Nobel Prizes

granted to Europeans

 

From 1901 onwards Nobel Prizes have been awarded in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace, and since 1969 also in Economics to nearly 400 scientists, economists, peace activists/organisations and writers from today's EU member states or candidate countries.

 

During their journey across Europe, our two Spring Students, Caroline and Marlene, have also tried to find out, who they were, when they were awarded the prize, which countries they came from and where they lived when they received the prize. In the list below you will find reference to the latter in brackets.

 

All links below go to the marvelleous site of the Swedish Academy. So let me invite you to follow our two Spring Students on another, this time not political but scientific, trip  across our continent. If you want to collect some more information, you should also not miss the site of the Nobel Internet Archive.

 

The Austrian calligraphist Annika Rücker drafts the certificates for the Nobel laureates. Her father was Austrian, her mother Swedish. Mrs. Rücker was raised in Sweden. Now she runs her own calligraphy studio. Here you can see the monogram she drafted for the Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek (2004).

CHEMISTRY

Austria

Fritz PREGL (1923)

Richard KUHN (1939; Prize for 1938) (was forced by the authorities of the Third Reich to decline the Prize, but later received the diploma and the medal)

Leopold RUŽIČKA (1939; born in Vukovar, then: Austria-Hungary, today: Croatia) (Switzerland)

Max Ferdinand PERUTZ (1962) (United Kingdom)

Walter KOHN (1998) (USA)

Richard Adolf ZSIGMONDY (1926; Prize for 1925) (Germany)

 

Belgium

 

Ilija PRIGOGINE (1977) (born in Russia, grew up in Belgium) (USA)

Czech Republic

Jaroslav HEYROVSKY (1959) (Czechoslovakia)

Vladimir PRELOG (Bosnia/Croatia/Czechoslovakia)

Denmark

Jens C. SKOU (1997)

Finland

Artturiilmari VIRTANEN (1945)

France

Henri MOISSAN (1906)

Victor GRIGNARD and  Paul SABATIER (1912)

Frédéric JOLIOT and his wife  Irène JOLIOT-CURIE (daughter of Marie and Pierre CURIE) (1935)

Jean-Marie LEHN (1987)

Yves CHAUVIN (2005)

Germany

Hermann Emil FISCHER (1902)

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolph von BAEYER (1905)

Eduard BUCHNER (1907)

Otto WALLACH (1910)

Alfred WERNER (1919) (born in the Alsace, then: Germany, today: France) (Switzerland)

Richard Martin WILLSTÄTTER (1915)

Fritz HABER (1919; Prize for 1918)

Walther Hermann NERNST (1921; Prize for 1920)

Adolf Otto Reinhold WINDAUS and Heinrich Otto WIELAND (1928)

Hans Karl August von EULER-CHELPIN (1929) (Sweden)

Hans FISCHER (1930)

Carl  BOSCH and  Friedrich BERGIUS (1931)

Adolf Friedrich Johann  BUTENANDT (1939) (was forced by the authorities of the Third Reich to decline the Prize, but later received the diploma and the medal)

Otto HAHN (1945; Prize for 1944)

Otto Paul Hermann DIELS and  Kurt ALDER (1950)

Hermann STAUDINGER (1953)

Karl ZIEGLER (1963)

Manfred EIGEN (1967)

Gerhard HERZBERG (1971) (Canada)

Ernst Otto FISCHER (1973)

Georg WITTIG (1979)

Johann DEISENHOFERRobert HUBER and  Hartmut MICHEL (1988) (all USA)

Hungary

George de HEVESY (1944; Prize for 1943) (Sweden)

George OLAH (1994) (USA)

Italy

Giulio NATTA (1963)

Latvia

 Wilhelm OSTWALD (1909) (Germany)

Lithuania

Sir Aaron KLUG (1982) (United Kingdom)

Netherlands

Jacobus Henricus van `t HOFF (1901)

Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus DEBYE (1936)

Paul CRUTZEN (1995) (Germany)

