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Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners.

Physics

Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg
John C. Mather, George F. Smoot
Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch
David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek
Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett
Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi
Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman
Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S. Kilby
Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman
Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui
Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips
David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert Coleman Richardson
Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines
Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull
Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
Georges Charpak
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor
Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul
Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex Müller
Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer
Klaus von Klitzing
Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William A. Fowler
Kenneth G. Wilson
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur L. Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn
James Cronin, Val Fitch
Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
Philip W. Anderson, Sir Nevill F. Mott, John H. van Vleck
Burton Richter, Samuel C.C. Ting
Aage N. Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, James Rainwater
Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson
John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, Robert Schrieffer
Dennis Gabor
Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel
Murray Gell-Mann
Luis Alvarez
Hans Bethe
Alfred Kastler
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
Charles H. Townes, Nicolay G. Basov, Aleksandr M. Prokhorov
Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
Lev Landau
Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer
Donald A. Glaser
Emilio Segrè, Owen Chamberlain
Pavel A. Cherenkov, Il´ja M. Frank, Igor Y. Tamm
Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee
William B. Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain
Willis E. Lamb, Polykarp Kusch
Max Born, Walther Bothe
Frits Zernike
Felix Bloch, E. M. Purcell
John Cockcroft, Ernest T.S. Walton
Cecil Powell
Hideki Yukawa
Patrick M.S. Blackett
Edward V. Appleton
Percy W. Bridgman
Wolfgang Pauli
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Otto Stern
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physics section.
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physics section.
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physics section.
Ernest Lawrence
Enrico Fermi
Clinton Davisson, George Paget Thomson
Victor F. Hess, Carl D. Anderson
James Chadwick
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physics section.
Erwin Schrödinger, Paul A.M. Dirac
Werner Heisenberg
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physics section.
Venkata Raman
Louis de Broglie
Owen Willans Richardson
Arthur H. Compton, C.T.R. Wilson
Jean Baptiste Perrin
James Franck, Gustav Hertz
Manne Siegbahn
Robert A. Millikan
Niels Bohr
Albert Einstein
Charles Edouard Guillaume
Johannes Stark
Max Planck
Charles Glover Barkla
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physics section.
William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg (father and son)
Max von Laue
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Gustaf Dalén
Wilhelm Wien
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Guglielmo Marconi, Ferdinand Braun
Gabriel Lippmann
Albert A. Michelson
J.J. Thomson
Philipp Lenard
Lord Rayleigh
Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Maria Sklodowska-Curie
Hendrik A. Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

Chemistry

Gerhard Ertl
Roger D. Kornberg
Robert Grubbs, Richard Schrock, Yves Chauvin
Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose
Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon
John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich
William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless
Alan Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa
Ahmed Zewail
Walter Kohn, John Pople
Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto, Richard E. Smalley
Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
George A. Olah
Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith
Rudolph A. Marcus
Richard R. Ernst
Elias James Corey
Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi
Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
Bruce Merrifield
Henry Taube
Aaron Klug
Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann
Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
Peter Mitchell
Ilya Prigogine
William Lipscomb
John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
Paul J. Flory
Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
Christian Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein
Gerhard Herzberg
Luis Leloir
Derek Barton, Odd Hassel
Lars Onsager
Manfred Eigen, Ronald G.W. Norrish, George Porter
Robert S. Mulliken
Robert Burns Woodward
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
Max F. Perutz, John C. Kendrew
Melvin Calvin
Willard F. Libby
Jaroslav Heyrovský
Frederick Sanger
Lord Todd
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Nikolay Semenov
Vincent du Vigneaud
Linus Pauling
Hermann Staudinger
Archer J.P. Martin, Richard L.M. Synge
Edwin M. McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg
Otto Diels, Kurt Alder
William F. Giauque
Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
Sir Robert Robinson
James B. Sumner, John H. Northrop, Wendell M. Stanley
Artturi Virtanen
Otto Hahn
George de Hevesy
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the chemistry section.
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the chemistry section.
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the chemistry section.
Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka
Richard Kuhn
Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer
Peter Debye
Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie
Harold C. Urey
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the chemistry section.
Irving Langmuir
Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
Hans Fischer
Arthur Harden, Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Adolf Windaus
Heinrich Wieland
The Svedberg
Richard Zsigmondy
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the chemistry section.
Fritz Pregl
Francis W. Aston
Frederick Soddy
Walther Nernst
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the chemistry section.
Fritz Haber
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the chemistry section.
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the chemistry section.
Richard Willstätter
Theodore William Richards
Alfred Werner
Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier
Maria Skłodowska-Curie
Otto Wallach
Wilhelm Ostwald
Ernest Rutherford
Eduard Buchner
Henri Moissan
Adolf von Baeyer
Sir William Ramsay
Svante Arrhenius
Emil Fischer
Jacobus H. van 't Hoff

