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Encyclopedia > Nobel Prize Laureates by Country

Laureates/Winners of the Nobel Prize listed by country. There are 770 laureates in all. Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... A country, a land, is a geographical area that connotes an independent political entity, with its own government, administration, laws, often a constitution, police, military, tax rules, and population, who are one anothers countrymen. ...


Note: "country" refers to country of residence at the time of receiving the prize, not necessarily the country of birth; unless otherwise known by birth place (e.g. German scientist, Swiss physicist). In cases where the laureate was naturalized and received the prize in the country of naturalization, the birth country is represented in italics.

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Argentina

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel at World Social Forum 2003 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Pérez Esquivel) (born November 26, 1931), from Argentina, was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize. ... Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887–September 21, 1971) was an Argentinian physiologist who received (with Carl and Gerty Cori) the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar (glucose) in animals. ... Carlos Saavedra Lamas (November 1, 1878 - May 5, 1959) was an Argentinian academic and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936. ... Luis Federico Leloir, born September 6, 1906 – died December 2, 1987, was a biochemist born in Paris but who lived all his life in Argentina. ... César Milstein (October 8, 1927 – March 24, 2002), a British scientist, was born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina. ...

Australia

Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet (September 3, 1899–August 31, 1985) was an Australian biologist. ... William Lawrence Bragg William Lawrence Bragg (March 31, 1890 - July 1, 1971) was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915. ... J.M. Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee (pronounced coot-SEE-uh) is a South African author. ... John Kappa Cornforth was born in Australia, and has been profoundly deaf since his teens. ... Peter Doherty on a stamp released by Australia Post Dr. Peter C. Doherty (born 1940) is an Australian researcher in the field of medicine. ... Sir John Carew Eccles (January 27, 1903–May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. ... Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (September 24, 1898 – February 21, 1968) was a pharmacologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the extraction of penicillin. ... Patrick White (May 28, 1912 – September 30, 1990) was an Australian author. ...

Austria

Alfred Hermann Fried (1864-1921) was an Austrian pacifist, publicist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and co-winner (with Tobias Asser) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911. ... Bertha Sophie Felicitas Baronin von Suttner (June 9, 1843 in Prague _ June 21, 1914 in Vienna), née Gräfin (Countess) Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau, was an Austrian radical pacifist and 1905 Nobel Peace Prize winner. ...

Bangladesh

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (Bangla: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, Robindronath Ţhakur) (May 7, 1861 - August 7, 1941) (in the Bangla Calendar, 25 Baishakh, 1268 - 22 Srabon, 1348), also called Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo philosopher and nationalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, becoming the first Asian to win...

Belgium

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, Belgian author Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist. ... Christian de Duve (born October 2, 1917) is a biochemist. ... Albert Claude (August 24, 1899 - May 22, 1983) was a Belgian biologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1974 for his medicine research. ... Ilya Prigogine (January 25, 1917 – May 28, 2003) was a Belgian physicist and chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility. ... Dr. Corneille Jean François Heymans (March 28, 1892 - July 18, 1968) was a Belgian physiologist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for for showing how blood pressure and oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain. ...

Canada

Sir Frederick Banting Sir Frederick Grant Banting (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate. ... Bertram Neville Brockhouse (July 15, 1918 – October 13, 2003) was a Nobel prize-winning Canadian physicist. ... Richard E. Taylor Richard E. Taylor (born November 2, 1929) is an American professor (Emeritus) at Stanford University and the laureate of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Physics. ... The Right Honourable Lester Bowles Mike Pearson, PC , CC , OM , OBE , MA , BA , LL.D (April 23, 1897 – December 27, 1972) was a Canadian statesman, diplomat and politician who was made a Nobel Laureate in 1957 and served as the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963, to...

China

Dr. Chen Ning Franklin YANG Chen Ning Franklin YANG (楊振寧 pinyin: Yáng Zhènníng) (born September 22, 1922) is a Chinese American physicist, who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles. ... U.S. government photo Tsung-Dao Lee (李政道 Pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngdào) (born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese American physicist who did work on high energy particle physics, symmetry principles, and statistical mechanics. ...

Chile

Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 10, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1945. ... Pablo Neruda as a Presidential candidate in 1970 Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904–September 23, 1973) was the pen name of the Chilean writer Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basualto, considered one of the greatest Spanish-language poets of the 20th century. ...

Colombia

Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José García Márquez (born March 6, 1928) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, and political activist. ...

