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Nobel Prizes
YearPeaceChemistryPhysicsPhysiology or MedicineLiterature
1901
J. H. Dunant
Frédéric Passy
J. H. van't HoffW. C. RoentgenE. A. von BehringR. F. A. Sully-Prudhomme
1902
Élie Ducommun
C. A. Gobat
Emil Fischer
H. A. Lorentz
Pieter Zeeman
Sir Ronald RossTheodor Mommsen
1903Sir William R. CremerS. A. Arrhenius
A. H. Becquerel
Pierre Curie
Marie S. Curie
N. R. FinsenBjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1904Institute of International LawSir William RamsayJ. W. S. RayleighIvan P. Pavlov
Frédéric Mistral
José Echegaray
1905Baroness Bertha von SuttnerAdolf von BaeyerPhilipp LenardRobert KochHenryk Sienkiewicz
1906Theodore RooseveltHenri MoissanSir Joseph Thomson
Camillo Golgi
S. Ramón y Cajal
Giosuè Carducci
1907
E. T. Moneta
Louis Renault
Eduard BuchnerA. A. MichelsonC. I. A. LaveranRudyard Kipling
1908
K. P. Arnoldson
Fredrik Bajer
Sir Ernest RutherfordGabriel Lippman
Paul Ehrlich
Élie Metchnikoff
R. C. Eucken
1909
Auguste Beernaert
P. H. B. Estournelles de Constant
Wilhelm Ostwald
Guglielmo Marconi
K. F. Braun
Emil T. KocherSelma Lagerlöf
1910International Peace BureauOtto WallachJ. D. van der WaalsAlbrecht KosselPaul Heyse
1911
T. M. C. Asser
A. H. Fried
Marie S. CurieWilhelm WienAllvar GullstrandMaurice Maeterlinck
1912Elihu Root
Victor Grignard
Paul Sabatier
N. G. DalenAlexis CarrelGerhart Hauptmann
1913Henri La FontaineAlfred WernerHeike Kamerlingh OnnesC. R. RichetSir Rabindranath Tagore
1914T. W. RichardsMax von LaueRobert Barany
1915Richard Willstätter
Sir William H. Bragg
Sir William L. Bragg
Romain Rolland
1916Verner von Heidenstam
1917International Red CrossC. G. Barkla
K. A. Gjellerup
Henrik Pontoppidan
1918Fritz HaberMax Planck
1919Woodrow WilsonJohannes StarkJules BordetC. F. G. Spitteler
1920Léon BourgeoisWalther NernstC. E. GuillaumeS. A. S. KroghKnut Hamsum
1921
Hjalmar Branting
C. L. Lange
Frederick SoddyAlbert EinsteinAnatole France
1922Fridtjof NansenF. W. AstonN. H. D. Bohr
A. V. Hill
Otto Meyerhof
Jacinto Benavente y Martinez
1923Fritz PreglRobert A. Millikan
Sir Frederick G. Banting
J. J. R. Macleod
W. B. Yeats
1924K. M. G. SiegbahnWillem EinthovenW. S. Reymont
1925
Sir Austen Chamberlain
Charles G. Dawes
Richard Zsigmondy
James Franck
Gustav Hertz
G. B. Shaw
1926
Aristide Briand
Gustav Stresemann
Theodor SvedbergJ. B. PerrinJohannes FibigerGrazia Deledda
1927
F. É. Buisson
Ludwig Quidde
Heinrich Wieland
A. H. Compton
C. T. R. Wilson
Julius Wagner-JaureggHenri Bergson
1928Adolf WindausSir Owen W. RichardsonC. J. H. NicolleSigrid Undset
1929Frank B. Kellogg
Sir Arthur Harden
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
L. V. de Broglie
Christian Eijkman
Sir Frederick G. Hopkins
Thomas Mann
1930Nathan SöderblomHans FischerSir Chandrasekhara V. RamanKarl LandsteinerSinclair Lewis
1931
Jane Addams
Nicholas Murray Butler
Carl Bosch
Friedrich Bergius
Otto H. WarburgE. A. Karlfeldt
1932Irving LangmuirWerner Heisenberg
E. D. Adrian
Sir Charles Sherrington
John Galsworthy
1933Sir Norman Angell
P. A. M. Dirac
Erwin Schrödinger
Thomas H. MorganI. A. Bunin
1934Arthur HendersonHarold C. Urey
G. H. Whipple
G. R. Minot
W. P. Murphy
Luigi Pirandello
1935Carl von Ossietzky
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie
Sir James ChadwickHans Spemann
1936Carlos Saavedra LamasP. J. W. Debye
C. D. Anderson
V. F. Hess
Sir Henry H. Dale
Otto Loewi
Eugene O'Neill
1937E. A. R. Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Sir Walter N. Haworth
Paul Karrer
C. J. Davisson
Sir George P. Thomson
Albert von Szent-GyorgyiRoger Martin du Gard
1938Nansen International Office for RefugeesRichard KuhnEnrico FermiCorneille HeymansPearl S. Buck
1939
Adolf Butenandt
Leopold Ruzicka
E. O. LawrenceGerhard DomagkF. E. Sillanpää
1940
1941
1942
1943Georg von HevesyOtto Stern
E. A. Doisy
Henrik Dam
1944International Red CrossOtto HahnI. I. Rabi
Joseph Erlanger
H. S. Gasser
J. V. Jensen
1945Cordell HullA. I. VirtanenWolfgang Pauli
Sir Alexander Fleming
E. B. Chain
Sir Howard W. Florey
Gabriela Mistral
1946
J. R. Mott
Emily G. Balch
J. B. Sumner
J. H. Northrop
W. M. Stanley
P. W. BridgmanH. J. MullerHermann Hesse
1947American Friends Service Committee and Friends Service CouncilSir Robert RobinsonSir Edward V. Appleton
C. F. Cori
Gerty T. Cori
B. A. Houssay
André Gide
1948Arne TiseliusP. M. S. BlackettPaul H. MüllerT. S. Eliot
1949John Boyd Orr, Baron Boyd OrrW. F. GiauqueHideki Yukawa
W. R. Hess
Egas Moniz
William Faulkner
1950Ralph J. Bunche
Otto Diels
Kurt Alder
C. F. Powell
Philip S. Hench
Edward C. Kendall
Tadeus Reichstein
Bertrand Russel, Earl Russell
1951Léon Jouhaux
Edwin M. McMillan
Glenn T. Seaborg
Sir John D. Cockcroft
Ernest T. S. Walton
Max TheilerPär F. Lagerkvist
1952Albert Schweitzer
A. J. P. Martin
R. L. M. Synge
Felix Bloch
E. M. Purcell
S. A. WaksmanFrançois Mauriac
1953George C. MarshallHermann StaudingerFrits Zernike
F. A. Lipmann
Sir Hans A. Krebs
Sir Winston L. S. Churchill
1954Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesLinus C. Pauling
Max Born
Walther Bothe
J. F. Enders
F. C. Robbins
T. H. Weller
Ernest Hemingway
1955Vincent du Vigneaud
Willis E. Lamb, Jr.
Polykarp Kusch
A. H. T. TheorellHalldór K. Laxness
1956
Sir Cyril N. Hinshelwood
Nikolai N. Semenov
W. B. Shockley
W. H. Brattain
John Bardeen
D. W. Richards, Jr.
A. F. Cournand
Werner Forssmann
Juan Ramón Jiménez
1957Lester B. PearsonSir Alexander R. Todd
Tsung-Dao Lee
Chen Ning Yang
Daniele BovetAlbert Camus
1958Georges Henri PireFrederick Sanger
P. A. Cherenkov
Igor Y. Tamm
Ilya M. Frank
Joshua Lederberg
G. W. Beadle
E. I. Tatum
Boris L. Pasternak
1959Philip J. Noel-BakerJaroslav Heyrovsky
Emilio Segrè
Owen Chamberlain
Severo Ochoa
Arthur Kornberg
Salvatore Quasimodo
1960Albert J. LuthuliW. F. LibbyD. A. Glaser
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
P. B. Medawar
St.-John Perse
1961Dag HammarskjöldMelvin Calvin
Robert Hofstadter
R. L. Moessbauer
Georg von BekesyIvo Andrić
1962Linus C. Pauling
M. F. Perutz
J. C. Kendrew
L. D. Landau
J. D. Watson
F. H. C. Crick
M. H. F. Wilkins
John Steinbeck
1963
International Committee of the Red Cross
League of Red Cross Societies
Giulio Natta
Karl Ziegler
Eugene Paul Wigner
Maria Goeppert Mayer
J. Hans D. Jensen
Sir John Carew Eccles
Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
Andrew Fielding Huxley
George Seferis
1964Martin Luther King, Jr.Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
Charles Hard Townes
Nikolai Gennadiyevich Basov
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
Konrad E. Bloch
Feodor Lynen
Jean-Paul Sartre
1965United Nations International Children's Emergency FundRobert Burns Woodward
Richard Phillips Feynman
Shinichiro Tomonaga
Julian Seymour Schwinger
François Jacob
André Lwoff
Jacques Monod
M. A. Sholokhov
1966Robert S. MullikenAlfred Kastler
Francis Peyton Rous
Charles Brenton Huggins
S. Y. Agnon
Nelly Sachs
