Nobel Prize Winners

2013

Literature: Alice Munro

Peace: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

Physics: François Englert

Peter W. Higgs

2012

Literature: Mo Yan

Peace: European Union (EU)

Physics: David J. Wineland

Serge Haroche

2011

Literature: Tomas Tranströmer

Peace: Tawakkol Karman

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Leymah Gbowee

Physics: Brian P. Schmidt

Saul Perlmutter

Adam G. Riess

2010

Literature: Mario Vargas Llosa

Peace: Liu Xiaobo

Physics: Konstantin Novoselov

Andre Geim

2009

Literature: Herta Müller

Peace: Barack H. Obama

Physics: Willard S. Boyle

Charles Kuen Kao

George E. Smith

2008

Literature: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Peace: Martti Ahtisaari

Physics: Yoichiro Nambu

Toshihide Maskawa

Makoto Kobayashi

2007

Literature: Doris Lessing

Peace: Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Physics: Albert Fert

Peter Grünberg

2006

Literature: Orhan Pamuk

Peace: Muhammad Yunus

Grameen Bank

Physics: John C. Mather

George F. Smoot

2005

Literature: Harold Pinter

Peace: Mohamed ElBaradei

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Physics: Theodor W. Hänsch

Roy J. Glauber

John L. Hall

2004

Literature: Elfriede Jelinek

Peace: Wangari Muta Maathai

Physics: Frank Wilczek

H. David Politzer

David J. Gross

2003

Literature: John M. Coetzee

Peace: Shirin Ebadi

Physics: Anthony J. Leggett

Alexei A. Abrikosov

Vitaly L. Ginzburg

2002

Literature: Imre Kertész

Peace: Jimmy Carter

Physics: Raymond Davis Jr.

Masatoshi Koshiba

Riccardo Giacconi

2001

Literature: Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

Peace: United Nations (U.N.)

Kofi Annan

Physics: Carl E. Wieman

Eric A. Cornell

Wolfgang Ketterle

2000

Literature: Gao Xingjian

Peace: Kim Dae-jung

Physics: Herbert Kroemer

Jack S. Kilby

Zhores I. Alferov

1999

Literature: Günter Grass

Peace: Médecins Sans Frontières

Physics: Martinus J.G. Veltman

Gerardus 't Hooft

1998

Literature: José Saramago

Peace: John Hume

David Trimble

Physics: Daniel C. Tsui

Robert B. Laughlin

Horst L. Störmer

1997

Literature: Dario Fo

Peace: Jody Williams

International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)

Physics: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji

William D. Phillips

Steven Chu

1996

Literature: Wislawa Szymborska

Peace: José Ramos-Horta

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Physics: David M. Lee

Douglas D. Osheroff

Robert C. Richardson

1995

Literature: Seamus Heaney

Peace: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

Joseph Rotblat

Physics: Frederick Reines

Martin L. Perl

1994

Literature: Kenzaburo Oe

Peace: Yasser Arafat

Yitzhak Rabin

Shimon Peres

Physics: Bertram N. Brockhouse

Clifford G. Shull

1993

Literature: Toni Morrison

Peace: Frederik Willem de Klerk

Nelson Mandela

Physics: Russell A. Hulse

Joseph H. Taylor Jr.

1992

Literature: Derek Walcott

Peace: Rigoberta Menchú Tum

Physics: Georges Charpak

1991

Literature: Nadine Gordimer

Peace: Aung San Suu Kyi

Physics: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

1990

Literature: Octavio Paz

Peace: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

Physics: Henry W. Kendall

Richard E. Taylor

Jerome I. Friedman

1989

Literature: Camilo José Cela

Peace: The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)

Physics: Norman F. Ramsey

Hans G. Dehmelt

Wolfgang Paul

1988

Literature: Naguib Mahfouz

Peace: United Nations Peacekeeping Forces

Physics: Jack Steinberger

Leon M. Lederman

Melvin Schwartz

1987

Literature: Joseph Brodsky

Peace: Oscar Arias Sánchez

Physics: K. Alexander Müller

J. Georg Bednorz

1986

Literature: Wole Soyinka

Peace: Elie Wiesel

Physics: Heinrich Rohrer

Gerd Binnig

Ernst Ruska

1985

Literature: Claude Simon

Peace: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

Physics: Klaus von Klitzing

1984

Literature: Jaroslav Seifert

Peace: Desmond Mpilo Tutu

Physics: Simon van der Meer

Carlo Rubbia

1983

Literature: William Golding

Peace: Lech Walesa

Physics: William Alfred Fowler

Subramanyan Chandrasekhar

1982

Literature: Gabriel García Márquez

Peace: Alfonso García Robles

Alva Myrdal

Physics: Kenneth G. Wilson

1981

Literature: Elias Canetti

Peace: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Physics: Kai M. Siegbahn