Croatia

Ivo Andrić. ... Lavoslav (Leopold) Ružička (September 13, 1887 - September 26, 1976) was a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, the first one from Croatia. ... Vladimir Prelog (July 23, 1906 - January 7, 1998) was a renowned chemist from Croatia who worked in Prague, Zagreb and Zurich and who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1975. ...

Denmark

Fredrik Bajer (April 21, 1837 - January 22, 1922) was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908. ... Henrik Carl Peter Dam (February 21, 1895 - April 18, 1976) was a Danish biochemist and physiologist. ... Aage Niels Bohr (born in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 19, 1922) is the son of Margrethe and Niels Bohr. ... Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made essential contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. ... Fibiger won a Nobel Prize in 1926 Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (April 23, 1867 - January 30, 1928) was a Danish scientist who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ... Niels Ryberg Finsen (December 15, 1860 - September 24, 1904) was a Danish physician and 1903 Nobel Prize winner who made important discoveries regarding the use of light waves in the treatment of disease. ... Karl Gjellerup (June 2, 1857 - October 13, 1919) was a Danish poet and novelist who together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. ... Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (January 20, 1873 - November 25, 1950) was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century. ... Niels Kaj Jerne (December 23, 1911 - October 7, 1994) was a British-Danish-Swedish (English-born) immunologist. ... Schack August Steenberg Krogh (November 15, 1874 - September 13, 1949) was a professor of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen 1916-1945. ... Benjamin Roy Mottelson (born July 9, 1926) is an American-Danish physicist. ... Henrik Pontoppidan (July 24, 1857- August 21, 1943) was a realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark. ... Jens Christian Skou (born October 8, 1918) is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate. ...

Egypt

Anwar Sadat Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat – محمد أنورالسادات Arabic - (December 25, 1918 – October 6, 1981) was an Egyptian politician and President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981. ... Naguib Mahfouz (born December 11, 1911) is an Egyptian novelist. ... Ahmed Hassan Zewail (Arabic: أحمد زويل) (born February 26, 1946) is an Egyptian chemist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. ...

France

Henri Bergson Henri-Louis Bergson (October 18, 1859 – January 4, 1941) was a French philosopher, influential in France, but out of the main currents of his time. ... Albert Camus Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher and one of the principal luminaries (with Jean-Paul Sartre) of existentialism. ... Georges Charpak (born August 1, 1924) is a noted physicist. ... Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born April 1, French physicist working at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, where he has also studied physics. ... Anatole France (April 16, 1844 - October 12, 1924) was the pen name of French author Jacques Anatole François Thibault. ... Roger Martin du Gard (March 23, 1881- August 22, 1958) was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. ... Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (born October 24, 1932) is a French physicist and Nobel laureate. ... André Paul Guillaume Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951) was a French author and spokesman for gay rights. ... Irène Joliot-Curie Irène Joliot-Curie née Curie (September 12, 1897 – March 17, 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. ... François Mauriac (October 11, 1885–September 1, 1970) was a French author. ... Frédéric Mistral (September 8, 1830 - March 25, 1914) was a French poet who led the 19th century revival of Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. ... Frédéric Passy (May 20, 1822 - June 12, 1912) was a French economist and advocate of international arbitration. ... Ren -Fran ois-Armand Prudhomme (March 16, 1839 - September 6, 1907) was a French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in literature, 1901. ... Louis Renault (1843 - 1918) was a French jurist and educator, the cowinner in 1907 (with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta) of the Nobel Prize for Peace. ... Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 - December 30, 1944) was a French writer. ... Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) was a French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry. ... Jean Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ... Claude Simon (10 October 1913 - 6 July 2005) was the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature who in his novels combined the poets and the painters creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition. ... Gao Xingjian (高行健, pinyin: Gāo Xíngjiàn; born January 4, 1940), is a Chinese emigré novelist, dramatist and critic, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

