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Alexei Alexeyevich AbrikosovPhysics 2003 Daron AcemogluEconomic Sciences 2024 Jane AddamsPeace 1931 Edgar Douglas AdrianPhysiology or Medicine 1932 Philippe AghionEconomic Sciences 2025 Shmuel Josef AgnonLiterature 1966 Pierre AgostiniPhysics 2023 Martti AhtisaariPeace 2008 Isamu AkasakiPhysics 2014 George Arthur AkerlofEconomic Sciences 2001 Kurt AlderChemistry 1950 Vicente AleixandreLiterature 1977 Svetlana AlexievichLiterature 2015 Zhores AlferovPhysics 2000 Hannes AlfvenPhysics 1970 Maurice AllaisEconomic Sciences 1988 James P. AllisonPhysiology or Medicine 2018 Harvey AlterPhysiology or Medicine 2020 Sydney AltmanChemistry 1989 Luis Walter AlvarezPhysics 1968 Hiroshi AmanoPhysics 2014 Victor AmbrosPhysiology or Medicine 2024 Philip Warren AndersonPhysics 1977 Ivo AndricLiterature 1961 Norman AngellPeace 1933 Joshua AngristEconomic Sciences 2021 Kofi AnnanPeace 2001 Yasser ArafatPeace 1994 Frances H. ArnoldChemistry 2018 Klas Pontus ArnoldsonPeace 1908 Svante August ArrheniusChemistry 1903 Kenneth ArrowEconomic Sciences 1972 Arthur AshkinPhysics 2018 Alain AspectPhysics 2022 Tobias Michael Carel AsserPeace 1911 Francis William AstonChemistry 1922 Miguel Angel AsturiasLiterature 1967 Robert J AumannEconomic Sciences 2005 Richard AxelPhysiology or Medicine 2004

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Fredrik BajerPeace 1908 David BakerChemistry 2024 Philip Noel BakerPeace 1959 Emily Greene BalchPeace 1946 Abhijit BanerjeeEconomic Sciences 2019 Frederick Grant BantingPhysiology or Medicine 1923 John BardeenPhysics 1956 Barry BarishPhysics 2017 Charles Glover BarklaPhysics 1917 Françoise Barré-SinoussiPhysiology or Medicine 2008 Derek Harold Richard BartonChemistry 1969 Nikolai Gennadevich BasovPhysics 1964 Nikolay Gennadiyevich BasovPhysics 1964 Moungi G BawendiChemistry 2023 Gary Stanley BeckerEconomic Sciences 1992 Samuel BeckettLiterature 1969 Henri BecquerelPhysics 1903 Johannes Georg BednorzPhysics 1987 Auguste BeernaertPeace 1909 Menachem BeginPeace 1978 Emil von BehringPhysiology or Medicine 1901 Saul BellowLiterature 1976 Carlos Felipe Ximenes BeloPeace 1996 Baruj BenacerrafPhysiology or Medicine 1980 Jacinto BenaventeLiterature 1922 Paul BergChemistry 1980 Henri BergsonLiterature 1927 Sune Karl BergstromPhysiology or Medicine 1982 Ben S BernankeEconomic Sciences 2022 Carolyn R. BertozziChemistry 2022 Eric BetzigChemistry 2014 Bruce A. BeutlerPhysiology or Medicine 2011 Gerd BinnigPhysics 1986 Michael BishopPhysiology or Medicine 1989 Bjornstjerne BjornsonLiterature 1903 Bjornstjerne BjørnsonLiterature 1903 James Whyte BlackPhysiology or Medicine 1988 Elizabeth H BlackburnPhysiology or Medicine 2009 Gunter BlobelPhysiology or Medicine 1999 Nicolaas BloembergenPhysics 1981 Aage Niels BohrPhysics 1975 Niels BohrPhysics 1922 Heinrich Theodor BollLiterature 1972 Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent BordetPhysiology or Medicine 1919 Norman Ernest BorlaugPeace 1970 Max BornPhysics 1954 Walther BothePhysics 1954 Léon BourgeoisPeace 1920 Paul D BoyerChemistry 1997 Willard BoylePhysics 2009 William Henry BraggPhysics 1915 Willy BrandtPeace 1971 Hjalmar BrantingPeace 1921 Walter Houser BrattainPhysics 1956 Karl Ferdinand BraunPhysics 1909 Sydney BrennerPhysiology or Medicine 2002 Aristide BriandPeace 1926 Bertram N BrockhousePhysics 1994 Joseph BrodskyLiterature 1987 Louis de BrogliePhysics 1929 Herbert Charles BrownChemistry 1979 Michael Stuart BrownPhysiology or Medicine 1985 Mary E. BrunkowPhysiology or Medicine 2025 Louis E BrusChemistry 2023 James McGill BuchananEconomic Sciences 1986 Linda B BuckPhysiology or Medicine 2004 Pearl BuckLiterature 1938 Ferdinand BuissonPeace 1927 Ralph Johnson BunchePeace 1950 Ivan BuninLiterature 1933 Frank MacFarlane BurnetPhysiology or Medicine 1960 Adolf Friedrich Johann ButenandtChemistry 1939 Nicholas Murray ButlerPeace 1931

