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{{Short description|One of six awards of the Wolf Foundation}}
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The '''Wolf Prize in Physics''' is awarded once a year by the [[Wolf Foundation]] in [[Israel]]. It is one of the six [[Wolf Prize]]s established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in [[Wolf Prize in Agriculture|Agriculture]], [[Wolf Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]], [[Wolf Prize in Mathematics|Mathematics]], [[Wolf Prize in Medicine|Medicine]] and [[Wolf Prize in Arts|Arts]].

The Wolf Prizes in Physics and Chemistry are often considered the second-most prestigious awards in those fields, after the Nobel Prize.<ref>[http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/18884 "Wolf prize goes to particle theorists"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217193544/http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/18884 |date=2012-02-17 }} ''Physicsworld.com'' January 20, 2004</ref><ref name="gongs_away">{{cite journal
|last=Harris
|first=Margaret
|date=November 2010
|title=Gongs away
|journal=[[Physics World]]
|location=Bristol
|volume=23
|issue=11
|pages=46–47
|doi=10.1088/2058-7058/23/11/46
|bibcode=2010PhyW...23k..46H
}}</ref><ref>Basolo, F: ''From Coello to Inorganic Chemistry: A Lifetime of Reactions'', page 65, Springer, 2002</ref> The prize in physics has gained a reputation for identifying future winners of the Nobel Prize – from the 26 prizes awarded between 1978 and 2010, fourteen winners have gone on to win the Nobel Prize, five of those in the following year.<ref name=gongs_away/>

== Laureates ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! rowspan=2 | Year
! colspan=2 | Laureate
! rowspan=2 | Country{{Efn|The country in which the laureate's academic affiliation is based, according to the [https://wolffund.org.il/the-wolf-prize/ Wolfe Foundation website].}}
! rowspan=2 | Citation
! rowspan=2 | {{Reference column heading}}
|-
! Image
! Name
|-
| 1978
| [[File:Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997) (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Chien-Shiung Wu]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| "For her persistent and successful exploration of the [[weak interaction]] which helped establish the precise form and the non conservation of [[Parity (physics)|parity]] for this new natural force."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Chien-Shiung Wu|url=https://wolffund.org.il/chien-shiung-wu/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1979
| [[File:George E Uhlenbeck.jpg|80px]]
| [[George E. Uhlenbeck]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| "For his discovery, jointly with the late Samuel A .Goudsmit, of the electron [[Spin (physics)|spin]]."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=George E. Uhlenbeck|url=https://wolffund.org.il/george-e-uhlenbeck/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Occhialini.jpg|80px]]
| [[Giuseppe Occhialini]]
| {{Flag|Italy}}
| "For his contributions to the discovery of [[electron pair]] production and of the charged [[pion]]."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Giuseppe Occhialini|url=https://wolffund.org.il/giuseppe-occhialini/|url-status=live|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250815053442/https://wolffund.org.il/giuseppe-occhialini/|archive-date=2025-08-15|access-date=2025-11-28}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1980
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Kenneth G. Wilson]]
| rowspan=3 | {{Flag|United States}}
| rowspan=3 | "For path breaking developments culminating in the general theory of the critical behavior at [[Phase transition|transitions]] between the different thermodynamic phases of matter."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Kenneth G. Wilson|url=https://wolffund.org.il/kenneth-g-wilson/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Professor Leo Kadanoff.jpg|80px]]
| [[Leo P. Kadanoff]]
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Leo P. Kadanoff|url=https://wolffund.org.il/leo-p-kadanoff/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Michael E. Fisher]]
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Michael E. Fisher|url=https://wolffund.org.il/michael-e-fisher/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1981
| [[File:Freeman Dyson at Harvard cropped.jpg|80px]]
| [[Freeman J. Dyson]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| rowspan=3 | "For their outstanding contributions to theoretical physics, especially in the development and application of the quantum theory of, fields."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Freeman J. Dyson|url=https://wolffund.org.il/freeman-j-dyson/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:GerardtHooft.jpg|80px]]
| [[Gerard 't Hooft]]
| {{Flag|Netherlands}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Gerard T. Hooft|url=https://wolffund.org.il/gerard-t-hooft/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:VictorWeisskopft-LosAlamos.jpg|80px]]
| [[Victor F. Weisskopf]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Victor J. Weisskopf|url=https://wolffund.org.il/victor-j-weisskopf/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1982
| [[File:Leon M. Lederman 1988.jpg|80px]]
| [[Leon M. Lederman]]
| rowspan=2 | {{Flag|United States}}
| rowspan=2 | "For their experimental discovery of unexpected new particles establishing a third generation [[quark]]s and [[lepton]]s."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Leon M. Lederman|url=https://wolffund.org.il/leon-m-lederman/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Martin Perl - tau.jpg|80px]]
