Category: Nobel Laureates
Categories: Prestigious Awards
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace - the Nobel Prizes. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. "Nobel Prize Facts", The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
Between 1901 and 2014, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 567 times to 889 people and organizations. "Nobel Prizes and Laureates", The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
Person Profiles (373)
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Alfred Kastler
03 May 1902 Gebweiler, Bezirk Oberelsaß, Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, Deutsches Reich - 07 Jan 1984
Frank Kellogg
22 Dec 1856 Potsdam, St. Lawrence, New York, United States - 21 Dec 1937
Har Khorana
abt 09 Jan 1922 Raipur, Punjab, India - 09 Nov 2011
Jack Kilby
08 Nov 1923 Jefferson City, Missouri, United States - 20 Jun 2005
Dae-jung Kim
06 Jan 1924 Hauido, Sinan County, South Jeolla Province, Japanese Korea - 18 Aug 2009
Martin King
15 Jan 1929 501 Auburn Ave NE, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States - 04 Apr 1968
Bertha (Kinsky) von Suttner
09 Jun 1843 Prague, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) - 21 Jun 1914
Joseph Kipling
30 Dec 1865 Bombay, Maharashtra, India - 18 Jan 1936
Heinz Alfred Kissinger
27 May 1923 Fürth, Bayern, Deutsches Reich - 29 Nov 2023
Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch
11 Dec 1843 Clausthal, Hannover, Deutscher Bund - 27 May 1910
Emil Kocher
25 Aug 1841 Berne, Switzerland - 27 Jul 1917
Ludwig Karl Martin Leonhard Albrecht Kossel
16 Sep 1853 Rostock, Mecklenburg, Deutscher Bund - 05 Jul 1927
Polykarp Kusch
26 Jan 1911 Blankenburg, Herzogtum Braunschweig, Deutsches Reich - 20 Mar 1993
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Henri Marie (Lafontaine) La Fontaine
22 Apr 1854 Bruxelles, Brabant, Belgique - 14 May 1943
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
20 Nov 1858 Mårbacka, Östra Ämtervik, Värmland, Sverige - 16 Mar 1940
Willis Lamb
12 Jul 1913 Los Angeles, California, United States - 15 May 2008
Lev Landau
22 Jan 1908 Baku, Azerbaijan, Soviet Union - 01 Apr 1968
Karl Landsteiner
14 Jun 1868 Vienna, Austria-Hungary - 26 Jun 1943
Irving Langmuir
31 Jan 1881 Brooklyn, New York, USA - 16 Aug 1957
Max Theodor Felix (Laue) von Laue
09 Oct 1879 Pfaffendorf, Rheinprovinz, Preußen, Deutsches Reich - 23 Apr 1960
Paul Lauterbur
06 May 1929 Sidney, Shelby, Ohio, United States - 27 Mar 2007
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
18 Jun 1845 Paris, France - 18 May 1922
Ernest Lawrence
08 Aug 1901 Canton, South Dakota, United States - 27 Aug 1958
Leon Lederman
15 Jul 1922 New York City, New York, United States - 03 Oct 2018
Rita Levi-Montalcini
22 Apr 1909 Torino, Piedmont, Italy - 30 Dec 2012
Harry Lewis
07 Feb 1885 Sauk Centre, Stearns, Minnesota, United States - 10 Jan 1951
William Lewis
23 Jan 1915 Castries, Saint Lucia - 15 Jun 1991
Willard Libby
17 Dec 1908 Grand Valley, Garfield, Colorado, United States - 08 Sep 1980
Jonas Lippmann
16 Aug 1845 Hollerich, Luxembourg - 13 Jul 1921
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
18 Jul 1853 Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland - 04 Feb 1928
Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
abt 1898 Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia - 21 Jul 1967
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Seán MacBride
26 Jan 1904 Paris, France - 15 Jan 1988
Alan MacDiarmid
14 Apr 1927 Masterton, Wellington, New Zealand - 07 Feb 2007
John Macleod
