Two former ERC grantees awarded Nobel Prize in Physics

Another two former multiple ERC grantees, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier, were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Altogether, 14 ERC grantees have won a Nobel Prize.

In 2022, three former ERC grantees won a Nobel Prize, one i Physiology and Medicine and two in Physics.

Prof. Anne L’Huillier, a Swedish-French physicist and professor of atomic physics at Lund University, Sweden, has obtained six ERC grants over the past 15 years in total (three ERC Advanced Grants in 2008, 2013 and 2019 and three Proof of Concepts in 2013, 2017, 2023). This makes her unique.

The total list is:

• Prof. Konstantin Novoselov was the first ERC grantee to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 for his work on graphene. He held a Starting Grant and in 2010 was amongst the youngest Nobel prize winners in history. See ERC press release
• Prof. Serge Haroche, ERC Advanced Grant holder, was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems. See ERC press release 
• Professors Edvard I. Moser and May-Britt Moser, both ERC Advanced Grant holders, received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. See ERC press release
• Prof. Jean Tirole, ERC Advanced Grant holder, received the 2014 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work on examining competition, analysing how large companies should be regulated to prevent monopoly behaviour and protect consumers. See ERC press release
• Prof. Bernard Feringa, ERC Advanced Grant holder, received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. See ERC press release
• Prof. Peter J. Ratcliffe, ERC Advanced Grant holder, received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.” See ERC press release
• Prof. Giorgio Parisi, two-fold ERC Advanced Grant holder and funded for a decade, received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics “for ground-breaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.” See ERC press release
• Prof. Benjamin List, two-fold ERC Advanced Grant holder and funded for a decade, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”. See ERC press release
• Prof. Svante Pääbo, two-fold Advanced Grant holder, received the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.” See ERC press release
• Professors Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger, both Advanced Grant holders, share the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” See ERC press release

Complete Press Release.

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