Nobel Prize Science Winners Since 1901
Alfred Nobel had more than one good idea. In truth he had many. The Nobel Prize for the scientific disciplines Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine/Physiology has been awarded since 1901 to scientists making the most outstanding contributions to mankind. Nobel prizes are awarded yearly on the anniversary of the founder’s death in December, and are also presented for Literature and Peace. A list of all Nobel Prize Literature winners is here. Alfred Nobel himself is said to have instigated the awards after reading an obituary of his life while still living. It read “The merchant of death is dead“. Keen to be remembered in a better light, he donated the bulk of his estate to setting up the awards.
Tips to use the table below:
Click column headings with arrows to sort Nobel prize science winners by discipline.
Click the + icon to show any hidden columns. Set your browser to full screen to show as many columns as possible.
Start typing in the Filter table box to find anything inside the table.
| Year | Physics | Chemistry | Medicine/Physiology |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | Jacobus Henricus van ‘t Hoff | Emil Adolf von Behring |
| 1902 | Hendrik Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman | Hermann Emil Fischer | Ronald Ross |
| 1903 | Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie | Svante Arrhenius | Niels Ryberg Finsen |
| 1904 | Lord Rayleigh | William Ramsay | Ivan Pavlov |
| 1905 | Philipp Lenard | Adolf von Baeyer | Robert Koch |
| 1906 | J. J. Thomson | Henri Moissan | Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal |
| 1907 | Albert Abraham Michelson | Eduard Buchner | Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran |
| 1908 | Gabriel Lippmann | Ernest Rutherford | Élie Metchnikoff, Paul Ehrlich |
| 1909 | Karl Ferdinand Braun, Guglielmo Marconi | Wilhelm Ostwald | Emil Theodor Kocher |
| 1910 | Johannes Diderik van der Waals | Otto Wallach | Albrecht Kossel |
| 1911 | Wilhelm Wien | Marie Curie | Allvar Gullstrand |
| 1912 | Gustaf Dalén | Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier | Alexis Carrel |
| 1913 | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | Alfred Werner | Charles Richet |
| 1914 | Max von Laue | Theodore William Richards | Robert Bárány |
| 1915 | William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg | Richard Willstätter | No prize awarded |
| 1916 | No prize awarded | No prize awarded | No prize awarded |
| 1917 | Charles Glover Barkla | No prize awarded | No prize awarded |
| 1918 | Max Planck | Fritz Haber | No prize awarded |
| 1919 | Johannes Stark | No prize awarded | Jules Bordet |
| 1920 | Charles Édouard Guillaume | Walther Nernst | August Krogh |
| 1921 | Albert Einstein | Frederick Soddy | No prize awarded |
| 1922 | Niels Bohr | Francis William Aston | Archibald Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof |
| 1923 | Robert Andrews Millikan | Fritz Pregl | Frederick Banting, John James Rickard Macleod |
| 1924 | Manne Siegbahn | No prize awarded | Willem Einthoven |
| 1925 | James Franck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz | Richard Adolf Zsigmondy | No prize awarded |
| 1926 | Jean Baptiste Perrin | Theodor Svedberg | Johannes Fibiger |
| 1927 | Arthur Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson | Heinrich Otto Wieland | Julius Wagner-Jauregg |
| 1928 | Owen Willans Richardson | Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus | Charles Nicolle |
| 1929 | Louis de Broglie | Arthur Harden, Hans von Euler-Chelpin | Christiaan Eijkman, Frederick Gowland Hopkins |
| 1930 | C. V. Raman | Hans Fischer | Karl Landsteiner |
| 1931 | No prize awarded | Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius | Otto Heinrich Warburg |
| 1932 | Werner Heisenberg | Irving Langmuir | Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Adrian |
| 1933 | Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Dirac | No prize awarded | Thomas Hunt Morgan |
| 1934 | No prize awarded | Harold Urey | George Whipple, George Minot, William P. Murphy |
| 1935 | James Chadwick | Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Irène Joliot-Curie | Hans Spemann |
| 1936 | Victor Francis Hess, Carl David Anderson | Peter Debye | Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi |
| 1937 | Clinton Davisson, George Paget Thomson | Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer | Albert Szent-Györgyi |
| 1938 | Enrico Fermi | Richard Kuhn[A] | Corneille Heymans |
| 1939 | Ernest Lawrence | Adolf Butenandt, [A] Leopold Ružička | Gerhard Domagk[A] |
| 1940 | No prize awarded | No prize awarded | No prize awarded |
| 1941 | No prize awarded | No prize awarded | No prize awarded |
| 1942 | No prize awarded | No prize awarded | No prize awarded |
| 1943 | Otto Stern | George de Hevesy | Henrik Dam, Edward Adelbert Doisy |
| 1944 | Isidor Isaac Rabi | Otto Hahn | Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser |
| 1945 | Wolfgang Pauli | Artturi Ilmari Virtanen | Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Howard Florey |
