[citation needed] 2009: "to August Jonathan Home and colleagues at NIST for unveiled the first small-scale device that could be described as a complete "quantum computer" 2010: "to ALPHA and the ASACUSA group at CERN for have created new ways of controlling antihydrogen" 2011: Aephraim M. Steinberg and colleagues from the University of Toronto in Canada for using the technique of "weak measurement" to track the average paths of single photons passing through a Young's interference experiment.

[14] 2018: "Discovery that led to the development of “twistronics”, which is a new and very promising technique for adjusting the electronic properties of graphene by rotating adjacent layers of the material.

"[15] 2019: "First direct observation of a black hole and its ‘shadow’ by the Event Horizon Telescope" [16] 2020: "Silicon-based light with a direct band gap in microelectronics" [17] 2021: "Quantum entanglement of two macroscopic objects" [18] 2022: "Deflection of a near-Earth asteroid by DART satellite" [19] 2023: "Brain–computer interface that allowed a paralysed man to walk" [20] 2024: "Quantum error correction with 48 logical qubits; and independently, below the surface code threshold" [21] A blue ribbon () appears against the winner.

2009: The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo 2010: The Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology by Anil Ananthaswamy 2011: Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science by Lawrence Krauss from Case Western Reserve University[22] 2012: How the Hippies Saved Physics by David Kaiser from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[23] 2013: Physics in Mind: a Quantum View of the Brain by the biophysicist Werner Loewenstein[24] 2014: Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape our Man-made World - Mark Miodownik 2015: Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn: a Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing and the Beginning of Everything - Amanda Gefter 2016: Why String Theory?

- Joseph Conlon[25] 2017: Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story - Angela Saini[26] 2018: Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different - Philip Ball[27] 2019: The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information are Solving the Mystery of Life - Paul Davies[28] 2015: