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Facts on the Nobel Prize 1901 to 2011

On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace - the Nobel Prizes.

Total Number of Nobel Prizes Awarded

Nobel Prizes in Physics have been awarded since 1901 =549
Number of Nobel Prizes in Physics =105
Number of Nobel Prizes in Chemistry =103
Number of Nobel Prizes in Physiology/Medicine = 102
Number of Nobel Prizes in Literature =104
Number of Nobel Peace Prizes = 92
Number of Nobel Prizes in Economic Sciences= 43

Number of Nobel Laureates

Total Nobel Prizes has been awarded to Laureates since 1901= 853
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Laureates since 1901= 192
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Laureates since 1901 = 161
The Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine has been awarded to Laureates since 1901= 199
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Laureates since 1901= 108
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Laureates since1901= 124
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Laureates since 1969= 69

Number of times Nobel Prizes not Awarded

Since 1901, Number of times Nobel Prizes have not been awarded = 50

Number of Women Awarded Nobel Prizes

Women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2011= 43 (Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honored twice)

Organization Awarded Nobel Prizes(Nobel Peace Prize)

Organizations in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2011= 20
2007-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ,
2006 -Grameen Bank ,
2005 -International Atomic Energy Agency ,
2001 -United Nations ,1999 -Médecins Sans Frontières ,
1997 -International Campaign to Ban Landmines ,
1995 -Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs ,
1988 -United Nations Peacekeeping Forces ,
1985 -International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War ,
1981 -Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ,
1977 -Amnesty International ,1969 -International Labour Organization ,
1965 -United Nations Children's Fund ,
1963 -International Committee of the Red Cross ,
1963 -League of Red Cross Societies ,
1954 -Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ,
1947 -Friends Service Council ,
1947 -American Friends Service Committee ,
1944 -International Committee of the Red Cross ,
1938 -Nansen International Office for Refugees ,
1917 -International Committee of the Red Cross ,
1910 -Permanent International Peace Bureau ,
1904 -Institute of International Law
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Facts on the Nobel Prize in Physics from 1901 to 2011


Number of Nobel Prizes in Physics

Nobel Prizes in Physics have been awarded since 1901 = 105
Prizes have been given to one Laureate = 47
Prizes have been shared by two Laureates = 29
Prizes have been shared between three Laureates = 29

It was not awarded six times in 1916, 1931, 1934, 1940, 1941, and 1942.

Number of Nobel Laureates in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Laureates 1901-2011= 192
John Bardeen has been awarded twice
Of the 191 individuals awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two are women.

1903 - Marie Curie (also in Chemistry.)
1963 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer

List of all Nobel Prize Laureates in Physics

2011-Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G. Riess
2010 -Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov
2009 -Charles Kuen Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George E. Smith
2008 -Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa
2007 -Albert Fert, Peter Grünberg
2006 -John C. Mather, George F. Smoot
2005 -Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodor W. Hänsch
2004 -David J. Gross, H. David Politzer, Frank Wilczek
2003 -Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett
2002 -Raymond Davis Jr., Masatoshi Koshiba, Riccardo Giacconi
2001 -Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, Carl E. Wieman
2000 -Zhores I. Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S. Kilby
1999 -Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman
1998 -Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui
1997 -Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips
1996 -David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson
1995 -Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines
1994 -Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull
1993 -Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr.
1992 -Georges Charpak
1991 -Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
1990 -Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor
1989 -Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul
1988 -Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
1987-J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alexander Müller
1986 -Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer
1985 -Klaus von Klitzing
1984 -Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer
1983 -Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler
1982 -Kenneth G. Wilson
1981 -Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn
1980 -James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch
1979 -Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
1978 -Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
1977 -Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck van Vleck
1976 -Burton Richter, Samuel Chao Chung Ting
1975 -Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Leo James Rainwater
1974 -Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
1973 -Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson
1972 -John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, John Robert Schrieffer
1971 -Dennis Gabor
1970 -Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel
1969 -Murray Gell-Mann
1968 -Luis Walter Alvarez
1967 -Hans Albrecht Bethe
1966 -Alfred Kastler
1965 -Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
1964 -Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
1963 -Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert Mayer, J. Hans D. Jensen
1962 -Lev Davidovich Landau
1961 -Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
1960 -Donald Arthur Glaser
1959 -Emilio Gino Segrè, Owen Chamberlain
1958 -Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Il´ja Mikhailovich Frank, Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
1957 -Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee
1956 -William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain
1955 -Willis Eugene Lamb, Polykarp Kusch
1954 -Max Born, Walther Bothe
1953-Frits (Frederik) Zernike
1952 -Felix Bloch, Edward Mills Purcell
1951 -Sir John Douglas Cockcroft, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton
1950 -Cecil Frank Powell
1949 -Hideki Yukawa
1948 -Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
1947 -Sir Edward Victor Appleton
1946 -Percy Williams Bridgman
1945 -Wolfgang Pauli
1944 -Isidor Isaac Rabi
1943 -Otto Stern
1942 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1941 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1940 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1939 -Ernest Orlando Lawrence
1938 -Enrico Fermi
1937 -Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson
1936 -Victor Franz Hess, Carl David Anderson
1935 -James Chadwick
1934-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1933 -Erwin Schrödinger, Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
1932 -Werner Karl Heisenberg
1931 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1930 -Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
1929-Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond de Broglie
1928 -Owen Willans Richardson
1927 -Arthur Holly Compton, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
1926 -Jean Baptiste Perrin
1925 -James Franck, Gustav Ludwig Hertz
1924 -Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
1923 -Robert Andrews Millikan
1922 -Niels Henrik David Bohr
1921 -Albert Einstein
1920-Charles Edouard Guillaume
1919 -Johannes Stark
1918 -Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
1917 -Charles Glover Barkla
1916 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1915 -Sir William Henry Bragg, William Lawrence Bragg
1914 -Max von Laue
1913 -Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
1912 -Nils Gustaf Dalén
1911 -Wilhelm Wien
1910 -Johannes Diderik van der Waals
1909 -Guglielmo Marconi, Karl Ferdinand Braun
1908 -Gabriel Lippmann
1907 -Albert Abraham Michelson
1906 -Joseph John Thomson
1905 -Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard
1904 -Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt)
1903 -Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, née Sklodowska
1902 -Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Pieter Zeeman
1901 -Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
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Facts on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry from 1901 to 2011

Number of Nobel Prizes in Chemistry

Nobel Prizes in Chemistry have been awarded since 1901 = 103
Prizes have been given to one Laureate only = 63
Prizes have been shared by two Laureates = 22
Prizes have been shared between three Laureates = 18

It was not awarded in 1916, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1933, 1940, 1941, and 1942.

Number of Nobel Prize Laureates in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to 161 Laureates 1901-2011.
Frederick Sanger has been awarded twice.

Of the 160 individuals awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, only four are women.

1911 - Marie Curie (also awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics)

1935 - Irène Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie Curie and wife to Frédéric Joliot)

