#  Harvard Physics Nobel Laureates 

 



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  [### Percy W. Bridgman

 ](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1946/bridgman/facts/)1946 Nobel Prize in Physics

"For the invention of an apparatus to produce extremely high pressures, and for the discoveries he made therewith in the field of high pressure physics"



 

   ![Percy Bridgman headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6476/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/Bridgman_1.png?itok=VANqy5s0) 

 

 

 

  [### Edward Mills Purcell

 ](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1952/purcell/facts/)1952 Nobel Prize in Physics

"For their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith" (shared with [Felix Bloch](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1952/bloch/facts/))



 

   ![Edward Purcell headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6476/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/Purcell.png?itok=X4Adiy4P) 

 

 

 

  [### Julian Schwinger

 ](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1965/schwinger/facts/)1965 Nobel Prize in Physics

"For their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles" (shared with [Richard Feynman](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1965/feynman/facts/) and [Sin-Itiro Tomonaga](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1965/tomonaga/facts/))



 

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  [### John Hasbrouck van Vleck

 ](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1977/vleck/facts/)1977 Nobel Prize in Physics

"For their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems" (shared with [Philip W. Anderson](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1977/anderson/facts/) and [Sir Nevill F. Mott](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1977/mott/facts/))



 

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  [### Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg

 ](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/glashow/facts/)1979 Nobel Prize in Physics

"For their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current" (with [Abdus Salam](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1979/salam/facts/))



 

   ![headshots of Sheldon Glashow and Stevem Weinberg](/sites/g/files/omnuum6476/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/Glashow_Weinberg.png?itok=LDsZCH-u) 

 

 

 

  [### Nicolaas Bloembergen

 ](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1981/bloembergen/facts/)1981 Nobel Prize in Physics

 "For contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy" (shared with [Arthur L. Schawlow](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1981/schawlow/facts/) and [Kai M. Siegbahn](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1981/siegbahn/facts/))



 

   ![Nicolaas Bloembergen headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum6476/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-01/Bloembergen.png?itok=Gn2Fw-t7) 

 

 

 

  [### Carlo Rubbia

 ](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1984/rubbia/facts/)1984 Nobel Prize in Physics

"For decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction" (shared with [Simon van der Meer](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1984/meer/facts/))



 

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  [### Norman F. Ramsey

 ](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1989/ramsey/facts/)1989 Nobel Prize in Physics

"For the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks" (shared with [Hans G. Dehmelt](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1989/dehmelt/facts/) and [Wolfgang Paul](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1989/paul/facts/))



 

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  [### Roy J. Glauber

 ](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2005/glauber/facts/)2005 Nobel Prize in Physics

"For his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence" (shared with [John L. Hall](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2005/hall/facts/) and [Theodor W. Hänsch](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2005/hansch/facts/))



 

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