Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi have been announced as the joint winners
Canadian scientist Donna Strickland became just the third woman in history to win the Nobel Physics Prize
Arthur Ashkin was honoured for his invention of "optical tweezers"
Scientists have for the first time witnessed how at least half the gold in the Universe is formed.
The arrival of such lamps changes the way places are lit, offering longer-lasting and more efficient alternatives to 19th-century incandescent bulbs.
Britain’s Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium have won the Nobel Prize for physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle.
A French and an American scientist won the Nobel Prize for finding ways to measure quantum particles without destroying them.
American astronomer Adam Riess initially thought his Nobel-prize winning discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up was a mistake.
Two Russian-born scientists shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics for showing how carbon just one atom thick behaved.
Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for discoveries in sub-atomic particles.
