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The Nobel Prize year by year
Who won the Nobel Prize each year? The table below covers 1901 to 2025, with all six categories side by side: Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences.
Every winner, year by year
| Year | Physics | Chemistry | Medicine | Literature | Peace | Economic Sciences |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, John M. Martinis | Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, Omar M. Yaghi | Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, Shimon Sakaguchi | László Krasznahorkai | Maria Corina Machado | Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt |
| 2024 | John J. Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton | David Baker, Demis Hassabis, John Jumper | Victor Ambros, Gary Ruvkun | Han Kang | Nihon Hidankyo | Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson |
| 2023 | Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Anne L’Huillier | Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, Aleksey Yekimov | Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman | Jon Fosse | Narges Mohammadi | Claudia Goldin |
| 2022 | Alain Aspect, John Clauser, Anton Zeilinger | K. Barry Sharpless, Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal | Svante Pääbo | Annie Ernaux | Ales Bialiatski, Memorial, Center for Civil Liberties | Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig |
| 2021 | Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, Giorgio Parisi | Benjamin List, David W.C. MacMillan | David Julius, Ardem Patapoutian | Abdulrazak Gurnah | Maria Ressa, Dmitry Muratov | David Card, Joshua D. Angrist, Guido W. Imbens |
| 2020 | Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez | Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. Doudna | Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, Charles M. Rice | Louise GlĂĽck | World Food Programme | Paul R. Milgrom, Robert B. Wilson |
| 2019 | James Peebles, Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz | John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, Akira Yoshino | William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, Gregg L. Semenza | Peter Handke | Abiy Ahmed Ali | Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer |
| 2018 | Arthur Ashkin, GĂ©rard Mourou, Donna Strickland | Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith, Sir Gregory P. Winter | James P. Allison, Tasuku Honjo | Olga Tokarczuk | Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad | William D. Nordhaus, Paul M. Romer |
| 2017 | Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, Kip S. Thorne | Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, Richard Henderson | Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young | Kazuo Ishiguro | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | Richard H. Thaler |
| 2016 | David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, J. Michael Kosterlitz | Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Bernard L. Feringa | Yoshinori Ohsumi | Bob Dylan | Juan Manuel Santos | Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmström |
| 2015 | Takaaki Kajita, Arthur B. McDonald | Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, Aziz Sancar | William C. Campbell, Satoshi ĹŚmura, Tu Youyou | Svetlana Alexievich | National Dialogue Quartet | Angus Deaton |
| 2014 | Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, Shuji Nakamura | Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell, William E. Moerner | John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser | Patrick Modiano | Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai | Jean Tirole |
| 2013 | François Englert, Peter Higgs | Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel | James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, Thomas C. Südhof | Alice Munro | Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, Robert J. Shiller |
| 2012 | Serge Haroche, David J. Wineland | Robert J. Lefkowitz, Brian Kobilka | Sir John B. Gurdon, Shinya Yamanaka | Mo Yan | European Union | Alvin E. Roth, Lloyd S. Shapley |
| 2011 | Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G. Riess | Dan Shechtman | Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, Ralph M. Steinman | Tomas Tranströmer | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkol Karman | Thomas J. Sargent, Christopher A. Sims |
| 2010 | Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov | Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira Suzuki | Robert G. Edwards | Mario Vargas Llosa | Liu Xiaobo | Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen, Christopher A. Pissarides |
| 2009 | Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George E. Smith | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, Ada E. Yonath | Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, Jack W. Szostak | Herta MĂĽller | Barack H. Obama | Elinor Ostrom, Oliver E. Williamson |
| 2008 | Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa | Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y. Tsien | Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio | Martti Ahtisaari | Paul Krugman |
| 2007 | Albert Fert, Peter GrĂĽnberg | Gerhard Ertl | Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans, Oliver Smithies | Doris Lessing | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore | Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin, Roger B. Myerson |