Germany

Johannes Georg Bednorz (born May 16, 1950) is a German physicist who, along with Karl Alex Muller, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at temperatures higher than had previously been thought attainable. ... Gerd Binnig (born July 20, 1947) is a German-born physicist who shared with Heinrich Rohrer half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). ... Heinrich Böll Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917–July 16, 1985) was one of Germanys foremost post-World War II writers. ... Karl Ferdinand Braun (June 6, 1850 - April 20, 1918) was a German physicist, born in Fulda. ... Albert Einstein, by Yousuf Karsh Albert Einsteins letter to President Roosevelt in 1939 about his concerns Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist of Swiss and American citizenship, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. ... Rudolf Christoph Eucken (January 5, 1846 - September 15, 1926) was a philosopher, and the winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature. ... James Franck (August 26, 1882 - May 21, 1964) was a German-born physicist and Nobel laureate. ... Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass, Nobel Prize-winning German author, was born in the Free City of Danzig (now GdaÅ„sk, Poland) on October 16, 1927. ... Gerhart Hauptmann Gerhart Hauptmann (November 15, 1862 - June 6, 1946), German dramatist, was born on at Obersalzbrunn in Silesia, the son of an hotel-keeper. ... Werner Heisenberg Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics. ... Gustav Ludwig Hertz (July 22, 1887, Hamburg – October 30, 1975, Berlin) was a German physicist, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. ... Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (March 15, 1830 - April 2, 1914) was a German author. ... Wolfgang Ketterle (born October 21, 1957, in Heidelberg, Germany) is a German physicist and a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... Klaus von Klitzing, (born June 28, 1943 in Schroda, Posen) is a Polish-German physicist. ... Max von Laue (October 9, 1879 - April 24, 1960) was a German physicist, who studied under Max Planck. ... Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, philanthropist and essayist, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and intellectual and an underlying... Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (30 November 1817 - 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar and historian, generally regarded as the greatest classicist of the 19th century. ... Karl Alexander Müller (born April 20, 1927) is a Swiss physicist who, along with J. Georg Bednorz, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at higher temperatures than had previously been thought attainable. ... Wolfgang Paul (August 10, 1913 - December 7, 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap. ... This article is about Planck, the German physicist. ... Wilhelm Wien Wilhelm Wien (January 13, 1864 – August 30, 1928) was a German physicist who, in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to compose Wiens Law, which relates the maximum emission of a blackbody to its temperature. ... Wilhelm Röntgen Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (March 27, 1845 – February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, of the University of Würzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that are now known as x-rays or Röntgen Rays. ... Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (December 25, 1906–May 25, 1988) was a German physicist. ... Erwin Schrödinger, as depicted on the former Austrian 1000 Schilling bank note. ... Nelly Sachs, (10 December 1891, Berlin - 12 May 1970, Stockholm) was a German poet and dramatist who was transformed by the Nazi experience from a dilettante into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews. ... Johannes Stark (April 15, 1874 – June 21, 1957) was a prominent 20th century physicist, and a Physics Nobel Prize laureate. ...

Greece

This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης) (February 19, 1900 in Smyrna in Asia Minor (now İzmir, Turkey) - September 20, 1971) is the pen name of Greek poet Giorgos Seferiadis. ...

Guatemala

Miguel Ángel Asturias (October 19, 1899 – June 9, 1974) was a Guatemalan writer and diplomat. ... Rigoberta Menchú Tum (born in Chimel, Guatemala, January 9, 1959) was the recipient of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, given in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples. Her prize is based for the most part on...

Hungary

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Robert Bárány Robert Bárány (April 22, 1876–April 8, 1936) was an Austrian physician of Hungarian origin. ... Békésy won a Nobel Prize in 1961 for his research on the workings of the inner ear. ... Milton Friedman Milton Friedman (born July 31, 1912) is a U.S. economist, known primarily for his work on macroeconomics and for his advocacy of laissez-faire capitalism. ... Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes) (5th June, 1900, Budapest - 9th February, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist who is most notable for inventing holography. ... Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (born September 9, 1923, Yonkers, New York, U.S.A.) is an American physician and medical researcher, who was the corecipient (along with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976. ... John Charles Harsanyi (May 29, 1920 - August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American business and economics professor who contributed to the study of game theory in mathematics by developing the analysis of games of incomplete information. ... Avram Hershko (born December 31, 1937) is an Israeli biologist. ... George de Hevesy (August 1, 1885 - July 5, 1966) was a Hungarian chemist who was important in the development of the tracer method where radioactive tracers are used to study chemical processes, e. ... Imre Kertész (born November 9, 1929) is Jewish-Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history. Kertész best-known work, Fateless (Sorstalanság) describes... Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard, in Hungarian Fülöp Lénárd (born in Bratislava on June 7, 1862 – died May 20, 1947 in Messelhausen) was a physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of... George Andrew Olah (born 1927) is a U.S. (Hungarian-born) chemist. ... John Charles Polanyi (born January 23, 1929) is a Canadian chemist. ... Albert Szent-Györgyi (September 16, 1893 - October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. ... Elie Wiesel Eliezer Wiesel (born September 30, 1928) is a Holocaust survivor, a world–renowned author, and a political activist. ... Eugene Wigner (left) and Alvin Weinberg Eugene Paul Wigner (Hungarian Wigner Pál Jenő) (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995) was a Hungarian physicist and mathematician. ... Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (April 1, 1865 - September 23, 1929) was a German (Austrian-born) chemist who studied colloids. ...

