- 1978 Chien-Shiung Wu
- 1979 George Eugene Uhlenbeck, Giuseppe Occhialini
- 1980 Michael E. Fisher, Leo P. Kadanoff, Kenneth G. Wilson
- 1981 Freeman J. Dyson, Gerard 't Hooft, Victor F. Weisskopf
- 1982 Leon M. Lederman, Martin Lewis Perl
- 1983/4 Erwin Hahn, Peter B. Hirsch, Theodore H. Maiman
- 1984/5 Conyers Herring, Philippe Nozieres
- 1986 Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Albert J. Libchaber
- 1987 Herbert Friedman, Bruno B. Rossi, Riccardo Giacconi
- 1988 Roger Penrose, Stephen W. Hawking
- 1989 Nu s-a acordat premiu
- 1990 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, David J. Thouless
- 1991 Maurice Goldhaber, Valentine L. Telegdi
- 1992 Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
- 1993 Benoît Mandelbrot
- 1994/5 Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Yoichiro Nambu
- 1995/6 Nu s-a acordat premiu
- 1997 John Archibald Wheeler
- 1998 Yakir Aharonov, Michael V. Berry
- 1999 Dan Shechtman
- 2000 Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba
- 2001 Nu s-a acordat premiu
- 2002/3 Bertrand I. Halperin, Anthony J. Leggett
- 2004 Robert Brout, François Englert, Peter W. Higgs
- 2005 Daniel Kleppner
- 2006/7 Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg
- 2010 John F. Clauser, Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger
- 2013 Tomer Volansky (Premiul Krill), Juan Ignacio Cirac, Peter Zoller
- 2014 Nu s-a acordat premiu
- 2015 James D. Bjorken, Robert P. Kirshner
- 2016 Yoseph Imry
- 2017 Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz
- 2018 Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard
- 2019 Nu s-a acordat premiu
- 2020 Rafi Bistritzer, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Allan H. MacDonald
- 2021 Giorgio Parisi
- 2022 Anne L'Huillier, Paul Corkum, Ferenc Krausz
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