- Dates10 December 2026
- VenueStockholm Concert Hall
- CityStockholm
- Country
Sweden - CategoryPhysics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences
- StatusScheduled
About this event
The Nobel Prize ceremonies take place on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. Physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel are awarded in Stockholm; the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded separately in Oslo. The Stockholm ceremony has, with few exceptions, been held at Konserthuset Stockholm since 1926, while the Peace Prize ceremony is held at Oslo City Hall. This OneSliders archive begins with the locally curated 1970 prize records and lists every recorded laureate or organisation by prize category through the available 2020s data. That structure makes the page useful both for following the annual ceremony and for comparing successive awards without confusing the six prize categories with a single winner. Official Nobel Prize information remains the authority for the current year’s laureates, ceremony programme and public access details.
Winners
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| Year | Winner | Work | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mary E. Brunkow / Fred Ramsdell / Shimon Sakaguchi | for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance | for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance | for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2025 | John Clarke / Michel H. Devoret / John M. Martinis | for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit | for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit | for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit | Physics |
| 2025 | Maria Corina Machado | 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 | Peace |
| 2025 | László Krasznahorkai | for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art | Literature |
| 2025 | Joel Mokyr / Philippe Aghion / Peter Howitt | for having explained innovation-driven economic growth | Economic Sciences |
| 2025 | Susumu Kitagawa / Richard Robson / Omar M. Yaghi | for the development of metal–organic frameworks | for the development of metal–organic frameworks | for the development of metal–organic frameworks | Chemistry |
| 2024 | Victor Ambros / Gary Ruvkun | for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation | for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2024 | John J. Hopfield / Geoffrey Hinton | for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks | for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks | Physics |
| 2024 | Nihon Hidankyo | 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 | Peace |
| 2024 | Han Kang | for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life | Literature |
| 2024 | Daron Acemoglu / Simon Johnson / James A. Robinson | for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity | for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity | for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity | Economic Sciences |
| 2024 | David Baker / Demis Hassabis / John Jumper | for computational protein design | for protein structure prediction | for protein structure prediction | Chemistry |
| 2023 | Katalin Karikó / Drew Weissman | for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 | for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2023 | Pierre Agostini / Ferenc Krausz / Anne L’Huillier | for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter | for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter | for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter | Physics |
| 2023 | Narges Mohammadi | for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all | Peace |
| 2023 | Jon Fosse | for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable | Literature |
| 2023 | Claudia Goldin | for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes | Economic Sciences |
| 2023 | Moungi Bawendi / Louis Brus / Aleksey Yekimov | for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots | for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots | for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots | Chemistry |
| 2022 | Svante Pääbo | for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2022 | Alain Aspect / John Clauser / Anton Zeilinger | for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science | for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science | for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science | Physics |
| 2022 | Ales Bialiatski / Memorial / Center for Civil Liberties | The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy. | The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy. | The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy. | Peace |
| 2022 | Annie Ernaux | for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory | Literature |
| 2022 | Ben Bernanke / Douglas Diamond / Philip Dybvig | for research on banks and financial crises | for research on banks and financial crises | for research on banks and financial crises | Economic Sciences |
| 2022 | Carolyn Bertozzi / Morten Meldal / K. Barry Sharpless | for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry | for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry | for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry | Chemistry |
| 2021 | David Julius / Ardem Patapoutian | for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch | for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2021 | Syukuro Manabe / Klaus Hasselmann / Giorgio Parisi | for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems | Physics |
| 2021 | Maria Ressa / Dmitry Muratov | for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace | for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace | Peace |
| 2021 | Abdulrazak Gurnah | for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents | Literature |
| 2021 | David Card / Joshua D. Angrist / Guido W. Imbens | for his empirical contributions to labour economics | for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships | for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships | Economic Sciences |
| 2021 | Benjamin List / David W.C. MacMillan | for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis | for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis | Chemistry |
| 2020 | Harvey J. Alter / Michael Houghton / Charles M. Rice | for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus | for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus | for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2020 | Roger Penrose / Reinhard Genzel / Andrea Ghez | for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity | for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy | for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy | Physics |
| 2020 | World Food Programme | for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict | Peace |
| 2020 | Louise Glück | for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal | Literature |
| 2020 | Paul R. Milgrom / Robert B. Wilson | for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats | for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats | Economic Sciences |
| 2020 | Emmanuelle Charpentier / Jennifer A. Doudna | for the development of a method for genome editing | for the development of a method for genome editing | Chemistry |