Iceland

Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson) (April 23, 1902 - February 8, 1998) was a famous 20th century Icelandic author of such novels as Independent People, The Atom Station, Paradise Reclaimed, Icelands Bell, The Fish Can Sing and World Light. ...

India

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (Bangla: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, Robindronath Å¢hakur) (May 7, 1861 - August 7, 1941) (in the Bangla Calendar, 25 Baishakh, 1268 - 22 Srabon, 1348), also called Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo philosopher and nationalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, becoming the first Asian to win... Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (चन्द्रशेखर वेङ्कट रामन्) (November 7, 1888-November 21, 1970) was an Indian physicist. ... Har Gobind Khorana (born January 9, 1922) is a molecular biologist. ... Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta (August 27, 1910 – September 5, 1997) was an internationally renowned Catholic nun and founder of the Missionaries of Charity whose work among the poor of Calcutta (later renamed Kolkata) was widely reported. ... Chandra in his later years. ... Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (Bangla: অমর্ত্য কুমার সেন)(born November 3, 1933) is an Indian (Bengali) economist best known for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, and the underlying mechanisms of poverty. ...

Iran

Shirin Ebadi Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شیرین عبادی; born June 21, 1947) is an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist. ...

Ireland

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. ... Seamus Justin Heaney (b. ... Seán MacBride (26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988) was a senior Irish politician, barrister, revolutionary & statesman. ... George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. ... Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (October 6, 1903 – June 25, 1995) was an Irish physicist, the winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physics along with Sir John Douglas Cockcroft. ... William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic and public figure. ...

Israel

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes) (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1966). ... Aaron Ciechanover (אהרון צחנובר) (born October 1, 1947) is an Israeli biologist. ... Avram Hershko (born December 31, 1937) is an Israeli biologist. ... Daniel Kahneman (born 1934 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a key pioneer and theorist of behavioral finance, which integrates economics and cognitive science to explain seemingly irrational risk management behavior in human beings. ... Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin (or Yitschak Rabin) ( יִצְחָק רַבִּין in Hebrew ), (March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. ... Shimon Peres Shimon Peres (Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן פֶּרֶס) (born August 21, 1923), an Israeli politician, is the head of the Israeli Labour Party and served as 8th Prime Minister of Israel from 1984-1986 and 1995-1996 and Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel from 2001-2002, and became Vice Premier in a coalition...

Italy

Giosuè Carducci (July 27, 1835 – near Lucca, February 16, 1907) was an Italian poet, one of Italys greatest, and a teacher. ... Guglielmo Marconi (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate, known for the development of a practical wireless telegraphy system commonly known as the radio. Marconi was President of the Accademia dItalia and a member of the Fascist Grand Council of Italy. ... Grazia Deledda (September 27, 1871 - August 15, 1936), born in Nuoro, Sardinia, was an Italian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. ... Dario Fo Dario Fo (born March 24, 1926), is an Italian satirist playwright, theater director and composer. ... Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (September 20, 1833 - February 10, 1918) had a personality as paradoxical as the term «militant pacifist» which was so often applied to him. ... Eugeni Montale Eugenio Montale (October 12, 1896 - September 12, 1981) was an Italian poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975. ... Giulio Natta (1903 - 1979) was an Italian chemist. ... Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936) was an Italian dramatist and novelist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. ... Salvatore Quasimodo (August 20, 1901 - June 14, 1968 ) was an Italian author. ... Carlo Rubbia Carlo Rubbia (born March 31, 1934) is an Italian physicist. ... Rita Levi-Montalcini (born April 22, 1909 in Turin) is an Italian-American neurologist who, together with colleague Stanley Cohen, received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of growth factors. ...