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Melvin CalvinChemistry 1961 Albert CamusLiterature 1957 Elias CanettiLiterature 1981 Mario R CapecchiPhysiology or Medicine 2007 David CardEconomic Sciences 2021 Giosue CarducciLiterature 1906 Arvid CarlssonPhysiology or Medicine 2000 Alexis CarrelPhysiology or Medicine 1912 Anne CarsonLiterature 2026 James Earl CarterPeace 2002 Rene CassinPeace 1968 Thomas CechChemistry 1989 Robert CecilPeace 1937 Camilo José CelaLiterature 1989 James ChadwickPhysics 1935 Ernst Boris ChainPhysiology or Medicine 1945 Austen ChamberlainPeace 1925 Owen ChamberlainPhysics 1959 Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharPhysics 1983 Georges CharpakPhysics 1992 Emmanuelle CharpentierChemistry 2020 Pavel Alekseyevich CherenkovPhysics 1958 Steven ChuPhysics 1997 Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillLiterature 1953 John ClarkePhysics 2025 John F. ClauserPhysics 2022 Ronald Harry CoaseEconomic Sciences 1991 J. M. CoetzeeLiterature 2003 Stanley CohenPhysiology or Medicine 1986 Claude Cohen TannoudjiPhysics 1997 Arthur Holly ComptonPhysics 1927 Leon CooperPhysics 1972 Elias James CoreyChemistry 1990 Eric A CornellPhysics 2001 John Warcup CornforthChemistry 1975 Mairead CorriganPeace 1976 Donald J CramChemistry 1987 William Randal CremerPeace 1903 James Watson CroninPhysics 1980 Paul J CrutzenChemistry 1995 Marie Sklodowska CuriePhysics 1903, Chemistry 1911 Pierre CuriePhysics 1903 Robert F CurlChemistry 1996

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Paul Henri d Estournelles de ConstantPeace 1909 Henry Hallett DalePhysiology or Medicine 1936 Nils DalenPhysics 1912 Henrik Carl Peter DamPhysiology or Medicine 1943 Jean DaussetPhysiology or Medicine 1980 Clinton Joseph DavissonPhysics 1937 Charles Gates DawesPeace 1925 Pierre Gilles de GennesPhysics 1991 Angus DeatonEconomic Sciences 2015 Gerard DebreuEconomic Sciences 1983 Peter J. W. DebyeChemistry 1936 Hans DehmeltPhysics 1989 Johann DeisenhoferChemistry 1988 Grazia DeleddaLiterature 1926 Michel H. DevoretPhysics 2025 Douglas DiamondEconomic Sciences 2022 Peter DiamondEconomic Sciences 2010 Otto DielsChemistry 1950 Paul Adrien Maurice DiracPhysics 1933 Peter Charles DohertyPhysiology or Medicine 1996 Jennifer DoudnaChemistry 2020 Roger Martin du GardLiterature 1937 Jacques DubochetChemistry 2017 Le Duc ThoPeace 1973 Elie DucommunPeace 1902 Esther DufloEconomic Sciences 2019 Jean Henri DunantPeace 1901 Philip DybvigEconomic Sciences 2022 Bob DylanLiterature 2016

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Shirin EbadiPeace 2003 Jose EchegarayLiterature 1904 Robert G. EdwardsPhysiology or Medicine 2010 Paul EhrlichPhysiology or Medicine 1908 Albert EinsteinPhysics 1921 Mohamed ElBaradeiPeace 2005 Gertrude Belle ElionPhysiology or Medicine 1988 Thomas Stearns EliotLiterature 1948 Odysseus ElytisLiterature 1979 Robert EngleEconomic Sciences 2003 François EnglertPhysics 2013 Joseph ErlangerPhysiology or Medicine 1944 Annie ErnauxLiterature 2022 Richard R ErnstChemistry 1991 Leo EsakiPhysics 1973 Adolfo Perez EsquivelPeace 1980 Rudolf EuckenLiterature 1908 Ulf Svante von EulerPhysiology or Medicine 1970 Martin J EvansPhysiology or Medicine 2007