| 2006 | John C. Mather, George F. Smoot | Roger D. Kornberg | Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello | Orhan Pamuk | Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank | Edmund S. Phelps |
| 2005 | Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch | Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock | Barry J. Marshall, J. Robin Warren | Harold Pinter | International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei | Robert J. Aumann, Thomas C. Schelling |
| 2004 | David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek | Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose | Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck | Elfriede Jelinek | Wangari Maathai | Finn E. Kydland, Edward C. Prescott |
| 2003 | Alexei Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett | Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon | Paul C. Lauterbur, Sir Peter Mansfield | J. M. Coetzee | Shirin Ebadi | Robert F. Engle III, Clive W.J. Granger |
| 2002 | Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi | John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich | Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John E. Sulston | Imre Kertész | Jimmy Carter | Daniel Kahneman, Vernon L. Smith |
| 2001 | Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl Wieman | William Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless | Leland Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Sir Paul Nurse | V. S. Naipaul | United Nations, Kofi Annan | George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz |
| 2000 | Zhores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack Kilby | Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa | Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric Kandel | Gao Xingjian | Kim Dae-jung | James J. Heckman, Daniel L. McFadden |
| 1999 | Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman | Ahmed Zewail | GĂĽnter Blobel | GĂĽnter Grass | Doctors Without Borders | Robert Mundell |
| 1998 | Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui | Walter Kohn, John Pople | Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad | José Saramago | John Hume, David Trimble | Amartya Sen |
| 1997 | Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips | Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou | Stanley B. Prusiner | Dario Fo | International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams | Robert C. Merton, Myron Scholes |
| 1996 | David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson | Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold Kroto, Richard E. Smalley | Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel | Wisława Szymborska | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta | James A. Mirrlees, William Vickrey |
| 1995 | Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines | Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland | Edward B. Lewis, Christiane NĂĽsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus | Seamus Heaney | Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs | Robert E. Lucas Jr. |
| 1994 | Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull | George A. Olah | Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell | Kenzaburo Oe | Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin | John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr., Reinhard Selten |
| 1993 | Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr. | Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith | Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A. Sharp | Toni Morrison | Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk | Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North |
| 1992 | Georges Charpak | Rudolph A. Marcus | Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs | Derek Walcott | Rigoberta MenchĂş Tum | Gary Becker |
| 1991 | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | Richard R. Ernst | Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann | Nadine Gordimer | Aung San Suu Kyi | Ronald H. Coase |
| 1990 | Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor | Elias James Corey | Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas | Octavio Paz | Mikhail Gorbachev | Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller, William F. Sharpe |
| 1989 | Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul | Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech | J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus | Camilo José Cela | The 14th Dalai Lama | Trygve Haavelmo |
| 1988 | Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger | Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel | Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings | Naguib Mahfouz | United Nations Peacekeeping Forces | Maurice Allais |
| 1987 | J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex Müller | Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen | Susumu Tonegawa | Joseph Brodsky | Oscar Arias Sánchez | Robert M. Solow |
| 1986 | Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer | Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi | Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini | Wole Soyinka | Elie Wiesel | James M. Buchanan Jr. |