| 1946 | Percy Williams Bridgman | James B. Sumner, John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley | Hermann Joseph Muller |
| 1947 | Edward Victor Appleton | Robert Robinson | Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay |
| 1948 | Patrick Blackett | Arne Tiselius | Paul Hermann Müller |
| 1949 | Hideki Yukawa | William Giauque | Walter Rudolf Hess, António Egas Moniz |
| 1950 | C. F. Powell | Otto Diels, Kurt Alder | Philip Showalter Hench, Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein |
| 1951 | John Cockcroft, Ernest Walton | Edwin McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg | Max Theiler |
| 1952 | Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell | Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge | Selman Waksman |
| 1953 | Frits Zernike | Hermann Staudinger | Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann |
| 1954 | Max Born, Walther Bothe | Linus Pauling | John Franklin Enders, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Thomas Huckle Weller |
| 1955 | Willis Lamb, Polykarp Kusch | Vincent du Vigneaud | Hugo Theorell |
| 1956 | John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain, William Shockley | Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Semyonov | André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards |
| 1957 | Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee | The Lord Todd | Daniel Bovet |
| 1958 | Pavel Cherenkov, Ilya Frank, Igor Tamm | Frederick Sanger | George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Joshua Lederberg |
| 1959 | Emilio G. Segrè, Owen Chamberlain | Jaroslav Heyrovský | Arthur Kornberg, Severo Ochoa |
| 1960 | Donald A. Glaser | Willard Libby | Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Medawar |
| 1961 | Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer | Melvin Calvin | Georg von Békésy |
| 1962 | Lev Landau | Max Perutz, John Kendrew | Francis Crick, James D. Watson, Maurice Wilkins |
| 1963 | Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen | Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta | John Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley |
| 1964 | Charles Hard Townes, Nikolay Basov, Alexander Prokhorov | Dorothy Hodgkin | Konrad Emil Bloch, Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen |
| 1965 | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard Feynman | Robert Burns Woodward | François Jacob, André Michel Lwoff, Jacques Monod |
| 1966 | Alfred Kastler | Robert S. Mulliken | Francis Peyton Rous, Charles Brenton Huggins |
| 1967 | Hans Bethe | Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter | Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald |
| 1968 | Luis Walter Alvarez | Lars Onsager | Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall Warren Nirenberg |
| 1969 | Murray Gell-Mann | Derek Barton, Odd Hassel | Max Delbrück, Alfred Hershey, Salvador Luria |
| 1970 | Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel | Luis Federico Leloir | Julius Axelrod, Ulf von Euler, Bernard Katz |
| 1971 | Dennis Gabor | Gerhard Herzberg | Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. |
| 1972 | John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, John Robert Schrieffer | Christian B. Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William Howard Stein | Gerald Edelman, Rodney Robert Porter |
| 1973 | Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson | Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson | Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen |
| 1974 | Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish | Paul Flory | Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George Emil Palade |
| 1975 | Aage Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, ames Rainwater | John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog | David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin |
| 1976 | Burton Richter, Samuel C. C. Ting | William Lipscomb | Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek |
| 1977 | Philip Warren Anderson, Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck | Ilya Prigogine | Roger Guillemin, Andrew Schally, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow |
| 1978 | Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson | Peter D. Mitchell | Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith |
| 1979 | Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg | Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig | Allan McLeod Cormack, Godfrey Hounsfield |
| 1980 | James Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch | Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger | Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George Davis Snell |
| 1981 | Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Kai Siegbahn | Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann | Roger Wolcott Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten Wiesel |
| 1982 | Kenneth G. Wilson | Aaron Klug | Sune Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John Vane |
| 1983 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler | Henry Taube | Barbara McClintock |