| 2019 | William G. Kaelin Jr / Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe / Gregg L. Semenza | for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability | for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability | for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2019 | James Peebles / Michel Mayor / Didier Queloz | for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos | Physics |
| 2019 | Abiy Ahmed Ali | for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea | Peace |
| 2019 | Peter Handke | for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience | Literature |
| 2019 | Abhijit Banerjee / Esther Duflo / Michael Kremer | for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty | for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty | for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty | Economic Sciences |
| 2019 | John B. Goodenough / M. Stanley Whittingham / Akira Yoshino | for the development of lithium-ion batteries | for the development of lithium-ion batteries | for the development of lithium-ion batteries | Chemistry |
| 2018 | James P. Allison / Tasuku Honjo | for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation | for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2018 | Arthur Ashkin / Gérard Mourou / Donna Strickland | for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics | Physics |
| 2018 | Denis Mukwege / Nadia Murad | for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict | for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict | Peace |
| 2018 | Olga Tokarczuk | for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life | Literature |
| 2018 | William D. Nordhaus / Paul M. Romer | for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis | for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis | Economic Sciences |
| 2018 | Frances H. Arnold / George P. Smith / Sir Gregory P. Winter | for the directed evolution of enzymes | for the phage display of peptides and antibodies | for the phage display of peptides and antibodies | Chemistry |
| 2017 | Jeffrey C. Hall / Michael Rosbash / Michael W. Young | for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm | for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm | for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2017 | Rainer Weiss / Barry C. Barish / Kip S. Thorne | for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves | for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves | for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves | Physics |
| 2017 | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons | Peace |
| 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro | who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world | Literature |
| 2017 | Richard H. Thaler | for his contributions to behavioural economics | Economic Sciences |
| 2017 | Jacques Dubochet / Joachim Frank / Richard Henderson | for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution | for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution | for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution | Chemistry |
| 2016 | Yoshinori Ohsumi | for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2016 | David J. Thouless / F. Duncan M. Haldane / J. Michael Kosterlitz | for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter | for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter | for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter | Physics |
| 2016 | Juan Manuel Santos | for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end | Peace |
| 2016 | Bob Dylan | for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition | Literature |
| 2016 | Oliver Hart / Bengt Holmström | for their contributions to contract theory | for their contributions to contract theory | Economic Sciences |
| 2016 | Jean-Pierre Sauvage / Sir J. Fraser Stoddart / Bernard L. Feringa | for the design and synthesis of molecular machines | for the design and synthesis of molecular machines | for the design and synthesis of molecular machines | Chemistry |
| 2015 | William C. Campbell / Satoshi Ōmura / Tu Youyou | for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites | for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites | for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2015 | Takaaki Kajita / Arthur B. McDonald | for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass | for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass | Physics |
| 2015 | National Dialogue Quartet | for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011 | Peace |
| 2015 | Svetlana Alexievich | for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time | Literature |
| 2015 | Angus Deaton | for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare | Economic Sciences |
| 2015 | Tomas Lindahl / Paul Modrich / Aziz Sancar | for mechanistic studies of DNA repair | for mechanistic studies of DNA repair | for mechanistic studies of DNA repair | Chemistry |
| 2014 | John O'Keefe / May-Britt Moser / Edvard I. Moser | for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain | for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain | for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2014 | Isamu Akasaki / Hiroshi Amano / Shuji Nakamura | for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources | for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources | for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources | Physics |
| 2014 | Kailash Satyarthi / Malala Yousafzai | for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education | for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education | Peace |
| 2014 | Patrick Modiano | for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation | Literature |
| 2014 | Jean Tirole | for his analysis of market power and regulation | Economic Sciences |
| 2014 | Eric Betzig / Stefan W. Hell / William E. Moerner | for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy | for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy | for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy | Chemistry |
| 2013 | James E. Rothman / Randy W. Schekman / Thomas C. Südhof | for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells | for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells | for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2013 | François Englert / Peter Higgs | for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider | for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider | Physics |
| 2013 | Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons | Peace |
| 2013 | Alice Munro | master of the contemporary short story | Literature |
| 2013 | Eugene F. Fama / Lars Peter Hansen / Robert J. Shiller | for their empirical analysis of asset prices | for their empirical analysis of asset prices | for their empirical analysis of asset prices | Economic Sciences |
| 2013 | Martin Karplus / Michael Levitt / Arieh Warshel | for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems | for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems | for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems | Chemistry |