Japan

Hideki Yukawa Hideki Yukawa (湯川 秀樹, January 23, 1907 - September 8, 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese person to win the Nobel prize. ... Sin-Itiro Tomonaga or Shinichirō Tomonaga (朝永 振一郎 Tomonaga Shinichirō, March 31, 1906–July 8, 1979) was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. ... Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari, June 14, 1899 - April 16, 1972) was a Japanese novelist whose spare, lyrical and subtly shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. ... Leo Esaki (江崎 玲於奈; correct transcription Esaki Reona; also known as Esaki Leona) (born March 12, 1925) is a Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 for his discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. ... Sato negotiated with U.S. president Richard M. Nixon for the repatriation of Okinawa. ... Kenichi Fukui (福井謙一 Fukui Kenichi, October 4, 1918 – January 9, 1998) was a Japanese chemist. ... Susumu Tonegawa (利根川 進 Tonegawa Susumu, born September 6, 1939) is a Japanese scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity. ... Kenzaburo Oe Kenzaburo Oe (大江 健三郎 ÅŒe Kenzaburō, born January 31, 1935) is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. ... Professor Hideki Shirakawa 白川 英樹 Shirakawa Hideki, born August 20, 1936) is a Japanese chemist and winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of conductive polymers together with Alan J. Heeger and Alan G MacDiarmid. ... Ryoji Noyori (野依良治) (born September 3, 1938) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001. ... Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴 昌俊 Koshiba Masatoshi, born on September 19, 1926 in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture -) is a Japanese physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. ... Koichi Tanaka (田中 耕一, born August 3, 1959) is a Japanese scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for developing a novel method for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules. ...

Kenya

Wangari Maathai Wangari Muta Maathai (born April 1, 1940 in Nyeri, Kenya) is a Kenyan environmental and political activist. ...

Mexico

Alfonso García Robles (20 March 1911 – 2 September 1991) was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Swedens Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. ... Octavio Paz on the cover of his Selected Poems (1988) Octavio Paz (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Mario J. Molina (born March 19, 1943) was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in elucidating the threat to the Earths ozone layer of chlorofluorocarbon gases (or CFCs). ...

Nigeria

Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (b. ...

The Netherlands

The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). ... Tobias Michael Carel Asser (April 28, 1838 - July 29, 1913) was a Dutch jurist, cowinner (with Alfred Fried) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first Hague peace conference (1899). ... Nicolaas Bloembergen (born March 11, 1920) is an Dutch physicist. ... Paul J. Crutzen (December 3rd, 1933 - ) is a Dutch nobel prize winning atmospheric chemist. ... Peter Joseph William Debye (March 24, 1884 - November 2, 1966) (born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije) was a Dutch physical chemist. ... Christiaan Eijkman (August 11, 1858—November 5, 1930) was a Dutch physician and pathologist whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins. ... Willem Einthoven (May 21, 1860 - September 28, 1927) invented the electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it. ... Jacobus Henricus van t Hoff (August 30, 1852 - March 1, 1911) was a Dutch physical and organic chemist and the winner of the inaugural Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ... Gerard t Hooft at Harvard University Gerardus (Gerard) t Hooft (born July 5, 1946) is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ... Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (September 21, 1853 – February 21, 1926) was a Dutch physicist. ... Tjalling Charles Koopmans (August 28, 1910–February 26, 1985) was the joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. ... Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (July 18, 1853, Arnhem – February 4, 1928, Haarlem) was a Dutch physicist and the winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on electromagnetic radiation. ... Simon van der Meer (born November 24, 1925) is a Dutch physicist. ... Jan Tinbergen (The Hague, April 12, 1903 - June 9, 1994), Dutch economist, was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. ... Nikolaas Tinbergen (April 15, 1907 - December 21, 1988) was a noted ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl Von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns. ... Martinus J.G. Veltman (Tini for short) (born June 27, 1931) is a 1999 Nobel prize laureate for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics, work done at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ... van der Waals Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 – March 8, 1923) was a Dutch scientist famous for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids, for which he won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1910. ... Pieter Zeeman (May 25, 1865 – October 9, 1943) (pronounced zāmän) was a physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect. ... Frederik Zernike (Amsterdam, July 16, 1888 – March 10, 1966) was a Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase contrast microscope, an instrument that permits the study of internal cell structure without the need to stain and thus kill the...

Norway

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (December 8, 1832–April 26, 1910) was a Norwegian author and Nobel Prize in Literature winner in 1903. ... Knut Hamsun (31 years old) in 1890 Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a leading Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. ... Sigrid Undset as photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1927. ...