06 Sep 1876 Clunie, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 16 Mar 1935
Maurice Maeterlinck
29 Aug 1862 Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, België - 06 May 1949
Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela
18 Jul 1918 Mvezo, Umtata, Union of South Africa - 05 Dec 2013
Paul Thomas Mann
06 Jun 1875 Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Preußen, Deutsches Reich - 12 Aug 1955
Guglielmo Marconi
25 Apr 1874 Bologna, Italy - 20 Jul 1937
Barry Marshall
1950s
George Marshall
31 Dec 1880 Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA - 16 Oct 1959
Harry Edmund (Martinsson) Martinson
06 May 1904 Jämshög, Blekinge, Sweden - 11 Feb 1978
Charles François Mauriac
11 Oct 1885 Bordeaux, Gironde, France - 01 Sep 1970
Barbara McClintock
16 Jun 1902 Hartford, Connecticut, United States - 02 Sep 1992
James Meade
23 Jun 1907 Swanage, Dorset, England, United Kingdom - 22 Dec 1995
Илья Ильич Mechnikov
15 May 1845 Ивановка, Харьковская губернія, Российская империя - 15 Jul 1916
Albert Michelson
19 Dec 1852 Strelno (now Strzelno), Prussia (now Poland) - 09 May 1931
Robert Millikan
22 Mar 1868 Morrison, Whiteside County, Illinois, USA - 19 Dec 1953
Frédéric Mistral
08 Sep 1830 Maillane, France - 25 Mar 1914
Peter Mitchell
29 Sep 1920 Mitcham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom - 10 Apr 1992
Ferdinand Moissan
28 Sep 1852 Paris, Seine, France - 20 Feb 1907
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
30 Nov 1817 Garding, Herzogtum Schleswig, Dänemark - 01 Nov 1903
Ernesto Moneta
20 Sep 1833 Milan, Austrian Empire (now Italy) - 10 Feb 1918
Jacques Monod
09 Feb 1910 Paris, Seine, France - 31 May 1976
Eugenio Montale
12 Oct 1896 Genova, Genova, Liguria, Italia - 12 Sep 1981
Thomas Morgan
25 Sep 1866 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States - 04 Dec 1945
Rudolf Mößbauer
31 Jan 1929 München, Bayern, Weimar Republic - 14 Sep 2011
Nevill Mott
30 Sep 1905 Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom - 08 Aug 1996
Kary Mullis
28 Dec 1944 Lenoir, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States - 07 Aug 2019
Wangarĩ (Muta) Maathai
01 Apr 1940 Ihithe, Nyeri, Kenya - 25 Sep 2011
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Vidiadhar Naipaul
17 Aug 1932 Chaguanas, Caroni, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, British West Indies - 11 Aug 2018
Fridtjof Nansen
10 Oct 1861 Store Frøen, Aker, Akershus, Norge - 13 May 1930
John Nash
13 Jun 1928 Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia, United States - 23 May 2015
Giulio Natta
26 Feb 1903 Imperia, Italy - 02 May 1979
Walther Nernst
25 Jun 1864 Briesen, Schroda, Posen, Preußen, Deutscher Bund - 18 Nov 1941
John Northrop
05 Jul 1891 Yonkers, Westchester, New York, United States - 27 May 1987
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Eugene O'Neill
16 Oct 1888 New York City, New York, United States - 27 Nov 1953
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Heike (Onnes) Kamerlingh Onnes
21 Sep 1853 Groningen, Groningen, Nederland - 21 Feb 1926
Lars Onsager
27 Nov 1903 Kristiana, Norway - 05 Oct 1976
Wilhelm Ostwald
02 Sep 1853 Riga, Russian Empire (now Latvia) - 04 Apr 1932
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Frédéric Passy
20 May 1822 Paris, Seine, France - 12 Jun 1912
Boris Pasternak
29 Jan 1890 Moscow, Russian Empire - 30 May 1960
Wolfgang Pauli
25 Apr 1900 Wien, Österreich unter der Enns, Österreich-Ungarn - 15 Dec 1958
Linus Pauling
28 Feb 1901 Portland, Washington, Oregon, United States - 19 Aug 1994
Ivan Pavlov