| 2012 | Sir John B. Gurdon / Shinya Yamanaka | for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent | for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2012 | Serge Haroche / David J. Wineland | for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems | for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems | Physics |
| 2012 | European Union | for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe | Peace |
| 2012 | Mo Yan | who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary | Literature |
| 2012 | Alvin E. Roth / Lloyd S. Shapley | for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design | for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design | Economic Sciences |
| 2012 | Robert J. Lefkowitz / Brian Kobilka | for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors | for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors | Chemistry |
| 2011 | Bruce A. Beutler / Jules A. Hoffmann / Ralph M. Steinman | for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity | for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity | for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2011 | Saul Perlmutter / Brian P. Schmidt / Adam G. Riess | for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae | for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae | for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae | Physics |
| 2011 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf / Leymah Gbowee / Tawakkol Karman | for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work | for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work | for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work | Peace |
| 2011 | Tomas Tranströmer | because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality | Literature |
| 2011 | Thomas J. Sargent / Christopher A. Sims | for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy | for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy | Economic Sciences |
| 2011 | Dan Shechtman | for the discovery of quasicrystals | Chemistry |
| 2010 | Robert G. Edwards | for the development of in vitro fertilization | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2010 | Andre Geim / Konstantin Novoselov | for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene | for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene | Physics |
| 2010 | Liu Xiaobo | for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China | Peace |
| 2010 | Mario Vargas Llosa | for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat | Literature |
| 2010 | Peter A. Diamond / Dale T. Mortensen / Christopher A. Pissarides | for their analysis of markets with search frictions | for their analysis of markets with search frictions | for their analysis of markets with search frictions | Economic Sciences |
| 2010 | Richard F. Heck / Ei-ichi Negishi / Akira Suzuki | for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis | for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis | for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis | Chemistry |
| 2009 | Elizabeth H. Blackburn / Carol W. Greider / Jack W. Szostak | for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase | for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase | for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2009 | Charles K. Kao / Willard S. Boyle / George E. Smith | for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication | for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor | for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor | Physics |
| 2009 | Barack H. Obama | for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples | Peace |
| 2009 | Herta Müller | who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed | Literature |
| 2009 | Elinor Ostrom / Oliver E. Williamson | for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons | for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm | Economic Sciences |
| 2009 | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan / Thomas A. Steitz / Ada E. Yonath | for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome | for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome | for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome | Chemistry |
| 2008 | Harald zur Hausen / Françoise Barré-Sinoussi / Luc Montagnier | for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer | for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus | for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2008 | Yoichiro Nambu / Makoto Kobayashi / Toshihide Maskawa | for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics | for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature | for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature | Physics |
| 2008 | Martti Ahtisaari | for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts | Peace |
| 2008 | Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio | author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization | Literature |
| 2008 | Paul Krugman | for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity | Economic Sciences |
| 2008 | Osamu Shimomura / Martin Chalfie / Roger Y. Tsien | for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP | for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP | for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP | Chemistry |
| 2007 | Mario R. Capecchi / Sir Martin J. Evans / Oliver Smithies | for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells | for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells | for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2007 | Albert Fert / Peter Grünberg | for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance | for the discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance | Physics |
| 2007 | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / Al Gore | for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change | for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change | Peace |
| 2007 | Doris Lessing | that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny | Literature |
| 2007 | Leonid Hurwicz / Eric S. Maskin / Roger B. Myerson | for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory | for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory | for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory | Economic Sciences |
| 2007 | Gerhard Ertl | for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces | Chemistry |
| 2006 | Andrew Z. Fire / Craig C. Mello | for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA | for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2006 | John C. Mather / George F. Smoot | for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation | for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation | Physics |
| 2006 | Muhammad Yunus / Grameen Bank | for their efforts to create economic and social development from below | for their efforts to create economic and social development from below | Peace |
| 2006 | Orhan Pamuk | who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures | Literature |
| 2006 | Edmund S. Phelps | for his analysis of intertemporal tradeoffs in macroeconomic policy | Economic Sciences |
| 2006 | Roger D. Kornberg | for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription | Chemistry |