1964 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
2009 - Ada Yonath

List of all Nobel Prize Laureates in Chemistry

2011 -Dan Shechtman
2010 -Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira Suzuki
2009 -Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, Ada E. Yonath
2008- Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Y. Tsien
2007 Gerhard Ertl
2006 -Roger D. Kornberg
2005 -Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, Richard R. Schrock
2004 -Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko, Irwin Rose
2003 -Peter Agre, Roderick MacKinnon
2002 -John B. Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, Kurt Wüthrich
2001 -William S. Knowles, Ryoji Noyori, K. Barry Sharpless
2000 -Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa
1999 -Ahmed H. Zewail
1998 -Walter Kohn, John A. Pople
1997 -Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, Jens C. Skou
1996 -Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley
1995 -Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
1994 -George A. Olah
1993 -Kary B. Mullis, Michael Smith
1992 -Rudolph A. Marcus
1991 -Richard R. Ernst
1990 -Elias James Corey
1989 -Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
1988 -Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
1987 -Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
1986 -Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi
1985 -Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
1984 -Robert Bruce Merrifield
1983 -Henry Taube
1982 -Aaron Klug
1981 -Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann
1980 -Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
1979 -Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
1978 -Peter D. Mitchell
1977 -Ilya Prigogine
1976 -William N. Lipscomb
1975 -John Warcup Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
1974 -Paul J. Flory
1973 -Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
1972 -Christian B. Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein
1971 -Gerhard Herzberg
1970 -Luis F. Leloir
1969 -Derek H. R. Barton, Odd Hassel
1968 -Lars Onsager
1967 -Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter
1966 -Robert S. Mulliken
1965 -Robert Burns Woodward
1964 -Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
1963 -Karl Ziegler, Giulio Natta
1962 -Max Ferdinand Perutz, John Cowdery Kendrew
1961 -Melvin Calvin
1960 -Willard Frank Libby
1959 -Jaroslav Heyrovsky
1958 -Frederick Sanger
1957 -Lord (Alexander R.) Todd
1956 -Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
1955 -Vincent du Vigneaud
1954 -Linus Carl Pauling
1953 -Hermann Staudinger
1952 -Archer John Porter Martin, Richard Laurence Millington Synge
1951 -Edwin Mattison McMillan, Glenn Theodore Seaborg
1950 -Otto Paul Hermann Diels, Kurt Alder
1949 -William Francis Giauque
1948 -Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius
1947 -Sir Robert Robinson
1946 -James Batcheller Sumner, John Howard Northrop, Wendell Meredith Stanley
1945 -Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
1944 -Otto Hahn
1943 -George de Hevesy
1942 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1941 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1940 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1939 -Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt, Leopold Ruzicka
1938 -Richard Kuhn
1937 -Walter Norman Haworth, Paul Karrer
1936 -Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
1935 -Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie
1934 -Harold Clayton Urey
1933 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1932 -Irving Langmuir
1931 -Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
1930 -Hans Fischer
1929 -Arthur Harden, Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
1928 -Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
1927 -Heinrich Otto Wieland
1926 -The (Theodor) Svedberg
1925 -Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
1924 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1923 -Fritz Pregl
1922 -Francis William Aston
1921 -Frederick Soddy
1920 -Walther Hermann Nernst
1919 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1918 -Fritz Haber
1917 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1916 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1915 -Richard Martin Willstätter
1914 -Theodore William Richards
1913 -Alfred Werner
1912 -Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier
1911 -Marie Curie, née Sklodowska
1910 -Otto Wallach
1909 -Wilhelm Ostwald
1908 -Ernest Rutherford
1907 -Eduard Buchner
1906 -Henri Moissan
1905 -Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer
1904-Sir William Ramsay
1903 -Svante August Arrhenius
1902 -Hermann Emil Fischer –
1901 -Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Facts on the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to 2011

Number of Nobel Prizes in Physiology/Medicine

Nobel Prizes in Medicine have been awarded since 1901 = 102
Prizes have been given to one Laureate only = 38
Prizes have been shared by two Laureates = 31
Prizes have been shared between three Laureates = 33


It was not awarded in 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1925, 1940, 1941 and 1942.

Number of Nobel Laureates in Physiology/Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine has been awarded to 199 Laureates 1901-2011.

No one has been awarded twice yet.

Of the 199 individuals awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, ten are women.

