Nobel Lectures in Physics (2016–2020)

This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the Nobel laureates, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches by Nobel Committee members for the period 2016–2020. The criterion for the Physics award is to the discoverer of a physical phenomenon that changed our views, or to the inventor of a new physical process that gave enormous benefits to either science at large or to the public. The biographies are interesting to read and the Nobel lectures provide detailed explanations of the phenomena for which the laureates were awarded the Nobel Prize.

List of Nobel laureates and their award citations:

(2016) David J Thouless, F Duncan M Haldane and J Michael Kosterlitz "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter";
(2017) Rainer Weiss, Barry C Barish and Kip S Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves";
(2018) Arthur Ashkin "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems", Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses";
(2019) James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology", Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star";
(2020) Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity", Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy";

Sample Chapter(s)
Preface
The Nobel Prize in Physics, 2016

Readership: Physicists and scientists.