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Eugene FamaEconomic Sciences 2013 William FaulknerLiterature 1949 Bernard L. FeringaChemistry 2016 Enrico FermiPhysics 1938 Albert FertPhysics 2007 Richard Phillips FeynmanPhysics 1965 Johannes Andreas Grib FibigerPhysiology or Medicine 1926 Niels Ryberg FinsenPhysiology or Medicine 1903 Andrew Z FirePhysiology or Medicine 2006 Edmond Henri FischerPhysiology or Medicine 1992 Emil Herman FischerChemistry 1902 Ernst Otto FischerChemistry 1973 Hans FischerChemistry 1930 Hermann Emil FischerChemistry 1902 Val Logsdon FitchPhysics 1980 Alexander FlemingPhysiology or Medicine 1945 Howard Walter FloreyPhysiology or Medicine 1945 Dario FoLiterature 1997 Robert FogelEconomic Sciences 1993 Werner ForssmannPhysiology or Medicine 1956 Jon FosseLiterature 2023 William Alfred FowlerPhysics 1983 Anatole FranceLiterature 1921 Ilya Mikhailovich FrankPhysics 1958 Joachim FrankChemistry 2017 Alfred Hermann FriedPeace 1911 Jerome I FriedmanPhysics 1990 Milton FriedmanEconomic Sciences 1976 Karl von FrischPhysiology or Medicine 1973 Ragnar FrischEconomic Sciences 1969 Kenichi FukuiChemistry 1981 Robert F FurchgottPhysiology or Medicine 1998

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Dennis GaborPhysics 1971 John GalsworthyLiterature 1932 Alfonso Garcia RoblesPeace 1982 Leymah GboweePeace 2011 Andre GeimPhysics 2010 Reinhard GenzelPhysics 2020 Andrea GhezPhysics 2020 Ivar GiaeverPhysics 1973 Andre GideLiterature 1947 Walter GilbertChemistry 1980 Alfred Goodman GilmanPhysiology or Medicine 1994 Vitaly Lazarevich GinzburgPhysics 2003 Karl GjellerupLiterature 1917 Louise GlückLiterature 2020 Charles Albert GobatPeace 1902 Claudia GoldinEconomic Sciences 2023 William GoldingLiterature 1983 Joseph Leonard GoldsteinPhysiology or Medicine 1985 John B. GoodenoughChemistry 2019 Mikhail Sergeyevich GorbachevPeace 1990 Nadine GordimerLiterature 1991 Albert Arnold GorePeace 2007 Clive W J GrangerEconomic Sciences 2003 Ragnar Arthur GranitPhysiology or Medicine 1967 Gunter GrassLiterature 1999 Paul GreengardPhysiology or Medicine 2000 Carol W GreiderPhysiology or Medicine 2009 Peter GrunbergPhysics 2007 Allvar GullstrandPhysiology or Medicine 1911 John B. GurdonPhysiology or Medicine 2012 Abdulrazak GurnahLiterature 2021 Tenzin GyatsoPeace 1989

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Trygve HaavelmoEconomic Sciences 1989 Fritz HaberChemistry 1918 Otto HahnChemistry 1944 Jeffrey C. HallPhysiology or Medicine 2017 Robert E HallEconomic Sciences 2026 Dag HammarskjöldPeace 1961 Knut HamsunLiterature 1920 Peter HandkeLiterature 2019 Lars Peter HansenEconomic Sciences 2013 Serge HarochePhysics 2012 John HarsanyiEconomic Sciences 1994 Oliver HartEconomic Sciences 2016 Leland H HartwellPhysiology or Medicine 2001 Demis HassabisChemistry 2024 Odd HasselChemistry 1969 Klaus HasselmannPhysics 2021 Herbert Aaron HauptmanChemistry 1985 Gerhart HauptmannLiterature 1912 Harald zur HausenPhysiology or Medicine 2008 Walter Norman HaworthChemistry 1937 Friedrich August von HayekEconomic Sciences 1974 Seamus HeaneyLiterature 1995 Richard F. HeckChemistry 2010 James Joseph HeckmanEconomic Sciences 2000 Alan J HeegerChemistry 2000 Verner von HeidenstamLiterature 1916 Werner HeisenbergPhysics 1932 Stefan W. HellChemistry 2014 Ernest HemingwayLiterature 1954 Arthur HendersonPeace 1934 Richard HendersonChemistry 2017 Dudley R HerschbachChemistry 1986 Gerhard HerzbergChemistry 1971 Victor Francis HessPhysics 1936 Hermann HesseLiterature 1946 Antony HewishPhysics 1974 Corneille Jean Francois HeymansPhysiology or Medicine 1938 Paul HeyseLiterature 1910 John HicksEconomic Sciences 1972 Peter HiggsPhysics 2013 Archibald Vivian HillPhysiology or Medicine 1922 Cyril Norman HinshelwoodChemistry 1956 Geoffrey HintonPhysics 2024 George Herbert HitchingsPhysiology or Medicine 1988 Dorothy Crowfoot HodgkinChemistry 1964 Jules A. HoffmannPhysiology or Medicine 2011 Roald HoffmannChemistry 1981 Bengt HolmströmEconomic Sciences 2016 Tasuku HonjoPhysiology or Medicine 2018 John J. HopfieldPhysics 2024 Frederick Gowland HopkinsPhysiology or Medicine 1929 H Robert HorvitzPhysiology or Medicine 2002 Michael HoughtonPhysiology or Medicine 2020 Peter HowittEconomic Sciences 2025 David Hunter HubelPhysiology or Medicine 1981 Robert HuberChemistry 1988 Cordell HullPeace 1945 Russell A HulsePhysics 1993 Russell Alan HulsePhysics 1993 John HumePeace 1998 Tim HuntPhysiology or Medicine 2001 Leonid HurwiczEconomic Sciences 2007