1967
Manfred Eigen
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
George Porter
Hans Albrecht Bethe
Ragnar Granit
Haldan Keffer Hartline
George Wald
Miguel Angel Asturias
1968René CassinLars OnsagerLuis W. Alvarez
Robert W. Holley
H. Gobind Khorana
Marshall W. Nirenberg
Yasunari Kawabata
1969International Labor Organization
Derek H. R. Barton
Odd Hassel
Murray Gell-Mann
Max Delbrück
Alfred D. Hershey
Salvador B. Luria
Samuel Beckett
1970Norman E. BorlaugLuis Federico Leloir
Louis Eugène Néel
Hans Olof Alfven
Julius Axelrod
Bernard Katz
Ulf von Euler
Alexandr I. Solzhenitsyn
1971Willy BrandtGerhard HerzbergDennis GaborEarl W. SutherlandPablo Neruda
1972
Stanford Moore
William Howard Stein
Christian B. Anfinsen
John Bardeen
Leon N. Cooper
John Robert Schrieffer
Gerald M. Edelman
Rodney R. Porter
Heinrich Böll
1973
Henry A. Kissinger
Le Duc Tho
Ernst Otto Fischer
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Leo Esaki
Ivar Giaever
Brian D. Josephson
Konrad Lorenz
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Karl von Frisch
Patrick White
1974
Sean MacBride
Eisaku Sato
Paul J. Flory
Martin Ryle
Antony Hewish
Albert Claude
George Emil Palade
Christian de Duve
Eyvind Johnson
Harry Martinson
1975Andrei D. Sakharov
John Warcup Cornforth
Vladimir Prelog
Aage N. Bohr
Ben Roy Mottelson
James Rainwater
David Baltimore
Renato Dulbecco
Howard M. Temin
Eugenio Montale
1976
Mairead Corrigan
Betty Williams
WIlliam Nunn Lipscomb
Burton Richter
Samuel Chao Chung Ting
Baruch Samuel Blumberg
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Saul Bellow
1977Amnesty InternationalIlya Prigogine
Philip W. Anderson
Sir Nevill F. Mott
John H. Van Vleck
Rosalyn S. Yalow
Roger C. L. Guillemin
Andrew V. Schally
Vicente Aleixandre
1978
Menachem Begin
Anwar al-Sadat
Peter Mitchell
Peter Kapitza
Arno A. Penzias
Robert W. Wilson
Werner Arber
Daniel Nathans
Hamilton O. Smith
Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979Mother Teresa
Herbert C. Brown
Georg Wittig
Steven Weinberg
Sheldon L. Glashow
Abdus Salam
Allan Macleod Cormack
Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
Odysseus Elytis
1980Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Paul Berg
Walter Gilbert
Frederick Sanger
James W. Cronin
Val L. Fitch
Baruj Benacerraf
George D. Snell
Jean Dausset
Czesław Miłosz
1981Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Kenichi Fukui
Roald Hoffmann
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Arthur Schawlow
Kai M. Siegbahn
Roger W. Sperry
David H. Hubel
Torsten N. Wiesel
Elias Canetti
1982
Alfonso García Robles
Alva Myrdal
Aaron KlugKenneth G. Wilson
Sune K. Bergström
Bengt I. Samuelsson
John R. Vane
Gabriel García Márquez
1983Lech WałęsaHenry Taube
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
William A. Fowler
Barbara McClintockWilliam Golding
1984Desmond TutuR. Bruce Merrifield
Carlo Rubbia
Simon van der Meer
Cesar Milstein
George J. F. Köhler
Niels K. Jerne
Jaroslav Seifert
1985International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Herbert A. Hauptman
Jerome Karle
Klaus von Klitzing
Michael S. Brown
Joseph L. Goldstein
Claude Simon
1986Elie Wiesel
Dudley R. Herschbach
Yuan T. Lee
John C. Polanyi
Ernst Ruska
Gerd Binnig
Heinrich Rohrer
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Stanley Cohen
Wole Soyinka
1987Oscar Arias Sánchez
Donald J. Cram
Charles J. Pedersen
Jean-Marie Lehn
K. Alex Müller
J. Georg Bednorz
Susumu TonegawaJoseph Brodsky