1947- Gerty Cori
1977- Rosalyn Yalow
1983- Barbara McClintock
1986- Rita Levi-Montalcini
1988- Gertrude B. Elion
1995- ChristianeNüsslein-Volhard
2004- Linda B.Buck
2008- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
2009- Elizabeth H.Blackburn and Carol W. Greider

List of all Nobel Prize Laureates in Physiology/Medicine

2011- Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann, Ralph M. Steinman
2010 -Robert G. Edwards
2009 -Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, Jack W. Szostak
2008 -Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier
2007 -Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans, Oliver Smithies
2006 -Andrew Z. Fire, Craig C. Mello
2005 -Barry J. Marshall, J. Robin Warren
2004 -Richard Axel, Linda B. Buck
2003 -Paul C. Lauterbur, Sir Peter Mansfield
2002 -Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, John E. Sulston
2001 -Leland H. Hartwell, Tim Hunt, Sir Paul M. Nurse
2000 -Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel
1999 -Günter Blobel
1998 -Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
1997 -Stanley B. Prusiner
1996 -Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel
1995 -Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Eric F. Wieschaus
1994 -Alfred G. Gilman, Martin Rodbell
1993-Richard J. Roberts, Phillip A. Sharp
1992 -Edmond H. Fischer, Edwin G. Krebs
1991 -Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann
1990 -Joseph E. Murray, E. Donnall Thomas
1989 -J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus
1988 -Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings
1987 -Susumu Tonegawa
1986 -Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini
1985 -Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein
1984 -Niels K. Jerne, Georges J.F. Köhler, César Milstein
1983 -Barbara McClintock
1982 -Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane
1981 -Roger W. Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten N. Wiesel
1980 -Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell
1979 -Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield
1978 -Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith
1977 -Roger Guillemin, Andrew V. Schally, Rosalyn Yalow
1976 -Baruch S. Blumberg, D. Carleton Gajdusek
1975 -David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin
1974 -Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade
1973 -Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen
1972 -Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter
1971 -Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
1970 -Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
1969 -Max Delbrück, Alfred D. Hershey, Salvador E. Luria
1968 -Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg
1967 -Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald
1966 -Peyton Rous, Charles Brenton Huggins
1965 -François Jacob, André Lwoff, Jacques Monod
1964 -Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen
1963 -Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley
1962 -Francis Harry Compton Crick, James Dewey Watson, Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins
1961 -Georg von Békésy
1960 -Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Peter Brian Medawar
1959 -Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg
1958 -George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, Joshua Lederberg
1957 -Daniel Bovet
1956 -André Frédéric Cournand, Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards
1955 -Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell
1954 -John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins
1953 -Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Albert Lipmann
1952 -Selman Abraham Waksman
1951 -Max Theiler
1950 -Edward Calvin Kendall, Tadeus Reichstein, Philip Showalter Hench
1949 -Walter Rudolf Hess, Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz
1948 -Paul Hermann Müller
1947 -Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Theresa Cori, née Radnitz, Bernardo Alberto Houssay
1946 -Hermann Joseph Muller
1945 -Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Howard Walter Florey
1944 -Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser
1943 -Henrik Carl Peter Dam, Edward Adelbert Doisy
1942 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1941 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1940 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1939 -Gerhard Domagk
1938 -Corneille Jean François Heymans
1937 -Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt
1936 -Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi
1935 -Hans Spemann
1934 -George Hoyt Whipple, George Richards Minot, William Parry Murphy
1933 -Thomas Hunt Morgan
1932 -Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian
1931 -Otto Heinrich Warburg
1930 -Karl Landsteiner
1929 -Christiaan Eijkman, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
1928 -Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
1927 -Julius Wagner-Jauregg
1926 -Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger
1925 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1924 -Willem Einthoven
1923 -Frederick Grant Banting, John James Rickard Macleod
1922 -Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof
1921 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1920 -Schack August Steenberg Krogh
1919 -Jules Bordet
1918 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1917 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1916 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1915 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1914 -Robert Bárány
1913 -Charles Robert Richet
1912 -Alexis Carrel
1911 -Allvar Gullstrand
1910 -Albrecht Kossel
1909 -Emil Theodor Kocher
1908 -Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Paul Ehrlich
1907 -Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
1906 -Camillo Golgi, Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1905 -Robert Koch
1904 -Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
1903 -Niels Ryberg Finsen
1902 -Ronald Ross
1901 -Emil Adolf von Behring




Facts on the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1901 to 2011

Number of Nobel Prizes in Literature

Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded since 1901 = 104
Prizes have been given to one Laureate only = 100
Prizes have been shared by two Laureates = 04

It was not awarded on Seven times in, 1914, 1918, 1935, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943


Number of Nobel Laureates in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 108 Laureates 1901-2011.