Poland

Marie CURIE (née SKLODOWSKA) (1911) (France) - Nobel Prize in Physics 1903

Roald HOFFMANN (1981) (USA)

Sweden

Svante August ARRHENIUS (1903)

The (Theodor) SVEDBERG (1926)

Arne Wilhelm Kaurin TISELIUS (1948)

United Kingdom

Sir William RAMSAY (1904)

Lord Ernest RUTHERFORD (1908) (born in New Zealand)

Frederick SODDY (1922; Prize for 1921)  

Francis William ASTON (1922)

Sir Arthur HARDEN (1929)

Sir Walter Norman HAWORTH (1937)

Sir Robert ROBINSON (1947)

Archer John Porter MARTIN and  Richard Laurence Millington SYNGE (1952)

Sir Cyril Norman HINSHELWOOD (1956)

Sir John Cowdery KENDREW (1962)

Dorothy Crowfoot HODGKIN (1964)

Ronald George Wreyford NORRISH and  Lord George PORTER (1967)

Sir Derek H.R. BARTON (1969)

Sir Geoffrey WILKINSON (1973)

Sir John Warcup CORNFORTH (1975) (born in Australia)

Peter D. MITCHELL (1978)

Herbert C. BROWN (1979) (USA)

Lord Alexander R. TODD  (1957)

Fredrick SANGER (1958 and 1980) (USA)

Michael SMITH (1993)

Sir Harold W. KROTO (1996)

John E. WALKER (1997)

John A. POPLE (1998)

 

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PHYSICS

Austria

Erwin SCHRÖDINGER (1933) (Germany)

Victor Franz HESS (1936)

Isidor Isaac RABI (1944) (USA)

Wolfgang PAULI (1945) (USA)

Denmark

Niels Henrik David BOHR (1922)

Aage Niels BOHR (1975; son of Niels BOHR, Nobel Prize in Physics 1922)

Ben MOTTELSON (1975; born in Chicago, has lived in Denmark since 1957, became a Danish citizen in 1971)

France

Antoine Henri BECQUEREL (1903)

Pierre CURIE (1903)

Jean Baptiste PERRIN (1926)

Prince Louis-Victor Pierre Raymond  de BROGLIE (1929)

Claude COHEN-TANNOUDJI (1992) (born in Algeria)

Germany

Wilhelm Conrad RÖNTGEN (1901)

Carl Ferdinand BRAUN (1910)

Wilhelm WIEN (1911)

Max von LAUE (1914)

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig PLANCK (1919; Prize for 1918)

Johannes STARK (1919)

Albert EINSTEIN (1922; Prize for 1921) (Switzerland)

James FRANCK and Gustav HERTZ (1926)

Werner Karl HEISENBERG (1933; Prize for 1932)

Otto STERN (born in Sorau, then: Germany, today: Poland) (1944; Prize for 1943) (USA)

Max BORN (1954) (born in Silesia, then: Germany, today: Poland) (United Kingdom)

Walther BOTHE (1954)

Rudolf Ludwig MÖSSBAUER (1961) (USA)

J. Hans D. JENSEN (1963) 

Alfred KASTLER (1966) (born in the Alsace, then: Germany, today: France) (France)

Hans Albrecht  BETHE (1967) (born in the Alsace, then: Germany, today: France) (USA)

Louis Eugène Félix NÉEL (1970)

Klaus von KLITZING (1985) (born in Schroda, then: Germany, today: Poland)

Ernst RUSKA (1986)

Gerd BINNIG (1986) (Switzerland)

J. Georg BEDNORZ (1987) (Switzerland)

Jack STEINBERGER (1988) (Switzerland)

Hans G. DEHMELT (1988) (USA)

Wolfgang PAUL (1989)

Pierre-Gilles de GENNES (1991)

Horst L. STÖRMER (1998) (USA)

Herbert KROEMER (2000) (USA)

Wolfgang KETTERLE (2001) (USA)

Arno Allan PENZIAS (1978) (USA)

Theodor W. HÄNSCH (2005)

Hungary

Eugene P. WIGNER (1963) (USA)