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Louis J IgnarroPhysiology or Medicine 1998 Guido ImbensEconomic Sciences 2021 Kazuo IshiguroLiterature 2017

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Elfriede JelinekLiterature 2004 Johannes Hans Daniel JensenPhysics 1963 Johannes Vilhelm JensenLiterature 1944 Niels JernePhysiology or Medicine 1984 Juan Ramon JimenezLiterature 1956 Eyvind JohnsonLiterature 1974 Simon JohnsonEconomic Sciences 2024 Irene Joliot-CurieChemistry 1935 Brian David JosephsonPhysics 1973 Léon JouhauxPeace 1951 David JuliusPhysiology or Medicine 2021 John JumperChemistry 2024

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William KaelinPhysiology or Medicine 2019 Daniel KahnemanEconomic Sciences 2002 Takaaki KajitaPhysics 2015 Eric Richard KandelPhysiology or Medicine 2000 Han KangLiterature 2024 Leonid KantorovichEconomic Sciences 1975 Pyotr Leonidovich KapitsaPhysics 1978 Katalin KarikoPhysiology or Medicine 2023 Jerome KarleChemistry 1985 Erik Axel KarlfeldtLiterature 1931 Tawakkol KarmanPeace 2011 Paul KarrerChemistry 1937 Bernard KatzPhysiology or Medicine 1970 Yasunari KawabataLiterature 1968 Frank Billings KelloggPeace 1929 Henry W KendallPhysics 1990 John Cowdery KendrewChemistry 1962 Imre KertészLiterature 2002 Wolfgang KetterlePhysics 2001 Jack S KilbyPhysics 2000 Dae-jung KimPeace 2000 Martin Luther KingPeace 1964 Rudyard KiplingLiterature 1907 Henry Alfred KissingerPeace 1973 Susumu KitagawaChemistry 2025 Lawrence Robert KleinEconomic Sciences 1980 Frederik Willem de KlerkPeace 1993 Aaron KlugChemistry 1982 William S KnowlesChemistry 2001 Brian KobilkaChemistry 2012 Robert KochPhysiology or Medicine 1905 Georges Jean Franz KöhlerPhysiology or Medicine 1984 Walter KohnChemistry 1998 Tjalling KoopmansEconomic Sciences 1975 Albrecht KosselPhysiology or Medicine 1910 László KrasznahorkaiLiterature 2025 Ferenc KrauszPhysics 2023 Edwin Gerhard KrebsPhysiology or Medicine 1992 Hans Adolf KrebsPhysiology or Medicine 1953 Michael KremerEconomic Sciences 2019 Herbert KroemerPhysics 2000 Schack August Steenberg KroghPhysiology or Medicine 1920 Harold W KrotoChemistry 1996 Paul KrugmanEconomic Sciences 2008 Richard KuhnChemistry 1938 Polykarp KuschPhysics 1955 Simon KuznetsEconomic Sciences 1971 Finn E KydlandEconomic Sciences 2004 Aung San Suu KyiPeace 1991

