France) and David Wineland (US) for experimental methods used to measure and manipulate quantum systems.

2011: Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess (US), Brian Schmidt (US-Australian) for discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe.

2010: Andre Geim (Netherlands) and Konstantin Novoselov (Russia-Britain) for work on the two-dimensional material graphene.

2009: Charles Kao (Britain-US), Willard S. Boyle (Canada-US) and George E. Smith (US) for work on light transmission with optical fibres and semiconductor circuits.

2008: Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa (Japan) and Yoichiro Nambu (US) for discovering the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.

2007: Albert Fert (France) and Peter Gruenberg (Germany) for the discovery of giant magnetoresistance.

2006: John C. Mather and George F. Smoot (US) for work on cosmic microwave background radiation.