| 1985 | Klaus von Klitzing | Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle | Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein | Claude Simon | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | Franco Modigliani |
| 1984 | Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer | Bruce Merrifield | Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler, César Milstein | Jaroslav Seifert | Desmond Tutu | Richard Stone |
| 1983 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William A. Fowler | Henry Taube | Barbara McClintock | William Golding | Lech Wałęsa | Gerard Debreu |
| 1982 | Kenneth G. Wilson | Aaron Klug | Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane | Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez | Alva Myrdal, Alfonso GarcĂa Robles | George J. Stigler |
| 1981 | Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur L. Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn | Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann | Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel | Elias Canetti | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | James Tobin |
| 1980 | James Cronin, Val Fitch | Frederick Sanger, Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert | Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell | Czesław Miłosz | Adolfo Pérez Esquivel | Lawrence R. Klein |
| 1979 | Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg | Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig | Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield | Odysseus Elytis | Mother Teresa | Theodore W. Schultz, Sir Arthur Lewis |
| 1978 | Pyotr Kapitsa, Arno Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson | Peter Mitchell | Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin | Herbert Simon |
| 1977 | Philip W. Anderson, Sir Nevill F. Mott, John H. Van Vleck | Ilya Prigogine | Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow | Vicente Aleixandre | Amnesty International | Bertil Ohlin, James E. Meade |
| 1976 | Burton Richter, Samuel C.C. Ting | William Lipscomb | Baruch S. Blumberg, D. Carleton Gajdusek | Saul Bellow | Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan | Milton Friedman |
| 1975 | Aage N. Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, James Rainwater | John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog | David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard M. Temin | Eugenio Montale | Andrei Sakharov | Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich, Tjalling C. Koopmans |
| 1974 | Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish | Paul J. Flory | Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade | Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson | Seán MacBride, Eisaku Satō | Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek |
| 1973 | Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian D. Josephson | Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson | Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen | Patrick White | Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho | Wassily Leontief |
| 1972 | John Bardeen, Leon N. Cooper, Robert Schrieffer | Christian Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein | Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter | Heinrich Böll | not awarded | John R. Hicks, Kenneth J. Arrow |
| 1971 | Dennis Gabor | Gerhard Herzberg | Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. | Pablo Neruda | Willy Brandt | Simon Kuznets |
| 1970 | Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel | Luis Leloir | Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Norman Borlaug | Paul A. Samuelson |
| 1969 | Murray Gell-Mann | Derek Barton, Odd Hassel | Max DelbrĂĽck, Alfred D. Hershey, Salvador E. Luria | Samuel Beckett | International Labour Organization | Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen |
| 1968 | Luis Alvarez | Lars Onsager | Robert W. Holley, H. Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg | Yasunari Kawabata | René Cassin | did not exist |
| 1967 | Hans Bethe | Manfred Eigen, Ronald G.W. Norrish, George Porter | Ragnar Granit, Keffer Hartline, George Wald | Miguel Angel Asturias | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1966 | Alfred Kastler | Robert S. Mulliken | Peyton Rous, Charles B. Huggins | Shmuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1965 | Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman | Robert B. Woodward | François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod | Mikhail Sholokhov | United Nations Children's Fund | did not exist |
| 1964 | Charles H. Townes, Nicolay G. Basov, Aleksandr M. Prokhorov | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin | Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen | Jean-Paul Sartre | Martin Luther King Jr. | did not exist |
| 1963 | Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen | Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta | Sir John Eccles, Alan Hodgkin, Andrew Huxley | Giorgos Seferis | International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies | did not exist |
| 1962 | Lev Landau | Max F. Perutz, John C. Kendrew | Francis Crick, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins | John Steinbeck | Linus Pauling | did not exist |
| 1961 | Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer | Melvin Calvin | Georg von Békésy | Ivo Andrić | Dag Hammarskjöld | did not exist |