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Henri La FontainePeace 1913 Par Fabian LagerkvistLiterature 1951 Selma LagerlofLiterature 1909 Lev Davidovich LandauPhysics 1962 Karl LandsteinerPhysiology or Medicine 1930 Christian Lous LangePeace 1921 Max Theodore Felix von LauePhysics 1914 Robert B LaughlinPhysics 1998 Robert Betts LaughlinPhysics 1998 Paul C LauterburPhysiology or Medicine 2003 Alphonse LaveranPhysiology or Medicine 1907 Ernest Orlando LawrencePhysics 1939 Halldor Kiljan LaxnessLiterature 1955 Jean Marie Gustave Le ClézioLiterature 2008 Leon M LedermanPhysics 1988 David M LeePhysics 1996 Tsung Dao LeePhysics 1957 Yuan T LeeChemistry 1986 Robert J. LefkowitzChemistry 2012 Jean Marie LehnChemistry 1987 Philip LenardPhysics 1905 Wassily LeontiefEconomic Sciences 1973 Doris LessingLiterature 2007 Rita Levi-MontalciniPhysiology or Medicine 1986 Arthur LewisEconomic Sciences 1979 Edward B LewisPhysiology or Medicine 1995 Sinclair LewisLiterature 1930 Anne LHuillierPhysics 2023 Tomas LindahlChemistry 2015 Fritz Albert LipmannPhysiology or Medicine 1953 Gabriel LippmannPhysics 1908 William Nunn LipscombChemistry 1976 Benjamin ListChemistry 2021 Xiaobo LiuPeace 2010 Otto LoewiPhysiology or Medicine 1936 Hendrik Antoon LorentzPhysics 1902 Konrad Zacharias LorenzPhysiology or Medicine 1973 Robert Emerson LucasEconomic Sciences 1995 Albert LutuliPeace 1960

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Wangari MaathaiPeace 2004 Alan G MacDiarmidChemistry 2000 David W C MacMillanChemistry 2021 Maurice MaeterlinckLiterature 1911 Naguib MahfouzLiterature 1988 Syukuro ManabePhysics 2021 Nelson Rolihlahla MandelaPeace 1993 Thomas MannLiterature 1929 Peter MansfieldPhysiology or Medicine 2003 Guglielmo MarconiPhysics 1909 Rudolph A MarcusChemistry 1992 Harry Max MarkowitzEconomic Sciences 1990 Gabriel Garcia MarquezLiterature 1982 Barry J MarshallPhysiology or Medicine 2005 George Catlett MarshallPeace 1953 Archer John Porter MartinChemistry 1952 John M. MartinisPhysics 2025 Harry Edmund MartinsonLiterature 1974 Eric MaskinEconomic Sciences 2007 John Cromwell MatherPhysics 2006 Francois MauriacLiterature 1952 Maria Goeppert MayerPhysics 1963 Michel MayorPhysics 2019 Barbara McClintockPhysiology or Medicine 1983 Arthur B. McDonaldPhysics 2015 Daniel Little McFaddenEconomic Sciences 2000 Edwin Mattison McMillanChemistry 1951 James MeadeEconomic Sciences 1977 Ilya Ilyich MechnikovPhysiology or Medicine 1908 Simon van der MeerPhysics 1984 Morten MeldalChemistry 2022 Craig C MelloPhysiology or Medicine 2006 Bruce MerrifieldChemistry 1984 Robert Carhart MertonEconomic Sciences 1997 Otto Fritz MeyerhofPhysiology or Medicine 1922 Hartmut MichelChemistry 1988 Albert Abraham MichelsonPhysics 1907 Paul R MilgromEconomic Sciences 2020 Merton MillerEconomic Sciences 1990 Robert MillikanPhysics 1923 Czeslaw MiloszLiterature 1980 Cesar MilsteinPhysiology or Medicine 1984 James Alexander MirrleesEconomic Sciences 1996 Frederic MistralLiterature 1904 Gabriela MistralLiterature 1945 Peter Dennis MitchellChemistry 1978 Patrick ModianoLiterature 2014 Franco ModiglianiEconomic Sciences 1985 Paul ModrichChemistry 2015 William E. MoernerChemistry 2014 Joel MokyrEconomic Sciences 2025 Mario J MolinaChemistry 1995 Theodor MommsenLiterature 1902 Ernesto Teodoro MonetaPeace 1907 Luc MontagnierPhysiology or Medicine 2008 Eugenio MontaleLiterature 1975 Stanford MooreChemistry 1972 Toni MorrisonLiterature 1993 Dale MortensenEconomic Sciences 2010 Edvard I. MoserPhysiology or Medicine 2014 May-Britt MoserPhysiology or Medicine 2014 Rudolf Ludwig MossbauerPhysics 1961 John R MottPeace 1946 Nevill Francis MottPhysics 1977 Ben Roy MottelsonPhysics 1975 Gérard MourouPhysics 2018 Denis MukwegePeace 2018 Hermann Joseph MullerPhysiology or Medicine 1946 Herta MüllerLiterature 2009 Karl Alexander MüllerPhysics 1987 Robert Sanderson MullikenChemistry 1966 Kary B MullisChemistry 1993 Robert Alexander MundellEconomic Sciences 1999 Alice MunroLiterature 2013 Ferid MuradPhysiology or Medicine 1998 Joseph Edward MurrayPhysiology or Medicine 1990 Roger B MyersonEconomic Sciences 2007 Alva MyrdalPeace 1982 Gunnar MyrdalEconomic Sciences 1974