Physiology or medicine

Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, Oliver Smithies
Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello
Barry J. Marshall, J. Robin Warren
Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck
Paul C. Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield
Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John E. Sulston
Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Sir Paul Nurse
Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel
Günter Blobel
Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
Stanley B. Prusiner
Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus
Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell
Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A. Sharp
Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs
Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas
J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus
James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings
Susumu Tonegawa
Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini
Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein
Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler, César Milstein
Barbara McClintock
Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane
Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel
Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell
Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield
Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith
Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow
Baruch S. Blumberg, D. Carleton Gajdusek
David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard M. Temin
Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade
Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen
Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey, Salvador E. Luria
Robert W. Holley, H. Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg
Ragnar Granit, Haldan K. Hartline, George Wald
Peyton Rous, Charles B. Huggins
François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod
Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen
Sir John Eccles, Alan L. Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley
Francis Crick, James D. Watson, Maurice Wilkins
Georg von Békésy
Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Medawar
Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg
George Beadle, Edward Tatum, Joshua Lederberg
Daniel Bovet
André F. Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards
Hugo Theorell
John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins
Hans Krebs, Fritz Lipmann
Selman A. Waksman
Max Theiler
Edward C. Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip S. Hench
Walter Hess, Egas Moniz
Paul Müller
Carl Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay
Hermann J. Muller
Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst B. Chain, Sir Howard Florey
Joseph Erlanger, Herbert S. Gasser
Henrik Dam, Edward A. Doisy
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physiology section.
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physiology section.
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the physiology section.
Gerhard Domagk
Corneille Heymans
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Sir Henry Dale, Otto Loewi
Hans Spemann
George H. Whipple, George R. Minot, William P. Murphy
Thomas H. Morgan
Sir Charles Sherrington, Edgar Adrian
Otto Heinrich Warburg
Karl Landsteiner
Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Hopkins
Charles Nicolle
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Johannes Fibiger
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section.
Willem Einthoven
Frederick G. Banting, John James Richard Macleod
Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Meyerhof
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section.
August Krogh
Jules Bordet
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section.
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section.
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section.
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section.
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the physiology section.
Robert Bárány
Alexis Carrel
Allvar Gullstrand
Albrecht Kossel
Theodor Kocher
Ilya Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich
Alphonse Laveran
Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Robert Koch
Ivan Pavlov
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Ronald Ross
Emil von Behring

Literature

Doris Lessing
Orhan Pamuk
Harold Pinter
Elfriede Jelinek
J. M. Coetzee
Imre Kertész
V. S. Naipaul
Gao Xingjian
Günter Grass
José Saramago
Dario Fo
Wisława Szymborska
Seamus Heaney
Kenzaburo Oe
Toni Morrison
Derek Walcott
Nadine Gordimer
Octavio Paz
Camilo José Cela
Naguib Mahfouz
Joseph Brodsky
Wole Soyinka
Claude Simon
Jaroslav Seifert
William Golding
Gabriel García Márquez
Elias Canetti
Czesław Miłosz
Odysseus Elytis
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Vicente Aleixandre
Saul Bellow
Eugenio Montale
Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
Patrick White
Heinrich Böll
Pablo Neruda
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Samuel Beckett
Yasunari Kawabata
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
Mikhail Sholokhov
Jean-Paul Sartre (refused prize)
Giorgos Seferis
John Steinbeck
Ivo Andrić
Saint-John Perse
Salvatore Quasimodo
Boris Pasternak
Albert Camus
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Halldór Laxness
Ernest Hemingway
Winston Churchill
François Mauriac
Pär Lagerkvist
Bertrand Russell
William Faulkner
T. S. Eliot
André Gide
Hermann Hesse
Gabriela Mistral
Johannes V. Jensen
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the literature section.
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the literature section.
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the literature section.
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the literature section.
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Pearl Buck
Roger Martin du Gard
Eugene O'Neill
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the literature section.
Luigi Pirandello
Ivan Bunin
John Galsworthy
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Sinclair Lewis
Thomas Mann
Sigrid Undset
Henri Bergson
Grazia Deledda
George Bernard Shaw
Władysław Reymont
William Butler Yeats
Jacinto Benavente
Anatole France
Knut Hamsun
Carl Spitteler
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the literature section.
Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
Verner von Heidenstam
Romain Rolland
No prize awarded. The prize money for this year was allocated to the Special Fund of the literature section.
Rabindranath Tagore
Gerhart Hauptmann
Maurice Maeterlinck
Paul Heyse
Selma Lagerlöf
Rudolf Eucken
Rudyard Kipling
Giosuè Carducci
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Theodor Mommsen
Sully Prudhomme

