| Contribution | Laureates | Category | Year | Patents |
| Blue light-emitting diode | Isamu Akasaki
Hiroshi Amano
Shuji Nakamura | Physics | 2014 | US5,578,839 (1996)
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| CCD sensor | Willard S. Boyle
George E. Smith | Physics | 2009 | |
| Transmission of light in fibers for optical communication | Charles Kuen Kao | Physics | 2009 | US3,549,233 (1970)
US4,047,796 (1977)
US4,077,701(1978) |
| Giant Magnetoresistance | Albert Fert
Peter Grünberg | Physics | 2007 | |
| Laser-based precision spectroscopy and the optical frequency comb technique | John L. Hall
Theodor W. Hänsch | Physics | 2005 | |
| Superconductors and superfluids theory | Alexei A. Abrikosov
Vitaly L. Ginzburg
Anthony J. Leggett | Physics | 2003 | |
| Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) discoveries | Paul C. Lauterbur
Sir Peter Mansfield | Medicine | 2003 |
US5,990,680 (1997)
US6,088,611 (1995)
US5,708,359 (1995)
US5,532,006 (1993)
US5,081,992 (1990) |
| Semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed and opto-electronics | Zhores I. Alferov
Herbert Kroemer | Physics | 2000 | US4,001,055 (1975)
US3,958,265 (1974) |
| Conductive polymers discovery and development | Alan J. Heeger
Alan G. MacDiarmid
Hideki Shirakawa | Chemistry | 2000 | US4,204,216 (1978)
US4,806,271 (1987)
US4,594,180 (1984) |
| Signal transduction in the nervous system | Arvid Carlsson
Paul Greengard
Eric R. Kandel | Medicine | 2000 | |
| Integrated circuit invention | Jack S. Kilby | Physics | 2000 | US3,138,743 (1959) |
| High resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy development | Richard R. Ernst | Chemistry | 1991 | US3,968,424 (1974)
US4,513,247 (1982) |
| Invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks | Norman F. Ramsey
Hans G. Dehmelt
Wolfgang Paul | Physics | 1989 | |
| Superconductivity in ceramic materials discovery | J. Georg Bednorz
K. Alexander Müller | Physics | 1987 | |
| Electron optics; the design of the first electron microscope | Ernst Ruska | Physics | 1986 | |
| Scanning tunneling microscope | Gerd Binnig
Heinrich Rohrer | Physics | 1986 | US4,343,993 (1980) |
| Quantized Hall effect discovery | Klaus von Klitzing | Physics | 1985 | US5,646,527 (1995) |
| Development of laser spectroscopy and high-resolution electron spectroscopy | Nicolaas Bloembergen
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Kai M. Siegbahn | Physics | 1981 | |
| Electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems theory | Philip Warren Anderson
Sir Nevill Francis Mott
John Hasbrouck van Vleck | Physics | 1977 | |
| Tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors discoveries | Leo Esaki
Ivar Giaever | Physics | 1973 | US3,209,215 (1962)
US4,173,763 (1977) |
| Josephson effects: theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier | Brian David Josephson | Physics | 1973 | |
| Superconductivity: BCS-theory | John Bardeen
Leon Neil Cooper
John Robert Schrieffer | Physics | 1972 | |
| Invention of the holographic method | Dennis Gabor | Physics | 1971 | GB685,286 |
| Magneto-hydrodynamics discoveries | Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén | Physics | 1970 | |
| Antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism discoveries | Louis Eugčne Félix Néel | Physics | 1970 | |
| Quantum electronics: construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle | Charles Hard Townes
Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov | Physics | 1964 | US2,879,439 (1958)
US2,929,922 (1958) |
| Transistor invention | William Bradford Shockley
John Bardeen
Walter Houser Brattain | Physics | 1956 | US2,524,035 (1948)
US2,569,347 (1948) |
| Nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries (NMR) | Felix Bloch
Edward Mills Purcell | Physics | 1952 | US2,561,489 (1946) |
| Resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei | Isidor Isaac Rabi | Physics | 1944 | |
| Thermionic Phenomenon (Richardson's Law) | Owen Willans Richardson | Physics | 1928 | |
| Electrocardiogram (EKG, ECG) mechanism discovery | Willem Einthoven | Medicine | 1924 | |
| Elementary charge of electricity discovery; the photoelectric effect | Robert Andrews Millikan | Physics | 1923 | |
| Wireless telegraphy development | Guglielmo Marconi
Karl Ferdinand Braun | Physics | 1909 | GB12039 (1896)
GB7777 (1899)
US763,772 (1900) |
| Conduction of electricity by gases | Joseph John Thomson | Physics | 1906 | |
| Adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace | Henri Moissan | Chemistry | 1906 | |
| Cathode rays investigation | Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard | Physics | 1905 | |
| Electrolytic theory of dissociation | Svante August Arrhenius | Chemistry | 1903 | |
| Magnetism influence upon radiation phenomena | Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Pieter Zeeman | Physics | 1902 | |