| 2005 | Barry J. Marshall / J. Robin Warren | for their discovery of the bacterium <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease | for their discovery of the bacterium <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2005 | Roy J. Glauber / John L. Hall / Theodor W. Hänsch | for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence | for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique | for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique | Physics |
| 2005 | International Atomic Energy Agency / Mohamed ElBaradei | for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way | for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way | Peace |
| 2005 | Harold Pinter | who in his plays uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms | Literature |
| 2005 | Robert J. Aumann / Thomas C. Schelling | for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis | for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis | Economic Sciences |
| 2005 | Yves Chauvin / Robert H. Grubbs / Richard R. Schrock | for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis | for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis | for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis | Chemistry |
| 2004 | Richard Axel / Linda B. Buck | for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system | for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2004 | David J. Gross / H. David Politzer / Frank Wilczek | for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction | for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction | for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction | Physics |
| 2004 | Wangari Maathai | for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace | Peace |
| 2004 | Elfriede Jelinek | for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power | Literature |
| 2004 | Finn E. Kydland / Edward C. Prescott | for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles | for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics: the time consistency of economic policy and the driving forces behind business cycles | Economic Sciences |
| 2004 | Aaron Ciechanover / Avram Hershko / Irwin Rose | for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation | for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation | for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation | Chemistry |
| 2003 | Paul C. Lauterbur / Sir Peter Mansfield | for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging | for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2003 | Alexei Abrikosov / Vitaly L. Ginzburg / Anthony J. Leggett | for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids | for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids | for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids | Physics |
| 2003 | Shirin Ebadi | for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children | Peace |
| 2003 | J. M. Coetzee | who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider | Literature |
| 2003 | Robert F. Engle III / Clive W.J. Granger | for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH) | for methods of analyzing economic time series with common trends (cointegration) | Economic Sciences |
| 2003 | Peter Agre / Roderick MacKinnon | for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes | Chemistry |
| 2002 | Sydney Brenner / H. Robert Horvitz / John E. Sulston | for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death | for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death | for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2002 | Raymond Davis Jr. / Masatoshi Koshiba / Riccardo Giacconi | for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos | for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos | for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources | Physics |
| 2002 | Jimmy Carter | for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development | Peace |
| 2002 | Imre Kertész | for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history | Literature |
| 2002 | Daniel Kahneman / Vernon L. Smith | for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty | for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms | Economic Sciences |
| 2002 | John B. Fenn / Koichi Tanaka / Kurt Wüthrich | for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules | Chemistry |
| 2001 | Leland Hartwell / Tim Hunt / Sir Paul Nurse | for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle | for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle | for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2001 | Eric Cornell / Wolfgang Ketterle / Carl Wieman | for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates | for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates | for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates | Physics |
| 2001 | United Nations / Kofi Annan | for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world | for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world | Peace |
| 2001 | V. S. Naipaul | for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories | Literature |
| 2001 | George A. Akerlof / A. Michael Spence / Joseph E. Stiglitz | for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information | for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information | for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information | Economic Sciences |
| 2001 | William Knowles / Ryoji Noyori / K. Barry Sharpless | for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions | for their work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions | for his work on chirally catalysed oxidation reactions | Chemistry |
| 2000 | Arvid Carlsson / Paul Greengard / Eric Kandel | for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system | for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system | for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system | Physiology or Medicine |
| 2000 | Zhores Alferov / Herbert Kroemer / Jack Kilby | for basic work on information and communication technology | Physics |
| 2000 | Kim Dae-jung | for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular | Peace |
| 2000 | Gao Xingjian | for an œuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama | Literature |
| 2000 | James J. Heckman / Daniel L. McFadden | for his development of theory and methods for analyzing selective samples | for his development of theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice | Economic Sciences |
| 2000 | Alan Heeger / Alan MacDiarmid / Hideki Shirakawa | for the discovery and development of conductive polymers | for the discovery and development of conductive polymers | for the discovery and development of conductive polymers | Chemistry |
| 1999 | Günter Blobel | for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1999 | Gerardus 't Hooft / Martinus J.G. Veltman | for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics | for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics | Physics |
| 1999 | Doctors Without Borders | in recognition of the organisation's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents | Peace |
| 1999 | Günter Grass | whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history | Literature |
| 1999 | Robert Mundell | for his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas | Economic Sciences |
| 1999 | Ahmed Zewail | for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy | Chemistry |
| 1998 | Robert F. Furchgott / Louis J. Ignarro / Ferid Murad | for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system | for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system | for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1998 | Robert B. Laughlin / Horst L. Störmer / Daniel C. Tsui | for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations | for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations | for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations | Physics |
| 1998 | John Hume / David Trimble | for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland | for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland | Peace |
| 1998 | José Saramago | who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality | Literature |
| 1998 | Amartya Sen | for his contributions to welfare economics | Economic Sciences |
| 1998 | Walter Kohn / John Pople | for his development of the density-functional theory | for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry | Chemistry |
| 1997 | Stanley B. Prusiner | for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1997 | Steven Chu / Claude Cohen-Tannoudji / William D. Phillips | for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light | for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light | for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light | Physics |
| 1997 | International Campaign to Ban Landmines / Jody Williams | for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines | for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines | Peace |
| 1997 | Dario Fo | who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden | Literature |
| 1997 | Robert C. Merton / Myron Scholes | for a new method to determine the value of derivatives | for a new method to determine the value of derivatives | Economic Sciences |
| 1997 | Paul D. Boyer / John E. Walker / Jens C. Skou | for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) | for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) | for the first discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase | Chemistry |
| 1996 | Peter C. Doherty / Rolf M. Zinkernagel | for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence | for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1996 | David M. Lee / Douglas D. Osheroff / Robert C. Richardson | for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 | for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 | for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 | Physics |
| 1996 | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo / José Ramos-Horta | for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor | for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor | Peace |
| 1996 | Wisława Szymborska | for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality | Literature |
| 1996 | James A. Mirrlees / William Vickrey | for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information | for their fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information | Economic Sciences |
| 1996 | Robert F. Curl Jr. / Sir Harold Kroto / Richard E. Smalley | for their discovery of fullerenes | for their discovery of fullerenes | for their discovery of fullerenes | Chemistry |
| 1995 | Edward B. Lewis / Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard / Eric F. Wieschaus | for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development | for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development | for their discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1995 | Martin L. Perl / Frederick Reines | for pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics | Physics |
| 1995 | Joseph Rotblat / Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs | for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms | for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms | Peace |
| 1995 | Seamus Heaney | for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past | Literature |
| 1995 | Robert E. Lucas Jr. | for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy | Economic Sciences |
| 1995 | Paul J. Crutzen / Mario J. Molina / F. Sherwood Rowland | for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone | for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone | for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone | Chemistry |
| 1994 | Alfred G. Gilman / Martin Rodbell | for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells | for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1994 | Bertram N. Brockhouse / Clifford G. Shull | for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter | Physics |
| 1994 | Yasser Arafat / Shimon Peres / Yitzhak Rabin | for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East | for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East | for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East | Peace |
| 1994 | Kenzaburo Oe | who with poetic force creates an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today | Literature |
| 1994 | John C. Harsanyi / John F. Nash Jr. / Reinhard Selten | for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games | for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games | for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games | Economic Sciences |
| 1994 | George A. Olah | for his contribution to carbocation chemistry | Chemistry |
| 1993 | Richard J. Roberts / Phillip A. Sharp | for their discoveries of split genes | for their discoveries of split genes | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1993 | Russell A. Hulse / Joseph H. Taylor Jr. | for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation | for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation | Physics |
| 1993 | Nelson Mandela / F.W. de Klerk | for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa | for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa | Peace |
| 1993 | Toni Morrison | who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality | Literature |
| 1993 | Robert W. Fogel / Douglass C. North | for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change | for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change | Economic Sciences |
| 1993 | Kary B. Mullis / Michael Smith | for contributions to the developments of methods within DNA-based chemistry | Chemistry |
| 1992 | Edmond H. Fischer / Edwin G. Krebs | for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism | for their discoveries concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1992 | Georges Charpak | for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber | Physics |
| 1992 | Rigoberta Menchú Tum | for her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples | Peace |
| 1992 | Derek Walcott | for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment | Literature |
| 1992 | Gary Becker | for having extended the domain of microeconomic analysis to a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour | Economic Sciences |
| 1992 | Rudolph A. Marcus | for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems | Chemistry |
| 1991 | Erwin Neher / Bert Sakmann | for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells | for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1991 | Pierre-Gilles de Gennes | for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers | Physics |