Peace

Al Gore, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus
International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
Wangari Maathai
Shirin Ebadi
Jimmy Carter
United Nations, Kofi Annan
Kim Dae-jung
Médecins Sans Frontières
John Hume, David Trimble
International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
Rigoberta Menchú
Aung San Suu Kyi
Mikhail Gorbachev
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
Óscar Arias
Elie Wiesel
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Desmond Tutu
Lech Wałęsa
Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Mother Teresa
Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
Amnesty International
Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
Andrei Sakharov
Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
No prize awarded. The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.
Willy Brandt
Norman Borlaug
International Labour Organization
René Cassin
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section.
No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section.
United Nations Children's Fund
Martin Luther King, Jr.
International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
Linus Pauling
Dag Hammarskjöld (posthumously)
Albert Lutuli
Philip Noel-Baker
Georges Pire
Lester Bowles Pearson
No prize awarded. 1/3 of the prize money for this year was allocated to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section.
No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
George C. Marshall
Albert Schweitzer
Léon Jouhaux
Ralph Bunche
Lord Boyd Orr
No prize awarded. Money allocated 1/3 to the Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section.
Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee
Emily Greene Balch, John R. Mott
Cordell Hull
International Committee of the Red Cross
No prize awarded. Money allocated 1/3 to Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section.
No prize awarded. Money allocated 1/3 to Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section.
No prize awarded. Money allocated 1/3 to Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section.
No prize awarded. Money allocated 1/3 to Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section.
No prize awarded. Money allocated 1/3 to Main Fund, 2/3 to the Special Fund of the peace section.
Nansen International Office for Refugees
The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Carl von Ossietzky
Arthur Henderson
Sir Norman Angell
No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section.
Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler
Nathan Söderblom
Frank B. Kellogg
No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section.
Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde
Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes
No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section.
No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section.
Fridtjof Nansen
Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange
Léon Bourgeois
Woodrow Wilson
No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section.
International Committee of the Red Cross
No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section.
No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section.
No prize awarded. Money allocated to the Special Fund of the peace section.
Henri La Fontaine
Elihu Root
Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried
Permanent International Peace Bureau
Auguste Beernaert, Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant
Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault
Theodore Roosevelt
Bertha von Suttner
Institute of International Law
Randal Cremer
Élie Ducommun, Albert Gobat
Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy

Economics

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Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin, Roger B. Myerson
Edmund S. Phelps
Robert J. Aumann, Thomas C. Schelling
Finn E. Kydland, Edward C. Prescott
Robert F. Engle III, Clive W. J. Granger
Daniel Kahneman, Vernon L. Smith
George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz
James J. Heckman, Daniel L. McFadden
Robert A. Mundell
Amartya Sen
Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes
James A. Mirrlees, William Vickrey
Robert E. Lucas Jr.
John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr., Reinhard Selten
Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North
Gary S. Becker
Ronald H. Coase
Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller, William F. Sharpe
Trygve Haavelmo
Maurice Allais
Robert M. Solow
James McGill Buchanan, Jr.
Franco Modigliani
Richard Stone
Gerard Debreu
George J. Stigler
James Tobin
Lawrence R. Klein
Theodore William Schultz, Sir Arthur Lewis
Herbert A. Simon
Bertil Ohlin, James Edward Meade
Milton Friedman
Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich, Tjalling C. Koopmans
Gunnar Myrdal,