Dennis GABOR (1971) (United Kingdom)

Ireland

Ernest Thomas Sinton  WALTON (1951)

Italy

Giulielmo MARCONI (1909)

Enrico FERMI (1938)

Emilio Gino SEGRÈ (1959) (USA)

Carlo RUBBIA (1984) (Switzerland)

Riccardo GIACCONI (2002) (USA)

Luxembourgh

Gabriel LIPPMANN (1908) (France)

Netherlands

Hendrik Antoon LORENTZ and  Peter ZEEMAN (1902)

Johannes Diderik van der WAALS (1910)

Heike KAMERLINGH ONNES (1913)

Frits (Frederik) ZERNIKE  (1953)

Nicolaas BLOEMBERGEN (1981) (USA)

Simon van der MEER (1984)

Gerardus ‘t HOOFT  (1999)

Martinus J.G.  VELTMANN (1999) (USA)

Martinus J.G. VELTMANN (1999) (USA)

Poland

Marie CURIE (née SKLODOWSKA)(1903) (France) – Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911

Maria GOEPPERT-MAYER (1963) (USA)

Georges CHARPAK (1992) (France and Switzerland)

Slovakia

Philipp Eduard Anton von LENARD (1905) (Germany)

Sweden

Nils Gustav DALÉN (1912)

Karl Manne Georg SIEGBAHN (1925; Prize for 1924)

Hannes Olof Gösta ALFVÉN (1970)

Kai Manne SIEGBAHN (1981; son of Karl Manne Georg SIEBGAHN, Nobel Prize in Physics 1924)

United Kingdom

John William, third Lord RALEIGH STRUTT (1904)

Sir Joseph John THOMSON (1906)

(Sir) William Henry BRAGG  and his son (Sir) William Lawrence  BRAGG (born in Australia) (1915)

Charles Glover  BARKLA (1918)

Charles Thomson Rees WILSON (1927)

Sir Owen Williams RICHARDSON (1929; Prize for 1928)

Paul Adrien Maurice DIRAC (1933)

Sir James CHADWICK (1935)

Sir George Paget THOMSON (son of Sir Joseph John THOMSON, Nobel Prize in Physics 1906) (1937)

Sir Edward Victor APPLETON (1947)

Lord Patrick Maynard Stuart BLACKETT (1948)

Cecil Frank POWELL (1950)

Sir John Douglas  COCKCROFT (1951)

William SHOCKLEY (1956) (USA)

Brian David JOSEPHSON (1973)

Sir Martin RYLE and  Antony HEWISH (1974)

Sir Neville F. MOTT (1977)

Abdus  SALAM (1979) (United Kingdom and Italy)

Anthony J. LEGGET  (2003) (USA)

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PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE

Austria

Robert BÁRÁNY (1914)

Julius WAGNER-JAUREGG (1927)

Karl LANDSTEINER (1930)

Karl von FRISCH (1973) (Germany)

Konrad LORENZ (1973)

Eric R. KANDEL (2000) (USA)

 

Belgium

 

Jules BORDET (1920; Prize for 1919)

Corneille Jean François HEYMANS (1939; Prize for 1938) 

Albert CLAUDE  (1974)

Christian de DUVE (1974) (USA)

Czech Republic

Carl Ferdinand CORI and his wife  Gerty Theresa CORI (née RADNITZ) (1947) (USA)

Denmark

Niels Ryberg FINSEN (1903)

Shack August Steenberger  KROGH (1920)

Johannes Andreas Grib FIBIGER (1927; Prize for 1926)

Henrik Carl Peter DAM (1944)

Niels K. JERNE (1984) (Switzerland)

France

Charles Louis Alphonse LAVERAN (1907)

Alexis  CARREL (1912)

Charles Robert RICHET (1913)

Charles Jules Henri  NICOLLE (1928)

François JACOBAndré LWOFF and Jacques MONOD (1965)

Roger GUILLEMIN (1977) (USA)

Jean DAUSSET (1980)

Germany

Emil Adolf  von BEHRING (1901)