| 1991 | Aung San Suu Kyi | for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights | Peace |
| 1991 | Nadine Gordimer | who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity | Literature |
| 1991 | Ronald H. Coase | for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy | Economic Sciences |
| 1991 | Richard R. Ernst | for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy | Chemistry |
| 1990 | Joseph E. Murray / E. Donnall Thomas | for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease | for their discoveries concerning organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1990 | Jerome I. Friedman / Henry W. Kendall / Richard E. Taylor | for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics | for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics | for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics | Physics |
| 1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev | for the leading role he played in the radical changes in East-West relations | Peace |
| 1990 | Octavio Paz | for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity | Literature |
| 1990 | Harry M. Markowitz / Merton H. Miller / William F. Sharpe | for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics | for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics | for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics | Economic Sciences |
| 1990 | Elias James Corey | for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis | Chemistry |
| 1989 | J. Michael Bishop / Harold E. Varmus | for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes | for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1989 | Norman F. Ramsey / Hans G. Dehmelt / Wolfgang Paul | for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks | for the development of the ion trap technique | for the development of the ion trap technique | Physics |
| 1989 | The 14th Dalai Lama | for advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people | Peace |
| 1989 | Camilo José Cela | for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability | Literature |
| 1989 | Trygve Haavelmo | for his clarification of the probability theory foundations of econometrics and his analyses of simultaneous economic structures | Economic Sciences |
| 1989 | Sidney Altman / Thomas R. Cech | for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA | for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA | Chemistry |
| 1988 | Sir James W. Black / Gertrude B. Elion / George H. Hitchings | for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment | for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment | for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1988 | Leon M. Lederman / Melvin Schwartz / Jack Steinberger | for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino | for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino | for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino | Physics |
| 1988 | United Nations Peacekeeping Forces | for preventing armed clashes and creating conditions for negotiations | Peace |
| 1988 | Naguib Mahfouz | who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind | Literature |
| 1988 | Maurice Allais | for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources | Economic Sciences |
| 1988 | Johann Deisenhofer / Robert Huber / Hartmut Michel | for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre | for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre | for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre | Chemistry |
| 1987 | Susumu Tonegawa | for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1987 | J. Georg Bednorz / K. Alex Müller | for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials | for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials | Physics |
| 1987 | Oscar Arias Sánchez | for his work for lasting peace in Central America | Peace |
| 1987 | Joseph Brodsky | for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity | Literature |
| 1987 | Robert M. Solow | for his contributions to the theory of economic growth | Economic Sciences |
| 1987 | Donald J. Cram / Jean-Marie Lehn / Charles J. Pedersen | for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity | for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity | for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity | Chemistry |
| 1986 | Stanley Cohen / Rita Levi-Montalcini | for their discoveries of growth factors | for their discoveries of growth factors | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1986 | Ernst Ruska / Gerd Binnig / Heinrich Rohrer | for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the first electron microscope | for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope | for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope | Physics |
| 1986 | Elie Wiesel | for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity | Peace |
| 1986 | Wole Soyinka | who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence | Literature |
| 1986 | James M. Buchanan Jr. | for his development of the contractual and constitutional bases for the theory of economic and political decision-making | Economic Sciences |
| 1986 | Dudley R. Herschbach / Yuan T. Lee / John C. Polanyi | for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes | for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes | for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes | Chemistry |
| 1985 | Michael S. Brown / Joseph L. Goldstein | for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism | for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1985 | Klaus von Klitzing | for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect | Physics |
| 1985 | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | for spreading authoritative information and by creating awareness of the catastrophic consequences of nuclear war | Peace |
| 1985 | Claude Simon | who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition | Literature |
| 1985 | Franco Modigliani | for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets | Economic Sciences |
| 1985 | Herbert A. Hauptman / Jerome Karle | for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures | for their outstanding achievements in the development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures | Chemistry |
| 1984 | Niels K. Jerne / Georges J.F. Köhler / César Milstein | for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies | for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies | for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1984 | Carlo Rubbia / Simon van der Meer | for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction | for their decisive contributions to the large project, which led to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, communicators of weak interaction | Physics |
| 1984 | Desmond Tutu | for his role as a unifying leader figure in the non-violent campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa | Peace |
| 1984 | Jaroslav Seifert | for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man | Literature |
| 1984 | Richard Stone | for having made fundamental contributions to the development of systems of national accounts and hence greatly improved the basis for empirical economic analysis | Economic Sciences |
