Between 1901 and 2024, the Nobel Prizes and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel were awarded 627 times to 1,012 people and organisations. With some receiving the Nobel Prize more than once, this makes a total of 976 individuals and 28 organisations. Below, you can view the full list of Nobel Prizes and Nobel Prize laureates.
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2019
Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
“for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”
“for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”
“for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019
“for the development of lithium-ion batteries”
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019
“for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2019
“for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience”
Nobel Peace Prize 2019
“for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019
“for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”
2018
Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
“for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”
“for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”
“for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018
“for the directed evolution of enzymes”
“for the phage display of peptides and antibodies”
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018
“for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2018
“for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life”
Nobel Peace Prize 2018
“for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018
“for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis”
“for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis”
2017
Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
“for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017
“for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017
“for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2017
“who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”
Nobel Peace Prize 2017
“for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017
“for his contributions to behavioural economics”
2016
Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
“for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016
“for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016
“for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
“for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”
Nobel Peace Prize 2016
“for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016
“for their contributions to contract theory”
2015
Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
“for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015
“for mechanistic studies of DNA repair”
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015
“for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites”
“for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2015
“for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”
Nobel Peace Prize 2015
“for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2015
“for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”
2014
Nobel Prize in Physics 2014
“for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014
“for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014
“for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2014
“for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation”
Nobel Peace Prize 2014
“for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2014
“for his analysis of market power and regulation”
2013
Nobel Prize in Physics 2013
“for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013
“for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
“for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2013
“master of the contemporary short story”
Nobel Peace Prize 2013
“for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013
“for their empirical analysis of asset prices”
2012
Nobel Prize in Physics 2012
“for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012
“for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors”
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012
“for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2012
“who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”
Nobel Peace Prize 2012
“for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2012
“for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”
2011
Nobel Prize in Physics 2011
“for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011
“for the discovery of quasicrystals”
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011
“for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity”
“for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2011
“because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”
Nobel Peace Prize 2011
“for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011
“for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy”
2010
Nobel Prize in Physics 2010
“for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010
“for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis”
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2010
“for the development of in vitro fertilization”
Nobel Prize in Literature 2010
“for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat”
Nobel Peace Prize 2010
“for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2010
“for their analysis of markets with search frictions”