1988United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
Johann Deisenhofer
Robert Huber
Hartmut Michel
Leon M. Lederman
Melvin Schwartz
Jack Steinberger
Gertrude B. Elion
George H. Hitchings
Sir James Black
Naguib Mahfouz
1989Dalai Lama
Thomas R. Cech
Sidney Altman
Norman F. Ramsey
Hans G. Dehmelt
Wolfgang Paul
J. Michael Bishop
Harold E. Varmus
Camilo José Cela
1990Mikhail S. GorbachevElias James Corey
Richard E. Taylor
Jerome I. Friedman
Henry W. Kendall
Joseph E. Murray
E. Donnall Thomas
Octavio Paz
1991Aung San Suu KyiRichard R. ErnstPierre-Gilles de Gennes
Edwin Neher
Bert Sakmann
Nadine Gordimer
1992Rigoberta MenchúRudolph A. MarcusGeorges Charpak
Edmond H. Fischer
Edwin G. Krebs
Derek Walcott
1993
F. W. de Klerk
Nelson Mandela
Kary B. Mullis
Michael Smith
Russell A. Hulse
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
Richard J. Roberts
Phillip A. Sharp
Toni Morrison
1994
Yasir Arafat
Shimon Peres
Yitzhak Rabin
George A. Olah
Clifford G. Shull
Bertram N. Brockhouse
Alfred G. Gilman
Martin Rodbell
Kenzaburo Oe
1995
Joseph Rotblat
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Paul Crutzen
F. Sherwood Rowland
Mario Molina
Martin L. Perl
Frederick Reines
Edward B. Lewis
Eric F. Wieschaus
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Seamus Heaney
1996
Carlos Belo
José Ramos-Horta
Richard E. Smalley
Robert F. Curl, Jr.
Sir Harold W. Kroto
David M. Lee
Robert C. Richardson
Douglas D. Osheroff
Peter C. Doherty
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Wisława Szymborska
1997
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Jody Williams
Paul D. Boyer
Jens C. Skou
John E. Walker
Steven Chu
William D. Phillips
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Stanley B. PrusinerDario Fo
1998
John Hume
David Trimble
Walter Kohn
John A. Pople
Robert B. Laughlin
Horst L. Störmer
Daniel C. Tsui
Robert F. Furchgott
Louis J. Ignarro
Ferid Murad
José Saramago
1999Doctors Without BordersAhmed H. Zewail
Martinus J. G. Veltman
Gerardus 't Hooft
Günter BlobelGünter Grass
2000Kim Dae Jung
Alan J. Heeger
Alan G. MacDiarmid
Hideki Shirakawa
Zhores I. Alferov
Herbert Kroemer
Jack S. Kilby
Arvid Carlsson
Paul Greengard
Eric Kandel
Gao Xingjian
2001
United Nations
Kofi Annan
William S. Knowles
Ryoji Noyori
K. Barry Sharpless
Eric A. Cornell
Wolfgang Ketterle
Carl E. Wieman
Leland H. Hartwell
R. Timothy Hunt
Sir Paul M. Nurse
V. S. Naipaul
2002Jimmy Carter
John B. Fenn
Koichi Tanaka
Kurt Wüthrich
Raymond Davis, Jr.
Masatoshi Koshiba
Riccardo Giacconi
Sydney Brenner
H. Robert Horvitz
John E. Sulston
Imre Kertész
2003Shirin Ebadi
Peter C. Agre
Roderick MacKinnon
Alexei A. Abrikosov
Vitaly L. Ginzburg
Anthony J. Leggett
Paul C. Lauterbur
Sir Peter Mansfield
J. M. Coetzee
2004Wangari Maathai
Aaron Ciechanover
Avram Hershko
Irwin Rose
David J. Gross
H. David Politzer
Frank Wilczek
Richard Axel
Linda B. Buck
Elfriede Jelinek
2005
International Atomic Energy Agency
Mohamed ElBaradei
Yves Chauvin
Robert H. Grubbs
Richard R. Schrock
Roy J. Glauber
John L. Hall
Theodor W. Hänsch
Barry J. Marshall
J. Robin Warren
Harold Pinter
2006
Muhammad Yunus
Grameen Bank
Roger Kornberg
John C. Mather
George F. Smoot
Andrew Z. Fire
Craig C. Mello
Orhan Pamuk
2007
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.
Gerhard Ertl
Albert Fert
Peter Grünberg
Mario R. Capecchi
Sir Martin J. Evans
Oliver Smithies
Doris Lessing
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