8 of the recent Physics Nobel Prizes winners and their amazing findings!

Like every year, we had two stalwarts from the field of science taking away the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics this year as well.

Takaaki Kajita from the University of Tokyo and Arthur B. McDonald from Queen's University, Canada were jointly awarded the prize along with eight million Swedish kronor. With this, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has given away the award exactly 109 times to 200 individuals between 1901 and 2015!

On the special occasion, we bring to you a list of the eight most recent Physics Nobel Prize winners and why they won it:

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2014: Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.



The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013: François Englert and Peter W. Higgs for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012: Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011: Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 : Andre eim and Konstantin Novoselov for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material grapheme.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009: Charles Kuen Kao for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication; Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008: Yoichiro Nambu for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics; Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "or the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.