No one has been awarded twice yet.

Of the 108 individuals awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, 12 are women.

1909 - Selma Lagerlöf
1926 - Grazia Deledda
1928 - Sigrid Undset
1938 - Pearl Buck
1945 - Gabriela Mistral
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1991 - Nadine Gordimer
1993 - Toni Morrison
1996 - Wislawa Szymborska
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek
2007 - Doris Lessing
2009 - Herta Müller

List of all Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature

2011-Tomas Tranströmer
2010 -Mario Vargas Llosa
2009 -Herta Müller
2008 -Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
2007 -Doris Lessing
2006 -Orhan Pamuk
2005 -Harold Pinter
2004 -Elfriede Jelinek
2003 -John M. Coetzee
2002 -Imre Kertész
2001 -Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
2000 -Gao Xingjian
1999 -Günter Grass
1998 -José Saramago
1997 -Dario Fo
1996 -Wislawa Szymborska
1995 -Seamus Heaney
1994 -Kenzaburo Oe
1993 -Toni Morrison
1992 -Derek Walcott
1991 -Nadine Gordimer
1990 -Octavio Paz
1989 -Camilo José Cela
1988 -Naguib Mahfouz
1987 -Joseph Brodsky
1986 -Wole Soyinka
1985 -Claude Simon
1984 -Jaroslav Seifert
1983 -William Golding
1982 -Gabriel García Márquez
1981 -Elias Canetti
1980 -Czeslaw Milosz
1979 -Odysseus Elytis
1978 -Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977 -Vicente Aleixandre
1976 -Saul Bellow
1975 -Eugenio Montale
1974 -Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
1973 -Patrick White
1972 -Heinrich Böll
1971 -Pablo Neruda
1970 -Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
1969 -Samuel Beckett
1968 -Yasunari Kawabata
1967 -Miguel Angel Asturias
1966 -Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1965 -Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
1964 -Jean-Paul Sartre
1963 -Giorgos Seferis
1962 -John Steinbeck
1961 -Ivo Andric
1960 -Saint-John Perse
1959 -Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 -Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
1957 -Albert Camus
1956 -Juan Ramón Jiménez
1955 -Halldór Kiljan Laxness
1954 -Ernest Miller Hemingway
1953 -Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1952 -François Mauriac
1951 -Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
1950 -Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
1949 -William Faulkner
1948 -Thomas Stearns Eliot
1947 -André Paul Guillaume Gide
1946 -Hermann Hesse
1945 -Gabriela Mistral
1944 -Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
1943 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1942 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1941 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1940 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1939 -Frans Eemil Sillanpää
1938 -Pearl Buck
1937 -Roger Martin du Gard
1936 -Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
1935 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1934 -Luigi Pirandello
1933 -Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
1932 -John Galsworthy
1931 -Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930 -Sinclair Lewis
1929 -Thomas Mann
1928 -Sigrid Undset
1927 -Henri Bergson
1926 -Grazia Deledda
1925 -George Bernard Shaw
1924 -Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
1923 -William Butler Yeats
1922 -Jacinto Benavente
1921 -Anatole France
1920 -Knut Pedersen Hamsun
1919 -Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
1918 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1917 -Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
1916 -Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
1915 -Romain Rolland
1914 -No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1913 -Rabindranath Tagore
1912 -Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
1911 -Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck
1910 -Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
1909 -Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
1908 -Rudolf Christoph Eucken
1907 -Rudyard Kipling
1906 -Giosuè Carducci
1905 -Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 -Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
1903 -Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
1902 -Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
1901 -Sully Prudhomme




Facts on the Nobel Prize in Economic Science from 1901 to 2011

In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the prize Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, awarded from 1969 to 2011, founder of the Nobel Prize.

