1901
Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen
1902
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Pieter Zeeman
1903
Antoine Henri Bequerel
Pierre Curie
Marie Sklodowska-Curie
1904
Lord Rayleigh (a.k.a. John William Strutt)
1905
Pilipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
1906
Joseph John Thomson
1907
Albert Abraham Michelson
1908
Gabriel Lippman
1909
Guglielmo Marconi
Carl Ferdinand Braun
1910
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
1911
Wilhelm Wien
1912
Nils Gustaf Dalen
1913
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1914
Max von Laue
1915
William Henry Bragg
William Lawrence Bragg
1916
no award
1917
Charles Glover Barkla
1918
Max Planck
1919
Johannes Stark
1920
Charles-Edouard Guillaume
1921
Albert Einstein
1922
Niels Bohr
1923
Robert Andrew Millikan
1924
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
1925
James Franck
Gustav Hertz
1926
Jean Baptiste Perrin
1927
Arthur Holly Compton
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
1928
Owen Willans Richardson
1929
Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie
1930
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
1931
no award
1932
Werner Heisenberg
1933
Erwin Schrodinger
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
1934
no award
1935
James Chadwick
1936
Victor Franz Hess
Carl D. Anderson
1937
Clinton Joseph Davisson
George Paget Thomson
1938
Enrico Fermi
1939
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
1940
no award
1941
no award
1942
no award
1943
Otto Stern
1944
Isador Isaac Rabi
1945
Wolfgang Pauli
1946
Percy Williams Bridgman
1947
Sir Edward Victor Appleton
1948
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
1949
Hideki Yukawa
1950
Cecil Frank Powell