Robert KOCH (1904)

Paul EHRLICH(1908)

Albrecht KOSSEL (1910)

Otto Fritz MEYERHOF (1923)

Otto Heinrich WARBURG (1931)

Hans SPEMANN (1935)

Otto LOEWI (1936) (born in Germany, Prof. in Vienna since 1904) (Austria) (was forced to leave the Third Reich in 1938, but only after he had been compelled to instruct the Swedish bank in Stockholm to transfer the Nobel Prize money to a prescribed Nazi-controlled bank)

Gerhard DOMAGK (1939) (was forced by the authorities of the Third Reich to decline the award, but later received the diploma and the medal)

Sir Hans Adolf KREBS (1953) (United Kingdom)

Fritz Albert LIPMANN (1953) (born in Koenigsberg, then: Germany, today: Russia) (USA)

Werner FORSSMANN (1956)

Konrad BLOCH  (1964) (born in Upper Silesia, then: Germany, today: Poland) (USA)

Feodor LYNEN (1964)

Max DELBRÜCK (1969) (USA)

Georges J.F. KÖHLER (1984) (Switzerland)

Erwin NEHER and Bert SAKMANN (1991)

Christiane NÜSSLEIN-VOLHARD (1995)

Günter BLOBEL (1999) (born in Silesia, then: Germany, today: Poland)

Hungary

Albert von SZENT-GYÖRGYI NAGYRAPOLT (1937) (Austria)

Georg von BÉKÉSY (1961) (USA)

Italy

Camillo GOLGI (1906)

Daniel BOVET(1957) (born in Switzerland)

Salvadore  LURIA (1969) (USA)

Renato DULBECCO (1975) (USA)

Rita LEVI-MONTALCINI (1986) (Italy and USA)

Netherlands

Willem EINTHOVEN (1924)

Christiaan EIJKMAN (1929)

Nikolaas TINBERGEN (1973) (United Kingdom)

Poland

Tadeus REICHSTEIN (1950) (Switzerland)

Andrew V. SCHALLY (1977) (born in Wilno, then: Poland, today: Vilnius in Lithuania) (USA)

Portugal

Antonio Caetano de ABREU FREIRE EGAS MONIZ  (1949)

Romania

 George E. PALADE (1974) (USA)

Spain

Santiago RAMÓN Y CAJAL (1906)

Severo OCHOA (1959) (USA)

Sweden

Allvar GULLSTRAND (1911)

Axel Hugo Theodor THEORELL(1955)

Ragnar GRANIT (1966)

Ulf von EULER (1970)

Torsten N.  WIESEL (1980) (USA)

Sune K. BERGSTRÖM and  Bengt I. SAMUELSSON (1982)

Arvid CARLSSON (2000)

United Kingdom

Sir Ronald ROSS (1902)

John James Richard MACLEOD (1923; Prize of 1922) (Canada)

Sir Archibald Vivian  HILL (1923)

Sir Frederick Gowland HOPKINS (1929)

Sir Charles Scott SHERRINGTON and  Lord Edgar Douglas ADRIAN (1932)

Sir Henry Hallett DALE (1936)

Sir Alexander FLEMING (1945)

Lord Howard Walter FLOREY (1945; born in Australia)

Sir Peter Brian MEDAWAR (1960)

Francis Harry Compton CRICK and Maurice Hugh Frederick WILKINS (1962)

Sir Alan Lloyd HODGKIN and  Sir Andrew Fielding HUXLEY (1963)

Sir Bernard KATZ (1970)

Rodney R. PORTER (1972)

Sir Godfrey N. HOUNSFIELD (1979)

Sir John R. VANE (1982)

César MILSTEIN (1984) (born in Argentina)

Sir James W. BLACK (1988)

R. Timothy (Tim) HUNT and  Sir Paul M. NURSE (2001)

John E. SULSTON (2002)

Sir Peter MANSFIELD (2003)

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LITERATURE

 

Austria

 

Elfriede JELINEK (2004)

 

Belgium

 