| 1984 | Bruce Merrifield | for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix | Chemistry |
| 1983 | Barbara McClintock | for her discovery of mobile genetic elements | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1983 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar / William A. Fowler | for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars | for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe | Physics |
| 1983 | Lech Wałęsa | for non-violent struggle for free trade unions and human rights in Poland | Peace |
| 1983 | William Golding | for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today | Literature |
| 1983 | Gerard Debreu | for having incorporated new analytical methods into economic theory and for his rigorous reformulation of the theory of general equilibrium | Economic Sciences |
| 1983 | Henry Taube | for his work on the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes | Chemistry |
| 1982 | Sune K. Bergström / Bengt I. Samuelsson / John R. Vane | for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances | for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances | for their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1982 | Kenneth G. Wilson | for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions | Physics |
| 1982 | Alva Myrdal / Alfonso García Robles | for their work for disarmament and nuclear and weapon-free zones | for their work for disarmament and nuclear and weapon-free zones | Peace |
| 1982 | Gabriel García Márquez | for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts | Literature |
| 1982 | George J. Stigler | for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets and causes and effects of public regulation | Economic Sciences |
| 1982 | Aaron Klug | for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes | Chemistry |
| 1981 | Roger W. Sperry / David H. Hubel / Torsten N. Wiesel | for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres | for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system | for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1981 | Nicolaas Bloembergen / Arthur L. Schawlow / Kai M. Siegbahn | for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy | for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy | for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy | Physics |
| 1981 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | for promoting the fundamental rights of refugees | Peace |
| 1981 | Elias Canetti | for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power | Literature |
| 1981 | James Tobin | for his analysis of financial markets and their relations to expenditure decisions, employment, production and prices | Economic Sciences |
| 1981 | Kenichi Fukui / Roald Hoffmann | for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions | for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions | Chemistry |
| 1980 | Baruj Benacerraf / Jean Dausset / George D. Snell | for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions | for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions | for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1980 | James Cronin / Val Fitch | for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons | for the discovery of violations of fundamental symmetry principles in the decay of neutral K-mesons | Physics |
| 1980 | Adolfo Pérez Esquivel | for being a source of inspiration to repressed people, especially in Latin America | Peace |
| 1980 | Czesław Miłosz | who with uncompromising clear-sightedness voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts | Literature |
| 1980 | Lawrence R. Klein | for the creation of econometric models and the application to the analysis of economic fluctuations and economic policies | Economic Sciences |
| 1980 | Paul Berg / Walter Gilbert / Frederick Sanger | for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA | for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids | for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids | Chemistry |
| 1979 | Allan M. Cormack / Godfrey N. Hounsfield | for the development of computer assisted tomography | for the development of computer assisted tomography | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1979 | Sheldon Glashow / Abdus Salam / Steven Weinberg | for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current | for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current | for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including, inter alia, the prediction of the weak neutral current | Physics |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa | for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity | Peace |
| 1979 | Odysseus Elytis | for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness | Literature |
| 1979 | Theodore W. Schultz / Sir Arthur Lewis | for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries | for their pioneering research into economic development research with particular consideration of the problems of developing countries | Economic Sciences |
| 1979 | Herbert C. Brown / Georg Wittig | for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis | for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis | Chemistry |
| 1978 | Werner Arber / Daniel Nathans / Hamilton O. Smith | for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics | for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics | for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1978 | Pyotr Kapitsa / Arno Penzias / Robert Woodrow Wilson | for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics | for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation | for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation | Physics |
| 1978 | Anwar al-Sadat / Menachem Begin | for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978 | for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978 | Peace |
| 1978 | Isaac Bashevis Singer | for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life | Literature |
| 1978 | Herbert Simon | for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations | Economic Sciences |
| 1978 | Peter Mitchell | for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer through the formulation of the chemiosmotic theory | Chemistry |
| 1977 | Roger Guillemin / Andrew V. Schally / Rosalyn Yalow | for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain | for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain | for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1977 | Philip W. Anderson / Sir Nevill F. Mott / John H. Van Vleck | for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems | for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems | for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems | Physics |
| 1977 | Amnesty International | for worldwide respect for human rights | Peace |
| 1977 | Vicente Aleixandre | for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars | Literature |
| 1977 | Bertil Ohlin / James E. Meade | for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements | for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements | Economic Sciences |
| 1977 | Ilya Prigogine | for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures | Chemistry |