08 Oct 1849 Ryazan, Russian Empire - 27 Feb 1936
Octavio Paz Lozano
31 Mar 1914 Mixcoac, Benito Juárez, Mexico City, Mexico - 19 Apr 1998
Lester Pearson
23 Apr 1897 Newton Brook, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada - 27 Dec 1972
Arno Penzias
26 Apr 1933 Munich, Bavaria, Germany - 22 Jan 2024
Jean Perrin
30 Sep 1870 Lille, Nord, France - 17 Apr 1942
Max Perutz
19 May 1914 Vídeň, Rakousko - 06 Feb 2002
Georges Pire
11 Feb 1910 Dinant, Namur, Belgique
Karl Ernst Ludwig Max Planck
23 Apr 1858 Kiel, Herzogtum Holstein, Deutscher Bund - 04 Oct 1947
Henrik Pontoppidan
24 Jul 1857 Trinitatis Sogn, Fredericia, Vejle, Denmark - 21 Aug 1943
Cecil Powell
05 Dec 1903 Tonbridge, Kent, England, United Kingdom - 09 Aug 1969
Vladimir Prelog
23 Jul 1906 Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria - 07 Jan 1998
Илья Романович Prigogine
12 Jan 1917 Москва́, Российская империя - 28 May 2003
Aleksandr Prokhorov
11 Jul 1916 Peeramon, Queensland, Australia - 02 Jan 2002
René François Armand Prudhomme
16 Mar 1839 Paris, France - 07 Sep 1907
Edward Purcell
30 Aug 1912 Taylorville, Christian, Illinois, United States - 07 Mar 1997
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Israel Rabi
29 Jul 1898 Rymanów, Sanok, Galicia, Austria-Hungary - 11 Jan 1988
Gerty (Radnitz) Cori
15 Aug 1896 Prague, Bohemia, Austria - 26 Oct 1957
Владан (Radoman) Радоман
16 Nov 1936 Novi Sad, Serbia - 27 Oct 2015
Chandrasekhara Raman
07 Nov 1888 Thiruvanaikoil, Madras Presidency, British India - 21 Nov 1970
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
01 May 1852 Petilla de Aragón, Navarra, España - 17 Oct 1934
William Ramsay
02 Oct 1852 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland - 23 Jul 1916
Norman Ramsey
27 Aug 1915 Washington, District of Columbia, United States - 04 Nov 2011
Leonard Rapping
16 Apr 1934 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States - 01 Oct 1991
Tadeusz Reichstein
20 Jul 1897 Włocławek, Poland - 01 Aug 1996
Louis Renault
21 May 1843 Autun, France - 08 Feb 1918
Ricardo (Reyes Basoalto) Neruda
12 Jul 1904 Parral, Linares, Maule, Chile - 23 Sep 1973
Theodore Richards
31 Jan 1868 Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States - 02 Apr 1928
Owen Richardson
26 Apr 1879 Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom - 15 Feb 1959
Charles Richet
26 Aug 1850 Paris, Seine, France - 04 Dec 1935
Heinrich Rohrer
06 Jun 1933 Buchs, St. Gallen, Switzerland - 16 May 2013
Romain Rolland
29 Jan 1866 Clamecy, Nièvre, France - 30 Dec 1944
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
27 Mar 1845 Lennep, Rheinprovinz, Preußen, German Confederation - 10 Feb 1923
Theodore Roosevelt
27 Oct 1858 New York County, New York, United States - 06 Jan 1919
Elihu Root
15 Feb 1845 Clinton, New York, United States - 07 Feb 1937
Ronald Ross
13 May 1857 Almorah, Bengal, India - 16 Sep 1932
Józef Rotblat
04 Nov 1908 Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland - 31 Aug 2005
Francis Rous
05 Oct 1879 Baltimore, Maryland, USA - 06 Feb 1970
Frank Rowland
29 Jun 1927 Delaware, Ohio, United States - 10 Mar 2012
Ernst Ruska
25 Dec 1906 Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire - 27 May 1988
Bertrand Russell
18 May 1872 Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales - 02 Feb 1970
Ernest Rutherford
30 Aug 1871 Nelson, New Zealand - 19 Oct 1937
Martin Ryle
27 Sep 1918 Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom - 14 Oct 1984
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Carlos Saavedra Lamas
01 Nov 1878 Buenos Aires, Argentina - 05 May 1959
Paul Sabatier