| [[Martin L. Perl]]
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Martin L. Perl|url=https://wolffund.org.il/martin-m-perl/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| 1983
| colspan=5 align=center | ''No award''
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1984
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Erwin L. Hahn]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| "For his discovery of nuclear [[spin echo]]es and for the phenomenon of self-induced transparency."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Erwin L. Hahn|url=https://wolffund.org.il/eewin-l-hahn/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Peter B. Hirsch]]
| {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
| "For his development of the utilization of the [[transmission electron microscope]] as a universal instrument to study the structure of crystalline matter."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Peter B. Hirsch|url=https://wolffund.org.il/sir-peter-b-hirsh/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Maiman with the first laser.jpg|80px]]
| [[Theodore H. Maiman]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| "For his realization of the first operating [[laser]], the pulsed three level [[ruby laser]]."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Theodore H. Maiman|url=https://wolffund.org.il/theodore-h-maiman/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1985
| [[File:Conyers Herring.jpg|80px]]
| [[Conyers Herring]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| rowspan=2 | "For their major contributions to the fundamental theory of solids, especially of the behavior of electrons in metals."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Conyers Herring|url=https://wolffund.org.il/conyers-herring/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Philippe Nozières]]
| {{Flag|France|1974}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Philippe Nozières|url=https://wolffund.org.il/philippe-nozireres/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1986
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Albert J. Libchaber]]
| rowspan=2 | {{Flag|United States}}
| "For his brilliant experimental demonstration of the transition to turbulence and [[Chaos theory|chaos]] in dynamical systems."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Albert J. Libchaber|url=https://wolffund.org.il/albert-j-libchaber/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Mitchell J. Feigenbaum]]
| "For his pioneering theoretical studies demonstrating the universal character of [[non-linear system]]s, which has made possible the systematic study of chaos."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Mitchell J. Feigenbaum|url=https://wolffund.org.il/mitchell-j-feigenbaum/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=3 | 1987
| [[File:Rossi-bruno b.jpg|80px]]
| [[Bruno B. Rossi]]
| rowspan=3 | {{Flag|United States}}
| rowspan=2 | "For the discovery of [[Astrophysical X-ray source|extra-solar X-ray sources]] and the elucidation of their physical processes."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Bruno B. Rossi|url=https://wolffund.org.il/bruno-b-rossi/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:RiccardoGiacconi.jpg|80px]]
| [[Riccardo Giacconi]]
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Riccardo Giacconi|url=https://wolffund.org.il/riccardo-giacconi/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Herbert Friedman]]
| "For pioneering investigations in solar X-rays."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Herbert Friedman|url=https://wolffund.org.il/herbert-friedman/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1988
| [[File:Roger Penrose, 1978 Sept (portion B).jpg|80px]]
| [[Roger Penrose]]
| rowspan=2 | {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
| rowspan=2 | "For their brilliant development of the theory of [[general relativity]], in which they have shown the necessity for [[cosmological singularities]] and have elucidated the physics of [[black hole]]s. In this work they have greatly enlarged our understanding of the origin and possible fate of the Universe."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Roger Penrose|url=https://wolffund.org.il/roger-penrose/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Stephen Hawking.StarChild.jpg|80px]]
| [[Stephen W. Hawking]]
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Stephen W. Hawking|url=https://wolffund.org.il/stephen-w-hawking/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| 1989
| colspan=5 align=center | ''No award''
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1990
| [[File:DavidThouless 1995 UW.jpg|80px]]
| [[David J. Thouless]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| rowspan=2 | "For a wide variety of pioneering contributions to our understanding of the organization of complex condensed matter systems, de Gennes especially for his work on macromolecular matter and [[liquid crystal]]s and Thouless for his on disordered and low-dimensional systems."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=David J. Thouless|url=https://wolffund.org.il/david-j-thouless/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Pierre-Gilles crop (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Pierre-Gilles de Gennes]]
| {{Flag|France|1974}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Pierre-Gilles de Gennes|url=https://wolffund.org.il/pierre-gilles-de-gennes/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1991
