Nobel laureates

Census of people awarded from 1901 through 2025. This page gathers one record per person; the atlas can place them by their award years. Organizations are not counted as people.

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Nobel laureates (990) · People (990) · Medicine (232) · Physics (229) · Chemistry (198) · Literature (122) · Peace (112) · Economic Sciences (99) · Science (5) · Artificial intelligence (5) · Personas científicas (5) · Biología (1)

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  1. 1888–1969

    Otto Stern

    Otto Stern (1888–1969) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1943). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  2. 1888–1966

    Frits Zernike

    Frits Zernike (1888–1966) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1953). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  3. 1888–1953

    Eugene O'Neill

    Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (1936). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  4. 1888–1964

    Frans Eemil Sillanpää

    Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (1939). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  5. 1888–1965

    T.S. Eliot

    T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (1948). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  6. 1888–1970

    Shmuel Agnon

    Shmuel Agnon (1888–1970) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (1966). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  7. 1889–1971

    Paul Karrer

    Paul Karrer (1889–1971) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (1937). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  8. 1889–1977

    Edgar Adrian

    Edgar Adrian (1889–1977) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (1932). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  9. 1889–1938

    Carl von Ossietzky

    Carl von Ossietzky (1889–1938) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Peace (1935). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  10. 1889–1982

    Philip Noel-Baker

    Philip Noel-Baker (1889–1982) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Peace (1959). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  11. 1889–1957

    Gabriela Mistral

    Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (1945). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  12. 1890–1971

    Lawrence Bragg

    Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1915). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  13. 1890–1967

    Jaroslav Heyrovsky

    Jaroslav Heyrovsky (1890–1967) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (1959). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  14. 1890–1967

    Hermann J. Muller

    Hermann J. Muller (1890–1967) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (1946). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  15. 1890–1960

    Boris Pasternak

    Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (1958). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  16. 1891–1987

    John H. Northrop

    John H. Northrop (1891–1987) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (1946). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  17. 1891–1941

    Frederick G. Banting

    Frederick G. Banting (1891–1941) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (1923). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  18. 1891–1974

    James Chadwick

    James Chadwick (1891–1974) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1935). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  19. 1891–1957

    Walther Bothe

    Walther Bothe (1891–1957) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1954). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  20. 1891–1974

    Pär Lagerkvist

    Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (1951). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  21. 1891–1970

    Nelly Sachs

    Nelly Sachs (1891–1970) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (1966). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  22. 1892–1987

    William P. Murphy

    William P. Murphy (1892–1987) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (1934). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  23. 1892–1962

    Arthur H. Compton

    Arthur H. Compton (1892–1962) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1927). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  24. 1892–1968

    Corneille Heymans

    Corneille Heymans (1892–1968) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physiology or Medicine (1938). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  25. 1892–1987

    Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie (1892–1987) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1929). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  26. 1892–1975

    George Paget Thomson

    George Paget Thomson (1892–1975) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1937). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  27. 1892–1965

    Edward V. Appleton

    Edward V. Appleton (1892–1965) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Physics (1947). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  28. 1892–1973

    Pearl Buck

    Pearl Buck (1892–1973) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (1938). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  29. 1892–1975

    Ivo Andrić

    Ivo Andrić (1892–1975) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Literature (1961). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.

  30. 1893–1981

    Harold C. Urey

    Harold C. Urey (1893–1981) appears in the official census of individual laureates for Chemistry (1934). This record represents the person’s life; each award is dated separately, and the prize year does not stand for the date of their whole body of work.