For ground-breaking research on quantum many-body systems using ultra-cold atomic and molecular gases, opening the way to quantum simulations of ‘artificial solids’
Immanuel Bloch
Scientific Director, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching; Professor for Experimental Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
For contributions to the physics of fluid phenomena on the nanoliter scale
Stephen R. Quake
Head of Science, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Redwood City, California; Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California
For fabrication of high-quality hexagonal boron nitride crystals, the availability of which enabled a revolution in research on the electronic behavior of two-dimensional materials
Takashi Taniguchi
Fellow and Director of International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba
Kenji Watanabe
Chief Researcher, Electric and Electronic Materials Field, Electroceramics Group, Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba