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Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Physics:

• 1978 Chien-Shiung Wu
• 1979 George 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 M. Perl
• 1983/4 Erwin L. Hahn , Sir 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 Not awarded
• 1990 Pierre-Gilles de GennesPierre-Gilles de Gennes (born October 24, 1932) is a French physicist and Nobel laureate. He was born in Paris, France and was home-schooled to the age of 12. Later, Gennes studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure''. After leaving the cole in 1955, he beca, David J. Thouless
• 1991 Maurice Goldhaber , Valentine L. Telegdi
• 1992 Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
• 1993 Benoît MandelbrotMandelbrot set. Benoit B. Mandelbrot (born November 20, 1924) is a Polish-born French mathematician and leading proponent of fractal geometry. Early years Born in Warsaw, Mandelbrot lived in France from the age of 12 to the end of his college studies.
• 1994/5 Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Yoichiro NambuYoichiro Nambu ( 1921 )is a Japanese-born American physicist. He was an early developer (in the 1960s) of the theory of Quantum chromodynamics, and of the Higgs boson. Nambu became a professor of physics at Osaka City Univeristy in 1950. He is now a profe
• 1995/6 Not awarded
• 1997 John Archibald WheelerJohn Archibald Wheeler (born 1911) is an American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein's project of a unified field theory. In the 1960s, he formulated the so-called geometrodynamics, a pro
• 1998 Yakir Aharonov , Sir Michael V. Berry
• 1999 Dan Shechtman
• 2000 Raymond Davis Jr. , Masatoshi KoshibaKoshiba, Masatoshi ( , born 26 September, 1926) is a Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. He graduated from University of Tokyo, School of Science. In 2002, he won Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 "for pioneering contributions to a
• 2001 Not awarded
• 2002/3 Bertrand I. Halperin , Anthony J. Leggett
• 2004 Robert Brout , Francois Englert , Peter W. Higgs