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Nobel Prize Winners

 

Peace

2013
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
2012
European Union (EU)
2011
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
2011
Leymah Gbowee
2011
Tawakkol Karman
2010
Liu Xiaobo
2009
Barack H. Obama
2008
Martti Ahtisaari
2007
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
2007
Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
2006
Muhammad Yunus
2006
Grameen Bank
2005
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
2005
Mohamed ElBaradei
2004
Wangari Muta Maathai
2003
Shirin Ebadi
2002
Jimmy Carter
2001
United Nations (U.N.)
2001
Kofi Annan
2000
Kim Dae-jung
1999
Médecins Sans Frontières
1998
John Hume
1998
David Trimble
1997
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
1997
Jody Williams
1996
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
1996
José Ramos-Horta
1995
Joseph Rotblat
1995
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994
Yasser Arafat
1994
Shimon Peres
1994
Yitzhak Rabin
1993
Nelson Mandela
1993
Frederik Willem de Klerk
1992
Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991
Aung San Suu Kyi
1990
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1989
The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
1988
United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1987
Oscar Arias Sánchez
1986
Elie Wiesel
1985
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
1983
Lech Walesa
1982
Alva Myrdal
1982
Alfonso García Robles
1981
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1980
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1979
Mother Teresa
1978
Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat
1978
Menachem Begin
1977
Amnesty International
1976
Betty Williams
1976
Mairead Corrigan
1975
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
1974
Seán MacBride
1974
Eisaku Sato
1973
Henry A. Kissinger
1973
Le Duc Tho
1972
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.
1971
Willy Brandt
1970
Norman E. Borlaug
1969
International Labour Organization (I.L.O.)
1968
René Cassin
1967
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.
1966
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1965
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
1964
Martin Luther King Jr.
1963
Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)
1963
Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies)
1962
Linus Carl Pauling
1961
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
1960
Albert John Lutuli
1959
Philip J. Noel-Baker
1958
Georges Pire
1957
Lester Bowles Pearson
1956
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.
1955
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1954
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1953
George Catlett Marshall
1952
Albert Schweitzer
1951
Léon Jouhaux
1950
Ralph Bunche
1949
Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin
1948
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.
1947
Friends Service Council (The Quakers)
1947
American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)
1946
Emily Greene Balch
1946
John Raleigh Mott
1945
Cordell Hull
1944
Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)
1943
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.
1942
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
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
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
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.
1938
Office international Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees)
1937
Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)
1936
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935
Carl von Ossietzky
1934
Arthur Henderson
1933
Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
1932
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1931
Jane Addams
1931
Nicholas Murray Butler
1930
Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom
1929
Frank Billings Kellogg
1928
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1927
Ferdinand Buisson
1927
Ludwig Quidde
1926
Aristide Briand
1926
Gustav Stresemann
1925
Sir Austen Chamberlain
1925
Charles Gates Dawes
1924
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1923
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1922
Fridtjof Nansen
1921
Karl Hjalmar Branting
1921
Christian Lous Lange
1920
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
1919
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
1918
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1917
Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)
1916
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1915
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1914
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1913
Henri La Fontaine
1912
Elihu Root
1911
Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1911
Alfred Hermann Fried
1910
Bureau international permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau)
1909
Auguste Marie François Beernaert
1909
Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque
1908
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
1908
Fredrik Bajer
1907
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
1907
Louis Renault
1906
Theodore Roosevelt
1905
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau
1904
Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law)
1903
William Randal Cremer
1902
Élie Ducommun
1902
Charles Albert Gobat
1901
Jean Henry Dunant
1901
Frédéric Passy