05 Nov 1854 Carcassonne, Aude, France - 14 Aug 1941
Leonie Sachs
10 Dec 1891 Schöneberg, Provinz Brandenburg, Preußen, Deutschland - 12 May 1970
Andrei Sakharov
21 May 1921 Moscow, Moscow Uyezd, Moscow, Russian Empire - 14 Dec 1989
Paul Samuelson
15 May 1915 - 13 Dec 2009
Frederick Sanger
13 Aug 1918 Rendcomb, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom - 19 Nov 2013
Jean-Paul Sartre
21 Jun 1905 Paris XVI, Paris, Seine, France - 15 Apr 1980
Erwin Schrödinger
12 Aug 1887 Wien, Österreich - 04 Jan 1961
Theodore Schultz
30 Apr 1902 Arlington, South Dakota - 26 Feb 1998
Louis Albert Schweitzer
14 Jan 1875 Kaysersberg, Oberelsass, Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen - 04 Sep 1965
Julian Schwinger
12 Feb 1918 New York, New York, New York, USA - 16 Jul 1994
Glenn Seaborg
19 Apr 1912 Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan, United States - 25 Feb 1999
Emilio Segrè
01 Feb 1905 Tivoli, Roma, Lazio, Italy - 22 Apr 1989
Jaroslav Seifert
23 Sep 1901 Žižkov, Čechy, Rakousko - 10 Jan 1986
Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten
05 Oct 1930 Breslau, Schlesien, Preußen, Deutsches Reich - 23 Aug 2016
Barry Sharpless
1940s
George Shaw
26 Jul 1856 Dublin, Ireland - 02 Nov 1950
William Shockley
13 Feb 1910 St George Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdom - 12 Aug 1989
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Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn
20 Apr 1918 Lund, Skåne, Sverige - 20 Jul 2007
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
03 Dec 1886 Örebro, Örebro län, Sverige - 26 Sep 1978
Herbert Simon
15 Jun 1916 Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States - 09 Feb 2001
Maria (Skłodowska) Curie
07 Nov 1867 Warszawa, Warszawskie, Polska - 04 Jul 1934
Michael Smith
26 Apr 1932 Blackpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom - 04 Oct 2000
Frederick Soddy
02 Sep 1877 Eastbourne, Sussex, England, United Kingdom - 22 Sep 1956
Laurentius Olaus Jonathan Söderblom
15 Jan 1866 Trönö, Hälsingland, Gävleborgs län, Sverige - 12 Jul 1931
Roger Sperry
20 Aug 1913 Hartford, Connecticut, United States - 18 Apr 1994
Johannes Stark
15 Apr 1874 Schickenhof, German Empire - 21 Jun 1957
Hermann Franz Adolf Staudinger
23 Mar 1881 Worms, Großherzogtum Hessen, Deutscher Bund - 08 Sep 1965
John Steinbeck
27 Feb 1902 Salinas, Monterey, California, USA - 20 Dec 1968
Thomas Steitz
23 Aug 1940 Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States - 09 Oct 2018
Otto Stern
17 Feb 1888 Sohrau, Prussia, Germany - 17 Aug 1969
John Strutt
12 Nov 1842 Maldon, Essex, England, United Kingdom - 30 Jun 1919
James Sumner
19 Nov 1887 Canton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States - 12 Aug 1955
Rosalyn (Sussman) Yalow
19 Jul 1921 The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States - 30 May 2011
Earl Sutherland
19 Nov 1915 Burlingame, Kansas - 09 Mar 1974
Pearl (Sydenstricker) Buck
26 Jun 1892 Hillsboro, Pocahontas, West Virginia, United States - 06 Mar 1973
Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi
16 Sep 1893 Budapest, Hungary - 22 Oct 1986
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Rabindranath Tagore
07 May 1861 Calcutta, India - 07 Aug 1941
Doris (Taylor) Lessing
22 Oct 1919 Kermanshah, Iran - 17 Nov 2013
Arnold Theiler
26 Mar 1867 Frick, Aargau, Switzerland - 24 Jul 1936
Max Theiler
30 Jan 1899 Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa - 11 Aug 1972
François-Anatole (Thibault) France
16 Apr 1844 Paris, Seine, France - 12 Oct 1924
George Thomson