| [[File:2000 BNL Maurice Goldhaber.jpg|80px]]
| [[Maurice Goldhaber]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| rowspan=2 | "For their separate seminal contributions to nuclear and particle physics, particularly those concerning the [[weak interaction]]s involving [[lepton]]s."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Maurice Goldhaber|url=https://wolffund.org.il/maurice-goldhaber/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:ETH-BIB-Telegdi, Valentine (1922-2006)-Portr 10203.tif|80px]]
| [[Valentine L. Telegdi]]
| {{Flag|Switzerland}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Valentine L. Telegdi|url=https://wolffund.org.il/valentine-l-telegdi/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| 1992
| [[File:2008JosephTaylor.jpg|80px]]
| [[Joseph H. Taylor Jr.]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| "For his discovery of [[Hulse–Taylor pulsar|an orbiting radio pulsar]] and its exploitation to verify the general theory of relativity to high precision."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Joseph H. Taylor Jr.|url=https://wolffund.org.il/joseph-h-taylor-jr/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| 1993
| [[File:Benoit Mandelbrot mg 1804-d.jpg|80px]]
| [[Benoit B. Mandelbrot]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| "By recognizing the widespread occurrence of [[fractal]]s and developing mathematical tools for describing them, he has changed our view of nature."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Benoit B. Mandelbrot|url=https://wolffund.org.il/benoit-b-mandelbrot/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1994/5
| [[File:Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург.jpg|80px]]
| [[Vitaly L. Ginzburg]]
| {{Flag|Russia}}
| "For his contributions to the theory of [[superconductivity]] and to the theory of high-energy processes in astrophysics."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Vitaly L. Ginzburg|url=https://wolffund.org.il/vitaly-l-ginzburg/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:YoichiroNambu (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Yoichiro Nambu]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| "For his contribution to elementary particle theory, including recognition of the role played by [[Spontaneous symmetry breaking|spontaneous symmetry-breaking]] in analogy with superconductivity theory, and the discovery of the color symmetry of the [[strong interaction]]s."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Yoichiro Nambu|url=https://wolffund.org.il/yoichiro-nambu/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| 1996/7
| [[File:John Archibald Wheeler signed.jpg|80px]]
| [[John A. Wheeler]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| "For his seminal contributions to black holes physics, to [[quantum gravity]], and to the theories of nuclear scattering and [[nuclear fission]]."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=John A. Wheeler|url=https://wolffund.org.il/john-a-wheeler/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 1998
| [[File:Michael Berry, Yerevan - Ashtarak, Armenia, FOP-2014, 03.09.2014 (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Michael V. Berry]]
| {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
| rowspan=2 | "For the discovery of quantum topological and geometrical phases, specifically the [[Aharonov-Bohm effect]], the [[Berry phase]], and their incorporation into many fields of physics"
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Michael V. Berry|url=https://wolffund.org.il/sir-michael-v-berry/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Yakir Aharonov]]
| {{Flag|Israel}} <br/> {{Flag|United States}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Yakir Aharonov|url=https://wolffund.org.il/yakir-aharonov/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| 1999
| [[File:Nobel Prize 2011-Nobel interviews KVA-DSC 8049.jpg|80px]]
| [[Dan Shechtman]]
| {{Flag|Israel}}
| "For the experimental discovery of [[quasi-crystal]]s, non periodic solids having long-range order, which inspired the exploration of a new fundamental state of matter."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Dan Shechtman|url=https://wolffund.org.il/dan-shechtman/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2000
| [[File:Masatoshi Koshiba 2002.jpg|80px]]
| [[Masatoshi Koshiba]]
| {{Flag|Japan}}
| rowspan=2 | "For their pioneering observations of astronomical phenomena by detection of [[neutrino]]s, thus creating the emerging field of [[neutrino astronomy]]."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Masatoshi Koshiba|url=https://wolffund.org.il/masatoshi-koshiba/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Raymond Davis, Jr 2001.jpg|80px]]
| [[Raymond Davis Jr.]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Raymond Davis Jr.|url=https://wolffund.org.il/raymond-davis-jr/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| 2001
| colspan=5 align=center | ''No award''
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2002/3
| [[File:Nobel Laureate Sir Anthony James Leggett in 2007.jpg|80px]]
| [[Anthony J. Leggett]]
| rowspan=2 | {{Flag|United States}}
| rowspan=2 | "For key insights into the broad range of condensed matter physics: Leggett on [[superfluidity]] of the light helium isotope and [[macroscopic quantum phenomena]]; and Halperin on two- dimensional melting, disordered systems and strongly interacting electrons."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Anthony J. Leggett|url=https://wolffund.org.il/anthony-j-leggett/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Bert Halperin.JPG|80px]]