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V. S. NaipaulLiterature 2001 Fridtjof NansenPeace 1922 John Forbes NashEconomic Sciences 1994 Giulio NattaChemistry 1963 Louis NeelPhysics 1970 Ei-ichi NegishiChemistry 2010 Erwin NeherPhysiology or Medicine 1991 Pablo NerudaLiterature 1971 William NordhausEconomic Sciences 2018 Ronald George Wreyford NorrishChemistry 1967 Douglass Cecil NorthEconomic Sciences 1993 John Howard NorthropChemistry 1946 Konstantin NovoselovPhysics 2010 Ryoji NoyoriChemistry 2001 Paul M NursePhysiology or Medicine 2001

O

Barack Hussein ObamaPeace 2009 Kenzaburō ŌeLiterature 1994 Bertil OhlinEconomic Sciences 1977 Yoshinori OhsumiPhysiology or Medicine 2016 George A OlahChemistry 1994 Satoshi ŌmuraPhysiology or Medicine 2015 Eugene ONeillLiterature 1936 John Boyd OrrPeace 1949 Douglas D OsheroffPhysics 1996 Carl von OssietzkyPeace 1935 Elinor OstromEconomic Sciences 2009

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Svante PääboPhysiology or Medicine 2022 Orhan PamukLiterature 2006 Giorgio ParisiPhysics 2021 Frederick PassyPeace 1901 Boris Leonidovich PasternakLiterature 1958 Ardem PatapoutianPhysiology or Medicine 2021 Wolfgang PaulPhysics 1989 Wolfgang PauliPhysics 1945 Linus PaulingChemistry 1954, Peace 1962 Ivan Petrovich PavlovPhysiology or Medicine 1904 Octavio PazLiterature 1990 Lester Bowles PearsonPeace 1957 Charles John PedersenChemistry 1987 James Edward PeeblesPhysics 2019 Roger PenrosePhysics 2020 Arno Allan PenziasPhysics 1978 Shimon PeresPeace 1994 Martin L PerlPhysics 1995 Saul PerlmutterPhysics 2011 Saint John PerseLiterature 1960 Max Ferdinand PerutzChemistry 1962 Edmund S PhelpsEconomic Sciences 2006 William D PhillipsPhysics 1997 Harold PinterLiterature 2005 Luigi PirandelloLiterature 1934 Georges PirePeace 1958 Christopher A PissaridesEconomic Sciences 2010 Max PlanckPhysics 1918 John C PolanyiChemistry 1986 Henrik PontoppianLiterature 1917 Henrik PontoppidanLiterature 1917 John A PopleChemistry 1998 George PorterChemistry 1967 Rodney PorterPhysiology or Medicine 1972 Fritz PreglChemistry 1923 Vladimir PrelogChemistry 1975 Edward PrescottEconomic Sciences 2004 Alexander Mikhailovich ProkhorovPhysics 1964 Sully PrudhommeLiterature 1901 Stanley B PrusinerPhysiology or Medicine 1997 Edward Mills PurcellPhysics 1952

Q

Salvatore QuasimodoLiterature 1959 Didier QuelozPhysics 2019 Ludwig QuiddePeace 1927

R

Isidor Isaac RabiPhysics 1944 Yitzhak RabinPeace 1994 James RainwaterPhysics 1975 Chandrasekhara Venkata RamanPhysics 1930 Santiago Ramon y CajalPhysiology or Medicine 1906 Jose Ramos-HortaPeace 1996 William RamsayChemistry 1904 Norman RamseyPhysics 1989 Peter RatcliffePhysiology or Medicine 2019 Frederick ReinesPhysics 1995 Louis RenaultPeace 1907 Maria Angelita RessaPeace 2021 Wladyslaw ReymontLiterature 1924 Charles RicePhysiology or Medicine 2020 Dickinson Woodruff RichardsPhysiology or Medicine 1956 Robert C RichardsonPhysics 1996 Charles RichetPhysiology or Medicine 1913 Burton RichterPhysics 1976 Adam G. RiessPhysics 2011 Adam Guy RiessPhysics 2011 Richard John RobertsPhysiology or Medicine 1993 James A RobinsonEconomic Sciences 2024 Martin RodbellPhysiology or Medicine 1994 Heinrich RohrerPhysics 1986 Romain RollandLiterature 1915 Paul RomerEconomic Sciences 2018 Wilhelm Conrad RontgenPhysics 1901 Theodore RooseveltPeace 1906 Elihu RootPeace 1912 Michael RosbashPhysiology or Medicine 2017 Ronald RossPhysiology or Medicine 1902 Joseph RotblatPeace 1995 Alvin E RothEconomic Sciences 2012 James E. RothmanPhysiology or Medicine 2013 F Sherwood RowlandChemistry 1995 Carlo RubbiaPhysics 1984 Ernst August Friedrich RuskaPhysics 1986 Bertrand RussellLiterature 1950 Ernest RutherfordChemistry 1908 Gary RuvkunPhysiology or Medicine 2024 Leopold Srtephen RuzickaChemistry 1939 Martin RylePhysics 1974