Number of Nobel Prizes in Economic Science

Nobel Prizes in Economic Sciences have been awarded since 1969 = 43
Prizes have been given to one Laureate only = 22
Prizes have been shared by two Laureates = 16
Prize has been shared by the three Laureates = 05

Number of Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to 69 Laureates 1969-2011.

No one has been awarded twice yet.

Of the 69 individuals awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences Literature, only one is women.

2009 Elinor Ostrom

List of all Nobel Prize Laureates in Economic Sciences

2011-Thomas J. Sargent, Christopher A. Sims
2010-Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen, Christopher A. Pissarides
2009-Elinor Ostrom, Oliver E. Williamson
2008-Paul Krugman
2007-Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin, Roger B. Myerson
2006-Edmund S. Phelps
2005-Robert J. Aumann, Thomas C. Schelling
2004-Finn E. Kydland, Edward C. Prescott
2003-Robert F. Engle III, Clive W.J. Granger
2002-Daniel Kahneman, Vernon L. Smith
2001-George A. Akerlof, A. Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz
2000-James J. Heckman, Daniel L. McFadden
1999-Robert A. Mundell
1998-Amartya Sen
1997-Robert C. Merton, Myron S. Scholes
1996-James A. Mirrlees, William Vickrey
1995-Robert E. Lucas Jr.
1994-John C. Harsanyi, John F. Nash Jr., Reinhard Selten
1993-Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North
1992-Gary S. Becker
1991-Ronald H. Coase
1990-Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller, William F. Sharpe
1989-Trygve Haavelmo
1988-Maurice Allais
1987-Robert M. Solow
1986-James M. Buchanan Jr.
1985-Franco Modigliani
1984-Richard Stone
1983-Gerard Debreu
1982-George J. Stigler
1981-James Tobin
1980-Lawrence R. Klein
1979-Theodore W. Schultz, Sir Arthur Lewis
1978-Herbert A. Simon
1977-Bertil Ohlin, James E. Meade
1976-Milton Friedman
1975-Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich, Tjalling C. Koopmans
1974-Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich August von Hayek
1973-Wassily Leontief
1972-John R. Hicks, Kenneth J. Arrow
1971-Simon Kuznets
1970-Paul A. Samuelson
1969-Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen




Facts on the Nobel Peace Prize from 1901 to 2011


Number of Nobel Peace Prizes

Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded since 1901 = 92

It was not awarded on 19 occasions in 1914-1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939- 1943, 1948, 1955, 1956, 1966, 1967 and 1972.

Prizes have been given to one Laureate only = 62
Prizes have been shared by two Laureates = 28
Prize has been shared by the three Laureates = 02

Number of Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 124 Laureates 1901-2011.

Awarded to individuals = 101 ( 99 times)
Awarded to organizations= 20 (23 times)

Of the 101 individuals awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 15 are women.

1905 - Bertha von Suttner
1931 - Jane Addams
1946 - Emily Greene Balch
1976 - Betty Williams
1976 - Mairead Corrigan
1979 - Mother Teresa
1982 - Alva Myrdal
1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1997 - Jody Williams
2003 - Shirin Ebadi
2004 - Wangari Maathai
2011 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman

List of all Nobel Peace Prize Laureates

2011-Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkol Karman
2010-Liu Xiaobo
2009-Barack H. Obama
2008-Martti Ahtisaari
2007-Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
2006-Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
2005-International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , Mohamed ElBaradei
2004-Wangari Muta Maathai
2003-Shirin Ebadi
2002-Jimmy Carter
2001-United Nations (U.N.) , Kofi Annan
2000-Kim Dae-jung
1999-Médecins Sans Frontières
1998-John Hume, David Trimble
1997-International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) , Jody Williams
1996-Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
1995-Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994-Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
1993-Nelson Mandela, Frederik Willem de Klerk
1992-Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1991-Aung San Suu Kyi
1990-Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
1989-The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
1988-United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1987-Oscar Arias Sánchez
1986-Elie Wiesel
1985-International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984-Desmond Mpilo Tutu
1983-Lech Walesa
1982-Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
1981-Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1980-Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1979-Mother Teresa
1978-Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin
1977-Amnesty International
1976-Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
1975-Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
1974-Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
1973-Henry A. Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
1972-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.
1971-Willy Brandt
1970-Norman E. Borlaug
1969-International Labour Organization (I.L.O.)
1968-René Cassin
1967-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1966-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1965-United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
1964-Martin Luther King Jr.
1963-Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) , Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies)
1962-Linus Carl Pauling
1961-Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
1960-Albert John Lutuli
1959-Philip J. Noel-Baker
1958-Georges Pire
1957-Lester Bowles Pearson
1956-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1955-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1954-Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1953-George Catlett Marshall
1952-Albert Schweitzer
1951-Léon Jouhaux
1950-Ralph Bunche
1949-Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin
1948-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1947-Friends Service Council (The Quakers) , American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)
1946-Emily Greene Balch, John Raleigh Mott
1945-Cordell Hull
1944-Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)
1943-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1942-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1941-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1940-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1939-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1938-Office international Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees)
1937-Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)
1936-Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935-Carl von Ossietzky
1934-Arthur Henderson
1933-Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
1932-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1931-Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler
1930-Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom
1929-Frank Billings Kellogg
1928-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1927-Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde
1926-Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
1925-Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles Gates Dawes
1924-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1923-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1922-Fridtjof Nansen
1921-Karl Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lous Lange
1920-Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
1919-Thomas Woodrow Wilson
1918-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1917-Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross)
1916-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1915-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1914-No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1913-Henri La Fontaine
1912-Elihu Root
1911-Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Alfred Hermann Fried
1910-Bureau international permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau)
1909-Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque
1908-Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
1907-Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault
1906-Theodore Roosevelt
1905-Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau
1904-Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law)
1903-William Randal Cremer
1902-Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat
1901-Jean Henry Dunant
1901-Jean Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy



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Nobel Prizes 2011


THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS
Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess

For

"The Discovery of the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe through Observations of Distant Supernovae"

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Dan Shechtman "

For

"The discovery of quasicrystals"

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE

Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann

For

"Discoveries Concerning the Activation of Innate Immunity"

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE

Ralph M. Steinman
For

"Discovery of the Dendritic Cell and its Role in Adaptive Immunity"

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Tomas Tranströmer

Because

"through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality"


THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman

For

"Their non-violent Struggle for the Safety of Women and for Women’s Rights to full Participation in Peace-Building Work"

THE PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES

Thomas J. Sargent and Christopher A. Sims

For

"Their Empirical Research on Cause and Effect in the Macroeconomy"
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could anyone tell me when first noble Prize was given and whom it was given?
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could anyone tell me when first noble Prize was given and whom it was given?
In 1901 awarded to

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him" (Physics)



Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions" (Chemistry)





Emil Adolf von Behring "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths" (Physiology or Medicine)


Sully Prudhomme "in special recognition of his poetic composition, which gives evidence of lofty idealism, artistic perfection and a rare combination of the qualities of both heart and intellect"(Literature)




Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy (Peace Prize)


P.S : If you go through the above post ,you can find answer of your question already there.
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Nobel Prizes 2012



THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland

For

ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems


THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka

For

studies of G-protein-coupled receptors"


THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE

Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka

For

the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent


THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Mo Yan

who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"


THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

European Union (EU)

For

over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe


THE PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES

Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley

For

the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design
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