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Nicolaas Bloembergen

1980

Literature: Czeslaw Milosz

Peace: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Physics: Val Logsdon Fitch

James Watson Cronin

1979

Literature: Odysseus Elytis

Peace: Mother Teresa

Physics: Steven Weinberg

Abdus Salam

Sheldon Lee Glashow

1978

Literature: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Peace: Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat

Menachem Begin

Physics: Arno Allan Penzias

Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa

Robert Woodrow Wilson

1977

Literature: Vicente Aleixandre

Peace: Amnesty International

Physics: Sir Nevill Francis Mott

Philip Warren Anderson

John Hasbrouck van Vleck

1976

Literature: Saul Bellow

Peace: Mairead Corrigan

Betty Williams

Physics: Samuel Chao Chung Ting

Burton Richter

1975

Literature: Eugenio Montale

Peace: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov

Physics: Aage Niels Bohr

Ben Roy Mottelson

Leo James Rainwater

1974

Literature: Harry Martinson

Eyvind Johnson

Peace: Seán MacBride

Eisaku Sato

Physics: Antony Hewish

Sir Martin Ryle

1973

Literature: Patrick White

Peace: Henry A. Kissinger

Le Duc Tho

Physics: Brian David Josephson

Ivar Giaever

Leo Esaki

1972

Literature: Heinrich Böll

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.

Physics: John Bardeen

John Robert Schrieffer

Leon Neil Cooper

1971

Literature: Pablo Neruda

Peace: Willy Brandt

Physics: Dennis Gabor

1970

Literature: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Peace: Norman E. Borlaug

Physics: Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén

Louis Eugène Félix Néel

1969

Literature: Samuel Beckett

Peace: International Labour Organization (I.L.O.)

Physics: Murray Gell-Mann

1968

Literature: Yasunari Kawabata

Peace: René Cassin

Physics: Luis Walter Alvarez

1967

Literature: Miguel Angel Asturias

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: Hans Albrecht Bethe

1966

Literature: Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Nelly Sachs

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: Alfred Kastler

1965

Literature: Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

Peace: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Physics: Julian Schwinger

Richard P. Feynman

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga

1964

Literature: Jean-Paul Sartre

Peace: Martin Luther King Jr.

Physics: Charles Hard Townes

Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov

1963

Literature: Giorgos Seferis

Peace: Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies)

Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)

Physics: J. Hans D. Jensen

Maria Goeppert Mayer

Eugene Paul Wigner

1962

Literature: John Steinbeck

Peace: Linus Carl Pauling

Physics: Lev Davidovich Landau

1961

Literature: Ivo Andric

Peace: Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

Physics: Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer

Robert Hofstadter

1960

Literature: Saint-John Perse

Peace: Albert John Lutuli

Physics: Donald Arthur Glaser

1959

Literature: Salvatore Quasimodo

Peace: Philip J. Noel-Baker

Physics: Owen Chamberlain

Emilio Gino Segrè

1958

Literature: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Peace: Georges Pire

Physics: Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm

IlÂ´ja Mikhailovich Frank

Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov

1957

Literature: Albert Camus

Peace: Lester Bowles Pearson

Physics: Chen Ning Yang

Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee

1956

Literature: Juan Ramón Jiménez

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: John Bardeen

Walter Houser Brattain

William Bradford Shockley

1955

Literature: Halldór Kiljan Laxness

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: Polykarp Kusch

Willis Eugene Lamb

1954

Literature: Ernest Miller Hemingway

Peace: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Physics: Walther Bothe

Max Born

1953

Literature: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Peace: George Catlett Marshall

Physics: Frits (Frederik) Zernike

1952

Literature: François Mauriac

Peace: Albert Schweitzer

Physics: Felix Bloch

Edward Mills Purcell

1951

Literature: Pär Fabian Lagerkvist

Peace: Léon Jouhaux

Physics: Sir John Douglas Cockcroft

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton

1950

Literature: Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell

Peace: Ralph Bunche

Physics: Cecil Frank Powell

1949

Literature: William Faulkner

Peace: Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin

Physics: Hideki Yukawa

1948

Literature: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

1947

Literature: André Paul Guillaume Gide

Peace: American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)

