Nobel Prize: Winners by Year
Established by Alfred Nobel's 1895 will and first awarded in 1901, recognizing major contributions to physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace. Presented every 10 December: the science and literature prizes at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, the Peace Prize at Oslo City Hall in Norway. Carries a prize of roughly $1.1 million, split among co-recipients.
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Award years
- 2025
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Recent winners
The last 30 award years. See every Nobel Prize winner in one list, or use the Categories above.
2025
- Susumu Kitagawa Chemistry
- Richard Robson Chemistry
- Omar M. Yaghi Chemistry
- Mary E. Brunkow Medicine
- Frederick J. Ramsdell Medicine
- Shimon Sakaguchi Medicine
- John Clarke Physics
- Michel H. Devoret Physics
- John M. Martinis Physics
2024
- David Baker Chemistry
- Demis Hassabis Chemistry
- John M. Jumper Chemistry
- Victor Ambros Medicine
- Gary Ruvkun Medicine
- John J. Hopfield Physics
- Geoffrey Hinton Physics
2023
- Moungi G. Bawendi Chemistry
- Louis E. Brus Chemistry
- Aleksey Yekimov Chemistry
- Katalin Karikó Medicine
- Drew Weissman Medicine
- Pierre Agostini Physics
- Ferenc Krausz Physics
- Anne L’Huillier Physics
2022
- K. Barry Sharpless Chemistry
- Carolyn R. Bertozzi Chemistry
- Morten Meldal Chemistry
- Svante Pääbo Medicine
- Alain Aspect Physics
- John F. Clauser Physics
- Anton Zeilinger Physics
2021
- Benjamin List Chemistry
- David W.C. MacMillan Chemistry
- David Julius Medicine
- Ardem Patapoutian Medicine
- Syukuro Manabe Physics
- Klaus Hasselmann Physics
- Giorgio Parisi Physics
2020
- Emmanuelle Charpentier Chemistry
- Jennifer A. Doudna Chemistry
- Harvey J. Alter Medicine
- Michael Houghton Medicine
- Charles M. Rice Medicine
- Roger Penrose Physics
- Reinhard Genzel Physics
- Andrea M. Ghez Physics
2019
- John B. Goodenough Chemistry
- M. Stanley Whittingham Chemistry
- Akira Yoshino Chemistry
- William G. Kaelin Medicine
- Peter J. Ratcliffe Medicine
- Gregg L. Semenza Medicine
- James Peebles Physics
- Michel Mayor Physics
- Didier Queloz Physics
2018
- Frances H. Arnold Chemistry
- George P. Smith Chemistry
- Gregory P. Winter Chemistry
- James P. Allison Medicine
- Tasuku Honjo Medicine
- Arthur Ashkin Physics
- Gérard Mourou Physics
- Donna Strickland Physics
2017
- Jacques Dubochet Chemistry
- Joachim Frank Chemistry
- Richard Henderson Chemistry
- Jeffrey C. Hall Medicine
- Michael Rosbash Medicine
- Michael W. Young Medicine
- Rainer Weiss Physics
- Barry C. Barish Physics
- Kip S. Thorne Physics
2016
- Jean-Pierre Sauvage Chemistry
- Sir J. Fraser Stoddart Chemistry
- Bernard L. Feringa Chemistry
- Yoshinori Ohsumi Medicine
- David J. Thouless Physics
- F. Duncan M. Haldane Physics
- J. Michael Kosterlitz Physics
2015
- Tomas Lindahl Chemistry
- Paul Modrich Chemistry
- Aziz Sancar Chemistry
- William C. Campbell Medicine
- Satoshi Ōmura Medicine
- Tu Youyou Medicine
- Takaaki Kajita Physics
- Arthur B. McDonald Physics
2014
- Eric Betzig Chemistry
- Stefan W. Hell Chemistry
- William E. Moerner Chemistry
- John O'Keefe Medicine
- May-Britt Moser Medicine
- Edvard I. Moser Medicine
- Isamu Akasaki Physics
- Hiroshi Amano Physics
- Shuji Nakamura Physics
2013
- Martin Karplus Chemistry
- Michael Levitt Chemistry
- Arieh Warshel Chemistry
- James E. Rothman Medicine
- Randy W. Schekman Medicine
- Thomas C. Südhof Medicine
- François Englert Physics
- Peter W. Higgs Physics
2012
- Robert J. Lefkowitz Chemistry
