As of 2020, the only person who has received the Nobel prize for physics twice is:

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The correct answer is John Bardeen.

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John Bardeen is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice.
John Bardeen received the Nobel prize for physics in 1956 for amplifying electric signals proved decisive for telephony and radio.
He received the Nobel prize for physics in 1972 for formulating a theory based on quantum mechanics.
Please note that the 1956 nobel prize in physics was awarded jointly to William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect."
The 1972 nobel prize in physics was awarded jointly to John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer "for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory."