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American physicist John Hopfield and British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks".
2024-10-8

IceCube Collaboration, a detector operating at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, detects evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from the Milky Way galaxy.
2023-06-30

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity," and to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea M. Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy."
2020-10-6

The Nobel Prize committee awards Americans Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration that discovered gravitational waves.
2017-10-3

British scientists, David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and John M. Kosterlitz, are awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter".
2016-10-4

American 1964 Nobel Prize-winning physicist Charles Hard Townes, who helped invent the now-ubiquitous laser, dies at the age of 99.
2015-01-27

Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes.
2014-10-7

Theoretical physicists, Briton Peter Higgs and Belgian François Englert, win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the origin of the mass of subatomic particles.
2013-10-8

Serge Haroche and David Wineland win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum optics.
2012-10-9

Physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester win the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene".
2010-10-5