Pakistan

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Palestine

... Yasser Arafat Yasser Arafat (August 4 or August 24, 1929 – November 11, 2004), born Muhammad `Abd ar-Rauf al-Qudwa al-Husayni (Arabic محمد عبد الرؤوف القدوة الحسيني) and also known as Abu `Ammar (ابو عمّار), was co-founder and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (1969–2004...

Poland

Marie Curie, one of the few people to win two Nobel Prizes in different fields, was one of the most significant researchers of radiation and its effects as a pioneer of radiology. ... Henryk Sienkiewicz Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (pronounce: [γεnrik ɕenkieviʧ]) (May 5, 1846 - November 15, 1916) was a Polish novelist, one of the outstanding writers of the second half of the 19th century. ... Marie Curie, one of the few people to win two Nobel Prizes in different fields, was one of the most significant researchers of radiation and its effects as a pioneer of radiology. ... WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw StanisÅ‚aw Reymont WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw StanisÅ‚aw Reymont (May 7, 1867 – December 5, 1925) (the actual name was Rejment) was a Polish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924. ... CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz in September 1999 CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz (pronounced [ʧεsÈ—av miȗɔʃ]; June 30, 1911–August 14, 2004) was a Polish poet and essayist. ... Term of office from December 22, 1990 until December 23, 1995 Profession Electrician and shipyard worker Political party none, see Solidarity for details Spouse Danuta WaÅ‚Ä™sowa Date of birth September 29, 1943 Place of birth Popowo, Poland Date of death Place of death Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa (pronounced , born September... A 1996 post stamp with WisÅ‚awa Szymborska WisÅ‚awa Szymborska (born July 2, 1923) is a Polish poet, essayist and translator. ...

Portugal

José Saramago José Saramago (born November 16, 1922,) is a Portuguese writer, playwright, and journalist. ...

Romania

Dr. Palade won the Nobel Prize in 1974. ... Elie Wiesel Eliezer Wiesel (born September 30, 1928) is a Holocaust survivor, a world–renowned author, and a political activist. ...

Russia and USSR

Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov (Алексей Алексеевич Абрикосов) (born June 25, 1928, in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR.) is a Russian theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. ... Scientist, born 1930 in Belarus. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... The Russian writer Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (October 10, 1870 - November 8, 1953), born in Voronezh, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933. ... Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (Russian Павел Алексеевич Черенков) (July 28, 1904 - January 6, 1990) was a Soviet physicist and Nobel Prize winner. ... Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg (Виталий Лазаревич Гинзбург) (born October 4, 1916 in Moscow) is a Soviet/Russian theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the former Soviet Union, and the successor to Igor Tamm as head of the Academys physics institute (FIAN). ... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov (Gorbachev)   listen? (Russian: ; pronunciation: ) (born March 2, 1931), was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. ... Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich (January 19, 1912 in Petersburg — April 7, 1986 in Moscow) was a Soviet/Russian mathematician and economist. ... Categories: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winners | Microbiologists | People stubs ... Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Борис Леонидович Пастернак) was a major Russian poet and writer. ... Ivan Pavlov Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (September 14, 1849 - February 27, 1936) was a Russian physiologist who first described the phenomenon now known as conditioning in experiments with dogs. ... Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Прохоров) (July 11, 1916 – January 8, 2002) was an Australian-Russian physicist. ... Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (Никола́й Никола́евич Семёнов) (April 15 (April 3, Old Style), 1896 – September 25, 1986) was a Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist. ... Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Шо́лохов) (May 24, 1905 (Old Style May 11) - February 21, 1984) was a Soviet/Russian novelist. ... Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union for his book The Gulag Archipelago. ... Lev Davidovich Landau (Ле́в Дави́дович Ланда́у) (January 22, 1908 – April 1, 1968) was a prominent Soviet physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics whose broad field of work included the theory of superconductivity and superfluidity, quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics and particle physics. ...

Spain

Vicente Aleixandre Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (April 26, 1898 – December 14, 1984) Spanish poet, born in Sevilla. ... Jacinto Benavente Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (August 12, 1866 – July 14, 1954), awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922, was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. ... Camilo José Cela Trulock (May 11, 1916 – January 17, 2002) was a Spanish writer. ... José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (1832 – 1916) was Spanish mathematician, statesman, and the leading Spanish dramatist of the last quarter of the 19th century. ... Juan Ramón Jiménez (December 24, 1881 - May 29, 1958) was a Spanish poet. ... Santiago Ramon y Cajal Santiago Ramón y Cajal (May 1, 1852–October 17/18, 1934) was a famous Spanish histologist and father of neuroscience. ...