| 1960 | Donald A. Glaser | Willard F. Libby | Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Medawar | Saint-John Perse | Albert Lutuli | did not exist |
| 1959 | Emilio Segrè, Owen Chamberlain | Jaroslav Heyrovsky | Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg | Salvatore Quasimodo | Philip Noel-Baker | did not exist |
| 1958 | Pavel A. Cherenkov, Igor Y. Tamm, Il´ja M. Frank | Frederick Sanger | George Beadle, Edward Tatum, Joshua Lederberg | Boris Pasternak | Georges Pire | did not exist |
| 1957 | Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee | Lord Todd | Daniel Bovet | Albert Camus | Lester Bowles Pearson | did not exist |
| 1956 | William B. Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain | Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Nikolay Semenov | André F. Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards | Juan Ramón Jiménez | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1955 | Willis E. Lamb, Polykarp Kusch | Vincent du Vigneaud | Hugo Theorell | HalldĂłr Laxness | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1954 | Max Born, Walther Bothe | Linus Pauling | John F. Enders, Thomas H. Weller, Frederick C. Robbins | Ernest Hemingway | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | did not exist |
| 1953 | Frits Zernike | Hermann Staudinger | Hans Krebs, Fritz Lipmann | Winston Churchill | George C. Marshall | did not exist |
| 1952 | Felix Bloch, E. M. Purcell | Archer J.P. Martin, Richard L.M. Synge | Selman A. Waksman | François Mauriac | Albert Schweitzer | did not exist |
| 1951 | John Cockcroft, Ernest T.S. Walton | Edwin M. McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg | Max Theiler | Pär Lagerkvist | Léon Jouhaux | did not exist |
| 1950 | Cecil Powell | Otto Diels, Kurt Alder | Edward C. Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip S. Hench | Bertrand Russell | Ralph Bunche | did not exist |
| 1949 | Hideki Yukawa | William F. Giauque | Walter Hess, Egas Moniz | William Faulkner | Lord Boyd Orr | did not exist |
| 1948 | Patrick M.S. Blackett | Arne Tiselius | Paul MĂĽller | T.S. Eliot | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1947 | Edward V. Appleton | Sir Robert Robinson | Carl Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay | André Gide | Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee | did not exist |
| 1946 | Percy W. Bridgman | James B. Sumner, John H. Northrop, Wendell M. Stanley | Hermann J. Muller | Hermann Hesse | Emily Greene Balch, John R. Mott | did not exist |
| 1945 | Wolfgang Pauli | Artturi Virtanen | Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst B. Chain, Sir Howard Florey | Gabriela Mistral | Cordell Hull | did not exist |
| 1944 | Isidor Isaac Rabi | Otto Hahn | Joseph Erlanger, Herbert S. Gasser | Johannes V. Jensen | International Committee of the Red Cross | did not exist |
| 1943 | Otto Stern | George de Hevesy | Henrik Dam, Edward A. Doisy | not awarded | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1942 | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1941 | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1940 | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1939 | Ernest Lawrence | Adolf Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka | Gerhard Domagk | Frans Eemil Sillanpää | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1938 | Enrico Fermi | Richard Kuhn | Corneille Heymans | Pearl Buck | Nansen International Office for Refugees | did not exist |
| 1937 | Clinton Davisson, George Paget Thomson | Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer | Albert Szent-Györgyi | Roger Martin du Gard | Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood | did not exist |
| 1936 | Victor F. Hess, Carl D. Anderson | Peter Debye | Sir Henry Dale, Otto Loewi | Eugene O'Neill | Carlos Saavedra Lamas | did not exist |
| 1935 | James Chadwick | Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie | Hans Spemann | not awarded | Carl von Ossietzky | did not exist |
| 1934 | not awarded | Harold C. Urey | George H. Whipple, George R. Minot, William P. Murphy | Luigi Pirandello | Arthur Henderson | did not exist |
| 1933 | Erwin Schrödinger, Paul A.M. Dirac | not awarded | Thomas H. Morgan | Ivan Bunin | Sir Norman Angell | did not exist |
| 1932 | Werner Heisenberg | Irving Langmuir | Sir Charles Sherrington, Edgar Adrian | John Galsworthy | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1931 | not awarded | Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius | Otto Warburg | Erik Axel Karlfeldt | Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler | did not exist |
| 1930 | Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman | Hans Fischer | Karl Landsteiner | Sinclair Lewis | Nathan Söderblom | did not exist |
| 1929 | Louis de Broglie | Arthur Harden, Hans von Euler-Chelpin | Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Hopkins | Thomas Mann | Frank B. Kellogg | did not exist |
| 1928 | Owen Willans Richardson | Adolf Windaus | Charles Nicolle | Sigrid Undset | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1927 | Arthur H. Compton, C.T.R. Wilson | Heinrich Wieland | Julius Wagner-Jauregg | Henri Bergson | Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde | did not exist |