S

Carlos Saavedra LamasPeace 1936 Nelly Leonie SachsLiterature 1966 Anwar SadatPeace 1978 Shimon SakaguchiPhysiology or Medicine 2025 Andrei Dmitrievich SakharovPeace 1975 Bert SakmannPhysiology or Medicine 1991 Abdus SalamPhysics 1979 Paul SamuelsonEconomic Sciences 1970 Bengt Ingemar SamuelssonPhysiology or Medicine 1982 Oscar Arias SanchezPeace 1987 Juan Manuel SantosPeace 2016 José SaramagoLiterature 1998 Thomas SargentEconomic Sciences 2011 Jean Paul SartreLiterature 1964 Eisaku SatoPeace 1974 Kailash SatyarthiPeace 2014 Jean-Pierre SauvageChemistry 2016 Arthur Leonard SchawlowPhysics 1981 Randy W. SchekmanPhysiology or Medicine 2013 Thomas SchellingEconomic Sciences 2005 Brian Paul SchmidtPhysics 2011 Myron ScholesEconomic Sciences 1997 Robert SchriefferPhysics 1972 Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander SchrodingerPhysics 1933 Theodore William SchultzEconomic Sciences 1979 Melvin SchwartzPhysics 1988 Albert SchweitzerPeace 1952 Julian SchwingerPhysics 1965 Glenn Theodore SeaborgChemistry 1951 Giorgos SeferisLiterature 1963 Emilio SegrePhysics 1959 Jaroslav SeifertLiterature 1984 Reinhard SeltenEconomic Sciences 1994 Nikolay Nikolaevich SemenovChemistry 1956 Gregg SemenzaPhysiology or Medicine 2019 Amartya SenEconomic Sciences 1998 Lloyd ShapleyEconomic Sciences 2012 Phillip Allen SharpPhysiology or Medicine 1993 William SharpeEconomic Sciences 1990 K. Barry SharplessChemistry 2022 George Bernard ShawLiterature 1925 Dan ShechtmanChemistry 2011 Charles Scott SherringtonPhysiology or Medicine 1932 Robert J ShillerEconomic Sciences 2013 Hideki ShirakawaChemistry 2000 William ShockleyPhysics 1956 Mikhail Aleksandrovich SholokhovLiterature 1965 Clifford G ShullPhysics 1994 Kai Manne Borje SiegbahnPhysics 1981 Karl Manne Georg SiegbahnPhysics 1924 Henryk SienkiewiczLiterature 1905 Frans Eemil SillanpaaLiterature 1939 Claude SimonLiterature 1985 Herbert Alexander SimonEconomic Sciences 1978 Christopher A SimsEconomic Sciences 2011 Isaac Bashevis SingerLiterature 1978 Ellen Johnson SirleafPeace 2011 Jens Christian SkouChemistry 1997 Richard E SmalleyChemistry 1996 George Elwood SmithPhysics 2009 George P. SmithChemistry 2018 Michael SmithChemistry 1993 Vernon Lomax SmithEconomic Sciences 2002 Oliver SmithiesPhysiology or Medicine 2007 George Field SmootPhysics 2006 George Davis SnellPhysiology or Medicine 1980 Frederick SoddyChemistry 1921 Nathan SoderblomPeace 1930 Robert Merton SolowEconomic Sciences 1987 Alexander SolzhenitsynLiterature 1970 Wole SoyinkaLiterature 1986 Michael SpenceEconomic Sciences 2001 Roger Wolcott SperryPhysiology or Medicine 1981 Carl SpittelerLiterature 1919 Wendell Meredith StanleyChemistry 1946 Hermann StaudingerChemistry 1953 William Howard SteinChemistry 1972 John Ernst SteinbeckLiterature 1962 Jack SteinbergerPhysics 1988 Ralph M. SteinmanPhysiology or Medicine 2011 George Joseph StiglerEconomic Sciences 1982 Joseph StiglitzEconomic Sciences 2001 John Richard Nicholas StoneEconomic Sciences 1984 Horst L StörmerPhysics 1998 Horst Ludwig StormerPhysics 1998 Gustav StresemannPeace 1926 Donna StricklandPhysics 2018 John William Strutt Rayleigh, 3rdPhysics 1904 John E SulstonPhysiology or Medicine 2002 James Batcheller SumnerChemistry 1946 Bertha von SuttnerPeace 1905 Akira SuzukiChemistry 2010 Theodor SvedbergChemistry 1926 Richard Laurence Millington SyngeChemistry 1952 Wisława SzymborskaLiterature 1996