Literature

2013
Alice Munro
2012
Mo Yan
2011
Tomas Tranströmer
2010
Mario Vargas Llosa
2009
Herta Müller
2008
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2007
Doris Lessing
2006
Orhan Pamuk
2005
Harold Pinter
2004
Elfriede Jelinek
2003
John M. Coetzee
2002
Imre Kertész
2001
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
2000
Gao Xingjian
1999
Günter Grass
1998
José Saramago
1997
Dario Fo
1996
Wislawa Szymborska
1995
Seamus Heaney
1994
Kenzaburo Oe
1993
Toni Morrison
1992
Derek Walcott
1991
Nadine Gordimer
1990
Octavio Paz
1989
Camilo José Cela
1988
Naguib Mahfouz
1987
Joseph Brodsky
1986
Wole Soyinka
1985
Claude Simon
1984
Jaroslav Seifert
1983
William Golding
1982
Gabriel García Márquez
1981
Elias Canetti
1980
Czeslaw Milosz
1979
Odysseus Elytis
1978
Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977
Vicente Aleixandre
1976
Saul Bellow
1975
Eugenio Montale
1974
Eyvind Johnson
1974
Harry Martinson
1973
Patrick White
1972
Heinrich Böll
1971
Pablo Neruda
1970
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
1969
Samuel Beckett
1968
Yasunari Kawabata
1967
Miguel Angel Asturias
1966
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966
Nelly Sachs
1965
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
1964
Jean-Paul Sartre
1963
Giorgos Seferis
1962
John Steinbeck
1961
Ivo Andric
1960
Saint-John Perse
1959
Salvatore Quasimodo
1958
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
1957
Albert Camus
1956
Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955
Halldór Kiljan Laxness
1954
Ernest Miller Hemingway
1953
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1952
François Mauriac
1951
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
1950
Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
1949
William Faulkner
1948
Thomas Stearns Eliot
1947
André Paul Guillaume Gide
1946
Hermann Hesse
1945
Gabriela Mistral
1944
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
1943
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.
1942
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
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
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
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938
Pearl Buck
1937
Roger Martin du Gard
1936
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
1935
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.
1934
Luigi Pirandello
1933
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
1932
John Galsworthy
1931
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930
Sinclair Lewis
1929
Thomas Mann
1928
Sigrid Undset
1927
Henri Bergson
1926
Grazia Deledda
1925
George Bernard Shaw
1924
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
1923
William Butler Yeats
1922
Jacinto Benavente
1921
Anatole France
1920
Knut Pedersen Hamsun
1919
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
1918
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1917
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
1917
Henrik Pontoppidan
1916
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
1915
Romain Rolland
1914
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1913
Rabindranath Tagore
1912
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
1911
Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
1910
Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
1909
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
1908
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
1907
Rudyard Kipling
1906
Giosuè Carducci
1905
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904
Frédéric Mistral
1904
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
1903
Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
1902
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
1901
Sully Prudhomme