| 1926 | Jean Baptiste Perrin | The Svedberg | Johannes Fibiger | Grazia Deledda | Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann | did not exist |
| 1925 | James Franck, Gustav Hertz | Richard Zsigmondy | not awarded | George Bernard Shaw | Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes | did not exist |
| 1924 | Manne Siegbahn | not awarded | Willem Einthoven | Władysław Reymont | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1923 | Robert A. Millikan | Fritz Pregl | Frederick G. Banting, John Macleod | William Butler Yeats | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1922 | Niels Bohr | Francis W. Aston | Archibald V. Hill, Otto Meyerhof | Jacinto Benavente | Fridtjof Nansen | did not exist |
| 1921 | Albert Einstein | Frederick Soddy | not awarded | Anatole France | Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange | did not exist |
| 1920 | Charles Edouard Guillaume | Walther Nernst | August Krogh | Knut Hamsun | LĂ©on Bourgeois | did not exist |
| 1919 | Johannes Stark | not awarded | Jules Bordet | Carl Spitteler | Woodrow Wilson | did not exist |
| 1918 | Max Planck | Fritz Haber | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1917 | Charles Glover Barkla | not awarded | not awarded | Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan | International Committee of the Red Cross | did not exist |
| 1916 | not awarded | not awarded | not awarded | Verner von Heidenstam | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1915 | William Bragg, Lawrence Bragg | Richard Willstätter | not awarded | Romain Rolland | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1914 | Max von Laue | Theodore W. Richards | Robert Bárány | not awarded | not awarded | did not exist |
| 1913 | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes | Alfred Werner | Charles Richet | Rabindranath Tagore | Henri La Fontaine | did not exist |
| 1912 | Gustaf Dalén | Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier | Alexis Carrel | Gerhart Hauptmann | Elihu Root | did not exist |
| 1911 | Wilhelm Wien | Marie Curie | Allvar Gullstrand | Maurice Maeterlinck | Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried | did not exist |
| 1910 | Johannes Diderik van der Waals | Otto Wallach | Albrecht Kossel | Paul Heyse | Permanent International Peace Bureau | did not exist |
| 1909 | Guglielmo Marconi, Ferdinand Braun | Wilhelm Ostwald | Theodor Kocher | Selma Lagerlöf | Auguste Beernaert, Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant | did not exist |
| 1908 | Gabriel Lippmann | Ernest Rutherford | Ilya Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich | Rudolf Eucken | Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer | did not exist |
| 1907 | Albert A. Michelson | Eduard Buchner | Alphonse Laveran | Rudyard Kipling | Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault | did not exist |
| 1906 | J.J. Thomson | Henri Moissan | Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal | Giosuè Carducci | Theodore Roosevelt | did not exist |
| 1905 | Philipp Lenard | Adolf von Baeyer | Robert Koch | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Bertha von Suttner | did not exist |
| 1904 | Lord Rayleigh | Sir William Ramsay | Ivan Pavlov | Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray | Institute of International Law | did not exist |
| 1903 | Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie | Svante Arrhenius | Niels Ryberg Finsen | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson | Randal Cremer | did not exist |
| 1902 | Hendrik A. Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman | Emil Fischer | Ronald Ross | Theodor Mommsen | Élie Ducommun, Albert Gobat | did not exist |
| 1901 | Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen | Jacobus H. van 't Hoff | Emil von Behring | Sully Prudhomme | Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy | did not exist |
From one will to 125 years of prizes
Alfred Nobel signed his will in November 1895, leaving the fortune he built on the invention of dynamite to yearly prizes for those who brought "the greatest benefit to humankind" in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Peace. He died in December 1896, and the first prizes went out in 1901: Wilhelm Röntgen for the X rays, Jacobus van 't Hoff, Emil von Behring, Sully Prudhomme and, in Peace, Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy. Economics was not in the will: the Swedish central bank created it in 1968 and it joined the table in 1969.
Across 125 years there have been 1018 laureates, 67 of them women. Marie Curie remains unique: awarded in two different sciences, Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. Another 4 people won twice (John Bardeen, Linus Pauling, Frederick Sanger and K. Barry Sharpless), and the International Committee of the Red Cross won three times. The youngest laureate was Malala Yousafzai, at 17, for Peace in 2014; the oldest, John Goodenough, at 97, for Chemistry in 2019. The gaps in the table are not mistakes: during both world wars several categories went unawarded, and Peace is the one that stayed empty most often.
Data: official nobelprize.org API (CC0), snapshot of 2026-07-09. This site is independent, is not affiliated with the Nobel Foundation, and uses the prize name in a descriptive way only.
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