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Jacobus Henricus van 't HoffChemistry 1901 Geradus 't HooftPhysics 1999 Rabindranath TagoreLiterature 1913 Igor Yevgenyevich TammPhysics 1958 Henry TaubeChemistry 1983 Joseph H TaylorPhysics 1993 Joseph Hooton TaylorPhysics 1993 Richard E TaylorPhysics 1990 Mother TeresaPeace 1979 Richard H ThalerEconomic Sciences 2017 Max TheilerPhysiology or Medicine 1951 Hugo TheorellPhysiology or Medicine 1955 Edward Donnall ThomasPhysiology or Medicine 1990 George Paget ThomsonPhysics 1937 Joseph John ThomsonPhysics 1906 Kip Stephen ThornePhysics 2017 Jan TinbergenEconomic Sciences 1969 Nikolaas TinbergenPhysiology or Medicine 1973 Samuel Chao Chung TingPhysics 1976 Jean TiroleEconomic Sciences 2014 Arne Wilhelm Kaurin TiseliusChemistry 1948 James TobinEconomic Sciences 1981 Alexander Robertus ToddChemistry 1957 Olga TokarczukLiterature 2018 Sin-Itiro TomonagaPhysics 1965 Susumu TonegawaPhysiology or Medicine 1987 Charles Hard TownesPhysics 1964 Tomas TranströmerLiterature 2011 David TrimblePeace 1998 Daniel C TsuiPhysics 1998 Rigoberta Menchu TumPeace 1992 Desmond Mpilo Boy TutuPeace 1984

U

Sigrid UndsetLiterature 1928

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John Hasbrouck Van VleckPhysics 1977 John Robert VanePhysiology or Medicine 1982 Mario Vargas LlosaLiterature 2010 Harold VarmusPhysiology or Medicine 1989 Martinus VeltmanPhysics 1999 William VickreyEconomic Sciences 1996 Klaus von KlitzingPhysics 1985

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Johannes Diderik van Der WaalsPhysics 1910 Derek WalcottLiterature 1992 Lech WalesaPeace 1983 John E WalkerChemistry 1997 Ernest Thomas Sinton WaltonPhysics 1951 J Robin WarrenPhysiology or Medicine 2005 Steven WeinbergPhysics 1979 Rainer WeissPhysics 2017 Drew WeissmanPhysiology or Medicine 2023 Alfred WernerChemistry 1913 George WhipplePhysiology or Medicine 1934 Patrick WhiteLiterature 1973 M Stanley WhittinghamChemistry 2019 Carl E WiemanPhysics 2001 Wilhelm WienPhysics 1911 Eric Francis WieschausPhysiology or Medicine 1995 Elie WieselPeace 1986 Torsten Nils WieselPhysiology or Medicine 1981 Eugene Paul WignerPhysics 1963 Maurice Hugh Frederick WilkinsPhysiology or Medicine 1962 Geoffrey WilkinsonChemistry 1973 Betty WilliamsPeace 1976 Jody WilliamsPeace 1997 Oliver WilliamsonEconomic Sciences 2009 Charles Thomson Rees WilsonPhysics 1927 Robert Woodrow WilsonPhysics 1978, Economic Sciences 2020 Thomas Woodrow WilsonPeace 1919 Adolf WindausChemistry 1928 David J. WinelandPhysics 2012 Gregory P. WinterChemistry 2018 Georg WittigChemistry 1979 Michael WoodfordEconomic Sciences 2026

X

Gao XingjianLiterature 2000

Y

Shinya YamanakaPhysiology or Medicine 2012 Mo YanLiterature 2012 Chen Ning YangPhysics 1957 William Butler YeatsLiterature 1923 Aleksey YekimovChemistry 2023 Akira YoshinoChemistry 2019 Michael W. YoungPhysiology or Medicine 2017 Tu YouyouPhysiology or Medicine 2015 Muhammad YunusPeace 2006

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Pieter ZeemanPhysics 1902 Anton ZeilingerPhysics 2022 Ahmed ZewalChemistry 1999 Rolf Martin ZinkernagelPhysiology or Medicine 1996 Richard Adolf ZsigmondyChemistry 1925

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