| [[Bertrand Halperin]]
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Bertrand Halperin|url=https://wolffund.org.il/bertrand-i-halperin/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2004
| [[File:Francois Englert.jpg|80px]]
| [[François Englert]]
| {{Flag|Belgium}}
| rowspan=3 | "For pioneering work that has led to the insight of mass generation, whenever a local [[Gauge theory|gauge]] symmetry is realized asymmetrically in the world of sub-atomic particles."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=François Englert|url=https://wolffund.org.il/francois-englert/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Higgs, Peter (1929)3.jpg|80px]]
| [[Peter Higgs]]
| {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Peter Higgs|url=https://wolffund.org.il/peter-w-higgs/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Robert Brout (3x4 cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Robert Brout]]
| {{Flag|Belgium}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Robert Brout|url=https://wolffund.org.il/robert-brout/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| 2005
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Daniel Kleppner]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| "For groundbreaking work in atomic physics of hydrogenic systems, including research on the [[hydrogen maser]], [[Rydberg atom]]s and [[Bose-Einstein condensation]]."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Daniel Kleppner|url=https://wolffund.org.il/daniel-kleppner/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2006/7
| [[File:Fert-002 (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Albert Fert]]
| {{Flag|France|1974}}
| rowspan=2 | "For their independent discovery of the [[giant magnetoresistance]] phenomenon (GMR), thereby launching a new field of research and applications known as [[spintronics]], which utilizes the spin of the electron to store and transport information."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Albert Fert|url=https://wolffund.org.il/albert-fert/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Peter Gruenberg 01.jpg|80px]]
| [[Peter Grünberg]]
| {{Flag|Germany}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Peter Grünberg|url=https://wolffund.org.il/peter-gruenberg/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| 2008
| colspan=5 align=center | ''No award''
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| 2009
| colspan=5 align=center | ''No award''
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2010
| [[File:Alain-Aspect-ForMemRS (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Alain Aspect]]
| {{Flag|France|1974}}
| rowspan=3 | "For their fundamental conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, specifically an increasingly sophisticated series of tests of Bell’s inequalities or extensions there of using [[entangled quantum states]]."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Alain Aspect|url=https://wolffund.org.il/alain-aspect/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Anton Zeilinger blackboard (profile cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Anton Zeilinger]]
| {{Flag|Austria}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Anton Zeilinger|url=https://wolffund.org.il/anton-zeilinger/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:John Francis Clauser (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[John F. Clauser]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=John F. Clauser|url=https://wolffund.org.il/john-f-clauser/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2011
| [[File:Harald Rose Dresden 2009-2.jpg|80px]]
| [[Harald Rose]]
| rowspan=3 | {{Flag|Germany}}
| rowspan=3 | "For their development of [[aberration-corrected electron microscopy]], allowing the observation of individual atoms with picometer precision, thus revolutionizing materials science."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Harald Rose|url=https://wolffund.org.il/harald-rose/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:The 2020 Kavli Prize Laureate Knut Urban signing the protocol (2022) (52337039956) (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Knut Urban]]
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Knut Urban|url=https://wolffund.org.il/knut-urban/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:The 2020 Kavli Prize Laureate Maximilian Haider signing the protocol (2022) (52337040506) (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Maximilian Haider]]
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Maximilian Haider|url=https://wolffund.org.il/maximilian-haider/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| 2012
| [[File:Bekenstein100 (cropped).JPG|80px]]
| [[Jacob Bekenstein]]
| {{Flag|Israel}}
| "For his work on astronomical super-massive objects called ‘[[black hole]]s’ that showed they can possess a statistical-thermodynamic property called [[entropy]] even though the internal dynamics could not be known. This work created an entire field of black hole dynamics which has become a cornerstone in the important theoretical physics areas of quantum gravity and strings."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Jacob Bekenstein|url=https://wolffund.org.il/jacob-bekenstein/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2013
| [[File:Prof Cirac office klein (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Juan Ignacio Cirac]]
| {{Flag|Germany}}
| rowspan=2 | "For groundbreaking theoretical contributions to quantum information processing, [[quantum optics]] and the physics of quantum gases."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Juan Ignacio Cirac|url=https://wolffund.org.il/juan-ignacio-cirac/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Zoller Peter.jpg|80px]]
| [[Peter Zoller]]
| {{Flag|Austria}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Peter Zoller|url=https://wolffund.org.il/peter-zoller/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| 2014
| colspan=5 align=center | ''No award''
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2015
| [[File:James Bjorken.jpg|80px]]
| [[James D. Bjorken]]
| rowspan=2 | {{Flag|United States}}
| "For predicting scaling in [[deep inelastic scattering]], leading to identification of [[nucleon]]’s pointlike constituents."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=James D. Bjorken|url=https://wolffund.org.il/peter-zoller/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:RobertKirshnerIMG 2728x.jpg|80px]]
| [[Robert P. Kirshner]]
| "For forging the path to [[supernova]] cosmology through his observations and insights."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Robert P. Kirshner|url=https://wolffund.org.il/robert-p-kirshner/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| 2016
| [[File:Professor Joe Imry.jpg|80px]]
| [[Yoseph Imry]]
| {{Flag|Israel}}
| "For pioneering studies of the physics of [[mesoscopic]] and random systems."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Yoseph Imry|url=https://wolffund.org.il/imry-yoseph/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2017
| [[File:Queloz profile (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Didier Queloz]]
| {{Flag|Switzerland}} <br/> {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
| rowspan=2 | "For the first discovery of an [[exoplanet]] orbiting [[51 Pegasi|a solar-type star]]."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Didier Queloz|url=https://wolffund.org.il/didier-queloz/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Michel Mayor, 2012 (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Michel Mayor]]
| {{Flag|Switzerland}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Michel Mayor|url=https://wolffund.org.il/michael-mayor/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2018
| [[File:Dr. Charles Bennett IBM Fellow (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Charles H. Bennett (physicist)|Charles H. Bennett]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| rowspan=2 | "For founding and advancing the fields of [[Quantum Cryptography]] and [[Quantum Teleportation]]."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Charles H. Bennett|url=https://wolffund.org.il/charles-h-bennett/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Gilles Brassard (2019) (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Gilles Brassard]]
| {{Flag|Canada}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Gilles Brassard|url=https://wolffund.org.il/gilles-brassard/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| 2019
| colspan=5 align=center | ''No award''
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2020
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Rafi Bistritzer]]
| {{Flag|Israel}}
| rowspan=3 | "For pioneering theoretical and experimental work on twisted [[bilayer graphene]]."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Rafi Bistritzer|url=https://wolffund.org.il/rafi-bistritzer/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (born 1976) giving the 2024 Segré Lecture Magic Angle Graphene.png|80px]]
| [[Pablo Jarillo-Herrero]]
| rowspan=2 | {{Flag|United States}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Pablo Jarillo-Herrero|url=https://wolffund.org.il/pablo-jarillo-herrero/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Allan MacDonald.jpg|80px]]
| [[Allan H. MacDonald]]
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Allan H. MacDonald|url=https://wolffund.org.il/allan-h-macdonald/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| 2021
| [[File:Parisi Giorgio (3x4 cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Giorgio Parisi]]
| {{Flag|Italy}}
| "For ground-breaking discoveries in disordered systems, particle physics and statistical physics."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Giorgio Parisi|url=https://wolffund.org.il/giorgio-parisi/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2022
| [[File:Anne LHuiller 01.JPG|80px]]
| [[Anne L'Huillier]]
| {{Flag|Sweden}}
| rowspan=3 | "For pioneering contributions to ultrafast laser science and [[attosecond physics]]."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Anne L'Huillier|url=https://wolffund.org.il/anne-lhuillier/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Paul Corkum]]
| {{Flag|Canada}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Paul Corkum|url=https://wolffund.org.il/paul-corkum/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| [[File:Ferenc Krausz (cropped).jpg|80px]]
| [[Ferenc Krausz]]
| {{Flag|Germany}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Ferenc Krausz|url=https://wolffund.org.il/ferenc-krausz/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| 2023
| colspan=5 align=center | ''No award''
|-
| 2024
| [[File:Official portrait of Lord Rees of Ludlow crop 2.jpg|80px]]
| [[Martin Rees]]
| {{Flag|United Kingdom}}
| "For fundamental contributions to [[high-energy astrophysics]], galaxies and structure formation, and [[cosmology]]."
