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Nobel Prize Laureates

The Nobel Prize is an international award established by the will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel and has been awarded since 1901. There are six categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. The prizes are awarded to individuals or organizations that have made the greatest contributions to humanity. Laureates receive a gold medal, a diploma, and prize money. As of 2025, over 1,000 individuals and organizations have received the award.

Nobel Prize laureates science literature peace physics chemistry medicine economics international award
code slug name description awardingInstitution establishedYear recentLaureates totalAwards totalLaureates uniqueIndividuals individualLaureates organizationLaureates
PHYSICS nobel-prize-physics Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to individuals who have made the most important discovery or invention in the field of physics. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1901 [{"year":2025,"laureates":["John Clarke","Michel H. Devoret","John M. Martinis"],"citation":"for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"},{"year":2024,"laureates":["John J. Hopfield","Geoffrey Hinton"],"citation":"for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"},{"year":2023,"laureates":["Pierre Agostini","Ferenc Krausz","Anne L'Huillier"],"citation":"for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"},{"year":2022,"laureates":["Alain Aspect","John Clauser","Anton Zeilinger"],"citation":"for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science"},{"year":2021,"laureates":["Syukuro Manabe","Klaus Hasselmann","Giorgio Parisi"],"citation":"for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems"}] 119 230 229
CHEMISTRY nobel-prize-chemistry Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to individuals who have made the most important chemical discovery or improvement. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1901 [{"year":2025,"laureates":["Susumu Kitagawa","Richard Robson","Omar M. Yaghi"],"citation":"for the development of metal-organic frameworks"},{"year":2024,"laureates":["David Baker","Demis Hassabis","John Jumper"],"citation":"for computational protein design and protein structure prediction"},{"year":2023,"laureates":["Moungi Bawendi","Louis Brus","Aleksey Yekimov"],"citation":"for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"},{"year":2022,"laureates":["Carolyn Bertozzi","Morten Meldal","K. Barry Sharpless"],"citation":"for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry"},{"year":2021,"laureates":["Benjamin List","David W.C. MacMillan"],"citation":"for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis"}] 117 200 198
MEDICINE nobel-prize-medicine Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded to individuals who have made the most important discovery in the field of physiology or medicine. Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet 1901 [{"year":2025,"laureates":["Mary E. Brunkow","Fred Ramsdell","Shimon Sakaguchi"],"citation":"for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"},{"year":2024,"laureates":["Victor Ambros","Gary Ruvkun"],"citation":"for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation"},{"year":2023,"laureates":["Katalin Karikó","Drew Weissman"],"citation":"for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19"},{"year":2022,"laureates":["Svante Pääbo"],"citation":"for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution"},{"year":2021,"laureates":["David Julius","Ardem Patapoutian"],"citation":"for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch"}] 116 232 229
LITERATURE nobel-prize-literature Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to authors who have produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction in the field of literature. Swedish Academy 1901 [{"year":2025,"laureates":["László Krasznahorkai"],"citation":"for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art"},{"year":2024,"laureates":["Han Kang"],"citation":"for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life"},{"year":2023,"laureates":["Jon Fosse"],"citation":"for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable"},{"year":2022,"laureates":["Annie Ernaux"],"citation":"for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory"},{"year":2021,"laureates":["Abdulrazak Gurnah"],"citation":"for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee"}] 118 122 122
PEACE nobel-prize-peace Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to individuals or organizations that have contributed most to the promotion of international fraternity and peace. Norwegian Nobel Committee 1901 [{"year":2025,"laureates":["Maria Corina Machado"],"citation":"for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"},{"year":2024,"laureates":["Nihon Hidankyo"],"citation":"for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again"},{"year":2023,"laureates":["Narges Mohammadi"],"citation":"for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all"},{"year":2022,"laureates":["Ales Bialiatski","Memorial","Center for Civil Liberties"],"citation":"for representing civil society and promoting the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens"},{"year":2021,"laureates":["Maria Ressa","Dmitry Muratov"],"citation":"for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace"}] 106 143 112 31
ECONOMICS nobel-prize-economic-sciences Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the field of economic sciences. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1969 [{"year":2025,"laureates":["Joel Mokyr","Philippe Aghion","Peter Howitt"],"citation":"for having explained innovation-driven economic growth and the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction"},{"year":2024,"laureates":["Daron Acemoglu","Simon Johnson","James A. Robinson"],"citation":"for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity"},{"year":2023,"laureates":["Claudia Goldin"],"citation":"for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes"},{"year":2022,"laureates":["Ben Bernanke","Douglas Diamond","Philip Dybvig"],"citation":"for research on banks and financial crises"},{"year":2021,"laureates":["David Card","Joshua D. Angrist","Guido W. Imbens"],"citation":"for their empirical contributions to labour economics and methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships"}] 57 99 99

A list of recipients of the international awards based on Alfred Nobel's will.