Nobel Prize Winners List PDF 2023

Nobel Prize Winners List PDF 2023: Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award in its category. It was first awarded in 1901. The Nobel Prize is given in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economics. The Nobel Prize is given in the memory of Alfred Nobel.

Who is Alfred Nobel?

Alfred Nobel was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a chemist, engineer, and inventor.

First Nobel Prize Laureate

• The first Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen in 1969.
• The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Wilhelm Rontgen’s discovery of X-rays and Philipp Lenard’s work on cathode rays.
• The first Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to German Microbiologist Emil von Behring.
• The first Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jacobus H. van ‘t Hoff.
• The first Nobel Prize in Peace was awarded jointly to Jean Henri Dunant (Founder of the International Red Cross Movement) and pacifist Frederic Passy (Founder of the Peace League).
• The first Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Sully Prudhomme.

List of Indians Nobel Prize Laureate (Nobel Prize Winners)

• Rabindra Nath Tagore (1913): Nobel Prize in Literature
• Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1930): Nobel Prize in Physics
• Har Gobind Khorana (1968): Nobel Prize in Medicine
• Mother Teresa (1979): Nobel Peace Prize
• Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1983): Nobel Prize in Physics
• Amartya Sen (1998): Nobel Prize in Economics
• Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (2001): Nobel Prize in Literature
• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009): Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Kailash Satyarthi (2014): Nobel Peace Prize
• Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (2019): Nobel Prize in Economics

First Female Nobel Prize Laureate (Female Nobel Prize Winners)

• Physics: Marie Curie (France-1903)
• Chemistry: Marie Curie (France-1911)
• Medicine: Gerty Theresa Cori (America- 1947)
• Literature: Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof (Sweden-1909)
• Peace: Bertha von Suttner (Austria-Bohemia- 1905)
• Economics: Esther Duflo (American-French-2019)

Youngest Nobel Laureate (Youngest Nobel Prize Winners)

• Malala Yousafzai (Nobel Peace Prize- 2014)- Age 17

Oldest Nobel Laureate (Oldest Nobel Prize Winners)

• John B. Goodenough (Nobel Prize in Chemistry- 2019)- Age 97

Who Accords the Nobel Prize?

• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences accords Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, and Literature.
• The Norwegian Nobel Committee accords the Nobel Peace Prize.
• The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute accords the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
• The Sveriges Riksbank accords the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

Nobel Prize History

• Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel had drafted a will in 1895 where he reserved a large part of his estate to establish the Nobel Prizes after concerns of how the world would remember him.
• He wanted the awards to be given to individuals (based on their achievements), annually, despite their nationality. He died in 1896.
• It took nearly five years for the committee to set up.
• The first set of awards for Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, Literature, Physics and Peace were awarded in 1901.
• After 67 years, Sweden’s central bank with a donation from the Nobel Foundation established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1968.

Nobel Prize Winners 2021

Physiology or Medicine 2021: – The Nobel Prize 2021 in Physiology or Medicine is awarded jointly to David Julius, and Ardem Patapoutian for “for receptors for temperature and touch discoveries.”

Physics 2021: – The Nobel Prize 2020 in Physics is divided into one half and another half. The Nobel Prize 2020 in Physics is 1/2 awarded to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”, and 1/4 awarded to Giorgio Parisi “for the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales discoveries.”

Chemistry 2021: –The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 has been awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”

Literature 2021: –The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to 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.”

Nobel Peace Prize 2021: The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 was awarded jointly to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”

Economic Sciences 2021: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 was divided, one half awarded to David Card “for his empirical contributions to labour economics”, the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.”

Nobel Prize Winners 2020