Friends Service Council (The Quakers)

Physics: Sir Edward Victor Appleton

1946

Literature: Hermann Hesse

Peace: Emily Greene Balch

John Raleigh Mott

Physics: Percy Williams Bridgman

1945

Literature: Gabriela Mistral

Peace: Cordell Hull

Physics: Wolfgang Pauli

1944

Literature: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

Peace: Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)

Physics: Isidor Isaac Rabi

1943

Literature: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: Otto Stern

1942

Literature: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1941

Literature: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1940

Literature: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1939

Literature: Frans Eemil Sillanpää

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: Ernest Orlando Lawrence

1938

Literature: Pearl Buck

Peace: Office international Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees)

Physics: Enrico Fermi

1937

Literature: Roger Martin du Gard

Peace: Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)

Physics: George Paget Thomson

Clinton Joseph Davisson

1936

Literature: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Peace: Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Physics: Victor Franz Hess

Carl David Anderson

1935

Literature: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Peace: Carl von Ossietzky

Physics: James Chadwick

1934

Literature: Luigi Pirandello

Peace: Arthur Henderson

Physics: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1933

Literature: Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin

Peace: Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)

Physics: Erwin Schrödinger

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

1932

Literature: John Galsworthy

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: Werner Karl Heisenberg

1931

Literature: Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Peace: Nicholas Murray Butler

Jane Addams

Physics: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1930

Literature: Sinclair Lewis

Peace: Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom

Physics: Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

1929

Literature: Thomas Mann

Peace: Frank Billings Kellogg

Physics: Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie

1928

Literature: Sigrid Undset

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: Owen Willans Richardson

1927

Literature: Henri Bergson

Peace: Ludwig Quidde

Ferdinand Buisson

Physics: Arthur Holly Compton

Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

1926

Literature: Grazia Deledda

Peace: Gustav Stresemann

Aristide Briand

Physics: Jean Baptiste Perrin

1925

Literature: George Bernard Shaw

Peace: Charles Gates Dawes

Sir Austen Chamberlain

Physics: James Franck

Gustav Ludwig Hertz

1924

Literature: Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn

1923

Literature: William Butler Yeats

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: Robert Andrews Millikan

1922

Literature: Jacinto Benavente

Peace: Fridtjof Nansen

Physics: Niels Henrik David Bohr

1921

Literature: Anatole France

Peace: Christian Lous Lange

Karl Hjalmar Branting

Physics: Albert Einstein

1920

Literature: Knut Pedersen Hamsun

Peace: Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois

Physics: Charles Edouard Guillaume

1919

Literature: Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler

Peace: Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Physics: Johannes Stark

1918

Literature: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

1917

Literature: Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Henrik Pontoppidan

Peace: Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)

Physics: Charles Glover Barkla

1916

Literature: Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

1915

Literature: Romain Rolland

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: William Lawrence Bragg

Sir William Henry Bragg

1914

Literature: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Peace: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

Physics: Max von Laue

1913

Literature: Rabindranath Tagore

Peace: Henri La Fontaine

Physics: Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

1912

Literature: Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann

Peace: Elihu Root

Physics: Nils Gustaf Dalén

1911

Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck

Peace: Alfred Hermann Fried

Tobias Michael Carel Asser

Physics: Wilhelm Wien

1910

Literature: Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse

Peace: Bureau international permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau)

Physics: Johannes Diderik van der Waals

1909

Literature: Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf

Peace: Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque

Auguste Marie François Beernaert

Physics: Guglielmo Marconi

Karl Ferdinand Braun

1908

Literature: Rudolf Christoph Eucken

Peace: Fredrik Bajer

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Physics: Gabriel Lippmann

1907

Literature: Rudyard Kipling

Peace: Louis Renault

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Physics: Albert Abraham Michelson

1906

Literature: Giosuè Carducci

Peace: Theodore Roosevelt

Physics: Joseph John Thomson

1905

Literature: Henryk Sienkiewicz

Peace: Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau

Physics: Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard

1904

Literature: Frédéric Mistral

José Echegaray y Eizaguirre

Peace: Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law)

Physics: Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt)

1903

Literature: Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson

Peace: William Randal Cremer

Physics: Antoine Henri Becquerel

Pierre Curie

Marie Curie, nee Sklodowska

1902

Literature: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen

Peace: Élie Ducommun

Charles Albert Gobat

Physics: Pieter Zeeman

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

1901

Literature: Sully Prudhomme

Peace: Jean Henry Dunant

Frédéric Passy

Physics: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

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