- Brian K. Kobilka Chemistry
- John B. Gurdon Medicine
- Shinya Yamanaka Medicine
- Serge Haroche Physics
- David J. Wineland Physics
2011
- Dan Shechtman Chemistry
- Bruce A. Beutler Medicine
- Jules A. Hoffmann Medicine
- Ralph M. Steinman Medicine
- Saul Perlmutter Physics
- Brian P. Schmidt Physics
- Adam G. Riess Physics
2010
- Richard F. Heck Chemistry
- Ei-ichi Negishi Chemistry
- Akira Suzuki Chemistry
- Robert G. Edwards Medicine
- Andre Geim Physics
- Konstantin Novoselov Physics
2009
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Chemistry
- Thomas A. Steitz Chemistry
- Ada E. Yonath Chemistry
- Elizabeth H. Blackburn Medicine
- Carol W. Greider Medicine
- Jack W. Szostak Medicine
- Charles Kuen Kao Physics
- Willard S. Boyle Physics
- George E. Smith Physics
2008
- Osamu Shimomura Chemistry
- Martin Chalfie Chemistry
- Roger Y. Tsien Chemistry
- Harald zur Hausen Medicine
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi Medicine
- Luc Montagnier Medicine
- Yoichiro Nambu Physics
- Makoto Kobayashi Physics
- Toshihide Maskawa Physics
2007
- Gerhard Ertl Chemistry
- Mario R. Capecchi Medicine
- Martin J. Evans Medicine
- Oliver Smithies Medicine
- Albert Fert Physics
- Peter Grünberg Physics
2006
- Roger D. Kornberg Chemistry
- Andrew Z. Fire Medicine
- Craig C. Mello Medicine
- John C. Mather Physics
- George F. Smoot Physics
2005
- Yves Chauvin Chemistry
- Robert H. Grubbs Chemistry
- Richard R. Schrock Chemistry
- Barry J. Marshall Medicine
- J. Robin Warren Medicine
- Roy J. Glauber Physics
- John L. Hall Physics
- Theodor W. Hänsch Physics
2004
- Aaron Ciechanover Chemistry
- Avram Hershko Chemistry
- Irwin Rose Chemistry
- Richard Axel Medicine
- Linda B. Buck Medicine
- David J. Gross Physics
- H. David Politzer Physics
- Frank Wilczek Physics
2003
- Peter Agre Chemistry
- Roderick MacKinnon Chemistry
- Paul C. Lauterbur Medicine
- Sir Peter Mansfield Medicine
- Alexei A. Abrikosov Physics
- Vitaly L. Ginzburg Physics
- Anthony J. Leggett Physics
2002
- John B. Fenn Chemistry
- Koichi Tanaka Chemistry
- Kurt Wüthrich Chemistry
- Sydney Brenner Medicine
- H. Robert Horvitz Medicine
- John E. Sulston Medicine
- Raymond Davis Jr. Physics
- Masatoshi Koshiba Physics
- Riccardo Giacconi Physics
2001
- William S. Knowles Chemistry
- Ryōji Noyori Chemistry
- K. Barry Sharpless Chemistry
- Leland H. Hartwell Medicine
- Tim Hunt Medicine
- Paul M. Nurse Medicine
- Eric A. Cornell Physics
- Wolfgang Ketterle Physics
- Carl E. Wieman Physics
2000
- Alan J. Heeger Chemistry
- Alan G. MacDiarmid Chemistry
- Hideki Shirakawa Chemistry
- Arvid Carlsson Medicine
- Paul Greengard Medicine
- Eric R. Kandel Medicine
- Zhores I. Alferov Physics
- Herbert Kroemer Physics
- Jack S. Kilby Physics
1999
- Ahmed H. Zewail Chemistry
- Günter Blobel Medicine
- Gerardus 't Hooft Physics
- Martinus J.G. Veltman Physics
1998
- Walter Kohn Chemistry
- John A. Pople Chemistry
- Robert F. Furchgott Medicine
- Louis J. Ignarro Medicine
- Ferid Murad Medicine
- Robert B. Laughlin Physics
- Horst L. Störmer Physics
- Daniel C. Tsui Physics
1997
- Paul D. Boyer Chemistry
- John E. Walker Chemistry
- Jens C. Skou Chemistry
- Stanley B. Prusiner Medicine
- Steven Chu Physics
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Physics
- William D. Phillips Physics
1996
- Robert F. Curl Jr. Chemistry
- Sir Harold W. Kroto Chemistry
- Richard E. Smalley Chemistry
- Peter C. Doherty Medicine
- Rolf M. Zinkernagel Medicine
- David M. Lee Physics
- Douglas D. Osheroff Physics
- Robert C. Richardson Physics