Videos of Nobel Prize lectures in physics

The Nobel Prize laureates are required “to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded according to the Nobel Foundation statutes. The lecture should be given before, or no later than six months after, the Nobel Prize award ceremony, which takes place in Stockholm or, in the case of the peace prize, in Oslo on 10 December.

Videos of Nobel Prize lectures in physics

2023

The Genesis of an Attosecond Pulse Train
Nobel Prize lecture by Pierre Agostini

Attosecond physics: exploring sub-atomic motions
Nobel Prize lecture by Ferenc Krausz

The route to attosecond pulses Attosecond Pulse Train
Nobel Prize lecture by Anne L’Huillier

2022

From Einstein’s doubts to quantum technologies: non-locality a fruitful image
Nobel Prize lecture by Alain Aspect

Experimental proof that nonlocal quantum entanglement is real
Nobel Prize lecture by John Clauser

A Voyage through Quantum Wonderland
Nobel Prize lecture by Anton Zeilinger

2021

Physical modelling of Earth’s climate
Nobel Prize lecture by Syukuro Manabe

The human footprint of climate change
Nobel Prize lecture by Klaus Hasselmann

Multiple equilibria
Nobel Prize lecture by Giorgio Parisi

2020

Black Holes, Cosmology, and Space-Time Singularities
Nobel Prize lecture by Roger Penrose

A Forty Year Journey
Nobel Prize lecture by Reinhard Genzel

From the Possibility to the Certainty of a Supermassive Black Hole
Nobel Prize lecture by Andrea Ghez

2019

How Physical Cosmology Grew
Nobel Prize lecture by James Peebles

Plurality of Worlds in the Cosmos: A Dream of Antiquity, A Modern Reality of Astrophysics
Nobel Prize lecture by Michel Mayor

Exoplanets: 51 Pegasis b and all the others …
Nobel Prize lecture by Didier Queloz

2018

Optical Tweezers and their Application to Biological Systems
Nobel Prize lecture by Arthur Ashkin

Passion for Extreme Light: for the greatest benefit to human kind
Nobel Prize lecture by Gérard Mourou

Generating High-Intensity Ultrashort Optical Pulses
Nobel Prize lecture by Donna Strickland

2017

LIGO and Gravitational Waves I
Nobel Prize lecture by Rainer Weiss

LIGO and Gravitational Waves II
Nobel Prize lecture by Barry C. Barish

LIGO and Gravitational Waves III
Nobel Prize lecture by Kip S. Thorne

2016

Topological Quantum Matter
Nobel Prize lecture by F. Duncan M. Haldane

Topological Defects and Phase Transitions
Nobel Prize lecture by J. Michael Kosterlitz

2015

Discovery of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations
Nobel Prize lecture by Takaaki Kajita

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Observation of Flavor Change for Solar Neutrinos
Nobel Prize lecture by Arthur B. McDonald

2014

Fascinated Journeys into Blue Light
Nobel Prize lecture by Isamu Akasaki

Growth of GaN on Sapphire via Low-Temperature Deposited Buffer Layer and Realization of p-Type GaN by Mg Doping Followed by Low-Energy Electron Beam Irradiation
Nobel Prize lecture by Hiroshi Amano

Background Story of the Invention of Efficient Blue InGaN Light Emitting Diodes
Nobel Prize lecture by Shuji Nakamura

2013

The BEH Mechanism and its Scalar Boson
Nobel Prize lecture by François Englert

Evading the Goldstone Theorem
Nobel Prize lecture by Peter Higgs

2012

Controlling Photons in a Box and Exploring the Quantum to Classical Boundary
Nobel Prize lecture by Serge Haroche

Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schroedinger’s Cat
Nobel Prize lecture by David J. Wineland

2011

Measuring the Acceleration of the Cosmic Expansion Using Supernovae
Nobel Prize lecture by Saul Perlmutter

The Path to Measuring Cosmic Acceleration
Nobel Prize lecture by Brian P. Schmidt

Supernovae Reveal an Accelerating Universe
Nobel Prize lecture by Adam G. Riess

2010

Random Walk to Graphene
Nobel Prize lecture by Andre Geim

Graphene: Materials in the Flatland
Nobel Prize lecture by Konstantin Novoselov

2009

Sand from Centuries Past: Send Future Voices Fast
Nobel Prize lecture by Charles K. Kao

CCD – an Extension of Man’s Vision
Nobel Prize lecture by Willard S. Boyle

The Invention and Early History of the CCD
Nobel Prize lecture by George E. Smith

2008

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Particle Physics: a Case of Cross Fertilization
Nobel Prize lecture by Yoichiro Nambu

CP Violation and Flavour Mixing
Nobel Prize lecture by Makoto Kobayashi

What Does CP Violation Tell Us?
Nobel Prize lecture by Toshihide Maskawa

2007

The Origin, the Development and the Future of Spintronics
Nobel Prize lecture by Albert Fert

From Spinwaves to Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) and Beyond
Nobel Prize lecture by Peter Grünberg

2006

From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and Beyond
Nobel Prize lecture by John C. Mather

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Anisotropies: Their Discovery and Utilization
Nobel Prize lecture by George F. Smoot

2005

One Hundred Years of Light Quanta
Nobel Prize lecture by Roy J. Glauber

Defining and Measuring Optical Frequencies: The Optical Clock Opportunity – and More
Nobel Prize lecture by John L. Hall

Passion for Precision
Nobel Prize lecture by Theodor W. Hänsch

2004

The Discovery of Asymptotic Freedom and the Emergence of QCD
Nobel Prize lecture by David J. Gross

The Dilemma of Attribution
Nobel Prize lecture by H. David Politzer

Asymptotic Freedom: From Paradox to Paradigm
Nobel Prize lecture by Frank Wilczek

2003

Type II Superconductors and the Vortex Lattice
Nobel Prize lecture by Alexei A. Abrikosov

On Superconductivity and Superfluidity
Nobel Prize lecture by Vitaly L. Ginzburg

Superfluid 3-He: The Early Days as Seen by a Theorist
Nobel Prize lecture by Anthony J. Leggett

2002

A Half-Century with Solar Neutrinos
Nobel Prize lecture by Raymond Davis Jr.

Birth of Neutrino Astrophysics
Nobel Prize lecture by Masatoshi Koshiba

The Dawn of X-Ray Astronomy
Nobel Prize lecture by Riccardo Giacconi

2001

Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Gas; The First 70 Years and Some Recent Experiments
Nobel Prize lecture by Eric A. Cornell

When Atoms Behave as Waves: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser
Nobel Prize lecture by Wolfgang Ketterle

Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Gas; The First 70 Years and Some Recent Experiments
Nobel Prize lecture by Carl E. Wieman

2000

Double Heterostructure Concept and its Applications in Physics, Electronics and Technology
Nobel Prize lecture by Zhores I. Alferov

Quasi-Electric Fields and Band Offsets: Teaching Electrons New Tricks
Nobel Prize lecture by Herbert Kroemer

Turning Potential into Reality: The Invention of the Integrated Circuit
Nobel Prize lecture by Jack S. Kilby

1999

A Confrontation with Infinity
Nobel Prize lecture by Gerardus ‘t Hooft

From Weak Interactions to Gravitation
Nobel Prize lecture by J. G. Veltman

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