The Nobel prize in physics is typically awarded to scientists who make sense of nature; those whose discoveries render the universe more comprehensible. But the 2022 Nobel has been awarded to three physicists who revealed that the...

British Canadian scientist Geoffrey Hinton, known as the godfather of AI, was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with American John Hopfield. The duo are being honoured for discoveries and inventions that enable...

The award is the second of six Nobel Prizes to be announced this week and next.

/ Scientist Robert Millikan speaks with assistant Carl Anderson (no audio). Robert Millikan converses with Carl Anderson on January 01, 1940 in Unspecified (Footage by Getty Images)

/ James Franck in laboratory / checks his watch, makes notes / switches on experiment and returns to notebook. Physicist James Franck works in the laboratory on January 01, 1940 in Germany (Footage by Getty Images)

/ Enrico Fermi in the laboratory, manipulates levers and reads dial. Enrico Fermi in his laboratory on January 01, 1940 in Unspecified (Footage by Getty Images)

US astrophysicists Barry Barish Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for the discovery of gravitational waves offering a sneak peek at the universe's very beginnings

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American physicist John Clauser has won the 2022 Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking experiment vindicating quantum mechanics -- a fundamental theory governing the subatomic world that is today the foundation for an emerging class of...

The study of strange states of matter which may one day yield superfast computers earns British scientists David Thouless Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz the Nobel Physics Prize

Nobel Physics Prize joint winner, Anton Zeilinger, reacts to the award announcement, saying "this prize is an encouragement to young people and I want to mention here that the prize would not be possible without 100 young people who work...

US astrophysicists Barry Barish Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss are awarded the Nobel Physics Prize for the discovery of gravitational waves a phenomenon that opens a door on the extreme Universe

Three scientists win the Nobel Physics Prize for inventing optical lasers that have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in corrective eye surgery and in industry

Three researchers share the Nobel Physics Prize for inventions in the field of laser physics which have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in industry and medicine the jury says

Austria's Anton Zeilinger, winner of the Nobel Physics Prize alongside France's Alain Aspect and John Clauser of the US, holds a press conference at the Univerity of Vienna (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The Nobel Prize for physics is awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experiments with entangled photons and "pioneering quantum information science (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

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Italian scholar and physicist Giorgio Parisi receives the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics from Swedish Ambassador to Italy Jan Björklund during a ceremony at Sapienza University of Rome (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US have won the Nobel Physics Prize for their research into black holes, the Nobel jury announces (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

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Austria's Anton Zeilinger, winner of the Nobel Physics Prize alongside France's Alain Aspect and John Clauser of the US, holds a press conference at the Univerity of Vienna (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Professor Goran K. Hansson Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announces that Canadian-American James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz win the Nobel Physics Prize for their work in...