Sweden

Categories: Stub | 1844 births | 1916 deaths | Nobel Peace Prize winners | Swedish politicians ... Eyvind Johnson, (July 29, 1900- August 25, 1976) was a Swedish author. ... Categories: Stub | 1864 births | 1931 deaths | Members of the Swedish Academy | Nobel Prize in Literature winners | Swedish language poets ... Pär Lagerkvist (May 23, 1891 – July 11, 1974) was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1951. ... Selma Lagerlöf receives the Nobel Prize in Literature The Swedish 20-krona bill, with Selma Lagerlöf Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf  listen? (November 20, 1858 – March 16, 1940) was a Swedish author, known internationally for Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (a story for children), and awarded the... Harry Martinson (May 6, 1904 - February 11, 1978) is a Swedish author and poet from Blechingia. ... Verner von Heidenstam (July 6, 1859 - May 20, 1940) was a Swedish poet and a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916. ...

Switzerland

Werner Arber (born June 3, 1929) is a Swiss microbiologist. ... This page only addresses the German physicist, for other usages, see Felix Bloch (disambiguation) Felix Bloch, Courtesy of Nobelprize. ... Daniel Bovet (March 23, 1907-April 8, 1992) was a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters. ... Élie Ducommun (February 19, 1833-December 7, 1906) was a winner of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with Charles Albert Gobat. ... Jean Henri Dunant (May 8, 1828 – October 30, 1910) (often called Henry Dunant or Henri Dunant) was a Swiss businessman and humanitarian who founded the Red Cross movement. ... Albert Einstein, by Yousuf Karsh Albert Einsteins letter to President Roosevelt in 1939 about his concerns Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist of Swiss and American citizenship, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. ... Richard Robert Ernst (born August 14, 1933) is a Swiss chemist and Nobel Laureate. ... Dr Edmond H. Fischer (born April 6, 1920) is a Swiss-American biochemist. ... Charles Albert Gobat (May 21, 1843 - March 16, 1914) was a Swiss lawyer, educational administrator, and politician who jointly received the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize with Élie Ducommun for their leadership of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. ... Charles Edouard Guillaume ( February 15, 1861 – May 13, 1938) received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 in recognition of the service he had rendered to precision measurements in Physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys. ... Walter Rudolf Hess (March 17, 1881 - August 12, 1973) was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs. ... Hermann Hesse Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a German author, and the winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in literature. ... Paul Karrer (April 21, 1889-June 18, 1971) was a Swiss biochemist best known for his work on vitamins. ... Emil Theodor Kocher (August 25, 1841 - July 27, 1917), Nobel Prize winner in 1909 for his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland Born in Bern. ... Karl Alexander Müller (born April 20, 1927) is a Swiss physicist who, along with J. Georg Bednorz, was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint discovery of superconductivity in certain substances at higher temperatures than had previously been thought attainable. ... Paul Hermann Müller (January 12, 1899 – October 12, 1965) was a Swiss chemist and winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. Müller was born in Olten/Solothurn. ... Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (April 25, 1900 – December 15, 1958) was an Austrian-Swiss physicist noted for his work on the theory of spin. ... Vladimir Prelog (July 23, 1906 - January 7, 1998) was a renowned chemist from Croatia who worked in Prague, Zagreb and Zurich and who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1975. ... Tadeus Reichstein (July 20, 1897 - August 1, 1996) was a Polish Nobel Prize-winning chemist. ... Heinrich Rohrer (born June 6, 1933) is a Swiss physicist who, with Gerd Binnig, received half of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Physics for their joint invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). ... Lavoslav (Leopold) Ružička (September 13, 1887 - September 26, 1976) was a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, the first one from Croatia. ... Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (April 24, 1845 - 1924) was a Swiss poet of visionary imagination and the author of pessimistic yet heroic verse. ... Hermann Staudinger (March 23, 1881 in Worms- Sept. ... Max Theiler (January 30, 1899 - August 11, 1972) was a South African virologist, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine for yellow fever. ... Alfred Werner (December 12, 1866 - November 15, 1919) was a German Nobel prize-winning chemist. ... Rolf Martin Zinkernagel (January 6, 1944 in Riehen, Basel-Stadt) is Professor of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich. ...

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