Past winners of the Wolf Prize in Physics:

• 1978 Chien-Shiung Wu
• 1979 George Eugene Uhlenbeck, Giuseppe Occhialini
• 1980 Michael E. Fisher , Leo P. Kadanoff , Kenneth G. Wilson
• 1981 Freeman J. Dyson, Gerard 't Hooft, Victor F. Weisskopf
• 1982 Leon M. Lederman, Martin M. Perl
• 1983/4 Erwin L. Hahn , Sir Peter B. Hirsch , Theodore H. Maiman
• 1984/5 Conyers Herring , Philippe Nozieres
• 1986 Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Albert J. Libchaber
• 1987 Herbert Friedman , Bruno B. Rossi, Riccardo Giacconi
• 1988 Roger Penrose, Stephen W. Hawking
• 1989 Not awarded
• 1990 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, David J. Thouless
• 1991 Maurice Goldhaber , Valentine L. Telegdi
• 1992 Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
• 1993 Benoît Mandelbrot
• 1994/5 Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Yoichiro Nambu
• 1995/6 Not awarded
• 1997 John Archibald Wheeler
• 1998 Yakir Aharonov , Sir Michael V. Berry
• 1999 Dan Shechtman
• 2000 Raymond Davis Jr. , Masatoshi Koshiba
• 2001 Not awarded
• 2002/3 Bertrand I. Halperin, Anthony J. Leggett
• 2004 Robert Brout , Francois Englert , Peter W. Higgs
• 2005 Daniel Kleppner