03 May 1892 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England - 10 Sep 1975
Joseph Thomson
18 Dec 1856 Manchester, Lancashire, England - 30 Aug 1940
Nikolaas Tinbergen
15 Apr 1907 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland - 21 Dec 1988
Alexander Todd
02 Oct 1907 Cathcart, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 10 Jan 1997
Charles Hard Townes
28 Jul 1915 Greenville, South Carolina - 27 Jan 2015
William Trimble
15 Oct 1944 Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom - 25 Jul 2022
Roger Tsien
01 Feb 1952 New York City, New York, United States of America - 24 Aug 2016
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
07 Oct 1931 Klerksdorp, Transvaal, Union of South Africa - 26 Dec 2021
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Sigrid Undset
20 May 1882 Kalundborg, Vestsjælland, Denmark - 10 Jun 1949
Harold Urey
29 Apr 1893 Walkerton, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States - 05 Jan 1981
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Johannes Diderik van der Waals
23 Nov 1837 Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland - 08 Mar 1923
Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart
19 Mar 1901 Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland - 08 Jul 1956
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
30 Aug 1852 Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland - 01 Mar 1911
John Van Vleck
13 Mar 1899 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States - 27 Oct 1980
Martinus Justinus Godefridus Veltman
27 Jun 1931 Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland - 04 Jan 2021
Artturi Virtanen
15 Jan 1895 Helsinki, Finland - 11 Nov 1973
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolph von Baeyer
31 Oct 1835 Berlin, Brandenburg, Preußen, Deutscher Bund - 20 Aug 1917
Philipp Eduard Anton (von Lenard) Lenard
07 Jun 1862 Pressburg (now Bratislava), Hungary (now Slovakia) - 20 May 1947
Carl von Ossietzky
03 Oct 1889 Hamburg, Germany - 04 May 1938
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Derek Walcott
23 Jan 1930 Castries, Saint Lucia - 17 Mar 2017
Otto Hermann Theodor Gustav Wallach
27 Mar 1847 Königsberg, Provinz Preußen, Preußen, Deutsches Reich - 26 Feb 1931
Ernest Walton
06 Oct 1903 Abbeyside, Waterford, Ireland - 25 Jun 1995
Steven Weinberg
03 May 1933 New York City, New York, United States - 23 Jul 2021
Alfred Werner
12 Dec 1866 Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France - 15 Nov 1919
Patrick White
28 May 1912 Knightsbridge, London, England, United Kingdom - 30 Sep 1990
Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien
13 Jan 1864 Gaffken, Fischhausen, Ostpreußen, Preußen, Deutscher Bund - 30 Aug 1928
Eliezer Wiesel
30 Sep 1928 Sighet, Maramureș, Kingdom of Romania - 02 Jul 2016
Torston Wiesel
1920s
Eugene Wigner
17 Nov 1902 Budapest, Austria-Hungary - 01 Jan 1995
Maurice Wilkins
15 Dec 1916 Pongaroa, Wellington, New Zealand - 05 Oct 2004
Richard Willstätter
13 Aug 1872 Karlsruhe, Baden, Deutsches Reich - 03 Aug 1942
Charles Wilson
14 Feb 1869 Glencorse, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 15 Nov 1959
Kenneth Wilson
08 Jun 1936 Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States - 15 Jun 2013
Robert Wilson
1930s
Thomas Wilson
28 Dec 1856 Staunton, Virginia, United States of America - 03 Feb 1924
Chloe (Wofford) Morrison
18 Feb 1931 Lorain, Lorain, Ohio, United States - 05 Aug 2019
Robert Woodward
10 Apr 1917 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States - 08 Jul 1979
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