| 1976 | Baruch S. Blumberg / D. Carleton Gajdusek | for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases | for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1976 | Burton Richter / Samuel C.C. Ting | for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind | for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind | Physics |
| 1976 | Betty Williams / Mairead Corrigan | for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland | for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland | Peace |
| 1976 | Saul Bellow | for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work | Literature |
| 1976 | Milton Friedman | for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy | Economic Sciences |
| 1976 | William Lipscomb | for his studies on the structure of boranes illuminating problems of chemical bonding | Chemistry |
| 1975 | David Baltimore / Renato Dulbecco / Howard M. Temin | for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell | for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell | for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1975 | Aage N. Bohr / Ben R. Mottelson / James Rainwater | for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection | for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection | for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection | Physics |
| 1975 | Andrei Sakharov | for his struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union, for disarmament and cooperation between all nations | Peace |
| 1975 | Eugenio Montale | for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions | Literature |
| 1975 | Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich / Tjalling C. Koopmans | for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources | for their contributions to the theory of optimum allocation of resources | Economic Sciences |
| 1975 | John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog | for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions | for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions | Chemistry |
| 1974 | Albert Claude / Christian de Duve / George E. Palade | for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell | for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell | for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1974 | Martin Ryle / Antony Hewish | for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars | for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his observations and inventions, in particular of the aperture synthesis technique, and Hewish for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars | Physics |
| 1974 | Seán MacBride / Eisaku Satō | for his efforts to secure and develop human rights throughout the world | for his contribution to stabilize conditions in the Pacific rim area and for signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | Peace |
| 1974 | Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson | for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom | for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos | Literature |
| 1974 | Gunnar Myrdal / Friedrich von Hayek | for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena | for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena | Economic Sciences |
| 1974 | Paul J. Flory | for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of the macromolecules | Chemistry |
| 1973 | Karl von Frisch / Konrad Lorenz / Nikolaas Tinbergen | for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns | for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns | for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1973 | Leo Esaki / Ivar Giaever / Brian D. Josephson | for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively | for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively | for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects | Physics |
| 1973 | Henry Kissinger / Le Duc Tho | for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973 | for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973 | Peace |
| 1973 | Patrick White | for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature | Literature |
| 1973 | Wassily Leontief | for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems | Economic Sciences |
| 1973 | Ernst Otto Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson | for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds | for their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the organometallic, so called sandwich compounds | Chemistry |
| 1972 | Gerald M. Edelman / Rodney R. Porter | for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies | for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1972 | John Bardeen / Leon N. Cooper / Robert Schrieffer | for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory | for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory | for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory | Physics |
| 1972 | No prize awarded | No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund. | Peace |
| 1972 | Heinrich Böll | for his writing which through its combination of a broad perspective on his time and a sensitive skill in characterization has contributed to a renewal of German literature | Literature |
| 1972 | John R. Hicks / Kenneth J. Arrow | for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory | for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory | Economic Sciences |
| 1972 | Christian Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William H. Stein | for his work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation | for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule | for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active centre of the ribonuclease molecule | Chemistry |
| 1971 | Earl W. Sutherland, Jr. | for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1971 | Dennis Gabor | for his invention and development of the holographic method | Physics |
| 1971 | Willy Brandt | for paving the way for a meaningful dialogue between East and West | Peace |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda | for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams | Literature |
| 1971 | Simon Kuznets | for his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development | Economic Sciences |
| 1971 | Gerhard Herzberg | for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals | Chemistry |
| 1970 | Sir Bernard Katz / Ulf von Euler / Julius Axelrod | for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation | for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation | for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation | Physiology or Medicine |
| 1970 | Hannes Alfvén / Louis Néel | for fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro-dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics | for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics | Physics |
| 1970 | Norman Borlaug | for having given a well-founded hope - the green revolution | Peace |
| 1970 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature | Literature |
| 1970 | Paul A. Samuelson | for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science | Economic Sciences |
| 1970 | Luis Leloir | for his discovery of sugar nucleotides and their role in the biosynthesis of carbohydrates | Chemistry |
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