| 1984 | Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer | Robert Bruce Merrifield | Niels Kaj Jerne, Georges J. F. Köhler, César Milstein |
| 1985 | Klaus von Klitzing | Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle | Michael Stuart Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein |
| 1986 | Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer | Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John Polanyi | Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini |
| 1987 | Johannes Georg Bednorz, Karl Alexander Müller | Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen | Susumu Tonegawa |
| 1988 | Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger | Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel | James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings |
| 1989 | Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., Hans Georg Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul | Sidney Altman, Thomas Cech | J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus |
| 1990 | Jerome Isaac Friedman, Henry Way Kendall, Richard E. Taylor | Elias James Corey | Joseph Murray, E. Donnall Thomas |
| 1991 | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | Richard R. Ernst | Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann |
| 1992 | Georges Charpak | Rudolph A. Marcus | Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs |
| 1993 | Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. | Kary Mullis, Michael Smith | Richard J. Roberts, Phillip Allen Sharp |
| 1994 | Bertram Brockhouse, Clifford Shull | George Andrew Olah | Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell |
| 1995 | Martin Lewis Perl, Frederick Reines | Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, Frank Sherwood Rowland | Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus |
| 1996 | David Lee, Douglas Osheroff, Robert Coleman Richardson | Robert F. Curl Jr., Harry Kroto, Richard Smalley | Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel |
| 1997 | Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William Daniel Phillips | Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens Christian Skou | Stanley B. Prusiner |
| 1998 | Robert B. Laughlin, Horst Ludwig Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui | Walter Kohn, John Pople | Robert F. Furchgott, Louis Ignarro, Ferid Murad |
| 1999 | Gerard ‘t Hooft, Martinus J. G. Veltman | Ahmed Zewail | Günter Blobel |
| 2000 | Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack Kilby | Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa | Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric Kandel |
| 2001 | Eric Allin Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl Wieman | William Standish Knowles, Ryōji Noyori, Karl Barry Sharpless | Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Paul Nurse |
| 2002 | Raymond Davis, Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi | John Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich | Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John Sulston |
| 2003 | Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginzburg, Anthony James Leggett | Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon | Paul Lauterbur, Peter Mansfield |
| 2004 | David Gross, Hugh David Politzer, Frank Wilczek | Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose | Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck |
| 2005 | Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch | Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock | Barry Marshall, Robin Warren |
| 2006 | John C. Mather, George Smoot | Roger D. Kornberg | Andrew Fire, Craig Mello |
| 2007 | Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg | Gerhard Ertl | Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, Oliver Smithies |
| 2008 | Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa | Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y. Tsien | Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier |
| 2009 | Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George E. Smith | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, Ada Yonath | Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, Jack W. Szostak |
| 2010 | Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov | Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira Suzuki | Robert G. Edwards |
| 2011 | Saul Perlmutter, Adam G. Riess, Brian Schmidt | Dan Shechtman | Bruce Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, Ralph M. Steinman |
| 2012 | Serge Haroche, David J. Wineland | Brian K. Kobilka, Robert J. Lefkowitz | John B. Gurdon, Shinya Yamanaka |
| 2013 | François Englert, Peter W. Higgs | Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel | James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, Thomas C. Südhof |
| 2014 | Isamu Akasak, Hiroshi Amano, Shuji Nakamura | Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, William Moerner | John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser, Edvard Moser |
| 2015 | Takaaki Kajita, Arthur B. McDonald | Tomas Lindahl, Paul L. Modrich, Aziz Sancar | William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura, Tu Youyou |