Physics

2013
François Englert
2013
Peter W. Higgs
2012
Serge Haroche
2012
David J. Wineland
2011
Saul Perlmutter
2011
Brian P. Schmidt
2011
Adam G. Riess
2010
Andre Geim
2010
Konstantin Novoselov
2009
Charles Kuen Kao
2009
Willard S. Boyle
2009
George E. Smith
2008
Yoichiro Nambu
2008
Makoto Kobayashi
2008
Toshihide Maskawa
2007
Albert Fert
2007
Peter Grünberg
2006
John C. Mather
2006
George F. Smoot
2005
Roy J. Glauber
2005
John L. Hall
2005
Theodor W. Hänsch
2004
David J. Gross
2004
H. David Politzer
2004
Frank Wilczek
2003
Alexei A. Abrikosov
2003
Vitaly L. Ginzburg
2003
Anthony J. Leggett
2002
Raymond Davis Jr.
2002
Masatoshi Koshiba
2002
Riccardo Giacconi
2001
Eric A. Cornell
2001
Wolfgang Ketterle
2001
Carl E. Wieman
2000
Zhores I. Alferov
2000
Herbert Kroemer
2000
Jack S. Kilby
1999
Gerardus 't Hooft
1999
Martinus J.G. Veltman
1998
Robert B. Laughlin
1998
Horst L. Störmer
1998
Daniel C. Tsui
1997
Steven Chu
1997
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
1997
William D. Phillips
1996
David M. Lee
1996
Douglas D. Osheroff
1996
Robert C. Richardson
1995
Martin L. Perl
1995
Frederick Reines
1994
Bertram N. Brockhouse
1994
Clifford G. Shull
1993
Russell A. Hulse
1993
Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
1992
Georges Charpak
1991
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1990
Jerome I. Friedman
1990
Henry W. Kendall
1990
Richard E. Taylor
1989
Norman F. Ramsey
1989
Hans G. Dehmelt
1989
Wolfgang Paul
1988
Leon M. Lederman
1988
Melvin Schwartz
1988
Jack Steinberger
1987
J. Georg Bednorz
1987
K. Alexander Müller
1986
Ernst Ruska
1986
Gerd Binnig
1986
Heinrich Rohrer
1985
Klaus von Klitzing
1984
Carlo Rubbia
1984
Simon van der Meer
1983
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
1983
William Alfred Fowler
1982
Kenneth G. Wilson
1981
Nicolaas Bloembergen
1981
Arthur Leonard Schawlow
1981
Kai M. Siegbahn
1980
James Watson Cronin
1980
Val Logsdon Fitch
1979
Sheldon Lee Glashow
1979
Abdus Salam
1979
Steven Weinberg
1978
Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa
1978
Arno Allan Penzias
1978
Robert Woodrow Wilson
1977
Philip Warren Anderson
1977
Sir Nevill Francis Mott
1977
John Hasbrouck van Vleck
1976
Burton Richter
1976
Samuel Chao Chung Ting
1975
Aage Niels Bohr
1975
Ben Roy Mottelson
1975
Leo James Rainwater
1974
Sir Martin Ryle
1974
Antony Hewish
1973
Leo Esaki
1973
Ivar Giaever
1973
Brian David Josephson
1972
John Bardeen
1972
Leon Neil Cooper
1972
John Robert Schrieffer
1971
Dennis Gabor
1970
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
1970
Louis Eugène Félix Néel
1969
Murray Gell-Mann
1968
Luis Walter Alvarez
1967
Hans Albrecht Bethe
1966
Alfred Kastler
1965
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
1965
Julian Schwinger
1965
Richard P. Feynman
1964
Charles Hard Townes
1964
Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov
1964
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
1963
Eugene Paul Wigner
1963
Maria Goeppert Mayer
1963
J. Hans D. Jensen
1962
Lev Davidovich Landau
1961
Robert Hofstadter
1961
Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
1960
Donald Arthur Glaser
1959
Emilio Gino Segrè
1959
Owen Chamberlain
1958
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
1958
Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank
1958
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
1957
Chen Ning Yang
1957
Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee
1956
William Bradford Shockley
1956
John Bardeen
1956
Walter Houser Brattain
1955
Willis Eugene Lamb
1955
Polykarp Kusch
1954
Max Born
1954
Walther Bothe
1953
Frits (Frederik) Zernike
1952
Felix Bloch
1952
Edward Mills Purcell
1951
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
1951
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
1950
Cecil Frank Powell
1949
Hideki Yukawa
1948
Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
1947
Sir Edward Victor Appleton
1946
Percy Williams Bridgman
1945
Wolfgang Pauli
1944
Isidor Isaac Rabi
1943
Otto Stern
1942
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
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
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
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
1938
Enrico Fermi
1937
Clinton Joseph Davisson
1937
George Paget Thomson
1936
Victor Franz Hess
1936
Carl David Anderson
1935
James Chadwick
1934
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
Erwin Schrödinger
1933
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
1932
Werner Karl Heisenberg
1931
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1930
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
1929
Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
1928
Owen Willans Richardson
1927
Arthur Holly Compton
1927
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
1926
Jean Baptiste Perrin
1925
James Franck
1925
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
1924
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
1923
Robert Andrews Millikan
1922
Niels Henrik David Bohr
1921
Albert Einstein
1920
Charles Edouard Guillaume
1919
Johannes Stark
1918
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
1917
Charles Glover Barkla
1916
No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1915
Sir William Henry Bragg
1915
William Lawrence Bragg
1914
Max von Laue
1913
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1912
Nils Gustaf Dalén
1911
Wilhelm Wien
1910
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
1909
Guglielmo Marconi
1909
Karl Ferdinand Braun
1908
Gabriel Lippmann
1907
Albert Abraham Michelson
1906
Joseph John Thomson
1905
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
1904
Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt)
1903
Antoine Henri Becquerel
1903
Pierre Curie
1903
Marie Curie, née Sklodowska
1902
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
1902
Pieter Zeeman
1901
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen