Backgrounder: Latest winners of Nobel Prize in Physics

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The following is a list of winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics since 2003:

2013: Francois Englert (Belgium) and Peter W. Higgs (Britain);

2012: Serge Haroche (France) and David J. Wineland (U.S.);

2011: Saul Perlmutter (U.S.), Brian P. Schmidt (U.S. and Australia) and Adam G. Riess (U.S.);

2010: Andre Geim (Britain), Konstantin Novoselov (Britain);

2009: Charles K. Kao (Britain and U.S.), Willard S. Boyle (U.S. and Canada) and George E. Smith (U.S.);

2008: Yoichiro Nambu (U.S.), Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa (Japan);

2007: Albert Fert (France) and Peter Grunberg (Germany);

2006: John C. Mather and George F. Smoot (U.S.);

2005: Roy J. Glauber (U.S.), John L. Hall (U.S.) and Theodor W. Hansch (Germany);

2004: David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczek (U.S.);

2003: Alexei A. Abrikosov, Anthony J. Leggett (U.S.) and Vitaly L. Ginzburg (Russia).

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