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Martin Rees|url=https://wolffund.org.il/martin-rees/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|- bgcolor="lightgrey"
| colspan=6 |
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2025
| [[File:Jainendra Jain.jpg|80px]]
| [[Jainendra K. Jain]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| rowspan=3 | "For advancing our understanding of the surprising properties of [[two-dimensional electron system]]s in strong magnetic fields"
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Jainendra K. Jain|url=https://wolffund.org.il/jainendra-k-jain/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2 align=center | [[Mordehai Heiblum]]
| {{Flag|Israel}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=Mordehai (Moty) Heiblum|url=https://wolffund.org.il/mordehai-moty-heiblum/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|-
| colspan=2 align=center | [[James P. Eisenstein]]
| {{Flag|United States}}
| <ref>{{Cite web|title=James P. Eisenstein|url=https://wolffund.org.il/james-p-eisenstein/|publisher=[[Wolf Foundation]]|access-date=2026-03-13}}</ref>
|}

=== Number of laureates per country ===
{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:right;"
!align="center" style="background-color:#ABCDEF" |Country
!align="center" style="background-color:#ABCDEF" |Number
|-
| align="left" | {{USA}} || 36
|-
| align="left" | {{GBR}} || 7
|-
| align="left" | {{DEU}} || 6
|-
| align="left" | {{ISR}} || 6
|-
| align="left" | {{FRA}} || 4
|-
| align="left" | {{CHE}} || 3
|-
| align="left" | {{AUT}} || 2
|-
| align="left" | {{BEL}} || 2
|-
| align="left" | {{CAN}} || 2
|-
| align="left" | {{ITA}} || 2
|-
| align="left" | {{JPN}} || 1
|-
| align="left" | {{NLD}} || 1
|-
| align="left" | {{RUS}} || 1
|-
| align="left" | {{SWE}} || 1
|}

== See also ==
* [[List of physics awards]]

== Notes ==
{{Noteslist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist|2}}

== External links ==
* [https://wolffund.org.il/home-page/ List of Wolf Prize laureates], Wolf Foundation
* {{cite web | title=Placido Domingo Wins Israel Wolf Prize | work=Huffington Post | date=2012-01-10
| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/placido-domingo-israel-wolf-prize_n_1196509.html}}
* {{cite web | title=Eight foreign standouts to receive Wolf Prize |url=https://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=298237|work=Jerusalem Post|date=2013-01-03}}
* [https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Health/Wolf-Prizes-in-the-sciences-and-arts-presented-to-nine-North-Americans-389466 Wolf Prizes 2015]
* [https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Weizmann-professor-among-7-Wolf-Prize-laureates-441464 Jerusalempost - Wolf Prizes 2016]
* [https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Wolf-Prize-to-be-awarded-to-eight-laureates-from-US-UK-and-Switzerland-477364 Jerusalempost - Wolf Prizes 2017]
* [https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Paul-McCartney-among-9-Wolf-Prize-recipients-542404 Jerusalempost - Wolf Prizes 2018]

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