Count Maurice Polidore Marie Bernhard MAETERLINCK (1911)

Bulgaria

Elias CANETTI  (1981) (United Kingdom) (lived in Austria, Switzerland and Germany before he had to flee the Nazis)

Czech Republic

Jaroslav  SEIFERT (1984)

Denmark

Karl Adolph GJELLERUP (1917) (Germany)

Henrik PONTOPPIDAN (1917)

Johannes Vilhelm JENSEN (1944)

Finland

Frans Eemil SILLANPÄÄ (1939)

France

SULLY PRUDHOMME (i.e. René François Armand PRUDHOMME) (1901)

Frédéric  MISTRAL (1904)

Romain ROLLAND (1916; Prize for 1915)

Anatole FRANCE (i.e. Jacques François Anatole THIBAULT) (1921)

Henri BERGSON (1928; Prize for 1927)

Ivan Alexejewitsch BUNIN (born in Russia, stateless, lived in France since 1920) (1933)

Roger MARTIN du GARD (1937)

André Paul Guillaume GIDE (1947)

François  MAURIAC (1952)

Albert CAMUS (1957) (born in Algeria)

SAINT-JOHN PERSE (i.e. Marie-René-Alexis SAINT-LÉGER; born in Guadeloupe) (1960)

Jean Paul SARTRE (1964) (declined the Prize)

Claude SIMON (1985)

Germany

Christian Matthias Theodor  MOMMSEN (1902)

Christoph Rudolf  EUCKEN (1908)

Paul Johann Ludwig  HEYSE (1910)

Gerhart Johann Robert  HAUPTMANN (1912)

Thomas  MANN (1929)

Hermann HESSE (1946) (Switzerland)

Leonie Nelly  SACHS (1966) (Sweden)

Heinrich  BÖLL (1972)

Günter GRASS (1999).

Greece

Giorgos SEFERIS (i.e. Giorgos SEFERIADIS)  (1963)

Odysseas ELYTIS (i.e. Odysseus ALEPOUDELIS)  (1979)

Hungary

Imre  KERTESZ (2002)

Ireland

William Butler  YEATS (1923)

George Bernard SHAW (1925)

Samuel  BECKETT (1969) (France)

Seamus Justin HEANEY (1995)

Italy

Giosuè  CARDUCCI (1906)

Grazia DELEDDA (i.e. Grazia MADESANI; née DELEDDA) (1927; Prize for 1926)

Luigi  PIRANDELLO (1934)

Salvatore  QUASIMODO (1959)

Eugenio MONTALE (1975)

Dario FO (1997)

Lithuania

Czesław MIŁOSZ (1980) (studied in Wilno, then: Poland, today: Vilnius in Lithuania) (USA)

Poland

Henryk  SIENKIEWICZ (1905)

Wladyslaw Stanislaw REYMONT (i.e. Wladyslaw Stanislaw REJMENT) (1924)

Shmuel Yosef AGNON (i.e. Josef Samuel CZACZKES, born in Eastern Galicia, Poland) (1966) (Israel) 

Isaac Bashevis SINGER (1978) (USA)

Wisława  SZYMBORSKA (1996)

Portugal

José  SARAMAGO (1998) (Spain)

Spain

José  ECHEGARAY Y EIZAGUIRRE (1904)

Jacinto BENAVENTE Y MARTÍNEZ (1922)

Juan Ramón JIMÉNEZ (1956) (Puerto Rico/USA)

Vicente ALEIXANDRE  (1977)

Camilo José CELA (1989)

Sweden

Selma Ottilia Lovisa LAGERLÖF (1909)

Carl Gustaf Verner  von HEIDENSTAM (1916)

Erik Axel KARLFELDT (1931)

Pär Fabian LAGERKVIST (1951)

Eyvind JOHNSON and Harry MARTINSON (1974)

 

Turkey

 

Orhan PAMUK (2006)

United Kingdom

Joseph Rudyard KIPLING (1907) (born in India)

John  GALSWORTHY (1932)

3rd Earl of, Bertrand Arthur William  RUSSELL (1950)

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer CHURCHILL (1953)

Sir William Gerald GOLDING (1983)

V(idiadhar) S(urajprasad) NAIPAUL (2001) (born in Trinidad)

Harold PINTER (2005)

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ECONOMICS

Austria

Friedrich August von HAYEK (1974) (United Kingdom)

France

Gerard DEBREU (1983) (USA)

Maurice ALLAIS (1988)

Germany

Reinhard  SELTEN (1994)

Robert AUMANN (2005) (Israel)

Hungary

John C. HARSANYI (1994) (USA)

Italy

Franco MODIGLIANI (1985) (USA)

Netherlands

Jan TINBERGEN (1969)

Tjalling C. KOOPMANS (1975) (USA)

Sweden

Gunnar MYRDAL (1974)

Bertil OHLIN (1977)

United Kingdom

Sir John R. HICKS (1972)

James E. MEADE (1977)

Sir Arthur LEWIS (1979) (born in Castries/Saint Lucia, studied in the UK) (USA)

Sir Richard STONE (1984)

Ronald H. COASE (1991) (USA)

James A. MIRRLEES (1996)

Amartya SEN (1998) (born in India)

Clive W. J. GRANGER (2003) (born i the the UK) (USA)

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PEACE

Austria

Alfred Hermann FRIED (1911)

International Atomic Energy Agency (2005) and its Director General, Mohamed El Baradai (Egypt)

Belgium

 

INSTITUT DROIT INTERNATIONAL (INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW) (1904)

Auguste Marie François BEERNAERT (1909)

Henri La FONTAINE (1913)

Dominique Georges Henri PIRE (1958)

Bulgaria

MOTHER TERESA  (1979)

Czech Republic

 

Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von SUTTNER (née Countess KINSKY von CHINIC und TETTAU) (1905) (Austria)

Denmark

Fredrik BAJER (1908)

France

Frédéric PASSY (1901)

Louis RENAULT (1907)

Paul Henri Benjamin BALLUET, Baron de CONSTANT de REBECQUE d’ESTOURNELLES de CONSTANT (1909)

Léon Victor Auguste  BOURGEOIS (1920)

Aristide BRIAND (1926)

Ferdinand BUISSON (1927)

Léon JOHAUX (1951)

René-Samuel CASSIN (1968)

MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES (DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS) (1999)

Germany

Albert SCHWEITZER (1953; Prize for 1952) (born in the Alsace, then: Germany, today: France) (France and Germany)

Ludwig QUIDDE (1927)

Carl von OSSIETZKY (1936; Prize for 1935)

Willy BRANDT (1971)

Henry A. KISSINGER (1973) (USA)

Ireland

Séan MacBRIDE (1974)

Italy

Ernesto Teodoro MONETA (1907)

Netherlands

Tobias Michael Carel ASSER (1911)

Poland

Menachem BEGIN (1978) (born in Brest-Litvsk, then: Poland, today: Russia) (Israel)

Lech WALESA (1983)

Romania

Elie  WIESEL (1986) (USA)

Sweden

Klas Pontus ARNOLDSON (1908)

Karl Hjalmar BRANTING (1921)

Lars Olof Nathan (Jonathan) SÖDERBLOM (1930)

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl HAMMARSKJÖLD (awarded posthumously 1961)

Alva MYRDAL (1982)

United Kingdom

Sir William Randal CREMER (1903)

Sir Austen CHAMBERLAIN (1926; Prize of 1925)

Sir Raalph Norman ANGELL LANE (1934; Prize for 1933)

Arthur HENDERSON (1934)

Viscount CECIL of CHELWOOD (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne CECIL)  (1937)

THE FRIENDS SERVICE COUNCIL (THE QUAKERS)  (1947)

Lord John Boyd ORR of BRECHIN (1949)

Philip J. NOEL-BAKER (1959)

Betty WILLIAMS and Mairead CORRIGAN (1977; Prize for 1976)

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL  (1977)

Joseph ROTBLAT (1995)

David TRIMBLE and John HUME (1998)

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